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  gently down the stream whitewater rafting might be easier than driving on mass ave

  

  this rare opportunity to go on trips and retreats up in the Northeastern ... on Sunday mornings, and, quite on theme, we decided to go whitewater ... restriction on rental cars. I woke up at 6am (very painfully) and hopped onto

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • October 16, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  and soaking in the Boston sun on one of those early spring days where ... whizzed by like a door violently swinging open on its hinges, revealing to ... classically mortifying high-school-cafeteria-where-on-earth-do-I-sit dilemma

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  on personal enjoyment/emotional impact and not at all on literary merit ... on some aspect I don’t feel like I understood. 2) I think you only ... Fitzgerald On Writing by Stephen King C: fine lol. thought provoking I

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  !] ... This blog is a long time coming. I initially anticipated making this on ... years before returning to the island it was born on to mate and lay eggs ... wingspans as a sort of sail, and angling the feathers on each wing's end to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  month of this year in Europe, studying abroad in Madrid before going on a ... taught by the Digital Humanities group at MIT that focuses on how to ... have been meaning to get back into it. I plan on taking piano lessons

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

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

  

  at 11:59 PM on Saturday, and I was up the next morning at 10:30 AM to ... Monday; registration for classes was on Tuesday, and then classes started Wednesday. On the Tuesday before classes started, for one of the many

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

  defense the other bloggers didn’t believe i could write a post about basketball

  

  every principle i’ve been watching basketball on-and-off for a while now ... kind of defense is man-to-man defense, where each player on the defending team matches up with a person on the offensive team and is responsible

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  was a solid period of time where I felt pretty set on my major. I ... ’t dislike physics at all (outside of doing badly on tests, I would say), so I ... child. Well, I was right on some things! I actually didn’t dislike the

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Events

  [Joint Post] Avoiding Sunstroke Solar Cars, Solar Stories, Solar Blogs

  

  So. It’s been a while since I last was on the blogs, speed writing ... job(s) on campus.  [caption id="attachment_68922" align="aligncenter" width="768"] our car, Nimbus on a road![/caption] I think it was fairly

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  ’ve done some reflecting on what I’ve learned throughout these past four ... learning happens outside of classes is why overloading on classes isn’t recommended, even ignoring the effects it’d have on your sleep cycle or social

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  knocks my glasses off my face. i put on the hood of my sweatshirt and ... housing stipulations enforced on us and move on. does it really matter though? we'll be on campus, surrounded by people, able to go wherever we

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

  Day video? Honestly, it all started with a random DM on Instagram. Back ... with the Admissions Office on...[annotation note ... baking animation was done on her MIT-issued iPad and was the first time she

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  reflection on that choice.   When I was younger –I’m talking middle ... on . I was shy until I wasn’t, which happened around 7th grade when I ... this have to do with you leaving Maine and moving home?” Well, on about

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  summer. But more on all of that to come, I promise! This past semester, I ... , with a focus on privacy policy. I was actually studying in Switzerland ... Boston to meet us on campus. The rest of the semester, we continued to have

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  different community events and (of course) occasionally when working on psets ... went on to describe his ongoing project in Ghana. He also shared with me ... example, who was involved on campus in creating the OneWorld@MIT celebration

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations rough, tough, messy!

  

  develop a product based on a theme: this year, it was "Rough, Tough, Messy ... 'm not very knowledgeable on how 2.009 works on the inside (if you do want ... controller, which drives the motion of the wall. On the back of each moving

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • December 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  throwback to last year's Eastern Sectionals, as I was vying for a spot on the ... super convenient for me to maximize my training time, especially on days ... quick nap, and set off for the airport.     On the flight, I was

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  universe, and everything. My roommate and I finished preliminary work on our ... . Instead of sleeping, I watched some Spanish-language television dramas on Netflix to brush up on my Spanish, googled instructions for how to make a 3

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  . As time goes on, it is no longer just a question of what you want to be ... devote the rest of my life to cancer research. As time went on after that ... choose from to do a research project on. I scrolled up and down the list

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  school in astronomy. As a result, the contents of the binders on my ... from organic chemistry, notes on plays by Tom Stoppard, and equations ... , it’s all space physics: notes on the fate of stars, on how galaxies

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016