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• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  're supposed to focus on what it is that we're wanting to move towards instead of ... from one person to another is through the voice.” the part of the ... it. You're giving it chi. We're supposed to focus on what it is that

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  This post is brought to you by the 20 hours of sleep I got this weekend! Wait, that’s a normal amount of sleep to get? Missed that ... perfect example of that is one weekend freshman year, when I decided to stay

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  , which led to a long series of crying over graduate school applications ... about their projects: Matthew: One of my projects is focusing on the ... aligned in one of two directions, which is also strange (since over time

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  On the first night of my mandatory vacation, I walked to the beach ... gorged myself on 180,000,000+ pixels of touristy excess. (Now rescaled to ... rest of the week with inches to spare, despite sleeping for one hour on

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Rain is evil There's only one kind of good snow, and rain isn't it.

  

  misfortune to be around me the last few weeks. All I do is complain about the ... . But it snowed. And then is started to hail. And then it started to sleet. And then it started to rain. And then, because the snow on the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Good Deed Goes Unpunished ...in which I introduce myself and set the tone for this "theater of the absurd."

  

  you a backstage pass to the theater of the absurd, better known as ... tawk? DISCLAMER: THIS BLOG IS NOT THE PLACE TO WORK OUT POLITICAL OR ... communication and their effect on society, in particular that of minority

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  were all on campus, 20 or so of us packed into someone’s dorm room, and i ... love or taylor swift. one of my favorite college memories is splitting ... who didn't get into MIT but went on to thrive elsewhere (like this, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  to SolidWorks, which is one brand of CAD software, though other brands ... sort of what an API is, and I've successfully used it to do something. I ... (which is about a mile across campus from where I live). So I decided to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  together on psets in my room or in your room or somewhere else just to enjoy ... -- "my" class -- carries a lot of people who taught me how to care, how to ... there are people that i only got to know this year or this semester

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Thanksgiving on First East – Team Bemis makes hand turkeys!! (For justice and the greater common good.)

  

  couple of weeks ago putting their creative minds to use designing and ... use to trace with) on construction paper. 4.) Cut along the lines. 5.) Repeat. Or not. Whatever. 6.) Decorate! Observe! This is us making hand

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  IAP is almost over! I wasn't on campus for most of it, but I finally ... workshop, which is about to come to a close. I had a wonderful experience ... specifically, I live in 2 East, or 2E for short. 2E is like a family to me, and I

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dorm Companion #1: Art MIT loans out 400 pieces of famous art each year from its collections to its…

  

  the program told the Weekly Dig: "One of the goals of the program is to ... student forgets to return the piece on time," Arning acknowledges, which ... Want a Warhol in your dorm room? This is exhibition week of the

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

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  fall, for reasons unrelated to the pseudo-kidnapping, which took place at ... difficult it is to get into top colleges, weird, funny, poignant, and even ... visits, which are supposed to leave prospective applicants and their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mikey Yang ‘05 Name: Mikey Yang; Job title: Admissions Counselor; Hometown: Troy, MI

  

  community here is so open, friendly, and accessible. I love being able to stay up until 5am talking to friends instead of doing problem sets. I never ... River is awesome, and the fact that MIT is right on the riverfront

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  ’m lucky to be fetishized, that this is a form of acceptance. It is the same ... , their GoFundMes are here. This write-up isn’t intended to be activism or ... subway or walking alone on the street. Seemingly every week, a video clip

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  now, on display at the front of the Harvard COOP. Gross! I urge you to ... you write an essay about yourself? If the answer is yes to four or more ... either at my school or the local library that I could get to on foot in 10

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  on the challenges to overcome, or the endless short-form scroll about ... , and to be quite honest I think a lot of where I am right now is just ... now it’s February... But this one is pretty close to my heart, and I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Majors

  

  ones this week) Even better than all of this is the fantastic Choice of ... careers they would like to pursue or have one or two subjects that they ... choose at the end of their freshman year. Also, changing majors is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  On Sunday morning the Design/Build/Fly team rolled out of bed at 6:30 AM, roughed up and ready to fly on the last day of the competition. We ... order to score a little higher. We were on the clock--the weather

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2017 it's never too early to start reminiscing

  

  MIT folks and wherever else MIT folks. I bet one of you is in space ... startups fail but at MIT that number is more like 50%. I bet another one of ... but you can't reveal it yet. And good luck to those of you starting grad

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 9, 2017