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• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  gets what, who ends up on top at the end of the day. I've been listening ... follow. I think to myself, as I'm hunched over my laptop and holed up in ... myself repeating the same story I tell everyone. I'm only child. I grew up

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  2.009 LIVE BLOG 2025 w/ Kayode D. '27 and Veronica P. '27

  

  Year capstone course for Mechanical Engineering. Seniors spend the ... outfits. The vibes are good. Also, while we were waiting for the show to start, I was doing some thinking and came up with a pickup line. We may be

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • December 8, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Conspiracy and intrigue

  

  similar situation, waiting for the chance to attack. Neither of us ended up ... auction where old bicycles sell for very cheap prices. I also discovered that you can buy a bike at Cambridge Bicycle, which is two blocks up Mass

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  prepare myself for the abrupt goodbye, where one day, we will all get up and ... leaves me yearning for a do-over, a second chance at the past four years ... hope for myself and the world as a freshman and sophomore and regrettably

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  fighting for my life in between gulps of milk. I gave up on finding cups and ... Kitchen While I was here for two hours, I didn’t actually end up eating all ... mental pain instead of physical pain. It was free food, so I made my way up

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  because I scrutinized my handwriting, ripped it up a few times and started ... world for four whole years.  It’s still on point, and you should go read ... nicely for it.  I also met my wife thanks to MIT, when we both lived in DC

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  other words, in a world that humans have built for themselves, the roach ... a roach spawn point for about a week. Most of them however, were ... ="aligncenter" width="1535"] graphic details have been replaced with flowers for viewer

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  tradition, we got the full week (to allow for on-campus students to pack and move out). In the days leading up to our unprecedentedly luxurious break ... housemates and I frantically started final projects, caught up on recorded

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  to do that for the sole purpose of getting swole enough to do a kip up ... a lot of Discords - for living groups, for clubs, and for all of MIT ... ,[/annotation] and gaming channels for doing [annotation note="i cannot describe how

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  up my entire body. I sprained my knee during [annotation note="REX stands for Residence Exploration, which is a 5-ish-days period where the ... I guess there are some things in life you can’t control. For me (and

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  . Splash weekend starts rather early for me. I wake up at an absurd time in ... to sign up for 11 hours of classes. I don’t regret making that decision ... Haley’s experience teaching Splash, a weekend for high school students to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!

  

  moved that he brought it to Star Trek. For those of you who don’t know. Leonard Nimoy is famous for his role as Mr. Spock in the original 1960’s Star Trek TV series. He grew up in the Boston area, where (in his words

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  like, "Keep it up. Study for the MCAT. And don't forget to shadow doctors ... for the MCAT (which demands quite a lot of time), I'm still willing ... still ask for and value grades, test scores, and extracurricular

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two New Kittens hundreds of pictures.

  

  house but did consent to their use of the flower pots outside for midday ... of them til I find homes for them around here. So I took a trip back to CT in the middle of the summer to pick up the kittens. Chris came w/ me

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is It Possible To Respect A Racist Film? We must learn to embrace the opportunities to confront ourselves by confronting others.

  

  to fire up the Yamaha YHT-160 (5.1 channel A/V Home Theater receiver ... the video store but which ultimately end up losing out to likes of ... brilliant use of the close-up, cross-cutting, rapid-fire editing, the iris

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • May 8, 2006
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  My First Few Weeks at MIT … one year ago

  

  - I was super intimidated for a lot of reasons. Growing up as the ... survive. So basically, I signed up for a summer of stress, sleep deprivation ... pattern - hunting for the best shortcuts across campus, making daily trips

  • by Hala K. '29
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  setting up a blind date system for the microbes to get to know each other ... , but it made it up here for similar reasons to why #9 wasn't last. It ... giving the talk. Except, of course, for the many posters I see advertising

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  simply typing up words whenever an idea for a story comes to mind, but ... in any case, I was far too busy to contemplate what it meant. I met up with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  , hazy sort of fondness that I usually reserve for Dali paintings and ... presentation, walking up and down stairs, more presentations, milk and cookies ... , I dozed into soundless oblivion. I was standing up. The presenter was

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  up. Take them for what you will. On Homesickness Everyone is lonely ... invitation to go hacking just because you are scared you won't wake up for your ... of coping with being away from home. My only good advice for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008