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  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  The Apple Bake Competition is an annual event held by the Burton-Conner⁠01 one of the dorms at MIT, also where i live GRAs ⁠02 Graduate Resident Advisors, aka Real Adults…

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  I’ve always been a little bit of a hypochondriac, and while that is probably connected to a lot of deeper things than this blog can go into, there is one…

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  My highest achievement at MIT.

  

    Third to last day of the archery class I took for my final PE requirement The instructor let me take it home! I SPLIT AN ARROW Edit: Okay, it…

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2024
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?

  We require letters of recommendation for our application. We strongly recommend having one letter from a math/science teacher, and one from a humanities, social science, or language teacher. Additionally, a…
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  I took a test early last week for my Japanese language and culture class.⁠13 21G.S55: Japanese V I woke up early that morning to study for it, scrubbing the sleep…

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  As a resident of Simmons, one of the farthest dorms from Main Campus⁠17 east of Massachusetts Ave., where most of the academic buildings are , I spend a lot of…

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  Hey folks, it’s been a while. I’ve been very focused and not in a writing mood for the last couple months, but I’m back and I’m excited to start cooking.…

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  How do you raise hundreds of thousands of dollars, design the merch that defines half of campus fashion, build software that powers hackathons from around the world, and do everything…

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  In Milan I was constantly toeing the line between speaking solely in English, which I feared would make me seem like an entitled American who thought the whole world should…

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how the first midterms actually were xoxo gossip girl?

  

  Contrary to popular (and probably well-founded) belief, I once was psychic. Not only did I successfully predict the 2021 Pantone Color of the Year (with a Google Slideshow as evidence)…

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 15, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  MIT is a weird school. Seriously. If I asked you to picture a normal scene on this campus, you would probably be wrong (very, very, wrong). In the past month,…

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  I’m a crusty senior now, so I have no fun and sparkly adventures to write about like the first-year bloggers have been doing (at least not for this week). However,…

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  climbing the wall why so defeatist?

  

  There are a lot of phrases in the english language that can be used to describe me- “athletically inclined” is not one of them. I can appreciate and enjoy a…

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • October 7, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  Summer in Alaska, I learned this July, is an exuberant, unrestrained triumph of nature. For just a few months, the landscape alters dramatically: the snow folds into itself & the…

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Halls are Alive with the sound of mischief :)

  

  Let’s face it, MIT’s campus is not known for being the most gorgeous of all college campuses. I personally like the mix of ultra-modern glass and steel, traditional marble, and…

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  Last year when deciding which colleges I wanted to apply to, I had one priority over all else: living on a coast. I’m sorry all states from Utah to Virginia,…

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  I step off my plane, and immediately spot this amusing sign adorned with cowboy hats:   I step outside and breathe in the toasty evening air. Hot like Vegas (where…

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  turning back time now your clock can follow the right hand rule!

  

  I spent this past summer⁠87 and also the summer before that at Canada/USA Mathcamp, where I lived five weeks in Tacoma, Washington doing some math and a lot of camp.…

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  I don’t know where I’m going to be a year from now. That’s never really happened to me before. Preschool through college, it was kind of obvious that, duh, I’d…

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In the Music Cubes, no one can hear you scream…

  

  … which just goes to show what a great job the acoustics engineers did on soundproofing the building! I got to experience it first-hand last week, and it was pretty…

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 25, 2024