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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  closely. of course, that was back when i was a prefrosh and didn't know him ... to learn that i had a lot of common interests with him, such as esp, puzzles, and board games, and even later i would discover that a couple

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  My hometown is a real-world manifestation of the phrase "the wrong ... hometown is a classist jerk, but more than once have I or a member of my ... 's a shame this area of town isn't as nice." Person 2: "Yeah, but at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  This is a (long) post detailing the week in which both MIT and ... value in a detailed account of the exodus from MIT from the perspective of ... -19 policy briefs as part of a class assignment"]political science class

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  become the antidote to my homesickness. I’ve always been a fan of the St. Louis Cardinals—it was practically a requirement to live in the small town ... overnight camps during my summers for up to three weeks at a time. But

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search

  

  I spent the beginning of this week in the company of a select group ... that they provide a reminder that the vast majority of those who do this ... to the whims of a transactional public who view education solely as a

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 21, 2025
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  1. Why I didn’t think I would be a good fit for engineering. I came ... grade, everyone in my grade took a mandatory woodworking class. Even ... , erased and redrew, over and over again. I remember taking a ruler to add

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

  

  health disorder I've always hated physical stuff. Even when I was a kid, I ... only things in my room were a bed, bookshelf, and keyboard. I kept it that way for four years. This led to a bad habit of me pushing all the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  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, very, very messy process for[annotation note="this is also a last ditch

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

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  MIT. This semester feels particularly special for a number of reasons ... the school year is over! Blog once a week. This is a crazy goal, but I think it’s achievable because I have a lot more I still want to share with

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Snippets of Iceland some rhymes from spring break

  

  2024 has been quite a year for the Sun—in addition to the total solar eclipse, this year is also a [annotation note="when the Sun is at its most ... traveling with just friends (no Real Adults^TM?!?), and it was a lot of fun

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 17, 2024
• 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 / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  After three and a half years of being at this school, I've taken quite a few classes. What have I even learned from them? I'm bad at ... . I know it's easier to talk about liking a class when it's over, but

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  geographers — they are united by a shared standard of rigorous academics, high character, and a strong match with MIT's mission to use science, technology, and the useful arts to make the world a better place. We can't wait to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Bookends and every time / i leave this place / i'm terrified, terrified

  

  Five years ago I wore a barong and sablay. In my high school graduation rites, there was a defined moment when we graduated. It was when the ... school and college, I wrote a blog post quoting the chorus of At Least It

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 2, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  and blacksmiths — they are united by a shared standard of rigorous academics, high character, and a strong match with MIT's mission to use science, technology, and the useful arts to make the world a better place

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  My freshman year is almost over honest thoughts on it

  

  take a break. I shouldn’t have scared myself out of opportunities to meet ... 't like me. It only left me feeling lonelier. A small part of me still says ... try my best to be forgiving towards myself, but I still slip once in a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 16, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston

  

  is the furthest north I have ever lived. Here is a list of almost ten ... Jordan’s Furniture. I recently found out about this place from a couple of coworkers, but “Beantown” is a replica of downtown Boston entirely out of

  • by Julia Potts
  • April 11, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  A few months ago, I posted about how to clean old whiteboards. Of ... .999% of the time. But alas, I cannot teach you in person, so here is a how ... chalk at a small angle [latex]\theta[/latex] down from the perpendicular

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  girls just wanna have fun when u gonna live ur life right?

  

  . After a hard week of advocating for myself and my class and begging the 6 ... Friday to Tuesday. I found myself picking up a book, Red, White, and Royal Blue, (which will now be referred to as RWRB) a romance novel about the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 24, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  together. As a result, MIT is a wholly collaborative and kind environment ... this a lot, but I'd rather go to a hard school with a collaborative and kind student body rather than an easy school with a competitive air. Is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021