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  The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama Emad's not the only blogger who got a press pass.

  

  On September 24, MIT admissions blogging and His Holiness the Dalai ... morning was to misunderstand the instruction to line "all equipment" down on ... later in the day. I considered turning to the reporter on my left and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  A couple of Fridays ago I had the opportunity to sit in on an LSC ... scenes of how we kind of attack these stories at Pixar. Some background on ... design work, I got to animate, I got to work on the computers. This was

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  proof of life hmm :thinking-face:

  

  , very loosely stitched together because I gave up on trying to have a ... timer on a carton of milk and a slab of chicken waiting to be thawed. An ... feeling of always being somewhat agitated, having something on the horizon

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  that I had already spent the right amount of time working on it. Since I ... . There is already a bunch of great advice on this blog, but with the ... the drawing board. Even if a story or experience is compelling on its

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  ="attachment_110967" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] a double rainbow on the first ... as possible. On weekdays, those of us willing to get up for breakfast ... on the board. We’d laugh about the scenarios on our psets or just

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Reporting from… Doha! 🐫🐫 ft: the first time I ever rode on a camel

  

  , where I got the first stamp on my brand new passport! Afterwards, we ... first destination would be Souq Waqif, a Qatari marketplace. On the outskirts, it felt similar to a fancy/quirky mall, but there was a part on the

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • January 18, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  the month of January: some people treat it as a four-week extension on winter break, some people take classes or work on campus, lots of people ... ="The MIT Outing Club runs a winter school every IAP where people go on lots

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  for August. I was continuing my research with the Isola lab on inner ... 't, and it was interesting to be there. It seems on average a bit more ... on my turkish skills again and ate lots of great food. Turkish culture

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  loveallurfriends <3

  

  Memorial Drive on the trip back from the UA Meeting. The weather, for the ... , crossed the street, descended into the foliage by the Charles, and sat on a ... scintillations on the surface of the river.  I was tired. This is unsurprising; it

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 6, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  hall to a post somewhere on Instagram. I even have a little sticker of him on my water bottle that travels with me everywhere I go. Today is his 3rd birthday, and he's celebrating some of it right here on the

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  art, but despite taking two design classes and having a UROP focused on ... and design, which is what i'm planning on majoring in."]Course 4 ... working on my projects for my liking. The closest I’ve gotten to drawing for

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  yo-yos, comics, and other adventures my junior spring schedule!

  

  on guiding our design. She's super competent, I loved bouncing ideas ... on any given day. I find this quite stressful as it requires you to ... man (who is also a fridge magnet) activates a magnetic sensor on the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  immediately. I couldn't go to the market myself since I had something going on ... cow from the artist on my behalf. Soon enough, it was sitting on my ... lingering on the crochet videos that popped up on my feed. At the same time

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  expressly intended to be published on the internet for thousands of people to ... that, so they will live out the rest of their lives only on my hard drive ... 's thoughts on if a topic would make a good blog or how to structure a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  called it — and I thought, why not? We met on Sundays at 10 pm for me in Denmark, 1 pm for those on the west coast. One poem per week, with different ... wouldn’t have discovered on my own, from [annotation note="a poem based off

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  ="At some point in my childhood my mom definitely made me read up on ... than I could’ve come up with.   Since it’s celebrated on the ... if we really hadn’t any on hand — and the local Asian/Hispanic grocery

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  subcultures of mit, i do actually take on group identities and it usually turns ... close friend to understand how overreliance on a small set of people leads ... , but you should also be prepared to survive on your own if and when they

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  The November Rule is the unspoken rule we have on campus that ... conducive to functioning on your own. you'll also miss a lot of social and ... (deservedly so). I have a lot of regrets, clearly. so that's the rundown on

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  Last week, non-seniors who want to live on campus in the [annotation ... be a good time to reflect on what a freshman fall over Zoom has looked ... notifications on, is exhausting. If I’m already online all the time, going to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  've got four piercings on my right ear, and two on my left[/caption] This past fall, just days after arriving on campus, a bunch of freshman girls ... gained from going to college and getting my first paid (on-campus) job

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020