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Have something to say? Blog about it!

Apply for January 14 & 16 workshop

December 6, 2024 | Grad Blog Editorial Board

Hi MIT Grads! The MIT Grad Blog is excited to announce its upcoming IAP workshop on blog writing. In brief, Attend a 2-day blogging workshop: January 14 and 16, 11am-1pm. Write one blog submission Earn $100 upon completion of post Continue writing for the blog and earn $100 per piece Your work will be eligible for […]

Discovering the freedom and fun of art without rules

Discovering the freedom and fun of art without rules

Letting go of perfectionism through adventures in glass

December 4, 2024 | Alex B.-M.

When I stepped into my first glass torchwork class at Metropolis, one of MIT’s makerspaces, I expected to learn a new type of art. I did not expect my experiences with glass to change the way I organize my life. In my first class, my attempts to create a marble resulted in an unintentional and […]

Summer from the Sloan Building

Summer from the Sloan Building

A few of my personal time-efficient outings that helped me enjoy my summer (without losing my mind) during my summer course at MIT Sloan 

November 6, 2024 | Isabela C. A.

As you walk from Boston to the MIT Dome, you will encounter the famous bridge measured in smoots. At 182.2 smoots ± 1 ear, you will see “HALFWAY TO HELL” written on the concrete. As I read this phrase, I thought to myself that it must be vandalism. Only after the summer term did it […]

Med is dead

Med is dead

The Dead Sea, the Ocean that wasn't one

October 23, 2024 | Sarah M.

Mediterranean Gannet.  Now, to anyone outside of the close-knit community of MIT Sloan, that phrase makes almost no sense. Gannets live nowhere near the Mediterranean!  At Sloan, a regular conversation among new students goes as follows:  What ocean are you?  Oh! I’m Caribbean (or one of the 5 other “oceans”)  What’s your bird group?  Penguin! […]

Anything but not everything

Anything but not everything

Managing opportunity overload at MIT

September 4, 2024 | Nathan B.

Infinite Corridor, finite student  To walk down the Infinite Corridor at MIT is to be inundated with posters for student organizations and events. In December, flyers advertising IAP activities on just one of the bulletin boards included invitations to “learn Quechua in three weeks,” “study in Japan with MISTI,” and “weld your own bike!” I […]