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  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  The other day I fell asleep watching Hermitcraft videos on Youtube, which is how you know I’m well and truly exhausted. Normally, playing and ... body at one time.  While I won’t be dying to zombified piglins or

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  office hours just a few weeks later. They were both under the guise that I ... , too – I’m taking 3.010 (structure of materials) and 3.019 (symbolic and mathematical computing) this semester, and I blow glass in MIT’s glass lab. The

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  about a month ago, in the sense that Petey and I penciled in a date, and then proceeded to not move it. Two weeks ago, I walked 21 miles as a sort ... itself. In the two days before the marathon, I made a Google Doc estimating

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  Preview Weekend with Mother This is his story. So yeah, I had decided about MIT the instant I got my acceptance letter (deferred, got in regular ... that I wanted to go MIT even over the other prestigious institutions I

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  autumn has already breathed its dying breaths.  I'm an [annotation note ... BS. I still feel like I never have enough time for all the things I want to do. In a way, things do feel a bit lighter though. I’m only

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  This semester I built a Tamagotchi: a 2000s toy where the user takes ... [/caption] As a mechanical engineering major, I had never worked close enough with electronics to the point of designing them, and that had been something I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  I like standing at the edge, stopping there and looking down at the ... the raw scale of man fill my view only when I choose to see it. Seeing ... the sun beating down your temples as you run up against it?  I've been

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christmas in February Shiny new toys MIT gave me this semester

  

  never quite materialized, I still got to experience Christmas in February after all. Because [annotation note="Yes I know I'm cutting it real close with the time but I had a busy Wednesday okay"]today[/annotation], I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 14, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Jebby Awards 2024: See All the Winners Here having fun with hyperlinks

  

  before. I decided to do the same thing for all the movies/shows I've watched in 2023. Movies Favorite Movie That I Saw for the First Time This ... .[/caption] Favorite Movie That I Watched Again The True Man Show My favorite movie

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 1, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  i attended junior year, they would play The Woods by Hollow Coves a ... each other on birthdays. usually.   i only have vague recollections of my summer before college. i wasn’t really doing anything but also

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  . I asked some people what they were doing over IAP to show some of ... character."][/annotation] Andy D. '25: Over IAP I was originally planning ... scheduling worked out. Turns out that 4.02A’s hours are flexible, but I got

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  incident Some friends and I were sitting on the floor of MG’s room. I was browsing email in search of free food when I came across Splash, a program ... pressure, I began to ideate. I considered teaching “how to make

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  I competed in a lot of robotics competitions throughout high school, so I knew what to expect by the time I became a senior. Each round had ... few months. Despite countless attempts to re-calibrate myself so that I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  Alan and I have been taking a class together this semester: 21W.740: Writing Autobiography and Biography. I really thought I would enjoy the class. This is due to a few reasons: Firstly, I have never had a semester

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  Last fall, I went from my summer internship directly into running REX ... first week of classes. It was a fun time, in the sense that I enjoyed every event individually, but, in combination, it exhausted me. I felt

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  Personally, I have always found it ironic how universities tout their ... college is the big, spacious rooms where lectures take place. When I imagined college in high school, I imagined being in one of these huge halls

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  are high on my favorite burger list (and trust me, I am almost a local ... Exploration for freshmen in the fall), and Bad Ideas Weekend. I associate rush burgers with my first time in the EC courtyard, when I dyed my hair in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  6.046 (Design and Analysis of Algorithms) and I have an interesting ... soul-consuming. Still, on October 10 at 6pm, I can feel my brain starting to unspool from the rest of my body. I need a break, and luckily, I can

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer’s end

  

  this is the first time i've spent a summer at mit as a UROP student. in that time i have: started cooking again filled out more stamp cards than i can count at the laverdes sandwich shop walked to harvard

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  Ahhh, yes. I know this time of year. Left and right you have tiny ... week and next. I remember this week in late March as a very scary time ... . Now, I could go on and on about how “well, you’ll be happy wherever you

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015