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• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  have the same question. It can be intimidating to go alone to a new place ... share a few particular stories, of cases where I remember more ... because we knew a lot of the same alums and kept turning up and the same

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  "lynn." I didn't even really consider putting "el en ex" as a choice ... , although I guess that actually makes a lot more sense than "lynn." I seem to ... cosecant of something so I'd have a reason to say "arccsch," which should

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  Well, I've been sleeping a lot. I don't really understand why, during term, my body can't normally sleep more than 8.5 hours in a night even if ... Kentucky or Georgia it wants three decent-sized meals a day, at regular

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  traditions that motivate a significant population of students to stay in their ... ,” while others mandate that students have a meal plan. Some allow students ... social dynamics within a living space shape how students interact with

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  major) and a CI-H(communications intensive class in humanities) that ... "] i still can't believe i was actually given a platform for my garbage ... drawing properly using a trackpad. Anyways, art is very very critical to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  I couldn’t go—I had promised to go to a Puzzle Club event on Monday, when I expected the retreat would still be going on. But a short email ... completing a single round. Instead, I watched the trees whisk by as I defended

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  [annotation note="Graduate Resident Advisor, a grad student who provides support to your living community"]GRA[/annotation], a PhD student in Course 4 (architecture). “How do you perceive pika?” someone asked. “It’s a little

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  line roughly a month before move-in, in an effort to capture just what it ... , with my hometown chapter tied neatly in a bow, I felt- quite honestly ... .    Life doesn’t always work out this way, but, a year later, I can

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  rural winter, city winter haven't shoveled snow here once

  

  of Cows![/caption] Winter in Wyoming—a symphony of snowflakes and ice over barren land sprinkled with old red barns and cattle. It's a season of rugged beauty, where Carhartts are more a necessity than a fashion

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • February 26, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2023 For all of the Blogger/Spotify Data Junkies

  

  I received a January MIT Newsletter and saw a summary of Ankita D. ‘23 ... .  (Ankita, I'm sorry I'm using your post from last year as a direct guide for ... . Ceri: "i only used [spotify] when i went for a few outdoor runs this year

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus #2 yayay

  

  general idea is that I'm working on a program that can navigate several robots such that they'll follow a trajectory that helps them reach their goal. It's a mix of formation control and neural networks within the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how i feel about ai-generated art from an artist's perspective

  

  a fiction writer that went something like, it’s so upsetting how ... this random guy in his mom’s basement will generate a Pulitzer-Prize novel with a few keystrokes. As somebody who has spent many years

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 11, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  dance dance revolution lessons from ddr

  

  there is a ddr (dance dance revolution) machine in the basement of walker memorial. i have known this fact for at least a year, but didn ... reaction times so i assumed ddr would be a struggle [caption id

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  well on math contests meant i would have a worse rank, other people getting into top colleges meant i would have a harder time doing so myself ... friends found a new friend group that they began spending lots of time with

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  I started writing blogposts when I came to MIT. I wanted to be like a ... vaguely speaking I’d say this has been a moderate success (y'know, being an ... insane degree. Coffee was a part of my identity in,,, perhaps an almost

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  performance groups do their semester performances, and i don't go to a lot of ... think at that time of semester i spent a lot of time playing kingdom of loathing again, after not having played the game in almost a decade. one of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  recently i looked through a list of all my friends who graduated from ... me now than they did while they were in school i have a bad habit ... how good a post can be. i am optimistic by nature, so whenever i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The CrimZone. there are 2 impostors at harvard

  

  a running joke between Fatima and me that started about a week before Orientation, when I decided on a whim to get a Harvard library card, which is ... wanted to get a library card, came with me and we both got our cards fresh

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  This weekend, I moved into a new apartment. This academic year, I’ll be living in Central Square with three roommates - one of us a teacher ... of did them for the last time, and this time it’s different. As a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  welcome to new york went to nyc & all i got was this blog post

  

  When Taylor Swift's 1989 album dropped, I read a review describing "Welcome to New York" as the musical version of a peppermint latte. It was ... . As a kid, I thought peppermints were spicy until I found another word

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 12, 2022