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• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  desperate for sun. there was nothing to eat that wasn’t smothered in grease never will I force myself to  live that way again. Or so I said.   ... begging   I think it is too soon to be counting the months. I think

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  pictures of the places that were memorable to me in some way. Eighteen months between me and the person I was when I stood there last and I had nothing to ... .  I’m trying to be hopeful. I’m staying in Cambridge for the summer and

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  time of year where every MIT student can choose to do whatever they ... out before the semester even starts) to absolutely nothing (and suffer ... time to do something you can tell an employer about).  I’ve had this

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  sense, I guess; I DID manage to cram two months worth of memories into ... . The morning before the email about us having to leave campus was ... theorist hats and started to rapidly oscillate between wanting to wait until

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  spring! semester! so apparently i'm doing a lot of random shit

  

  approaching, so to procrastinate for them, I’m going to talk about my spring ... in high school, so I sent Professor Strang fanmail, and he responded to me recommending that I take this class! I’ve been waiting to take it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo is not a Hivemind Haha... just kidding... unless?

  

  soon), but right now I’m coming to you LIVE from from Tetazoo’s freshman ... ’m inclined to participate in a three-hour challenge that the upperclassmen set up for the freshmen and other hall newcomers. We have tasks to complete

  • by Powers '23
  • November 24, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Redesigning a hall logo: 4.500 part 1 4.500 part 1

  

  4.500, Intro to Design Computing, my favorite class this semester, is ... involved using CAD software to design 2d and 3d objects, and then laser ... had to use CAD to trace an existing symbol or logo, analyze the pros and

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 27, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  ’s a myriad of expressions on their different faces that I’m trying to ... emptiness to be emanating from such a small human being. We had just stepped ... group began to use the translator to address them. He had been coming to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  that time of year… ...when every day feels like 48 hours instead of 24. When's summer?

  

  the strength to capitalize properly no more (nor the energy to invest in ... things that have kept me going. And a big one is listening to this video ... fill in where you're used to hearing cars, or horns, or construction. It

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  . i usually like to sculpt and edit neurotically, but i'm trying to see ... started, I went to Amsterdam and Vienna with my brother and aunt. It was a ... picture lying in my aunt's bed, listening to my favorite song of all time

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  applications to read in the summer, we must not have much to do. It's probably ... summer is a key time for us to travel, work on dormant projects, and take ... few days back in Boston, I flew to San Francisco to present about maker

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: I’ll be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend and so will other people from MIT

  

  I arrive somewhere to give a talk. Someone emailed to suggest this might be more useful, so I'm going to try to do it when I can. So: right now, I'm en route BOS -> SFO, on my way to Maker Faire Bay Area 2016

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  2020 Admitted Student Gatherings Get a vision of your future at MIT

  

  incredible team of Educational Counselors and other great alumni to put together admitted student gatherings to help welcome you to MIT. Starting ... -togethers in their hometowns for students admitted to the class of 2020. These

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 17, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A suite surprise My suitemates find out I'm a blogger

  

  Yesterday afternoon, I walked back to my suite in Burton-Conner after ... taped to my door.   OK? I opened the door, stepped into my room ... , “Wait, it gets even better!” and pointed to my bed. So I walked over and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 19, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  When MIT Gets Tough, CAAAATTTT Everything was terrible, and then I cat

  

  past weekend, I rushed my mom and sister to come visit me at MIT because I was feeling particularly stressed out and at a loss for how to deal ... claimed my bed and my heart. I want to sit and cuddle her and she's all

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 7, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  better. Hi, I’m Michelle, and it’s super nice to meet you! If you didn ... 100% okay. Since I’ve gotten to this crazy Institvte, I’ve learned to live with the fact that most things aren’t going to turn out how you

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (My Third) First Day In which I attempt (and fail) to do a timelapse vlog

  

  give me steady enough footage to not cause motion sickness. Whoops. The ... you try to speed up an already-wobbly video to 800%, it becomes a blurry rollercoaster of MIT scenery that is pretty unpleasant to watch. Even post

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  I Suppose It Was Inevitable That We Have An Office Instagram a list of some other places you can find the blogs (and the bloggers)

  

  Nearly five years ago I added a Facebook share button to the blogs. It's strange to think that was so long ago, and also strange to think that it was once not obvious that people would come to the blogs any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  ’m probably one of the last few people awake, and will soon be crawling to my bed to hug my pillow. There’s something absolutely beautiful about ... weeks—that is to say, I’ve been floating around in the bubble built around

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Day 1: Going North Leaving the light pollution bubble to go to class?

  

  , though I could write an entire post in Japanese if I wanted to. Maybe I will later, but today’s not that day. I just wanted to share this ... than intended before coming back to campus, I forget that there’s a world

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 31, 2014