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  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  One of MIT’s oldest student groups is the Assassins Guild. We’re the live-action roleplaying group. Over my time in the Guild, I’ve roleplayed as a ghost who didn’t know he…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  IHTFP. the dome stata An arrow pointing right Previous An arrow pointing right Next   We make fun of the architecture a lot here, but sometimes, MIT really does look…

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  Tetazoo has historically been friends with Blacker, a dorm at Caltech. So when mystery hunt rolled around this year and Caltech was flying over to stay with us, we decided…

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  I’ve talked about Mystery Hunt at length, from the perspective of a participant, the perspective of a hunt runner, and the perspective of a community member. Here I’ll take the…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  i. I visited my high school over the winter break. I came back to my hometown in Alabama during the second week. I was staying in Georgia with my family…

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  I’ve been blacksmithing for just shy of a year. This fall, I took 3.096: Architectural Ironwork, a class which not only counts as both 2-A credit and HASS credit for…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  New Game a comic summary of the semester

  

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  This blog is about my hometown, which I filmed a little bit of last time I went home. Put the quality on 1080 and see the color green unlike you…

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  Preface In the process of moving our office from its inaugural location on the Infinite Corridor to its new home in the MIT Welcome Center, I stumbled into some accidental…

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  Content warning: mention of suicide, discussion of death. Quotes are taken from Your Last First Day in There Is No Antimemetics Division. There will be some light spoilers, so if…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  one. one of my coworkers, john, lives on a boat. last sunday, father’s day, john invited me and two other members of my team, joseph and claire, to his boat…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  “Why did you come back?” “Well, I’m—I’m a queer Asian…person, so…” “You felt seen.” “Yeah.” Imagine a fish out of water. When I was growing up, I was always the…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  In that moment, I felt that my conception of [Next House] finally contracted, collapsing from a community to a few lonely souls haunting a space filled with memories too large…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  On the second last day of classes my freshman spring, I wrote a blog post about everything I did that day. I recently remembered this and thought it would be…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  I live in East Campus, on the third floor of the west parallel, which we call floorpi. And on floorpi, I live in room H306, which looks like this: This…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  CPW Problem: What Can People Wear? CJ pragmatically writes concerning poor weather

  

  (Condensed pre-word: CJ pens without constrained phenomenon within comments. Perhaps written clearer? Proceed warily.) Campus Preview Weekend, commonly pronounced/written “CPW”, progresses. Welcome, current prefrosh, welcome! CPW’s putative weather contraption prevents…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  Sooo I wrote about pouring my heart out into a research conference submission in this blog. Last week⁠83 well it's actually been two weeks at the time of publishing this…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  tw: extensive discussion of anxiety, panic attacks; mentions of depression note: This is a personal account on my experience with anxiety and is not a substitute for professional advice. —…

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  This post has spoilers for the theme and structure of MIT Mystery Hunt 2022, which are unmarked. This post has spoilers for some puzzles, which will be marked. Titling these…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  Two years ago, I wrote a blog post saying Web development probably isn’t for me. I’m not entirely excluding the possibility. […] But JavaScript really doesn’t vibe with me, and…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022