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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  once one of the nicest towns in central Pennsylvania. It was morning; the ... . Concord.” A pause. “And how were your math exams?” “Math exams?” “No, we had a spelling exam.” “Is that what it was?” “Yes, Mr. Concord, it was

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  encounter on a daily basis. Ex: - “Hey, how's the 8.03 textbook?” - “It could ... It's unfair, I admit: I've rhapsodized aplenty about Manhattan's food ... difficulty of recipe and whether or not it contained the LN2 that you

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  ). It was a remarkable speech that really brought everyone to their ... and specificity than almost anyone I've heard. So I wanted to share it ... . Next, in rapid succession, it’s Emily—who redesigns batteries, Isaiah

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup

  

  fix it. That being said, Monday through Friday now start off at this ... required course for a Full Physics major here. It is a six-unit course, and I had the pre-reqs for it from last semester, so I signed up! It is

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  a night in hannover one of the most chaotic travel experiences of my life

  

  enjoying it a lot for a number of reasons: not least because in Europe ... jar of kumquat jam, it was really sad"]security,[/annotation] I checked the departures board for my flight. It read "delayed." Bummer, but no

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 13, 2022
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  triangular pizza server to interrogate how large I wanted it to be. I kept ... , and being so insistent on communicating in Italian that it posed a ... -like quality to it, cloudy and sharp and glinting in the sun. Shouldered by

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  Coryat scores and how I do in different categories. It’s helping me ... how to make it"]bread-with-cinnamon-butter-filled-Valentines' Day ... it looked utterly barren. (Thanks, quarantine.) So I thought of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  . If you haven't read Part 1, I encourage going back and reading it for context. Dominic (Producer, "The Pigeon Man") Hey guys, its me, the Pigeon ... , it wasn’t hard to get puzzle team or the art director, as both the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  her to know how much I had earned from art commissions. “Is it more ... going anywhere at all. I wanted to go to college, but how would I possibly ... -of-potential, most densely packed with everything that was me, but it never seemed

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Things to Do in Cambridge and Somerville places and events, illustrated

  

  River, is an "exuberant celebration of the arts." It happens yearly at the ... children is so rare on a college campus that it's refreshing to see them ... warm days of spring. It's probably my favorite annual event in the area

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 15, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  [GUEST POST] CPWgCPWaCPWyCPW huh...there are some lowercase letters in the title. that's odd.

  

  events are happening during CPW! If you want to learn how to be gay@MIT or ... events!!!! But first I want to give you the scoop about how gay things are ... yeah...that’s the most apt way to put it haha), and we do a bunch of cool

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT

  

  occasion of their graduation. I told how ambivalent I felt (about myself; about MIT) on my own graduation day in 2013, but how much, in hindsight, I ... out into the world, the small ritual of slipping it on reminds me to be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  , MIT fought against discrimination among its female faculty, inspiring ... fun parts of MIT culture from the late 1800s, showing how eerily similar ... MIT had its own campus! - more here). This post continues the series of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Cambridge, Boston, and MIT in the Snow Santa and Poseidon in a winter wonderland.

  

  .) Running that evening was surreal. It felt like we were in a tunnel of snow, from the ground up to the trees and around again. The next morning it was ... in front of it, and the Harvard Bridge is on the right behind the trees

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Emergency Application Extension for students affected by the storm

  

  of your personality are you most proud of, and how has it impacted your ... likely lag behind it. While snow, in moderation, is a cause for celebration, in excess it can be catastrophic. Millions of people are without

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Withdrawal Symptoms I miss camp :(

  

  that I would soon have a six-year-old in my arms, crying about how hard it was for her to see her mother sick, how her fifth and sixth birthdays were events she wanted to forget, and how she sometimes had to make

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 1, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Following My Passions At MIT [by Susan Shepherd '11] Can a writer fit in at MIT?

  

  interested enough in literature that they meet in their free time to discuss it ... there are more (many, many more) in storage. Since it is hard to visualize how many books there are until you see them, here are some pictures to

  • by ARTalk
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Corey Kubber MIT will help Corey Kubber '10 "develop and grow, with some eccentric, genius-type people."

  

  to have won the Morikami scholarship." "I didn't realize how much it ... can find mistakes and learn how to fix them," he said. Kubber has been ... knows it will be an adjustment. "Now, I'm a big fish in a small pond," he

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Physical Olivia Newton-John, I am not, but I can still pretend.

  

  (before chickening out after seeing how psycho all the Ben Stiller ... was going to make a joke about how "IM sports" aren't sports you play ... over the summer. So far, I have taken beginner tennis. That's it. They

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  the last twenty days burning out before the semester even starts

  

  two years, and it would be made available to both first- and second ... in with the people who were going to serve it. As I went upstairs, I ... events was exhausting, even though I wasn’t in charge. It was extremely

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021