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  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  .  And it feels just as surreal as it felt when I got to campus for the ... in the picture!?), reality hit for the first time. In just seven months ... grown up with for the past seven years will go different ways. In seven

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  my family has migrated every winter for more than a decade. It ... way there, then stop by a QuickPrint station in the Infinite for paper to take notes on and Café 4 for coffee. I find a seat in the back row

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  committing to MIT or any college for the matter. I had a strong desire to ... ’t even be on campus to try out an intramural sport, for example. I desperately hoped for an on-campus spring, so I still signed up for many sports

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

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  a lot! So much so that when my friend offered me her ticket for the ... get back into running. I’ve been on break for too long, and it’s time to ... execution is not there. I have SO MANY ideas for projects and blogs and things

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / Majors & Minors

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

  

  1. Why I didn’t think I would be a good fit for engineering. I came ... cognitive sciences as my major for one simple reason: because it was cool, and ... wandering to new things – I wanted to do something that mattered, and for me

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

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  —it lingered in my mind for days after. How was it possible for a group of ... elaborate for musicals than for concerts or dances. Maybe a musical puts more effort into crafting a specific experience for the audience. But that can

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  mean time. i'm in the united kingdom for the first time! i just came back ... enjoy the leftovers for many meals this week. [caption id ... around here for 8 years, that i only have 5 more semesters of mit and then

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  batteries  – all things necessary for the light from this paragraph to be ... ’re using a CRT display for whatever reason, the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the invention of the cathode ray tube.) QLED Displays

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  BLÅHAJ: the Internet meme, the trans icon, the world’s favorite plush media analysis on the Swedish shark’s rise to prominence

  

  of the content and a deeper appreciation for the creators. But even if ... form of media studies content. Unfortunately I hate video editing, so for now enjoy this Blahaj blog :).  Blahaj, Swedish for “blue shark,” is

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  group's senior class, as well as two stray juniors, which made for the ... for MIT students that I'm aware of are Puerto Rico, Aruba, Mexico, the ... reserved tickets for rainforest entry a month in advance (they sell out fast

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting

  

  , but it's got a pretty good cabinet setup, with plenty of space for all our communal items like pots and tupperware, plus enough room for each ... there. This post, just for fun, is the unboxing of my cabinet! I'll go

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  process, a guest lecturer, and lab time to test out the process for ... background, and he delivered lectures on joinery, finishing, and casting. For ... most of the processes. The class seems to be designed for business and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  spoilers for the movie arrival (and by extension, the novella story ... sleep normally for several weeks afterwards, probably because of affection ... and breakups. for instance, some of my favorites include difficult

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  like much, but consider that turnover for a dorm is only four years long ... . for burton-conner, that class year was the 2023s. and there are lots of ... who lived in burton-conner only lived there for a semester and a half

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

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  's list. UPDATE: Here's the 2021 and 2022 posts. Things I read for class None of the readings for 24.900 Intro Linguistics, were especially ... is down, thanks in large part to their parents' concern for their

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  in an effort to be whole again recovery

  

  screen and waiting for that green PASSED to show. [caption id ... .02. I thought this would be okay because a) they're both on P/NR for me ... asynchronously and get all the content for the class. However, 18.02 hosts these

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

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  worked on: Splines Splines are basically curves. For this assignment we ... that could create a skeleton out of spheres (for the joints) and cylinders (for the bones), given a set of points defining the location of the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  different, and each of us has a different capacity for extracurriculars ... . for me, four classes (one of which is secretly like 1.75 classes), doing ... , and one pset fewer than usual so i can pretend for an hour that i'm not

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Events

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  familiar again. Even after being away for over 9 months, Boston still feels ... for so long that you have it all figured out. One week in, I was back ... electricity for my new apartment, getting my skates sharpened, getting a haircut

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  not represent the views of other students. For diverse personal takes on ... Morality. It’s a very “MIT” class, counting for both my Philosophy and ... wearing a “pi,” a “square root,” and a chemical structure for the scent of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017