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  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  Beware! There will be many spoilers for Avatar: The Last Airbender ... ’m making the assumption that you’ve seen the show and will not go over plot ... episodes. Here are some pictures. The rest of the blog is me explaining how

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  Written by Danny The Brass Rat is one of MIT’s most iconic symbols ... one of those events that all sophomores look forward to. During the actual event, the Ring Committee reveals the designs of our class year

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester for me, but not in the conventional sense. i'm insanely comfortable ... different type of work this semester--the work of being present and focused

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  try to snag the one solo seat, all the way in the back and to the left ... , brought by hundreds of yellow schoolbuses, will gather on a field near the starting line of the Boston Marathon. The ground will be cold, and probably

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  , always cut it out. (iv) Never use the passive where you can use the active ... from George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language", 1946. ----- So once upon a time, I wrote a blog comparing the college essay to froyo

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  In last week's blog entry Diversity or Merit? I included the following quote:   One of the most important things about college is its ... socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  about in the college process, but leave in the theoretical domain. I'm talking about an opportunity for personal growth. It's the big selling point of college: the assertion that, if you attend any college, you'll be

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  The alarming rate at which the semester flew by shocked me, and I had ... the heady ecstasy of MIT materializing out of an abstract dream into a dome-shaped reality in the smoldering heat of the summer. September

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  I remember exactly where I was when the email got sent out. There was this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... . If Harvard was closing down, MIT was probably going to do the same

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively decided to present An Actual Day in My Life, Fall 2005 Version. 8:15 -- The

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  little thing called dormspam-the-game, an MIT-wide competition with 452 ... , for I was one of the gamemasters and have more content to share :D For much of the summer, I worked with Whitney Z. ‘21 designing, iterating

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  last year, i got an email from sandy, the head of house at east campus. my tenure as a physical resident of ec had just ended due to the ... cool opportunities around campus. this email was in the last category

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  Boy oh boy, what a summer it’s been so far. For the first time in my ... ="Freshman year was Madrid, sophomore year was Tokyo"]the United States ... Austin, Texas? The land of cowboy boots, sweltering heat, and a city that

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tell your friends you love them for we are but blips in a timeline

  

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 9, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  does anyone else remember when the internet looked like this? sorry ... and closing the same 4 social media apps until 3am i’m that kid you’re friends with for the first few days of school before you meet an actually

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving Massachusetts is the hardest state to draw.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  I came to MIT a wide-eyed froshling. The sun shone brighter through ... the heart. I got by on 3-5 hours of sleep then. Soon, the lessons ... surprise and a victory over the demons of laze. It came when all my socks

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  Athletic Center which marked the end of a very long first semester at MIT. So ... pictures). Part 7: The Battles Go On... So the whole Students and Sleep vs ... This section is pretty much a catchall for all the miscellaneous things I

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  about the difficulty in selecting the students who will ultimately be admitted to the class. Even though they are certainly right, I am quick to ... of people who make up the admission staff. It is the collective wisdom

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  .60 pset nights, so I had already worked on the pset for around 6 hours. On ... , less frustrating, and more fun. But I don't know that many people in the ... in the dorms. I think that's probably something that varies dorm

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005