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• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  to this one, in which I recounted the days of the semester through ... o_o, but it was also cool looking back at that blog showing the ... including the summer and my life away from MIT. I almost gave up twice, but

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  It's been about ten days since I came home from MIT after the great ... felt like the longest week ever. I think it's mostly because we've been stripped of our work, activities, friends, and most of the things that keep

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  intended to write a week ago, between now and the party tonight! I don ... : Last weekend I walked out to an apartment in Cambridgeport for the party ... alums, and that's from a hall that has a lot of them. I hear, in the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  counselors from top tier schools gave a panel discussion about the college admissions process, sandwiched between two 20 minute Q&A sessions. The ... projects in the Maker Portfolio (we think she said yes, as long as you

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  here I started taking them all the time, just to remember that day the ... at the end of year two here, I have a whole portfolio of hilarious moments forever preserved from the exact second they happened. So if you

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Photos of Freshman Spring 📸 My attempt to take a photo a day for an entire semester.

  

  The summer before college was my last summer of being 18, and thus my ... . They had little booklets at the front of the library for children to log the amount they read over the summer, where each booklet completed would

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • October 31, 2024
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted

  

  YOU GOT IN!! Come celebrate with us in the comments and ... ’ve cooked up some special things for you (like CPW and the 2030s Discord ... 't let me down Let's see the next amazing thing baking does now

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  chronicle of a snowstorm foretold only a week late ;-;

  

  england”, the tech from Sunday 06z to Monday 06z, the QPF is forecasted to ... (assuming the temperature remains in the 20s), with an additional 5 inches of ... ="aligncenter" width="300"] view from my room near the beginning of the storm

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • February 4, 2026
• Blog / How to MIT

  loftblogging 3: liberation via customization i <3 process

  

  furniture. Although I initially emailed the EC house manager to request ... control of my space. I would build my own loft! Luckily, all the material I needed was free, as it came from the roller coaster and fort sites

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  I don’t believe in quantum physics. Yes, I know that all the math ... , anyway. Sure, I’ve seen demonstrations of the photoelectric effect and the ... want to see is something like a person falling through the floor (via

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Admitted Early

  

  YOU! GOT! IN! Come hang out with us in the comments, you all star ... hope you feel like you’re on top of the world, and we’ll have some ... made it, that mean I made it Everything I had was for the team, I

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  we made things and want to show them to you 2.009: an iconic mech-e senior capstone class!

  

  Tonight, mechanical engineering seniors will showcase the culmination ... Kayode D. '27, who are posting their live reactions to the whole event. P.S. I'm on Team Yellow! On the team, [annotation note='Earlier this

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  My highest achievement at MIT.

  

  ="650"] Third to last day of the archery class I took for my final PE ... ="650"] The instructor let me take it home![/caption] I SPLIT AN ARROW ... 's the closest I'll ever get to it.

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  tote bag tour i have so many things to carry

  

  floppy rectangle of yellow there. I tried my best to retreat under the ... that one’s foldable enough to take on the go, I cried silently. I need ... short enough to swing from my grasp without scraping the ground. That one

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 2, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  things i have done since leaving school but only in the ten hundred most used words

  

  ~~~ cut off all my hair moved to city where the sun is out every day ... the sun and in the cold played lots of games got back into hitting ... flew on many air cars to places near and far enjoyed life by the day

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 19, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  I hate Bevi. It’s frustratingly slow, the user interface makes me ... . [caption id="attachment_90476" align="alignright" width="179"] The industrial ... working as soon as the WiFi goes out ([annotation note="Ironically, most

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  I’ve learned many things after coming to MIT. But among the ... high school was competitive to the point of being toxic, and that it’s important to pick the people that you hang around with wisely ( I have now

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Beantown. sketchbook showcase!

  

  something along the lines of, "Oh, you know. Gonna roam around Boston :)" as ... three or four locations by the time I'm writing this post, but I still had a great time! [You can click on the pics below to enlarge them

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  self-destruction my entirely self-inflicted problems

  

  story understand explores the consequences of superintelligence. in the story’s climax, he introduces the idea of self-destruct commands - since the brain is just a collection of neurons that have no choice but to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 27, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  this list, read this. He finds himself sitting in the neighborhood bar drinking a beer at about the same time that he began to think about going ... , lauded for its innovation. The cute graphics and innocent opening belie a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022