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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

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

  

  one of its students. I included the daily new case count for MA in each ... to imagine it. I'm so grateful for those few extra hours of normalcy ... or if I had enough dining dollars left for lunch. They've been replaced

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  Chelsea R. ‘15 to talk about one of her favorite classes, Writing for Social Media, and the universe it comes from. I deeply respect Chelsea for ... online work can be a helpful distraction for those of you who are waiting

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Boston, through the lens of my children Visiting Boston at 37 years of age was ...

  

  . For those counting at home, that means I was admitted to MIT nearly 20 years ago and graduated 14 years ago. For those REALLY counting, that ... , for those REALLY REALLY counting at home, I'm more than twice as old as

  • by Snively '11
  • October 19, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  , organizing logistics for MIT Science Olympiad, sailing on the Charles, and even ... -tripping to Vermont for a [annotation note="The Great North American Eclipse on ... crafting art pieces in the studio. For these artworks, I would thoroughly

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  adorable. Here's him learning to use scissors for the first time at our local ... looking for something harder. This was dumb. I decided I wanted to run an ... scheduled for August 2023 and began training! I was at a marathon-level of

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  new york without i*stagram who are you performing for?

  

  too early for a flight has its benefits: you get to sit in an airport, people watch, and reflect on how you should compensate for your ... days (mainly for christmas), and due to a mixture of factors both within

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Saturday Night in Simmons it's so busy here tonight [i really need to study or go to sleep]

  

  new shoes for Gatas [explained below] that this would make a great blog ... ! These guys are responsible for so many amazing chalk murals in Simmons. Check out this crazy cool art blog from Andi Q '25 for more!   MPR

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Tuesday, 12/17/24, at 6:28 PM ET exactly what it says on the tin

  

  many, if not all, of my dear friends make fun of me for and something ... -handed while announcing that Early Action decisions for the Class of 2029 will be ... or in between. Create something silly with or for your friends. Watch

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 10, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks

  

  to get out in the near future, but for now, i want to share what I ... tape of the movie Hamlet for 2 dollars. I could practically hear my dad ... "]laundry[/annotation] in Simmons, and was waiting in a lounge for it to finish. Behind the tv

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things

  

  Interesting Things) talking about all the cool ideas they have worked on for the ... 's not just all work and no play, so for the past six hours, we got to ride ... computers remember things for longer. Very, very fast computers that only

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  firsts of first year 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1…

  

  with fire spinning Painted for a final project with a friend Ice ... needed someone’s hair so she could demonstrate hairstyles on someone for ... ']milk crate stacking rope challenge[/annotation] Created [annotation note='for

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  ways of saying goodbye joint post with CJ '23!

  

  of our favorite media. goodbye mit :’) for a fun challenge, try to ... I the one always packing up my stuff? For once, for once, for once I ... being, and you can be grateful for them, even if they were never meant to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  brush and floss every day for the rest of your life to have good oral ... when just doing so for a single day was excruciatingly boring, so i might ... couldn’t work for more than a few minutes at a time without getting

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  paid or earn credit for it."]UROPs[/annotation] from the Tangible Media ... than my peers, so I decided to make up for less experience with more time ... . I found out that I actually enjoy coding enough to do it for hours at

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  i don’t know how to comfort people

  

  academic environment, you most often turn to the people around you for ... . after all, we’ve only barely known each other for two and a half months ... think, but you can’t force people to talk. so i wait for something to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  best places to sleep on campus for when your bed is far far away

  

  semester goes on sometimes the TA for the next recitation comes in and does ... ="x = any integer from 1-24, not to be mistaken for the ChemE Bunker ... good because lots of beanbags are there specifically for sleep. most

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITWE Goes Digital We stan Fred in this household 😤

  

  for the first few rehearsals)[/caption] Not the most exciting things in ... ; luckily, the bags did not stick around for long. It had been more than a ... . Admittedly, this may seem overkill for reading and annotating music, but hey, I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  My freshman year is almost over honest thoughts on it

  

  , and I shouldn't put down my past self for not knowing what I know now. I ... while. I think for the most part, my freshman year was spent dismantling the mindsets that I held for granted back in high school. I stopped

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  /ApplyingToCollege. I'm flattered for something I've written to get 211 upvotes, and I'm sad that I can't keep the karma for my main. I'd have loved to comment ... me for spending all day sitting down in front of my laptop, saying it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  Hi everybody! I was busy this [annotation note="IAP, for y ... , stands for Independent Activities Period, and takes place for all of ... accidentally connected the tungsten stick to the welding arc (for context, this

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022