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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  cantaloupe. As a California native, I long to see a berry every once in a ... artwork above your bed, taking a deep breath, and using all those lemons to ... Giuliano, published in 2007. I first saw Dennis in a pile of four art pieces

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  ’s often a struggle to be just average in most of my technical classes. That ... some point this semester, I did have to ask a friend where the hell building 38 is, because all the buildings in the 30s are in a completely

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You’re Not That Old [by Elise '14] Not having done it before should be a reason to try, as…

  

  Orchestra or Concert Band or other music groups. It’s a way to keep in ... ’s just a bunch of students having fun. In both cases, they came to MIT with ... ’ve spent your whole life being told to try new things and find what you like

  • by ARTalk
  • June 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  very first stop in our weekend vacation. I had been the one to suggest a ... Young Krystal, probably bawling in a corner somewhere, and had to call her ... -frosh and East Campus residents pitched in to build a tree

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  which books to use, but how to find other equally awesome books, journals ... go to MIT if you ever want a job in anything the least dependent on ... 's a picture of Harvard's Widener Library to serve as a transition

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  son to be a good person by forcing it upon him, and lets him go in peace ... in my opinion a bit absurd it is okay to make mistakes like getting ... between thesis, antithesis, and synthesis in writing. specifically, a thesis

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  available for use! Also just a cozy place to have a seat, imo (and super close ... have to pay a small membership fee. But in return for $20, I secured the ... embarked upon a journey -- a long journey! An arduous journey! -- to visit

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  's kind of fun to sit in your car while it wags around, a tractor's tail ... along I-81S past a flurry of state forests. We made a quick stop in ... in hand (neither of us have a smartphone), and hailed a group of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• FAQ / First-year application

  May high school juniors apply?

  a small number of applications from young students who have outgrown their high school curriculum and feel ready for college. We have a lot of information on our site about what to do in high school that you'll find helpful
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Day Cats cats cats cats cats cats cats....

  

  , played with her for a bit, and went back to sleep for a few hours. At 9am ... finally woke up. I sprayed dry shampoo in my hair, and headed to MIT Medical, where I had a line of duties waiting for me. My first duty was to take

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  . Happiness is not a place. In the following months I went to CPW, shopped for ... the scenes I used to only see in photographs, and I remember how ... -around puzzle to find a coin. Mystery Hunt is a big deal at Random Hall. A friend

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks

  

  "]laundry[/annotation] in Simmons, and was waiting in a lounge for it to finish. Behind the tv ... able to use a rotary telephone or a VHS player? That’s because it’s hard ... , but my friend worked there and he said a guy came in onetime claiming to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling grown up walking in adult clothing

  

  lost, in a world where others don't seem to be. feeling reluctant to open ... person in a room. explaining to a nine-year-old what an fmri is. seeing ... one of the prompts i answered, when i applied to be a blogger (and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  —who knows if I’ll also have to critique a speaker's paper in front of them ... one… I chose both. It’s Week 5 now, and I've gotten used to taking the ... course Professor is also a really big deal in the field and he still hangs

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  friendful life recently

  

  from a concert he went to in the 2000s talking about birding with my pi ... blogging cohort left, which is completely insane. i think i used to post a ... you, you will find a way to handle it" (hot chocolate as a panacea

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  , Facebook was once an exclusively college networking site. A way to keep in ... there's a peek at what the Internet used to look like. Clearly there have ... up a heaping dose of pain in the form of academic expectations. If you

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunday in the Park With chemistry

  

  prior to my nap. All in all, it wasn't a bad way to wake up, suffer a ... a good place to study solid-state chemistry.” So I should confess now ... :00 . . . that's AM, in case this isn't clear, which it probably isn't to my

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cultura MIT students use online collaboration with their French counterparts to learn about each other's cultures.

  

  things that come to mind when we think of a "good job," for example, in ... granted, and it's been a useful way to bridge the gaps of our cultures. ... completions, where we at MIT enter (in English) what first comes to mind when we

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  friends from high school to catch up over a solid In-N-Out burger, because ... . But there are only 168 hours in a week, and I also need to eat and sleep ... comes to choosing activities in college, and it will definitely take a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild? Is this an alumnus hacking McDonald's, or McDonald's hacking MIT? I can't tell

  

  Jeremy R. '16 with a link to a new McDonald's commercial for their new ... , doing real engineer stuff." Jeremy instructed me to look a bit after a ... . They're easily recognizable and are sometimes even used intentionally in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2017