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• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  This post started as a voice memo, taken during a walk home. Its ... /11/thanksgiving-first-draft.mp3"][/audio] I had a very difficult time my freshman ... of a combination of P/NR, taking easier classes, and just an

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  I’ve been back on campus for about a month and a half now, and it ... the classics! I was only a ten-minute walk away during the summer, and I ... my possessions crammed into two suitcases and a million tote bags

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  a dozen speakers hidden around Kresge auditorium while the stage ... concert. It was a massive three-way collaboration between MITWE, the ... would be a one-time event because of the sheer scale and effort of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  I’m typing this at around 1 PM on a Friday. My head hurts, just a ... bottom of a sigh, when you can feel some structure in your chest actively ... , though, is a precious commodity, and I’d like not to squander it, now that

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  I competed in a lot of robotics competitions throughout high school, so I knew what to expect by the time I became a senior. Each round had ... autonomous mode for our robot was a pain in the ass. It was all about

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  happy lunar new year the year of the tiger

  

  why birth years are unlucky. I do not know why, although according to a ... , Gossip Girl was on television, I went to a nerd school where people were ... ="attachment_72166" align="alignnone" width="274"]  here's a photo of younger me

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee

  

  from classes with a [annotation note="i ate so much fruit. soooo much ... 'll write a blog post about all the things I made this semester." So I got up this morning, and before I even finished a single paragraph, I went

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 11, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  Well hello there it's been a while and I'm am ridden with guilt and embarrassment that I haven't blogged in a while, BUT in my defense there has been ... internship. I finished my internship with Microsoft this past summer and got a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  A few days ago, I was talking with Nisha and other friends, and the ... much more than the material that is directly taught to you. If you’re a high school student, this might seem a bit counterintuitive. Isn’t the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  work despite the [annotation note="extra is a strong word here. to be ... was still a four-day weekend."]extra[/annotation] two days of break. I ... seemed worse than anything I had seen in a long time—I imagine the exodus

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  seven questions with youtubers the mit side of youtube

  

  a weekly snapshot into my life, whether that be basketball vlogs ... Tube? Jocelyn: I started making videos about a year ago because our basketball ... document our trip. A couple weeks later, that same friend and I went on

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 14, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  that it was a hellish six hours involving four tours, lots of walking between properties, and a giant tear in a friend's jeans as she tried to climb over a fence, but even so, it was all done the day we learned we

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation ... weekend. My parents and my [annotation note="She's now about to be a first ... Long Island while I took the train to Boston with a friend from my high

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  changed...now, i'd do anything to be able to dance at a frat. i don't know if i'll be trampled and shoved in a giant sweaty mass of college ... in a setting where no one knows you is indescribable. one of my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Poetry from 5 AM This Morning Don't worry, I drank an entire MUG of espresso

  

  This girl is tired. Verrryyyyyyy tired. I had a lot of ideas for what I wanted to post this weekend. A month into my time at MIT I can ... week has been a wild ride. To quantify it: Five hours of sleep per

  • by Powers '23
  • September 30, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Hall Rush: 1E So many packing peanuts

  

  Hi friends! I'm Jamie and I'm a new blogger. I'm a senior in 2A-4, (flexible mechanical engineering with a concentration in design ... brings me to hall rush! Each hall in East Campus has a different culture

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • September 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  and African communities on campus, and would also be a big part of ... staff, Hassan founded a “Hacker House” in San Francisco during the summer ... members to start a chicken farm in his home country, the Ivory Coast. This

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One more baby blogger Or blogger baby? I don’t know, is it the same?

  

  The new baby bloggers were introduced about a month ago, but I have one more to bring you. She doesn’t actually have a name, and she definitely doesn’t have a coherent point of view or an extensive blogging

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  reluctantly washed off the vestiges of sleep at 5 A.M., and prepared for the day ... people to wake up filled the stalls, and from them, a queue emerged. We ... shortest queue, and mumbled to him, “After you”, a way of securing our spot

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: I’ll be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend and so will other people from MIT

  

  I blog a lot of retrospective trip reports (see, e.g., ISEF 2016, IOI ... I arrive somewhere to give a talk. Someone emailed to suggest this ... , where I'm giving a talk about maker portfolios in our admissions process

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2016