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• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  sure that I can claim the title of being the founder of mascot ... )[/caption] The initial idea I got the inspiration for this from one of my favorite ... mascots were going to have varying levels of accuracy based on the data

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I Climbed a Mountain Today there's always gonna be another mountain!

  

  language to know in the States, due to the amount of Cantonese immigrants ... southwestern corner of the city, and supposably there's an impressive view of SF ... . The original church (made out of adobe! it's super cool inside since

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  i saw you four ways to follow MIT students

  

  i absolutely love the blogs, but there are a number of other places to vicariously ride the ups and downs of MIT. they can't tell you if ... lot to glean from the comments. of course, the platforms all have some

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 16, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  Random Hall has six types of rooms, discernible by the last digit of their room numbers. Each of the four floors is concentric with the shaft, a rectangular hole through the center of the building. The dorm

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  can be. Check out this interactive visualization of the course here ... .5-hour meetings each week; there's a Food of the Month, Film of the Month, Virtual Museum of the Month, Painting of the Month,  Puzzle of the Month

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  a dozen by the end of the year. For an undergrad, that's pretty good ... moment, like a lot of the shit Trump is constantly trying to pull, whether ... , and I'm still traumatized from the very short period of time in which I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Perfect Match? because the right CPW host can make a huge difference...

  

  . That is of course, until they had the opportunity to experience all things MIT over the course of Campus Preview Weekend, better known simply ... prefrosh, because I don't think it is possible to grasp the sheer enormity of

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  into Apple products. Simmons does have the best bathrooms, though, so I guess it all worked out well in the end. 3. Kaito The heads of house’s dog ... get out of it on the first floor.) 10. The basement (and MPR) Even

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  in my thoughts, and my mind generally produces the good kind of ... 1, in a good way, without any of the insipid sameness that permeates ... them, I am running on the delightful concoction of sleeplessness, instant

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee With a title like that, it has to be good!var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol)…

  

  went over like a bag of rocks with the MIT administration. Long story ... mission of the Admissions blogs. It's something that needs to be worked out ... /breathe/eat/sleep MIT and its culture don't have all of the context/perspective needed to

  • by Snively '11
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  think about the marshmallow in front of her, or how you’re not thinking ... better on a different chew toy, brightly colored perhaps, the kind of treat ... i right"]brain and hands[/annotation] or just doing the equivalent of

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Are We Dating? Till blogging do us part

  

  ! You ask a fair question, though. After all, Sam does lean uncomfortably close to me in pictures. Plus we do a lot of fun things together Sam ... . Komen Breast Cancer Race for the Cure: We also try to visit New York

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  released — the few quiet hours that Ben once called the eye of the storm — I ... I wanted to open my decision alone so we could get the argument out of ... the 2019s in anticipation of pi day by Yuliya K. '18 (2015): but

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi on Pie So much pi[e].

  

  , walking a while, and a good night’s sleep. Regardless of whether or not ... . ’15, my roommate, lifelong friend, and one of the lovely people who ... ’s Random Hall weekly-ish study break. In honor of Pi Day Irina O. ’15 and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  lot of students enter as the "science kid" or some other variation only to be faced with the realization that a significant portion of the ... mainly mean this in the sense that a lot of my favorite memories have been

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  watch a nice episode of Good Luck Charlie cuz it’s on now. The trashcan ... two-month period in fifth grade and the culmination of every wistful ... dexterity. There’s a ton of people in MIT who play the piano (and everything

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  eternal dissatisfaction wish i could write more, care less

  

  one here is one of my tiny struggles over the past few weeks, and it ... day, where i deconstruct a little the notion of being productive. it is, of course, one thing to know and another to believe. it is the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  . No one at my small high school did research, and we had, to the best of ... can be great experiences for the right sort of student. So if, like me ~10 years ago, this is the first you've heard of ISEF, and you want to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  the slight urge to huddle under a blanket with a warm cup of tea and ... moment occurs as soon as you arrive on campus. Or in the middle of your ... rest of the integration is trivial,” or that “most people are introduced

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bump MIT students design products

  

  The past weeks of my life have been consumed by 2.009, MIT's famous senior product design class. By the end of the class, our team of 24 ... . Over the course of 12 short weeks, we're expected to build a product that

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2014