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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I do what I do A few reasons I'm still on this planet.

  

  I came to MIT and joined the cheerleading squad, of course. I came ... performing arts. I auditioned for (and made) two of MIT's excellent a capella ... next day, and the rest, as they say, is history. I'm actually really

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  think MIT has worn out of me is empathy. I won’t say that I was always ... it. During my freshman fall at MIT, one of my friends told me about a ... around you is one of the most important parts of making this school

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  flowers of fire and light making art with printed circuit boards!

  

  My favorite poi spinning pattern is the four-petaled antispin flower ... "antispin." In other words, if your arm is moving clockwise, your wrist would ... .679[/annotation] last semester, I use it here to design the PCB. The first step is

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 16, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  New bloggers? New bloggers! [cue fanfare]

  

  week last year and organized the “[REDACTED] Family Dinner” for all MIT ... sculpture of MIT) 📸 Sara N. ‘28 from Union, Kentucky, who regrets her middle school Google Drive purge, and will someday be a kind MIT stranger

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 7, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Oh The Things I’ve Seen Warning: Hold on to your socks

  

    This year’s #IAParty2011 wouldn’t have been complete without a ton of movies, tv shows, and plays to fill my visual cortex! As such, here is a complete listing of all the moving picture shows I’ve viewed in

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Brief Addition to My Last Exposition (Or was it a narrative? My FCAT Writing skills are long gone.)

  

  My introduction to most of the MIT Admissions staff - aside from my ... )Incident, I wrote the following over on the emo, emo LiveJournal: [MIT's] admit ... right now. The main difference is that four years ago I was sure I'd end

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Well I Know That It’s a Wonderful World from the sky down to the sea, but I can only see it when you're…

  

  mix - which is more like 18 credits than 12). August - rush ... ! scrumptious food. stanford. stanford splash! californian middle school kids. ex-mit ... . mit splash! middle school kids! craziness! 53/100. apple cider

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Like Burger King – Only Not (Guest Entry) That ain't no Etch-a-Sketch. This is one doodle that can't be un-did, homeskillet.

  

  's kind of what going back to MIT feels like. So I visited back in February ... frat party anyway. You might just have an awesome night. Your CPW is

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Promise of Ending ...is labor and sharing and loving.

  

  between me and an MIT diploma is ICE 2. I remember lounging around my suite ... MIT. How does that feel." Now, in my mind I know that it was a long time

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the News An NYT article on gifted education.

  

  undergrad days at MIT, Jeanne Bamberger, mentioned. And I'm glad it was the ... choice quotes: [Longtime MIT Professor] Norbert Wiener, the founder of ... says he is convinced, depend on "exposure to the unusual, to the diverse

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Ready for some tennis? Three days left until the official start of the US Open tennis tournament! What's your…

  

  = number of Grand Slam tournaments, the US Open is one of them (along with ... tennis at MIT, you have plenty of opportunities. There's a tennis gym class

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  friends. That's not what this blog is about, though we will certainly write a blog about the trip in the near future. This blog is about feeling ... . Shouldn't I want more? Logically, maybe, but all I feel is content. I'm more

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  My brain's been on overdrive from the moment I stepped foot onto MIT ... string is everywhere, splayed out in front of me like...like...well, I was ... unwound. Yet one of the downsides is that I've now gotten myself into the

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

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  at MIT so far. It started on a Monday night, and it feels like it ... okay, it is really hard to actually feel okay. So I took a break. I only ... some really great techniques on how to "ground oneself," which is when

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  In my last post, I mentioned that I came to MIT never having cooked ... people asked me to elaborate about what non-meal-plan life is like. So ... standards for "popular demand" are low), is a basic guide for those newbies

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  MIT. To any prefrosh reading this: advice from upperclassmen is ... ="Residential Exploration, better known as REX, is a multi-day experience for first year students to explore MIT dorms and find their future home on campus. REX

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  The Apple Bake Competition is an annual event held by the [annotation note="one of the dorms at MIT, also where i live ... -picking outings that MIT dorms help subsidise. For most people, it’s a great reason

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  play dough

  

  the decision at all. A lot of my time at MIT is spent reflecting on the ... things are out of place, which is funny because to the average viewer, my room looks like a mess, but in reality it is my organized mess. I know

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  that is by necessity biased towards MIT, because of what I was thinking ... uncluttered to touch. That's how I feel about the new MIT admissions website. I ... to your web browser, and the best part is pictures are now super

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  audience and he said, "MIT is a place where strange people who don't fit in ... 's supposed to start in less than 48 hours. Figure 2. MIT's travel agent ... ) senior capstone class, which is essentially a course on "How To Make Stuff

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013