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  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  clothes, my bedding, my shoes, the books I'd yet to read, my crochet hooks ... 02139. My flight was set to leave in the morning from the B terminal of ... 'd yet to navigate on my own. At the ticket counter, I said goodbye to my

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  act I: prologue When I was a kid, I used to dread going to sleep. I ... , where I suddenly had an infinite amount of time to respond in a way that ... in a while, I’d open my eyes and check the clock, just to see that only

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  'm going to do the best that I've ever done at this school, and I'm super ... never have to take a specific Course 6 class ever again, which I ... project is to make a music [annotation note="i'm probably going to join a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  A few weeks ago, Ayomide F. 18, better known to longtime blogreaders ... asked Ayo if she'd write up how it came to be so I could post it. She did ... sent my mom rushing into the room, ready to scold me. But when she saw

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  promise to the rational, logic-based region of my brain: a promise that I ... : "But what about going to college and trying new things? Also, Hack Punt Tool was REALLY fun, and even though I can't sing to save my life, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  do funny things to your brain. ------------- On Friday, I got all ... in the dentist chair and looked at the window, trying to concentrate on ... will soon be able to eat nothing but baby food, and I have more work to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 1 Never be afraid to go straight to the top.

  

  warrants two blog entries. This is not because I want to hog the ... awesome little class that I like to call Toy Design. Also, if you can wrack your brains enough, you'll remember that I mentioned we were going to

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 4

  

  Lupe (who I'm looking forward to seeing at CPW!) asked, "is it pretty simple to travel on train or ? from Logan to MIT?" We'll be running a bus from Logan Airport to MIT all day Thursday, and back from MIT to Logan on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 25, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Awesome Robot Competition? LIVE?? Check out the 2.007 Final Robot Competition! LIVE May 12th/13th!

  

  DIAGRAMS??   Well then, you’re going to LOVE the 2.007 Manufacturing ... working tirelessly to create robots to overcome this year’s challenge board ... class and plan to write a longer blog about our experiences, but we couldn

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  .” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby *** I have come to the profound ... fully carpe diem-ing or whatever. Is how interesting I am proportional to my ability to be interesting, to do interesting things at this

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  ms paint sidequest by kayode and caleb on a monday night

  

  Student Center, and we need to be working.  I’m currently working on an ... about the class in my next blog, to be posted this week, but this is what ... the last hour. I call this “The Finger,” because it’s what I will use to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!

  

  this up goer five thing ended, since I wish nothing but to use normal words again. But then I thought that I may never get to call "Big Rock ... pictures, which speak for themselves. The Big Rocks have a lot to say, just

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  ;1/3 of my music listening. It’s mostly to discover new songs ... out the other while walking to class, while eating, while doing chores ... reviewing Amazon products, but I only bow down to the Bezos occasionally, and

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  remember the first job I ever wanted to be was an interior designer. I drew lopsided houses in school and haphazardly scribbled drawings to proudly present to my kindergarten teacher, who graciously accepted them with a

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

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  and part 2 to get up to speed if you haven’t already. We spent most of ... , we met Djuena Tikuna (the indigenous singer who was to perform with us ... finally complete! Djuena then taught us the lyrics to a song in the Ticuna

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  Last week, I took Amtrak across the country, from Boston to San ... up to, what was happening around the train, what I was feeling, and a ... 3rd, 2023 location: South Station, Boston, MA currently listening to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  to fly home the day after my last final instead of waiting just one ... thought back to last winter. Around this time last year, I was writing about how I was doing fun things to keep my mind off of finals and having

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  first real snow!! wow so magical

  

  and behold -- snow was finally upon us!!!! at 3 pm i walked to [annotation note="grocery store in the student center"]laverde's[/annotation] to ... them and was immediately seized by the need to try them, even though i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Exam Cram a comic in which my friend tries to save me from chem

  

  Bonus: 3.091 (Solid-State Chemistry) class has a weekly meme contest. Because I'm a try hard and didn't know how to make proper memes, I drew a ... 'm going to spew it here onto the internet.

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  approximately $40 because those body pillows had to be purchased. Unfortunately ... , about a mile from MIT. It was a convenient 8-10 minute walk to get groceries from Target, Hmart, or Daily Table, or to grab a latte from Caffe

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022