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  To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before: P.S. I Love You THANK YOU LSC

  

  , this is my dream. I watched the first To All The Boys I've Loved Before movie on Netflix at least 14 times over, if not more, and read the first ... Committee has access to resources like this. The moment I finished up the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  the world is blooming! and so am i?

  

  with the colors of a tree: from green, to orange, to white, to pink, and ... (Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons”). [caption id="attachment_101219" align ... detail LOL[/caption] The last time I lived somewhere with four seasons (as

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 17, 2024
• 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.

  

  dark blue pillow in the store window, just below a tie-dyed Happy Valley 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

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  subtract the 4 minutes I spent staring at the squiggly darkness inside of my ... morning, however, when I woke up at 9:29am for the last conference tennis match of the season, instead of the spry, bright-eyed youth that I should

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'

  

  -In As we gear up for the second STARS (Small-Town and Rural Students)@MIT Fly-In program this fall, we’re reflecting on the incredible success of our ... insights into the college application process—through the unique lens of

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • March 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  curiosity got the best of us. On one sweltering day, my oldest brother and I ... had nothing else planned for the day, and decided to try something new. Intently following the instruction manual together, like building IKEA

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 2 Hearing Amazônia

  

  If you missed part 1 of the Fredventure, be sure to check that out in ... ="alignright" width="225"] A top-down shot of the rainforest. I'd never held onto my phone so tightly before taking this photo.[/caption] Day 4 was the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  Reading is one of the few real hobbies I've managed to hold onto throughout my time at MIT, not that I have much time to read during the semesters. Still, it's nice to look back at the past year, which has been a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  If you can't tell from the title, I love scrolling through Wikipedia. Yes, the website that your middle school English teacher probably rained ... “regarded as one of the greatest and most influential directors in film

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  handle. Now, I realize that these are the days when we become the kind of person we're going to be for the next stage of our lives. I felt like I ... , but I didn't know what venture capital was or what the startup landscape

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  with her. Scrolling through the original message, I saw a comment that ... told me that I should meet Ashley at MIT's Kresge Auditorium. The theater ... , according to the program bio, "Music Director of both the Simón Bolivar

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  I'm the type of person who never wins the lottery. Were this a ... ) prior to Monday, I was under the legal lottery ticket purchase age, (2) nobody in my family has ever won the lottery, suggesting that my otherwise

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  [EDIT: It has been noted that the photos in this entry don't show up in Internet Explorer. I'll try to fix this soon, but in the meantime, I ... endorsement of Firefox still holds, though.] For the first time since August

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Give Me Liberty . . . Or Give Me a Towel!!!

  

  to provide the chance to participate in random, spontaneous, fun events ... Revolutionary War recreation, was bound to be one of the more epic moments of my summer. I checked out the Banditos Misteriosos website for the details. The

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Scootah Hockey a sport of tradition, friendship, and raw athleticism

  

  Every few seasons, the hallowed concrete walls of Simmons Hall come alive with the echoes of laughter and plastic pucks and the ritual shouts ... Eugenie who led this time-honored tradition: the sacred game of Scootah

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is why we can’t have nice things harmless things that irritate me

  

  People walking shoulder-to-shoulder down the Infinite There’s always that one group of people walking down the Infinite who block up the whole hallway. Whether it’s two people who spaced themselves out in the worst

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITWE Goes Digital We stan Fred in this household 😤

  

  With all the WiFi problems in [annotation note="One of the big lecture halls in the Stata Center"]32-123[/annotation] and PE registration ... . Luckily, the MIT Wind Ensemble (MITWE) is always ahead of the curve, using

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  vibe check i'm basically living at MIT again

  

  I moved to Cambridge for the summer!! I'm living near Central Square ... apartments with [annotation note="9 out of the 11 other freshmen, one junior ... remote UROPs/jobs for the summer and it's nice to be in a space where we

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 19, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  i dropped os 🎉 i'm a hass boi this semester

  

  last thursday night was pretty stressful, trying to finish the operating systems lab with the precious few late hours left that i'd had -- i'd even started the lab early this semester, even gone to office hours. it

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 18, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  some things my eyes saw recently (this is exactly what it says on the tin)

  

  : The weather on campus turned beauuuutiful this week (just in time for ... lovely springy pictures. This was drawn on one of the public ... the dome decoration is here.) It must have taken a lot of work and it

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 24, 2019