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  On schools & context

  

  A while back, I asked for parent questions and received exactly one ... college counselors spend hours crafting a recommendation letter for each ... student who's not the valedictorian is the better match for MIT. Ultimately

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Honse. Nnnyeeeeeeiiiiiigghhhghhhghhhhhh!!!!! 🐎

  

  ="attachment_113647" align="aligncenter" width="768"] The master at work.[/caption] For ... of Monster with Reese's Puffs every morning for breakfast (can and all

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  Trinity. Rock, Paper, Scissors. The Plastics. And for Simmons Hall, our three elevators, Alevator, Belevator, and Celevator, each named for the ... take Belevator, it took over three minutes of creaking and groaning for

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  nothing more of it for two months. One Month Before Bad Ideas I had a plan for IAP. A blissful period of rest, exploring Boston museums, baking ... homework packet for my [annotation note="an exam to test out of 18.03, aka

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  sticker stories adorned on my water bottles

  

  . I've made it a point to never buy a sticker for my bottles. I just use ... 'm willing to cover up for the sake of the newer ones. I got a [annotation ... discount was a ton of AirTags lol']AirTag instead,[/annotation] for more

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Unveiling the New Varsity Weight Room let's get buff !!!

  

  ="attachment_106050" align="aligncenter" width="456"] jumping for joy! we <3 the new ... same time…"]for the soccer team.[/annotation] It was awesome that the ... is our mascot lol"]Engineers.[/annotation] I can’t wait for all the PRs

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 23, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  New bloggers? New bloggers! [cue fanfare]

  

  , who grew up without internet and turned to books for entertainment like ... week last year and organized the “[REDACTED] Family Dinner” for all MIT ... enthusiast, lover of her homeland’s native birds, and always on the lookout for

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 7, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Something to chalk about “These murals are f*cking rad” – Petey

  

  MIT is a 168-acre playground for the world’s brightest undergrads ... chalk murals in Simmons last year, but [annotation note="For unsavory ... from around the dorm. Big thanks to everyone who sent me pictures for

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 24, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Pirates and Pi and Rats and Pie and Rats (except there are no rats) 3.1415926535897932384626433832795… idk the rest.

  

  , a replacement MechE class for 2.00B, Toy Design, which didn't runt his ... definition of any sea song"]Chanties[/annotation] for the last third of class ... blog at some point. Our class has been planning for weeks to do a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Jebby Awards 2024: See All the Winners Here having fun with hyperlinks

  

  before. I decided to do the same thing for all the movies/shows I've watched in 2023. Movies Favorite Movie That I Saw for the First Time This ... would have been fine if it wasn't for the humans. The Movie That Was Way

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 1, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Uncanny Valley im gonna make you shit your pants

  

  part 2 of using my art powers for chaos. So how do you give someone the ... happiest people I know to model for my drawings: the bloggers! Here are a few examples of the poor souls who sacrificed their dignity for my creative

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  I've used in my life (finally something hot enough for proper wok ... surprise that frats have a bad rep for being gross. That's where tΞp work ... old brownstone beautiful for another century! Or at least for the next

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  for her. Since the breakup, I've felt like things are just happening to ... have a good time. These past weeks have been incredibly hazy for me. It ... incredibly at peace, for the first time in a long, long time. Even though my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21M.712: Choreography — Making Dances theater arts classes >>>

  

  everyone coming from a different background, it makes for a really ... from New York on Tuesdays and Thursdays for class. I'm really glad she ... a texture, or feeling of a movement, to create. for example: "melt

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  it out aloud during class for a round of feedback. And that was it! I ... suggested forms for each week, but it was completely up to us if we wanted to ... callous outside world. Although I’ll always see poetry as an outlet for

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  on a near-cosmic level, like soulmates for friends. That was until we ... 't even be said for all of them."]They're generally respectful of me ... an option for my male friends. That my worth is inherently tied to the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  dimensions. For instance, the Earth is locally homeomorphic to R^2, by which I ... ",[/annotation] but for the purposes of this blog, I will not be worrying about this ... . An infinitesimal part of. As it turns out, for some reason, this is a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  ’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing!  I was in a phase of trying to ... , searching the empty cavities of my skull for words.  I was busy and not ... ’t stick, or just from having insufficient regard for the proper names of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Lessons Learned from (Watching) D&D thank you brennan lee mulligan

  

  for 'binging copious amounts of Dungeons and Dragons content.' I ... Dungeons and Dragons. For those of you who do not know, Dungeons and Dragons ... , but for the most part, you can just imagine it as a bunch of people

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  particularly good for me, but was definitely more of an exception than a rule ... /territories using their shape and how far off you are geographically (or for a harder ... example from the other day, for Semantle #13 (on 2/11), some of my guesses

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 13, 2022