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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  times, it’s an exam I’m nervous about. In past years, the class average ... pressure building in my head that goes something like this: You’ll have to ... not pay it any attention. In those ten minutes before I’m scribbling

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  scrambling to do well in all of your classes while not losing your sanity. It ... came to a close, I packed up all of my belongings in under 3 hrs, and ... colorful checkered blanket in my backyard, diligently flicking ants out of my

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  point. My name is Anna Ho, and I am a constituent living in Cambridge. I am a student at MIT majoring in physics. Ugh, I sound like a robot ... ’m a constituent living in Cambridge. I’m a senior at MIT majoring in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800 An organ, three harpsichords, and lots of learning

  

  lessons for 14 years, played the trumpet in concert band for eight years ... go listen to concerts in Boston for free. In other words: I've had a ... highlights from the class so far: 1) Playing the organ in Kresge Auditorium 2

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  Context: I wrote a post in March called "I Moved to Maine" . You can read it if you want, but tl;dr: when COVID hit I went to live in Maine ... in with my parents. About a month ago I decided to go back home for the

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  spring! semester! so apparently i'm doing a lot of random shit

  

  semester. Without further ado...   Classes: 18.065 (Matrix Methods in ... in high school, so I sent Professor Strang fanmail, and he responded to ... ’t taken a math class since Linear Algebra in my junior year of high school

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  feeling disenchanted by a place that had been previously shrouded in a ... the best at something and everything, while in high school, I felt that ... /social sciences person in high school (thought that I would go on to study some

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  ," Day 2 - "Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017," Day 3 - "College Life Changes ... experts in the field, and often the world at large. And all of the HASS professors are top academics of the world. MIT is the #1 school in the U.S. in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  is Chris - I graduated MIT in 2011, and now I'm a 4th year (!) med student at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. Boy ... questions for Khan Academy and do Hepatitis B epidemiology research in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  We begin our story in a cul-de-sac with neat green lawns in what was once one of the nicest towns in central Pennsylvania. It was morning; the ... half hour their voices floated in from the kitchen. “—and then Mrs. Essix

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  my quantum pset 4. Watching the Obama/Romney debate *In order to "see" atomic hydrogen out in space, astronomers look for its signature: radiation ... wavelengths?!" you ask. A fine question. In fact - one might say that it's a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  , there's no boundaries. So in short, a poetry slam is what happens when ... and warn. In my experience, they've been some of the greatest, most ... !) in your lifetime. They've also been some pretty great teachers

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  ; in fact, MIT is better than the national average1. However, this is a ... hair-pulling by even the brightest students. But in the rare cases of ... factors noted for suicide2. Also note in the article below: We also know

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  Virginia, the most important city in the world that night for all I cared ... , granola bars and a box of organic alfalfa sprouts that appeared in no ... schedule of a 24-hour pharmacy worker in Alaska. No wonder: Random Hall

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Yet Another Blog Entry My expenses for the semester in pie form, topped with a scoop of IAP.

  

  Back in the sepia-toned pages of my high school years, Personal ... . Since food happens to be one of the protagonists in this blog, here's a ... look at this in terms of chemical composition, probably 80% of my grocery

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  same taste in music: classic rock, blues, and jazz, and that's pretty ... arts school in Austin, Texas. As summer break ended and we all parted ... heart of live blues music in the United States. You run into all sorts of

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  -graduation trip to the Bahamas -- he's been raised in a hard-core ski family, and ... to travel with an MIT airplane-scientist-in-training... I'm kind of ... burritos (I'm pretty sure they must have crack in them... so good. So

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  returns come in. I had many election-watching options to choose from ... in Copley Square, and even a party at my own house. Ultimately, though, I hopped in a Zipcar and went out to the suburbs to a party at the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  students we admit are like. Who are they? What are they interested in? What ... some general demographic data in the freshman class profile, giving a ... freshmen in their hometown newspapers. As you may have seen in your community

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  Two weeks ago, while visiting my family in State College, I got to see some images in Old State Clothing Co. that probably seem sad and ironic to an outsider. “Believe deep down in your heart that you are

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012