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  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  .) I’m mildly obsessed with the internet. Actually, mildly is putting it mildly. I’m overwhelmingly obsessed with the internet. I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that for almost my entire life I’ve had to deal

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  loftblogging 3: liberation via customization i <3 process

  

  furniture. Although I initially emailed the EC house manager to request additional bed posts, after several weeks of being ghosted, I decided to regain control of my space. I would build my own loft! Luckily, all the material I

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  September Equinox Appreciation A Cambridge Autumn

  

  Two years ago in freshman year (:O so long ago), I wrote this poem. I ... to a place radically different from home. In these first few months, I ... Greater Boston. I don’t think much has changed about how amazing fall is to

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  and push, know they would otherwise atrophy.”  I wrote this line ... my hometown chapter tied neatly in a bow, I felt- quite honestly- bored. I craved excitement, wanted my life to take the shape of any proper

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  this post is a little delayed, for which I plead CPW Like millions of others, I traveled to northern New England to see the total solar eclipse on April 8th. I had happened to see the total eclipse in 2017 in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21W.762 Poetry Workshop some poems from the class!

  

  This semester, I decided to take 21W.762 Poetry Workshop taught by Ed Barrett. I've always wanted to learn how to write poetry, being too afraid ... and so I have decided to share my (bad) poetry and my peers' (good

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 22, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  I got back to campus a few days ago. The journey here from South Dakota was, for the most part, uneventful. I[annotation note="incidentally, this is the second time I've been on the same flight to MIT as a friend

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Events

  2022 Ring Premiere! ring alert: it SHINY

  

  younger than the ring itself.) For starters, I wanna say that I got all ... and talking with our friends. And I have reason to believe, from what I ... anything, they screamed even louder. I probably heard about 15% of the actual

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  I've been tooling away judging teens, some of my classmates/labmates from when I was in my master's program have gone on to build careers in ... , Catherine D'Ignazio, is even a professor at MIT! Oh god I'm old.  Earlier

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Is it a video? two assignments from two classes

  

  Before I got to MIT, I had never really made anything. I saw ... because I had nothing to put in one of those and thought that maybe they ... they've made meanwhile I've kept all my abstractly creative ideas in my

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  passing, Jessica and I learned that we both had known Professor Winston ... , nothing becomes clearer. That is how I feel reading “Patrick Winston died ... I will no longer see Professor Winston, one of the few professors who

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  fall ’19 catalog is out! and a summary of sites we use to plan semesters

  

  already i've seen my friends planning out their fall semesters on firehose ... 'll probably be a better version than the original in the near future. i know for sure that i'll be using some of these sites in the next couple days

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 25, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Around the world in 30 days ...ok, maybe more like I'm Traveling a Lot this IAP

  

  2018 is turning out to be quite the adventurous year. I kicked off ... limit and carry-on backpack, I was ready to embark on my first stop -- San Jose, California. I brought with me all that I would need for the next 9

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Walkin’ Enjoy my expository, mediocre investigative photojournalism!

  

  unproductive weekend, was to make a to-do list. I was then faced, however, with a moral dilemma, a person vs. self conflict which I would both win and lose: I needed to either buy groceries or start working on my problem sets

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walking in Tim’s Shoes Trust me, those are some pretty big shoes

  

  question!   When I got an email last week from Chris asking for ... , naturally, YES YES YES YES YES YES PLEASE!!! ME!!!!!! I managed to tone it ... -four hours compulsively checking every email alert on my phone until I got the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  My favorite room on MIT’s campus a personal room of requirement

  

  My favorite room is a well-kept secret. I won't reveal the location ... feeling of competence and belonging. This place is my jam. I'm writing from ... Experimental Biology). I glance at my watch, which of course is on my computer

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 24, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  your head suggests.) Or maybe sooner. I'm never short on inspiration ... to make time. The rest I'm hoping I can store away for future use and unpack later (in some imaginary future wherein I have ample unstructured

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy Belated Hearts Day copy/paste irl, afk and everything

  

  precious I’ve stripped away hobbies and for-fun activities and learned what I can and cannot leave behind. I’ve realized over the past year that some ... to reconnect with the good parts of the person I was before MIT and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  The snow is quiet and deep. I hope all the people who want to read ... self-improvement, nor is it a list of books I think you'll like, although I liked them. It's a list of all the books I read or started any time

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  ^ how not to do it.   "Help! I'm from [Los Angeles/Orlando/other perpetually sunny place].  What do I need to survive an East Coast winter?"   I'm glad you asked!  As a lifelong Californian before I went to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015