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  Cake Concert, Wing Dinner, and Senior Ball An action packed 2 weekends: Cake, a wing dinner, and Senior Ball!

  

  around the world - a Habitat for Humanity event, this year they built walls ... loveee Cake and was super, super excited. In all my excitement, I brought my camera to the concert (which was held in our gym). It turns out that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  Fridays, since many bio/BCS classes meet for an hour and a half or two hours twice a week rather than for an hour three times a week. This term, I only ... UROP. Basically, my lab is moving to a new building in a few weeks (more

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  list of things that refill my will to live things to do when i don't want to do anything

  

  hugs thinking about hugs remembering that one time in a summer ... over and we hugged each other for a solid five minutes and that was probably the longest hug in my life thinking that if i buy another thing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  "I got it on Reuse," people say, with the emphasis in the word falling on the re-. When I see the word elsewhere and say reuse in my head ... it felt elitist to speak in a code no one outside MIT could understand

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015
• Blog / Events

  freshman blogger, sophomore student a reflection on some new and old things

  

  Coming back to campus has been unsettling for many reasons. My ... interested to partake in social activities. Though to be fair, you get what you put in, so my detachment is on me.     There’s an innocent energy to

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 21, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  I Feel *a* Last or at least, I'm trying to

  

  Song: Dancing in the Moonlight by Olive Klug It's 9:05 am. The ... episodes ago in the season premiere. However, this time the room isn't a ... was ready for this giant sigh of "I'm done" after I closing my last exam

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  day comes to close, a fire in my hands, a warmth in my soul ... was the boldest decision I made in my life, but also one of the best. I ... real than the one you sit around toasting marshmallows in on a camping

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  153 minutes before the deadline to sign up for the Simmons Retreat, I ... exchange later, I realized we actually would be back in time. I’ll fill out ... , October 14th at our Heads of House’s cabin in Concord, MA. As we drove, I

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling grown up walking in adult clothing

  

  grown up, in general. some thoughts: these days when i'm in an uber, or ... in theory flexible, but in practice, it's easier to align myself with ... . weighing my time in money. learning more costs of things. measuring cost in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  mathematics. What are the chances that at some point in the last five years somebody in the UK dreamt that a loved one had died, only for that loved one ... window into the kinds of things I was interested in three to five years ago

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  library in 1996, for the simple reason that ''nobody else seemed to be doing ... of offering ''universal access to human knowledge," and, in pursuit of that, in a small white wooden building that once served the base as a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Dating Research A news story today looks at Media Lab research on dating.

  

  There's a story on the AP wire today (look for it in your local paper ... are developing software for cell phones that would analyze speech ... -- on how engaged they are in a conversation. The article also touches on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  breathe. Being in nature has been sooo good for me this past summer, so I ... the chillest thing ever." For the most part, that's a stinking load of BS. I still feel like I never have enough time for all the things I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  loftblogging 3: liberation via customization i <3 process

  

  for annotations frequently do not end up in the same place I set them ... ] friend Hanu for help. At first, I had an ambitious plan to build a king ... decision I made for this room!  Here are some process pictures... [carousel

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 26, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  for a scholarship to do research in Heidelberg next year; she said that ... January 12 Hostel Colonial House, Quito In retrospect, I do not ... loud, very grand church bells, then couldn't find anything for breakfast

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  Chinese literature class, looking frantically for potential thesis advisors ... alliterative small room. Scarily small. I’ve never been in an engineering class ... been the same, excitement mixed with terror. MIT is terrific, in both

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  an hour, I was happy. For the first time in months, I had finally ... for 6.046. I put it on the top shelf to avoid the oil paint rubbing off everywhere; I wonder if, on some level, I also wanted to shame myself for

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

  Super Sketchy Background Activity the experiment, part 3

  

  (only two of whom knew each other) living in four different time zones and ... VSVDbZUakc After realizing I've done a team update for the [annotation ... a good thing…I guess? Hmm, on second thought, and for legal reasons

  • by kellen manning
  • June 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  dressed in shorts and aloha shirts, we were… rather ill-prepared for the ... sticks, retrieved one of the B2 fake lei, poked holes in the head for ... one where snow actually collected on the ground and that I was awake for

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Questions from Beyond one last blog

  

  Wait. Why am I here?  For those of you who don’t know, I actually don’t work at MIT anymore. I actually haven’t worked at MIT for a whole week ... in the first reason. I’m less than three days away from my starting my

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2022