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  albums i like and why i like them pov: i ramble about music and won't shut up

  

  the albums that I like. So here is a list of cool musical [annotation ... wrestler that the singer (and presumed protagonist of the album) watched as a ... is what I remember:  The creator of this album, John Darnielle, didn

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 8, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  This is part three of a series, consisting of a lightly-edited compilation of notes from my cross-country train trip from Boston to San ... here at the foot of the Rockies. There’s snow on the tracks, and the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  : the sequel", as [annotation note="At the time of writing it was named ... None of the readings for 24.900 Intro Linguistics, were especially ... 't even read that many things, which will explain the short length of this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 3 i am starting to feel very old

  

  well here we are again. those of you have been keeping up with the ... 've just been too down in the dumps because of the quarantine to actually ... they fit the *vibe* of the playlist. that way i can curate them into

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  enjoy it, for a glimpse of a hot field as well as a bit of the research ... -year undergraduate student at MIT, a math major and one of only five current MIT ... effectively as most of her peers. A short paragraph can take Y half an hour to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  here i go again i have watched Mamma Mia! seven times this year

  

  musical wing of Next House, and every semester, we put up an extensive list of performances involving people from the wing on the whiteboard. We had a lot of events listed this semester—[annotation note="more about

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 9, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  of January where students can take a long winter break, take unique ... [/annotation] of the weekend: inauguration. Here's a cluster of weird and very ... greatest dining experience of my life. We were walking around Georgetown

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  China for the first time in 6 years this summer. Although 9th grade of ... blurry memories of restaurants, relatives, and a zoo. I flew over to ... , a small city in the Liaoning Province of China. My grandparents have

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  : the second is to stand in front of the cart and pull it such that it ... pushing allows you to keep an eye on both the cart and the direction of travel. most of the time, pushing is the correct choice the fundamental

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  oh, the crash and the burn

  

  COVID, but there is some sick part of me that is relieved that I have gotten it since it gives me an excuse to not go to any of my responsibilities and just sit for a couple of days. This week has exploded in my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  the last twenty days burning out before the semester even starts

  

  the summer, and I was going to limit the number of external cycles I ... “compromise” with myself was that I wouldn’t sit as the chair of the REX committee; I would only be a member of the committee, providing whatever

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  and I were Protobowling feverishly. For those of you who weren't quiz ... on this website apropos of nothing, we were in fact practicing for a ... surprisingly large pool of obscure and random knowledge, and even more

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  Hello! I’m Theo, one of CJ’s unfortunate friends from our dorm (I ... Security Administration, Stata Center, et cetera. This is not true of most ... theo if he was younger than most of the admissions blog readers. to which

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  One of my favorite classes this year is CMS.100 -- Introduction to ... latest book, The Soul of Anime, examines the notion of "collaborative creativity" in the context of Japanese anime production and propagation through

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  Weekend was only at the end of October, a mere 59 days, 4 hours, 32 minutes ... something that I could show them. Something that’s a perfect representation of ... . My parents and I alongside one of my friends and his parents.  

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  've learned a number of things: At MIT, the week of my birthday has always been ... parties I've typically blogged about in the middle of October? And the exams ... myself up less over the idea of always doing at least a fair amount of work

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  t-shirt. Photos of Paterno, the football team, and Beaver Stadium, signed, framed, and displayed outside the store. A post-it note on one of ... minute later. The photo was of Beaver Stadium, filled to capacity during a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Moves and Music(als) Illustrated with tons of images and a video, and not *as* many words

  

  , not-so-involved career. I got my start in the second half of senior year, when my high school staged its production of Guys and Dolls (this will be moderately important later). But let's get to the heart of the matter. Let

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Building the Yearbook [by Ken Haggerty '11] An inside look at Technique 2010 (shhh!!!)

  

  for this year's edition of Technique (the yearbook of MIT, since 1885 ... process so that everyone working on the book, including myself, was aware of ... means that the books should be in towards the end of April, with

  • by ARTalk
  • March 29, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  is usually incoherent, a bowl of liquid gelatin wriggling with light ... five precious seconds of my life. 10:25 pm: Someone has sent me an email ... I have a granola bar for lunch tomorrow? The grotesqueness of bananas

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009