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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Virtual Fall, Real Performances coming soon to a zoom very near you!

  

  I’ve mentioned briefly on this blog before that I’m part of a cappella group, the Asymptones (tagline: “we sing fun and nerdy music!”). We had some really, really awesome repertoire…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  In the past few weeks, I’ve been pretty busy with SCUFFY,⁠01 Support Communities For First-Years ESC,⁠02 Exploring Support Communities and other general freshman orientation/recruitment events. It’s been a lot of…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part four) senior trinkets

  

  This is the fourth and final installment of our sentimental objects blog series, where we describe the random memorabilia that we collected over the school year and that we stored…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  absolutely life-changing class that ended with the professor standing on a ... major producer of majestic music in my life (as well as of some other

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CP* restored my faith in the universe i read...My Immortal...with prefrosh

  

  CP*,⁠08 called as such because it's no longer a weekend--it's over multiple weekends the virtual replacement for Campus Preview Weekend, was SO much fun. Sure, there’s no free food involved…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunnel66 bringing the borderline tunnels online for CP*

  

  Borderline is a club at MIT that started in Spring of 2017 (our freshman spring), when a group of upperclassmen got funding from the Council of the Arts at MIT…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  An Origin Story Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Jinchūriki

  

  high time for me to find a job and start my life. There was one problem

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  This past week and a half I've been slowly adjusting to life at MIT again. I spent the two whole weeks of break just complaining about ... more physics in this class than I ever have in my life, I just am very

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  understanding of life is to live it, but I think it's even more than that: I think ... understanding of life is living itself.

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  A lot of very stressful things have been happening this month (and honestly this whole semester, which is why we haven’t been blogging as much as we would have liked).…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  We are in our senior year of college now ⁠10 how??? , and were recently discussing how much this reminds us of senior year of high school.  In high school,…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  honestly have given up hope. i have never felt so defeated in my life and i ... years of my life to finally admit to myself that i want to pursue a music

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  As my second semester at the Institute draws to a close, I’ve been reflecting on how I’ve spent my time outside of class. Of the various activities I have tried…

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  came into my life: urop.guide! It's a great little website created by two ... make a website or add-on to make life at MIT easier, like Courseroad or ... occasional Trader Joe's chocolate bar...) Life is good :D

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  , and having fun, and then going out and getting a job and living my life ... will realize I want to do for my whole life. I know myself, but I no

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Because Racecar Guest post by Kevin C. '17 on the MIT Formula SAE team!

  

  Kevin C. ’17 (pictured above at the Porsche Museum) is now a grad student in the Aerospace Controls Lab. He was the electrical systems lead of the MIT Formula SAE…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  The week of Monday, 10/2 – Friday, 10/6 was very, very difficult. We were both sick, had a super long and challenging 6.00 pset (literally stayed in office hours for…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  I — all of Class of 2019 — had been looking forward to this day all semester. I even downloaded a countdown tracker on my phone, reminding me every time…

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  “It’s not just a working tool. It’s a thinking tool!” pronounced the award-winning makers of Snipmap, a Google Chrome extension made during the Festival of Learning Hackathon. Snipmap’s slogan can…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  MIT is really cool. MIT has a glassblowing class. I took the glassblowing class over IAP. It was really cool (wait actually it was really hot lol). This blog post…

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017