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  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  lot as a result, lending to my feeling that I haven't been here long. At ... happy endings, even if you don't end up at your first-choice college. Just ... that actually has four distinct seasons, go look at the leaves sometime

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  I have a confession to make, which is that I've started this post at ... semester in order to present you an honest picture of life at MIT. There is ... a higher priority. So, for the first time at MIT, after a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  i remember from looking at data, he at least got pretty close. one ... looking at all the games on that shelf earlier, when i wanted to play a ... the game plus all expansions, but we weren't playing at a high enough

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  pugh charts comparing all the things I was involved in at MIT and Rocket ... content in this blogpost is based off of notes I found when looking back at ... . MIT Rocket Team: a student run maker team at MIT dedicated to developing

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  Goofy Challenge at Walt Disney World.  For those unaquainted, the Disney ... of The Oatmeal).  I got an awesome time at that one, around 1 hour 50 ... . December 31st of 2015 was my last day of work at Triad Speakers in Portland

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i became british for a summer featuring an internship at bristol robotics lab

  

  the research enough that I continued working on it (at least for now ... , so when I saw Jebby with a bunch of people on her first day at work, I ... ="attachment_117850" align="alignnone" width="2216"] the usual suspects at lunch

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 18, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  looking to learn something new to check it out at ocw.mit.edu! the 18 ... [annotation note= "every MIT student is required to take at least eight HASS ... from this course. The most popular questions are discussed at the end of

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  . June 5th, Copenhagen 6pm They lost my bags in Amsterdam. The man at ... I passed by smelled amazing. 10 pm, at the bar of my hostel I ... dozens of people snore, cough, sneeze. At 6 am alarms start going off, and

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

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  busy with classes, and clubs, and grabbing lunch at the stud with friends ... -size loft beds, which were a pain to climb onto, especially at night, with the ... places: to the Christian science plaza, which looks beautiful at night; to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  antsy. Friday turned into Saturday and I was staring up at the underside ... needed drained every last ounce of energy out of me. At some point, I ... hallway playing with a hyper Kiko before I went back to my room. -- At 3 AM

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  I wake up at 9 AM, and it's the first time in a while that I've been ... downstairs, and then I went to sleep. I wake up at 9 AM, and it's the first ... of friends. The sun starts to set at around 6, which was when I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  campus. It's this feeling of people at work, constantly thinking and ... 've stayed up staring at code because I just didn't understand, or days where I've just thrown my pset at the ground and just started crying. But in these

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  upperclassmen and they give you the latest tips and tricks on how to not die at ... was figuring out these little hacks and easter eggs about MIT. Things at ... think I knew the majority of the majors at heart and even if I didn't, you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  in the Bay Area, and I’ve been doing research (a.k.a. UROPing) at MIT ... rush over to South Station at around noon, only to find out that due to ... peace, comrade. Our bus was scheduled to leave at 12:50 p.m.; we don

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  onsite interview at a healthcare software company (with travel, food, and ... also got to eat hot cheese curds at the supposedly best cheese curd place ... so friendly. My taxi driver suggested that we stop at a local grocery

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  the tails of the bloggers, laughed at their jokes (or in the case of Ceri’s vlogs, her friend’s jokes too), cheered at their accomplishments ... -of-the-ordinary that happened during that day at school. At that point, it was already

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  is always a cause for celebration. And, on the surface at least ... melodramatically shrieks, “Avada Kedavra!” at Harry Potter in the penultimate forest ... , depressed serial killers and cautious illegal immigrants. At this point, I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience

  

  hours for me to fall asleep and it is really hard to stay asleep. At 1am, there was a knock at my door.  I am a Medlink in East Campus, and I ... , and the girl at my door told me that she did not feel right.  I opened

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.

  

  probably pre-frosh anyway. (And my friends at work who, in the connected ... 're getting in - admissions rates are at ridiculous lows - but throw your app in ... times until you're done. How is this different? One fish at a time. With

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • June 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  at Cambridge and the culture at MIT is that the former has a greater ... 't graded; everything depends on the final (the Tripos) at the end of the year, so unlike at MIT, there isn't a constant pressure to work on psets. I

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011