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  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  problem that i've never done anything like ISEF. should i be feeling like ... MIT." Or "I've never even heard of ISEF or RSI or USAMO, does this mean ... admissions, we're primarily concerned with the initiative you've taken, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  new information about my life just dropped [ from the archive ] roses, thorns, and buds

  

  , and now two Valentine's days have passed. I've decided I'm just going ... , slushy, feels like 1° Boston winter and back to summer again, I’ve kept her ... urban tech hub, I’ve picked up bouldering as a hobby. I actually started

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • February 21, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i am taking in spring 26 because i'm stuck at the airport right now. NOT ranked in terms of edibility (sorry)

  

  ? Recently, I've been confronting the fact that I only really have 1.5 years left at MIT. I've matured a lot in terms of my academic confidence and rigour, and I've started putting more intention into choosing my classes

  • by Janet G. '27
  • February 8, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  3 Simple Steps for Making New Friends Guide to Meeting People

  

  ="This might not be so far from reality: as I’ve learned, many—dare I say most ... take a right, open the gate to the block garden you’ve never visited ... is technically the 5th),[/annotation] you’ve just reconnected with an

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  mechanical engineering is product development, I’ve gotten to create a lot of ... precise, I’ve encountered so much freedom in engineering. There are a ... ).  This creativity can be expressed in any project: I’ve built my own robot

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  of dark humor that runs through most musicals I’ve seen. Lots of ... on it and reveal they’ve given my work their attention for a few ... me, means honesty—not in the sense that I’ve been factually accurate

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  it would be us. in retrospect, maybe we should've seen it coming. the ... anxious about what would happen to the community i've grown to love. while i ... i've worked on writing up some documentation about floorpi myself

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  ."]main thing[/annotation] on my mind, and I've been meaning to write a schedule ... . I'd forgotten that I really like math. I've been observing this ... in and out, too many signs to read, and you've got half a mile to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  finding good what i look forward to

  

  -6 times a week. I hate all forms of cardio, but I've been giving the Peloton ... Aidan C. '23 and Petey) and they've been helping me a lot. It's been a ... Is King. I've been meaning to get back into reading, as many of the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 4, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  Hi, long time no see. Well, for me it's been a while. I've been ... weeks ago, I flew home to California. If you've read any of my past ... to Boston, I've been able to get a handle on things. Kind of. My mental

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  into math, but we have a hard rule of "no math during tea time".) I've ... virtually? How do we do recruitment now? And I've had to deal with these ... Association, the Puzzle Club, ESP, Floor Pi, the Assassins' Guild. So yes, I've

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Media That Makes Me Feel Okay School's out! Time to get distracted :D

  

  back to my hometown for the summer. For those who’ve been following my ... ’re like me, and you’ve always hated summer and the fact that we have to ... and music I've directly embedded will include small amounts of some of

  • by Powers '23
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  my cave of despair to blog again! I've made this post two years in a ... out of any semester that I've been here. This would have increased this ... – 0% complete. I've given up on this. I'm old and it's too damn cold out

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  't quite know where to start with this post. In fact, I've rewritten it so ... collaborative places I've experienced and I'm eternally grateful that I don't have ... support those going through troubling times. During my time at college, I've

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  years, I've found myself traveling quite a lot. I've flown to London every ... the city. And now that I've chosen a university that is quite a ways ... have the money to pay for it), and the solitude of it all are things I've

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  sketch interpretation. Recently we’ve been talking about body pose and ... : Contemporary Francophone Africa This class is my favorite French class I’ve taken so far! This is the first advanced French class I’ve taken, and it

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  earlier blog entry: What could this possibly mean? It means I've ... when I started, and I get to look back at all I've done. Not gonna lie ... entries I've got archived here are an awesome way to reminisce. Ups and

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  cultural experience that may even leave your tuchus toasty warm. I've spent ... and probably get a haircut. After three months I've pretty much become ... and snowsuits, even though this is one of the most humid summers I've

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  : To say that I've been busy would be pretty false. I've been doing next to nothing. The IAP tide has crept ashore and I've been simply floating ... underwater; I've been helping my friend edit his personal statements for grad

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  humble opinion. I've spent the past week solving puzzles for Mystery Hunt ... blog." (Sorry Matt!) *** Part the Second: Research As I've already mentioned in previous entries, my UROP is in the Langer Lab, where I've been

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008