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  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  sensible."]a callback to last year's post.[/annotation] But then I decided ... the jump, ask yourself: "Why does this thing I'm writing have to be a ... , dark at others, and absurd all the way, tackling issues under a profound

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT CodeIt or: the best decision i've made this semester

  

  This semester, I joined CodeIt, a student-run organization at MIT ... that I had gotten through some amounts of coding classes and a CS internship. Meghana K. '21, the [annotation note="A person on exec in charge

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  . It's a funny story that honestly deserves its own blog post, but even ... AM so we could get to the parking lot by 6:45 to ensure a spot because ... my trip to Switzerland, and it was a whole year ago. The Highline

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  's worth mentioning that I was on a FIRST team for all four years of High School. It was a huge part of my life. I initially joined FIRST because my ... cause, whether it's building a robot or performing science research at a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.

  

  guilty about having not blogged in a little while. I think I may have said ... very little awake time during the week and there isn't a whole lot to ... acoustically explode. Crescendos exist so that they can reach a climax, not so

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  . Seriously, a couple of weeks ago as we sat in a bar and watched Spain beat ... talking to is me"). I might be turning into a linguistics nut, but I find ... , a camel? Come on. Where did THAT come from? Why isn't it at least a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  bottom. Here at MIT, it's rapidly coming down to the end. In a week and a day, I'll be hopping on a jet plane, bound for the tropical island of ... 't written about my classes yet, so I'll give you a brief rundown of my courses

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  . This ended well for both parties - with a PARTY! Pun totally intended. "Hey Sam, let's have dinner." "Or better yet, I could have a dinner party ... ? On on side I can get a PC with tons of programs, downloads, familiarity

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  , "I'm so confused. MIT has a beaver? But so does Caltech." Right. The ... ???" MIT does have at least a three day weekend every month (see last weekend ... "mental health days," this is a fairly common term (Google "take a mental

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  ="aligncenter" width="300"] !!![/caption] Hank is a man of many passions: science ... ’ve been a fan of Hank (and his brother John) for basically my entire ... about a decade ago and have been captivated ever since. CrashCourse and

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  blog posts. blogging right now feels to me like a sponge—it soaks up ... doing the internship application grind a few weeks ago. i've been doing ... that a little. but this year i took it the most seriously as i possibly

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  * for lack of a better title, I have taken the liberty of using the ... - AMS is like 21H (a regular history major) with a special twist. --- It is 1120 A.D., and the fates of four empires hang in the balance as the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  , as a way to remember all of the things that had happened. Brain dumping ... thoughts it was to a narrative, trying to tell the story of what it was like ... sitting at over 8000 words so. much more than 3 pages."]onto a page (or two

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  that I’m already a quarter of the way through my time at MIT, but the world works in mysterious ways. Throughout this past year, I’ve blogged a ... while in a pandemic. Among all that, I feel like haven’t spent enough time

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  orientation[/annotation] was to write a letter to our future selves with Future ... middle school self had sent a letter to their senior year self, making some ... , which i participated in from eighth to tenth grade. it was a good program

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  that they hold and the choices that they make. So I figured that a half-decent way of introducing myself to the world (and give a decent overview of ... a similar way. ']alphabetical order:[/annotation] Bed: Amazon

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Reflecting on the great memories of my freshman year ☀️ When life gives you lemons, share them with others >:) ☀️

  

  me write this blogpost. I love you and miss you a lot! My name is ... 's officially translated from Ukrainian."]Mariia[/annotation] and I am a first ... I’m officially 2A, planning to minor in Energy Studies and Theatre

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  't really find a lot of recent content on Random (because Lydia was our main ... finding, moving in to, and living in Random Hall! It's a mixture of the move ... , I rushed into a call with my boyfriend and did the first reasonable

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  out a sticker, which she pulls and rips in half. She types in my new address, takes the next printed sticker, puts it on a tube, and hands it to me with a plastic-wrapped swab. I head into a testing trailer. Two

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  This is a guest post by one of my friends, Heidi Z. '27, one of the ... most unique, liminal pockets of time at MIT, showing that a month can contain multitudes. I really hope you enjoy learning more about what a

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025