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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  Today, I have a great idea. Recently I had a conversation with a ... notes, laughed about it, and felt a lot better after mutually admitting ... closer as friends and also relieved a lot of the shame we both felt

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this

  

  despite having worked in the industry for two summers in a row. Occasionally, I write about video games from a CMS-y perspective for my major, but ... during the school year because I have no time. As a result, I have a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  wednesday, november 15 i wake up from a weird dream. it's five minutes before my alarm goes off. i haven't woken up naturally in a while, so this is a nice change. i blink at the brightness of my room -- my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  Wouldn’t it be cool to try something new? A new sport, perhaps? Or, maybe try and improve at one of the many sports you know how to play in a mediocre manner? Coming into MIT, I thought about this a lot. Even before

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  the deadline, so I'm taking a break from my New Years vacation (in ... ), Leon, Niyatee, Sarah, and everyone else for doing a little pinch ... wrote, "Just a quick question. When I print preview the MIT application

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 30, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  dancing at MIT a lot longer than I have, but since we’re both pretty ... explore here, as well as our own dance journeys. I know that as a prefrosh ... dancers from a diverse range of teams that represent styles like hip

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  On today, Ben Jones's last day at MIT (no!), let's take a look back ... started it all. Back when there were just a few bloggers, including Ben ... team is a force. We sleep outside offices and dorm rooms when people try

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  This is part two of a series, consisting of a lightly ... , currently one minute early! currently listening to: a baby crying (nothing) Good morning! It’s a beautiful morning out here in the [annotation

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  be a brilliant idea to make up some ghost stories to pass time. Here ... the spookiest things about Halloween. Take a deep breath; you totally ... Infinite and out lobby 7 to grab a bite to eat from the [annotation note

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  Hi Everyone! In my previous post, I announced a blogger AMA on ... ! _______________________________ Last week, Allan K. '17 and I did a Facebook Live AMA about ... turning 21 a week before graduation, and she is one of the most competent

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• 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 ... spoilers), I have (c o m p l e t e l y p a i n l e s s l y :’-)) transcribed a bit of his guest lecture and the Q&A that followed. Enjoy

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  . In fact, some states were so thin that one could cross them in a day ... excited. I haven't gone more than 20 miles in a day in... ah... I'm counting ... Massachusetts. The journey would be 30 miles. We walked to a trail. We

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In many ways on average-posting

  

  In many ways, the work of a critic is easy.  In the summer of 2022, I ... some point during freshman year. My roommate Jenny B. '25 was a blogger ... blogs seemed like a good platform and the bloggers, a good community

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 7, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  the horizon, I’d embark on a long bike ride over to the complete ... pieces), and Danny and Allan (who commented on the art class scene as a whole at MIT). I focus more on the struggle of drawing, a selection of my

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  pursuing a Ph.D. in quantum information next year! probably because I haven’t committed to a program yet, not that I’m unsure about the Ph.D. I don’t know ... ’m only a little embarrassed to admit that I used to feverishly consume

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"

  

  When I applied to be a blogger last summer, “what happened yesterday ... organize my thoughts into some grand realization or wrap up a cool project ... City to stay for the summer about a week prior. Most of my stuff was

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  all day. There is oatmilk in the fridge, and a basket of granola bars upstairs. In some ways this is exactly what I predicted a startup would be; in other ways, it’s better.  I’ve been just over a week in this city

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  (Guest Post) esolangs oh man

  

  Hello world! I’m Song, I’m currently a freshman here at MIT, and I ... renumbering classes relatively soon so this might become obsolete in a few ... ="thing that compiles and runs code from a particular programming language

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  as a kid, i used to always be on edge when interacting with people ... every stranger i encountered, and it took me a long time to realize that ... instance, last fall i filled out a google form to go live with 30 strangers

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  of the summer living in a tiny apartment in Boston on the fourth floor ... -size loft beds, which were a pain to climb onto, especially at night, with the ... (Alysse didn't mind, since she worked in a lab on campus). I would wake up

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021