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• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  /Treasurers/Important People in student groups on campus, where they will discuss how to apply ... skydiving accident yesterday!" Sam begins to sob. "It's not that bad," Alex ... a few times to me. One of these was when I was in high school and

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  limited set of lines. Learning how to distill the complicated human form ... time to add just a smudge of shading. It's feeling looser, but it's not exactly where I want it to be. I peek at Deelia's sketchbook and notice how

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! I promised myself I wouldn't cry...

  

  - reviewed all of these applications, and tried to sort them out among us. The ... emailed me, "i cannot imagine how difficult comparing 17000 applicants ... applications, the cruel difficulty of the decisions is no excuse for not making

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Uh-oh Spaghetti-O

  

  . Anyone know where to find info on that?) At the same time, no matter how ... some of my comments could apply to minorities as well, but I'm not a ... than he deserves, so let's try to reorganize here before anything gets

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  how I might be able to take it out to the ocean, perhaps letting it sit ... from the future. I got a crash course in not burning out - and my mentor ... any excuses, I've been looking for ways to recharge myself and face the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  simfinite hopscotch! hippity hoppity blue tape grandiosity

  

  , face possible criticism, to realize your full potential. In my case, I sent my very first email to dormspam, a mailing list that reaches most of the undergrad population, making myself vulnerable to starting a flame

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Events

  SpaceVision 2010 Space is cool.

  

  's supposed to come at 6:30. (thinking: surely it's not 6:30) Progressively ... the taxi driver and did my best to communicate (no mean feat, given how ... The night of daylight savings, I tried my best to ensure that I would

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  dorm, Simmons Hall. Well, how could you not love Simmons?! They have a ... to prove, Caltech students are not as smart as they think they are ... As promised, I offered the chance to write a guest blog to prefrosh

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  This is the way…to check your decisions

  

  blog post — want to let you know that MIT Regular Action decisions will ... decisions are made available, you will need to access decisions.mit.edu and log in using the same username and password that you use to sign into

  • by The BlogChild
  • March 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  up and up (and he gives lots of evidence- I`m not going to tackle this ... `things’ is often subject to diminishing returns, the world of ideas is not ... the HASS (humanities, arts and social sciences) requirements, and how to

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  This New Year, I want to try a resolution that would mandate how I ... resolution to not start over or delay anytime a goal falls short, I need some ... for a $10 Amazon gift card. Now, instead, I resolve to not care so much

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  've decided to make some little videos for you. Have you ever noticed how ... , I'm not registered for any classes until next week, and I have ... "Look at at all this free time I have! I'm going to fill it to the brim

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  , and everyone around you may be a huge jerk, but they know how to walk ... In a few short hours I will hop on a plane back to the US. I have some very mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I am excited to get

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  motivations? How many hours are we going to rehearse each week? What is the ... building trust with your actors so they are not afraid to share their ideas ... , communicating to the actors how to interpret their characters, more soul

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  close over my head—how ironic for it to happen after a few days of ... until a few minutes before I left. Quick! Stand next to the official ... family supported my interests, whether I said I wanted to be a teacher, a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Physics Prof. Peter Fisher on Conan A freshman physics professor helps the late night talk show host break a record. [with…

  

  wedding ring on his desk, trying to see for how long he can get it to spin ... a much larger problem. How to travel through time! Prof. Fisher: We ... airing without the benefit of writers, due to the strike (soon to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  My Long-Overdue CPW Recap Better late than never!

  

  , especially for those admits who were not able to attend. Click here to check it ... So I did pretty much everything I said I was going to do at CPW, but ... Jojo and Diane, who rocked the reg desk next to us for many hours. After

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  . #1) Graduate. #2) Paint a mural for The Borderline @ MIT. I got to ... hold your phone up to some of the paintings, they'll come alive with AR ... wanted to make more time to draw, so I was really excited when Borderline

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  showed, to a degree that can never be sufficiently told, how much Jobs ... thing he put up there was his treasured Mac IIsi. Later, I would come to ... kitchen. It's like a native language: it's not so much about whether you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  pieces, and how drawing connects to everything. From 7 to 10pm, the class ... largely because it’s hard to mess up “abstract,” if not impossible. It was ... being drawn. How does the angle of the eyebrow compare to the angle at

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • June 4, 2023