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  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  started poking around the house. there were lots of goodies that were a pleasant surprise -- a plethora of beautiful vintage bird stamps, two bags full of my old copic markers (expensive!), a couple prints made by my old

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  113 days. As of yesterday, I am officially a second semester senior. Every minute that passes by feels crucial, like not a second is even to be ... month of this year in Europe, studying abroad in Madrid before going on a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  This fall, I took 21W.762 Poetry Workshop with Ed Barrett, a popular ... ’ve taken at MIT: every week we’d write a poem in our own time and then read it out aloud during class for a round of feedback. And that was it! I

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

  ambition finding direction

  

  ambitious people. You can sense it when you walk around one. In a hundred subtle ways, the city sends you a message: you could do more; you should ... those books you've been meaning to. When you ask what message a city

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  After a year and a half on a forced meal plan, I have now been freed ... thing I did when I came to MacGregor? Get a rice cooker, because I haven't had a rice cooker in forever. And oh man was it a great decision to get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  reiterate: LA is not a city made for walking. like, in any sense ... moovit, a public transit app that includes bus and subway routes ... longer because of the world renowned LA traffic, but it's a pretty reliable

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  IAP 2013 was a logistical (and medical) nightmare but a fantastic adventure. I broke my big toe into a bunch of pieces, then flew home to ... the results. Oh well. Next, I spent a week in California at my first

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  (LCS) is a student club dedicated to spreading the appreciation of ... ; At MIT, a hunger for chocolate knowledge   Jayson Lynch (center ... Science, the discussion runs a bit more, well, technical. You may learn

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  and wishing that someone would invent a backpack on wheels and call it a ... 15 dollars later, Ben '10 and I were on a last-minute, cheap ... -King-or-McDonald's pit stop. The driver stops at a gas station. Passengers get out and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH

  

  in a very long time. So I heave the pretty incredible stash of lined ... ish. I've finished problems 1 and 2. :/ Exhibit A: Is this really 7 hours worth of work? God I hope not. Come to think of it, a part of that

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 11, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  Today I am bringing you my MIT Survival Guide, which is a list I made just about three years ago this week when I was a freshman and still sort of in awe of the fact that I'd apparently survived almost a full year

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  slow burn you and the void

  

  idk man it was a strange day. haven't written horror in a sec. also ... street, where a massive CNC machine chatters and hums. You’re breathing ... a tired haze. Your hands tremble with caffeine, this old well

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 6, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  There is currently a painting staring at me.  It’s perched on top of ... ’s a green house, inspired by the one across the street from my parent ... value contrast is nonexistent. A couple more layers of paint could make it

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  The first time I ever stepped on a skateboard was in 2015, which was ... Future Part II. I was in seventh grade. It was a week before Halloween, and I had just finished my McFly costume with a cheap skateboard from the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  after experiencing this tumultuous year, it's strange to be having a blissful summer. here are a couple of things that are making me very happy ... never did during the academic year. a friend and i walked to a 24 hour

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  other words, the past three months were a completely new experience…and basically the first time I’ve lived like a real adult. My official title at Sony was a “Front-End Development Intern”. When I got the position I was

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  This weekend, I was an invisible woman. Flashback: There’s a ... to several similar events already. A couple friendly vendors had ... . No, this is a fancier event. The handmade cups here cost $68. And I am

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  . 1600) to Mozart (ca. 1800). In the spring, a class called 21M.250 ... music spanning from Beethoven (a Mozart contemporary) to Mahler (ca. 1910). I loved having a class that taught me to listen, and was all set to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  There's a paragraph in Steve Job's biography where famed Apple ... is when I sense some carelessness in a product.” Every Wednesday night ... am, to have regular access to a 3D printer and a laser cutter and drill

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  It's 1am Sunday morning. I just got back from a two-hour car ride with a friend; we drove through Cambridge and discovered a mutual ... I honestly do not believe that there is a baked good out there more

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012