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  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  tolerance was shattered. I was fine for the first 3 seconds, so I took a few ... fighting for my life in between gulps of milk. I gave up on finding cups and ... other. Unfortunately for us, our bodies don’t completely digest all the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  ms paint sidequest by kayode and caleb on a monday night

  

  assignment for 2.007, which was due Sunday night at Midnight. I’ll explain more ... work I’ve accomplished tonight:  I CADed up this piece for my robot in ... “The Arm”, and a base I’ll call… well I don’t really have a name for that

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  world for four whole years.  It’s still on point, and you should go read ... nicely for it.  I also met my wife thanks to MIT, when we both lived in DC ... leave for college, almost all the days in your life that you’ll spend with

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  ,[/annotation] the massive flurry of dormspams as clubs begin to campaign for ... currently kicking my ass"]6.1210[/annotation] TA asked us for our favourite ... name for a New Zealander"]Kiwi.[/annotation] I’m sure you’ve noticed the

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 2) 12 hours of coastal biking and other Spanish adventures

  

  -sleep aboard the bus for 14 hours, we awoke in Barcelona. Because of the abnormal ... . Felt right.  We wandered the streets for awhile. It was on this outing ... and said we could select 3 to take home for free. I asked her why she

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 11, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  speak at Math Prize for Girls, a competition for top female students in ... ’t actively rooting for my downfall, and he never would’ve done anything ... would’ve purposefully given me the wrong answers when I asked him for help

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing MIT Illuminations at the Welcome Center

  

  installation. For the blogs, I wanted to go into a little more detail on the ... for decades. The magazine we send to donors is literally called Spectrum ... was also working on a lighting project for the new MBTA headhouse

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity

  

  long break for lunch. We usually split off into groups and explore the ... fights for prison abolition in Brazil. While Brazil’s mass incarceration differs in some ways from America — for example Brazil has fewer private

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 10, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  – it’s 8 pm, and you’ve been blowing glass for four hours straight. You ... [/caption] Do you dare to reach forth and scoop a spoonful for yourself? If you ... )[/caption] Much to my dismay, the instructors conveniently had an explanation for

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  wheels on them so you can roll them out into the lobby for visitors to see ... for. Chalk art's already a thing that you see a lot on campus (see: MIT ... slapped a π on the deck because I figured it would be on-brand for MIT. And

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  getting on a skateboard again for the next six years. It wasn’t until a ... Discord server for recommendations, I headed over to Orchard Skateshop. I ... he could help me get a board for cruising around Cambridge and Boston

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  drabs.   This is for people on the fence, for those who aren’t sure ... you skip reading an article you can nap in the Banana Lounge for an hour ... for. Some were moving gently. It was bizarre, sort of otherworldly

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Creating the MIT-verse behind the scenes of this year’s pi day video!

  

  lots of fancy art supples. we brainbarfed at each other for a bit and ... : our boba bureaucrats liked it enough, so "Into the MITverse" it was. For ... for the fungal blob scene. Audrey: of course we also had to have a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • March 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Visiting the Museum of Science science is cool

  

  My roommates and I haven’t had an outing for a while, so we went to ... , phone number, and email for COVID contact tracing. While we were filling ... for upcoming venues for adults, such as book clubs and lectures. It

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  oh, the crash and the burn

  

  responsibilities and just sit for a couple of days. This week has exploded in my ... this? Is this some kind of karmatic punishment for something I did? So ... some god punishing me for being a bad person. Anyway, in these past 5

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  nice and all, but this is an idea that is hard for me not to be doubtful ... for help or participate in groups; when i happen to be in the midst of ... for myself are too high. standards such as — i must be intelligent and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  interviewer had set up a meeting for all of us. I met another two South Dakotans ... experiences for the blogs, so I asked the blogger Slack for some questions for ... -South-Dakotan vitriol, which I, for one, will not stand for: [carousel image1

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  tradition, we got the full week (to allow for on-campus students to pack and ... . I helped out at the tournament, and then left for my house's weekly 11 ... The Muppet Christmas Carol. I didn't vote for it, but I'm very glad it

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Virtual Fall, Real Performances coming soon to a zoom very near you!

  

  had some really, really awesome repertoire planned for last spring, and ... our rep was laid aside for months and months. Now it's the fall, and we ... MIT for this blog. There is undoubtedly much more happening than I can

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part four) senior trinkets

  

  thought this might give us some sense of closure for the end of the school ... for Thanksgiving Break. The one visible in this picture shows the three of us in space! 2) Tickets for the Vessel, Come from Away, and the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 24, 2020