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  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  players, built governors for the engine room, and wired up the fuel rod ... these blogs. More than once have I shown up for the first day of class and ... entries I've got archived here are an awesome way to reminisce. Ups and

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  my own entry about the same subject for a while now. I have also been follow-up stalking (I like to think of this as "scanning for comments by my ... could potentially be a very over-excited description of what I've done for

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• 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

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  grown up with for the past seven years will go different ways. In seven ... very kids that I have grown up with for the past seven years are using ... .  And it feels just as surreal as it felt when I got to campus for the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• 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 / Uncategorized

  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
  • 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 / 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 / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  , iris and the giant, shapez.io. i had one final exam, for 24 ... final exam, for 6.3900 [6.036] introduction to machine learning, which ... some esp friends who were staying over for break: zawad, lixuan, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  people had to do all of those things for you you know how in ‘avatar ... people i’ve ever met at coming up with extended verbal arguments on the ... expressed were at once very resonant and very troubling for me on one hand, i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Public Statements

  A letter from President Reif regarding George Floyd and Minneapolis

  

  day, for MIT, for the country, or for the world. In addition to the ... for our nation. The death of George Floyd and the events unfolding in ... intense for certain members of our community, beginning with those who are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is why we can’t have nice things harmless things that irritate me

  

  that one group of people walking down the Infinite who block up the whole ... arrives, only for it to go out of service Happened to me too many times ... 2014, someone met up with the MBTA Director David Carney to ask him why

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 29, 2022