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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I am a bad example but only for about twelve seconds.

  

  deteriorated since coming to college. I used to chide my friends for being ... and was immediately confronted by a colossal display for the Twilight ... could give to a teenage girl." (I do not think the series is well

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  actually means, but it definitely relates in some fundamental way to the ... had to study my name for a while, since there's no way I can re ... serving free hot chocolate to weary travelers passing by on their path to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  writing for CityLab, then part of The Atlantic), moved to New Mexico to be ... different ways the pattern can be manifested in a building,” and then the ... ’m also aware there is some loss inherent to being too cloistered, and some

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Unknowns in illustrated list form

  

  upon a time a few weeks ago, campus was a tame soon-to-be snowman's nest ... "icicles" stemming from the gutters. My guess is going to be May 1. 2. Is ... to be the Mexican version of Chuck Norris. This was admittedly a long

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / Class Projects

  Product Design Lab Wakka wakka wakka

  

  the 3rd floor of building 35 you ask? Well there used to just be a ... that being a blogger obligates me to be, of course took pictures. There ... bits, each with 12 bits. That's 72 Forstner bits. *drool* Oh, by the way

  • by Snively '11
  • March 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  started the day by running (1) and (2). (2) brought us to the Museum of ... 's DDR equipment and set it up in what used to be the "game room." He and ... Daniel would start by taking a class, because he didn't want the game to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Making an Entrance On being helped to my feet.

  

  “uh oh”s. Heard one guy say, “dude, that had to be, what, the first pass ... occupied with the crutches to hold an umbrella. So, by the time I hobbled ... way into the lobby, pausing for a moment to catch my breath, a puddle

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  had to leave MIT. I spent around 190 days at MIT. 185 of those days ... hours a week during IAP to prepare for our annual show...those hours stack ... "]REX[/annotation] events in my Google Calendar. I actually went to 4 of these; the rest were

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  via the endless stream of short-form videos spoonfed to me by various ... bird. That’s generally a very lucky thing to be at any time except for ... -confirmed my conviction that the best way to make friends is freshly baked

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  stitches. Gauging is a term used by crocheters to describe the planning that ... , either. There's many a terrible sweater to be crocheted at MIT.   ... . Before I came to Boston, I dedicated quite some time to ironing out the

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  task—no, my duty—to finally say what needs to be said: MIT is a jock ... to be clear, this isn’t one team carrying everyone else on their back ... MIT athletics cannot simply be bound to the regional level.  MIT has

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  could not find my way from East Campus to Building 7. This was a path that used to be natural enough I could browse Twitter while walking through ... the net and the court and your opponent. Not to mention that the way you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Rain With apologies to Tay Zonday.

  

  normal, everyday prose, I decided that it'd be far more amusing to do so in ... 're better off this way. So sit back, sing along to yourself, and enjoy. =P ... Despite being the middle of winter, on Friday the entire Boston area

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  complicated. It seems to hard to be "the right way" to prove something. But alas ... , look at it, and think "this must not be the simple way to prove this ... an equality, and here is that example: Take your set $A$ to be the set

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember

  

  , sometimes amused by who i used to be, sometimes saddened. whenever i think ... comes with a few years of distance. i think i just need to be stronger. i ... i've realized i spend most of my time trying to divorce myself from

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Good Morning, Sportsracers! *erases introductory post draft for the umpteenth time in the vain hope that he'll stick…

  

  weird accumulation-of-facts thing that I do constantly? Am I going to be ... times in the past, by the way.) I'm weird, in case that's not clear ... for things to be done." - ze

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  skills to be mastered is simply too great to be able to figure it all out ... , find themselves in a place they never expected to be: the back of the ... than just the way something looks.  It shouldn't just be some aesthetic

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  about ways the class can be improved, and generally preparing it for mass ... technology on the way people behave is pretty interesting to think about. The ... Hard to believe but my time at the institute is starting to wrap up

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  be famous to the prefrosh Also shown: This picture trying hard not to ... Facebook friend you. No takers. He's cool, but not pay-me-to-be ... was announced and ran to retrieve it. I took off sprinting all the way

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  to be tough but because I was lazy. The funny thing is, I can ... being able to run that week really had less to do with not being able to run, and more to do with running being my one thing that didn't hurt me

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021