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  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  ’s, like, a more powerful movement for me. So I do it with more force.” “Just trust me. It’s a lot much faster with your thumb. Just always keep ... signs around every corner. We were just a first time team from an unknown

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  time to do stupid things at the canonical school of smart people with minimal consequences. And every year, we celebrate this fact with a whole ... was probably the one event I was most excited to go to. There were a lot

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  This semester, I’m taking a class called 21.01, “Love, Death, and Taxes”. It’s a [annotation note="Communication Intensive in the Humanities, Arts"]CI-H[/annotation] philosophy class, and it’s a grand old time! The

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day with AISES + NASA

  

  Institute community must do to forge a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive ... People’s Day. As we do so, let us reflect on the richness and resilience of ... histories. And, we commit to using the challenge of our past to inform a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  graphic novels from a squat library. I gave a wide berth to a mom with her kids at the playground, and a trio of middle school boys in neon orange ... grade. There’s a tree so gnarled and bent that even little kids can climb

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Got Solar? guest post by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20

  

  *written by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20 (members of MIT SEVT) as a ... we met more team members who flew in for the competition. After a few team discussions and a long night of last minute inspections of the car

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 6, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  we are twins … but ARE OUR AGENDAS?!? (not clickbait)

  

  , we both still had quite a bit to do, but Borderline (a project that let ... like using physical agendas more. For one, it’s fun to buy a new one each year with a cute new cover! This year, mine (the one on the right), had a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 23, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  shouldn't have been a big surprise, but I'm having trouble reconciling how I ... , the hostel bed is very cozy and has lots of wool blankets and a big comforter. There's a beautiful woven tapestry on the wall, depicting two

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  things people are doing over the summer--you're interested in me, because I just finished my freshman year, and what a scary and tumultuous time it ... smart enough to be here. And while I do see validity in these questions

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [joint post] unsubscribe a post about fortune cookies

  

  seven times in this calendar year, and, also, spoilers for a future blog ... phrases in the English language. CJ: Business, then. It was a dark and stormy night… Alan: It was a dark night. I don’t think it was particularly

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  soldiers, barroom regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording—all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in ... is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  myself to do a coding class in high school. Somewhere along the lines ... feels a lot heavier :< All this to say, I've been browsing ... drafts for a bit :')"]post-finals[/annotation]and thought I'd share my very

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  quarter, I felt like a spring. Specifically, like an undamped oscillator. My ... response force I'd feel on my energy levels. Calmness remained at a distance ... days became less packed. My graph dampened into a steady state. [image

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  "]fire alarms[/annotation]. I know a lot of people who do fire-spinning. Perhaps ... struggled with writing blogposts in the past few months. It’s not for a lack ... , but that’s the problem. I feel like I’m on a rollercoaster, or some

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday a detailed documentation

  

  purpose. Why take a class on race if you can’t read racist articles? The TF ... double check myself every time I speak in this class. It’s a new experience ... courtyard, only with more grass and buildings of a different color. This makes

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory

  

  , I didn’t really have a clue of what to do with the actual algorithm ... Find a Set: Set is a visual card game. "Sets" in Set consist of 3 ... same or all different. A set must meet ALL of the following conditions

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Odd Jobs How non-seniors can occupy their time before and during graduation

  

  into a lot of part-time jobs. I’ll need something else to occupy time, earn a bit of money, and begin exploring some random careers. I’m currently planning on taking a summer@future class, Creating Digital Learning

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  hanging in a golden chain This pendent world in bigness as a star Of ... technical term, because he spent a lot of time talking with Galileo ... : That's a photograph of our little blue "pendant world," close by the moon

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  once in a while I get questions about what you should pack before heading ... you're looking for a more exhaustive list, these blog posts might be of ... working to optimize what I carry, so this is a work-in-progress and (2) that

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Coworker Shenanigans Summer friends

  

  , who's in that other office, found a surprising picture of me under his keyboard as well. Jenn, the perpetrator, tells us that there are a lot ... a July 4 party at my house, and all the other summer students came

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013