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• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  compiler, and designed a poster for my first conference on that laptop. I even composed my first blog post on its screen. [caption id ... Great British Bake Off. There it is while I was working on my costume

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint liveblog] finding the BALANCE with 2.009 watching the 2.009 annual showcase (with Kayode D. '27)

  

  A live DJ. 1000+ sparkly pompoms. One of the biggest events of the ... up on my typical habits of putting in way too many photos, but in the meantime a girlie can try"]No guarantees on photos for the rest of the night

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Independent Studies the making of a (very) short film

  

  process, but we are so happy we kept on persisting! He is a grad student in ... really helpful! So, the plan was for us to both use his language Taichi to code our entire film, Allan focusing on the simulation aspects and Danny

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  yet i maintain composure manu tenere “i hold by hand”

  

  is forward waltz, and i’m on the correct foot again. one two three, one ... back straight, as if my head was stacked on it. twirl vine three. elbows up, shoulders relaxed. thru face closed. pressure on my partner

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  during this IAP started on January 4th. When do my friends at other schools ... us as well. So on my more cynical days, here’s what I see: MIT gives us ... ’m trying to not put too much pressure on myself though, because if I do that

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  person we're going to be for the next stage of our lives. I felt like I ... .   Within the past year, I flew to North Carolina on a propeller ... to succeed and focused on getting the entire MIT community involved. At

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  learning that's been weighing on me a lot since I came to MIT. I often times ... difficult problem, they don't ask for help after ten minutes of trying or even ... I can't help but feel like I'm some sort of impostor when I talk to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  We Really Aren’t Kids Anymore avoiding the part where it all has to end

  

  like we were supposed to know how to advise actual first years on where they should live [as though we should have a semblance of what dorm culture was after spending our first years on Zoom]. Through all of this

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 9, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  last concert

  

  around two weeks ago usually we hire a sound company to handle sound on ... , do live mixing during the concert, and then tear down their equipment ... figure out how to put everything together myself, after having relied on

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  well on math contests meant i would have a worse rank, other people ... , and so on - but it also extended to non-academic endeavors as well. for ... audience, and so on. i have a bad habit where i tend to assume at first that

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Got Us iPads! [UNBOXING VIDEO] ft. my cat and my new apple pencil

  

  big-ticket items like "who gets to live on-campus next year?","how much ... questions, based on nuggets gleaned from meetings with MIT administrators, the ... on the first-most-exciting email of the fall semester. watch this space

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  media affiliation), but I was able to get in on the last day for free ... next step for a bio major who wants to be able to live comfortably. Recently, I've decided to take on a second major (in Comparative Media

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Sneezes a deep and in-depth analysis of an everyday occurrence

  

  . Most non-sickly humans will sneeze about 2 times per day**. Depending on ... if you are driving. I have been late to school on approximately 1 ... any sneeze-related injury. I personally have a scar on the top right of

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  On the floor where I lived last year, Elaine L. '18 was known for ... produce sources have become a lot more scattered. I’ve been relying on the ... bins to stock up on grains and nuts. Around Boston Haymarket Location: 96

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  -druhdruhdrum sound of the crossing signal on Mass Ave is still audible as you pass ... that, it’s a memorial. Writing something on the wall? You don’t do that ... -student club: how, then, can he be allowed on campus so late at night? The

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hack Punt Tool: The Musical Now, the music can be yours.

  

  tetris game, or putting a police car or a telephone box on the dome. To ... plan to construct something on the dome. They have to deal with the ... musical was written. And by full-time, I really mean full-time. I lived with

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Update It's been an amazing year!

  

  what's been going on in my life so I thought I'd throw together a giant ... year, it has to be the volume of hair on my head. Although I always ... cut looked like, I bought a pick and went on with life as usual

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  did more research on the University of Chicago. They are weird. Really ... in economics on a pre-med track, and the schools' econ departments are ... even gave me a refund on the deposit. Slightly over a month of classes

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  ; though i want to live forever so earnestly, my hands can’t mold clay & ... dancing on the ground, which was more like a cloud, which was more like a

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  pigeons who live in modern-day downtown Boston. I was really proud of myself ... that I found out that my black pants had lavender paint on the butt, and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024