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  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  In honor of blog post number \(6283 \approx 1000\tau\), I’ve decided to do a post dedicated to my favorite number. Here, \(\tau\) (the Greek letter tau, usually pronounced to rhyme…

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  goodbye, thoughts; welcome, semester tfw classes are my saving grace

  

  I’ve never been so excited for a semester. I’m taking classes that are *gasp* relevant! and interesting!! and I’m only taking four of them, so I’m not frazzled like I…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  The river freezes over, but it isn’t frozen solid. My roommate and I gestured at it through the window of our Uber, wondering aloud if water flowed beneath the sparkling…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  Well, the moment is finally here. My last first day at (virtual) MIT.  And it feels just as surreal as it felt when I got to campus for the first…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  I moved to campus this past weekend! It’s super exciting! I will probably write a post about it, but this is not that post. Instead, this is an IAP post:…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  back in east campus jiggity jig

  

  i moved back to east campus last weekend, and to continue the kinda silly tradition, here is a picture of my old room. the move was slightly less smooth than…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  I’ve gotten into the habit of keeping graveyards for my writing—little, dedicated spaces for my sentences and paragraphs that don’t make the final cut—where I can lay them to rest…

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  I’m gonna be honest: I’ve written and deleted and re-written and deleted this post at least three times now. It’s literally not even that deep of a topic. “Just write…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  I’ve been blogblocked a lot and I’ve been really trying to find something to write about, but every time I start, it feels like I’m not being eloquent or interesting…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  If indeed I post this on time, as of February 9th, 2021, I’ll be twenty years old. Wow. So weathered, so wise.  I’m heading back to Boston in a couple…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 9, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  I loved living in Macgregor. Every weekday, I woke up at 6, brushed my teeth, and stumbled across Memorial Drive to the boathouse. At 6:30 sharp, clad in sunglasses and…

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  hope springs eternal a warm feeling

  

  It’s a beautiful day today in Boston, and looking out the window at the Charles River, recently covered in snow, I can’t help but feel anything but a kind of…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  i’m studying abroad this semester hello europe

  

  Yes, you read that title right. I’m going to be studying abroad this semester! For real! Okay, sadly, it’s a remote program, because *gestures wildly at the state of the world*.…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 7, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  This post contains spoilers for the theme and structure of MIT Mystery Hunt 2021, which are unmarked. This post will contain spoilers for some puzzles, which will be marked. Organizing…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  seven. in magic the gathering, a player’s hand size is seven cards. this is the starting hand size, subject to mulligans, and the maximum hand size. you can have more…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  I was taking a look at my calendar for next week, and I thought that it looked utterly barren. (Thanks, quarantine.) So I thought of something fun to do —…

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  Hello and happy new year (kind of)! I was really bummed out to make this post since I feel like I didn’t accomplish many of the resolutions I planned for…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  After about **checks watch** 47 days of not blogging, returning to writing feels quite odd. There have been many swirling thoughts through my head, so many things I want to…

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  [Guest Post] Things to do while waiting for decisions by emily '22, alison '23, felix '23

  

  Make a 100 layer crepe cake Buy some semi-temporary tattoo ink and make some bad decisions Bike down the steepest hill in your town without dying Peel a strawberry Bake…

  • by kellen manning
  • February 1, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  Walking alone ’cause the night is dead. Crossed my mind when I crossed the bridge. fun.,⁠116 yes, another blog post that includes lyrics by fun. “Walking the Dog” Yet whenever…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021