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  CMS.621: Fans & Fan Culture the class that changed my career trajectory?

  

  I usually reserve these kinds of posts for life-changing classes, the kinds of classes that let me discover things about myself and about the ... . Readings place these products within the context of various disciplines

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  at roughly the same time and grew in some sense of togetherness, and ... 'll excuse myself for having some extra level of fondness for the 2017s. i don ... people i wanted to. but i saw a lot of them in those last few days of the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  More on food

  

  chicken makes me happy. Further on the topic of "good food not paid for by ... required to buy x meals per week at the school dining halls. One of my ... isn't cheap, but neither is any kind of food in Boston (the price of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  , and the rise of LLMs like the one writing this blog post, the years 2011 ... I took the path of least cranial activity and applied to physics ... predicament eerily reminiscent of when I got rejected from The Cheesecake

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  The week of Monday, 10/2 – Friday, 10/6 was very, very difficult. We ... parenthesis correspond to notes at the end of the post) : Saturday 10:30am – Borderline Exec meeting to plan for our first general body meeting of the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  socialization aspect of Science League than the exams.) September of senior year ... confession would confirm - escaping math and science was one of the things I ... kind of unorthodox. Back during the application season, I was pretty

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend ...begins a week from today!

  

  's where you'll find me over the course of the weekend... the events in bold ... registration desk on the second floor of the Student Center (La Sala). You all ... -Center. There's a bunch of stuff I want to check out in the 5:00PM - 8:00PM slot

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Exploring Boston Frozen yogurt quests into Boston

  

  going to get Red Mango.  Sadly, the closest Red Mango to MIT is kind of ... along the way.   There was the First Church of Christ Scientist and it ... is a picture of a really mean cat: The mean cat is really terrible

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On sleep There's nothing certain in this world but sleep and taxes.

  

  's often in the back of people's minds when they're thinking about MIT: do ... of the day except approximately 6-8 AM. The upside at MIT is that, due ... dedicated to serving the God of Sleep. Moreover, the entire month of January

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: A Quick Roundup Snively and his homepage dominance must be stopped!

  

  be as good.) The point is, IAP is great, you get a chance to explore ... . Seen lots of movies (prior to this, the last time I went to a theater was ... , one of the largest winter festivals in the world! IAP is awesome!

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Party pics

  

  reawakens - hence the name of the party. We help him reawaken by staging a ... pretty white dress and a crown of black roses, and is being led to the sacrificial table by Deirdre '08, handmaiden of Krotus. Yelena '06 was the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  found it to be a good review, with the added benefit of formalizing ... that I’m already a quarter of the way through my time at MIT, but the ... talking about the most fundamental aspect of college: classes. So I thought

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  Overheard at MIT (Fall 2012) (complaining about the ratio of male to ... and three additoinal pieces of chocolate to the door. Again, I'm an ... saw my name on the list of recipients for a carnation, from the sorority

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Eating my words at Area Four Mushroom and fontina pizza my beloved

  

  , as I believe their pizza defies all known laws of reality. For one, the ... perplexingly, the tip of the slice always flops down and [annotation note="This was exactly what happened the first time I had a slice of A4 pizza three

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  i walk through campus and say stuff i cannot vlog to save my life

  

  thought there’d be more. So one of my jobs is being a tour guide for the ... many filler words—I think like 5% of what I said was just the word “like ... , or taking videos of myself, or talking to a camera, or finding good

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  100% Completion It’s pretty hard to do, but I’m going to try.

  

  ’re smaller quests you can complete alongside the main quest (which is, of ... ridiculous amount of sidequests, so I’m going to list the ten that I definitely ... . The long term goal is to be able to correctly fill in a blank map of MIT

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  that when I stepped out of the Milan airport, I was in an incredibly good ... group of students to bike across the country, from DC to San Francisco ... – some of the routes promised clear signage and well-maintained roads. I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  about the MIT THINK Scholars Program, which I had the privilege of taking ... local contemporary art museum. I love the serenity of art museums, in which only the (figurative) voices of the artwork and the occasional

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  there's an average of one song every 2.8 posts. The song mentioned the ... . Of the 57 distinct songs, 41 are in English, 14 are in Tagalog, 1 is in ... of things that refill my will to live, both with 4 songs. The longest

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  little bit more about my UROP, but also show you a small sampling of the ... cutthroat game of Settlers of Catan by one point, and only because the other ... . Bought some of my course books for next semester from the Coop. (Yes, I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008