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• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  surprised, simply because it's not how I operate. I'll confess that I spend a ... he'd rejected all of them. "I really can't say," was his reply. "It ... answer. It's possible there was some more specific reason that he didn

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  was being perceived through a lens of desire and not solely its simple existence. It was scary. It was new. I tried desperately to fit different ... thinking, "Is this it? Is this the love that everyone had talked about

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  , floor pi alumni. and it's neat how i can say, oh, wait, nelson knows about ... , i had an idea about how to solve it, but when i tried to write it up ... , what its like here. i want to convince him to apply. i want to comfort

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Movie Marathon, Pt. I Watch ALL the things!

  

  LONG MOVIE! We were wiped by the end of it. It didn't help that there are ... Ah, readers, we meet again. I'm sorry it's been a while. Much as ... movie about time travel ever made; it's one of my favorite movies of all

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2013
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  natural. It does not feel like pulling off a scab. # In some ways it feels ... growing to like the new house. I would come to prefer it, with its proximity ... shops, which I would come to love. I wonder sometimes what it would be

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  concern for how much you will remember six months from now. It seems to be a ... Cambridge trying to shake off its 700 year layer of dust and pick up some MIT ... have led me to a different perspective. It's not all cranky tradition on

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s May 2nd. Have you replied to your colleges yet? The music has stopped -- the last dance is over.

  

  The college admissions process is often compared to dating. It's a ... . Now it's our turn to wait, excited and eager, hoping the applicants we ... 'm sure you can remember what it was like, constantly hitting refresh, and

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I love musicals! Wicked just dropped and I am LOSING MY MIND

  

  that I’ve been meaning to write for a long time... MY LOVE LETTER TO ... share and suddenly bring them to life on stage. It’s as if someone pressed ... and thoughts) to the most external (the stage). But it’s not just a

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 29, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  welcome to new york went to nyc & all i got was this blog post

  

  , how it felt impossible to actually become someone to anyone else. Maybe ... "Welcome to New York" as the musical version of a peppermint latte. It was ... seduced by the synthesized flourishes, sparkling trills. It has been many

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 12, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Moving On, Moving Out, and the Conservation of Freshmen Reflections of a (kinda) sophomore.

  

  the long run, I know it's not only necessary but definitely worth it ... sunshine - and that was it. Part of me is still wondering when my next problem set is due and why I'm not stressing out about it. The other part of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Now An Option for RBA Freshmen Next House's freshmen, starting with the class of 2012, can now participate in REX. !!!!!!!!

  

  As you may know, I lived in Next House as a freshman, and while it ... , Next made me particularly unhappy because it comes with a side of ... eat the lard for the next year." Alright, so it wasn't actually like

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 30, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Wangoballwime?” C'mon. You know what this entry is about. Check out the title!

  

  afternoon about a month ago, there was a knock on my door. When I opened it ... pretty big neighborhood. That athletic field is a whole lot bigger than it looks on that silly little map. It turns out that Akash was visiting Ann

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Cristen Chinea Cristen Chinea '10, for whom MIT might mean "meteorologist in training."

  

  them to keep it down. On others, Joey took a trip to the emergency room ... , Cristen - who has long brown hair, brown glasses, and wears a little heart ... through a book of Sudoku puzzles. For as long as Cristen can remember, she

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  a knower of MIT-related things, I have been asked many times how ... be MIT-worthy that it might be worth sharing. First, I've always been ... How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker, who used to be a professor here in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• FAQ / International applicants

  How do international students apply to MIT?

  We understand that it's difficult for international students to apply to schools in the U.S., but almost one-quarter of MIT's applications are from international students all over the globe and we're very
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  [annotation note="Ok, it's like 3 now, but i'm not going to change ... "]laundry[/annotation] in Simmons, and was waiting in a lounge for it to finish. Behind the tv, in a pile of wires and junk, I found a VHS player!! It was awesome and

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  programs left a strong impression on Emmanuel, who saw how it provided ... , from how it emphasized research to how it started kids so young. He saw ... children in the U.S., that’s it, they stay here.” While it might sound silly

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DEATH AND THE POWERS: The Robots’ Opera [by Ken Haggerty '11] An * exclusive sneak peak * of Prof. Machover's exciting new…

  

  the Media Lab and wondered exactly how it would be integrated into the ... stunning visuals and technology, but it is Prof. Machover's haunting melodies ... Technique) It is far too easy to be taken by the material—one of the

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  It's so nice to be graduated -- I can make lists of things that I ... weekly chores like dusting the bookshelves. It was a very good job for a ... done that year while getting paid to do it. Pretty good deal, if I do say

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  seriously how I am feeling at the moment. Like a lot of prefrosh, I am dealing with a lot of senioritis (yes, there is a wikipedia article on it) and I ... less than glorious. It can be summed up well in one picture yea

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008