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  I will graduate tomorrow how I feel about the past five years, and the years ahead of me

  

  what job I end up in. For me, it was a worthwhile use of the last few ... itself can get. For the time that I've been a blogger, I got to be ... people I looked up to while I was still trying to find footing as a fresh

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 27, 2026
• Blog / Class Projects

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  up acrylic paints to wads of felt to, for some reason, a bag of 20+ oil ... ="107775" image5="107776" /] I made this book, “Conversations for Beginners,” for ... for Beginners," it attempts to parody, pick apart, and find comfort in

  • by Gloria Z. '26 MEng '27
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  because what’s happening is that they are just setting up for perfect clears ...   place for us to meet up and hang out for a bit with Tetris on the side ... the age of 3, and I thought the goal was to stack up the tallest tower

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  thing. I naively thought that, at MIT, I could make up for my past by ... I've been trying to write this blogpost for the past week, but every ... stayed here for a long, long time. I thought I could drop the things that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  the life I could’ve lived it’s like one of those “what if” episodes

  

  For most of high school, I knew exactly which college I wanted to go ... didn’t think it was possible for me to actually get in. And if I couldn ... officially set into motion a completely new life for myself - a new life that

  • by Hala K. '29
  • April 12, 2026
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  for the 20th anniversary of the blogs, I originally hadn’t planned on ... in MIT Open Learning for a few years (working with Ceri!) while doing ... now a professor in Course 20 who I saw every week for the past 6 years

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  For the last 6 days, I’ve been at the Vision Sciences Society ... conference covers everything from computational models for describing human ... lasted for six very intense days. Each day, there were two different poster

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  ”. For documentation purposes, my last last day of school will begin with ... late night lab work for one of my last final projects. But we aren't here ... ) writing a 2-page reflection for 17S.914. But these things can wait. Right

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Day Cats cats cats cats cats cats cats....

  

  a chain around my neck. I then picked up the kitty, gave her a treat, played with her for a bit, and went back to sleep for a few hours. At 9am ... finally woke up. I sprayed dry shampoo in my hair, and headed to MIT Medical

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  I can’t remember the last time I dressed up for Halloween. Last year ... phone when I discovered a picture of 6 or 7 year old me dressed up as a ... highly amused by my get-up and probably hopped up on the mere anticipation

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  side of the table, having done some 16-odd interviews for MIT these last ... Skype and IRL interviews. It's a great way for us to reach more of you ... up at 5 AM, the life story or experience that sets you apart from

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  application cats. Also, last night we discovered a new qualification for ... -- always a fun event), and various other shenanigans, I met up with Anna and the aforementioned Lucy to go for a drive. Driving by muscle memory led

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Reflecting on the great memories of my freshman year ☀️ When life gives you lemons, share them with others >:) ☀️

  

  First, I want to thank my amazing roommate-in-exile Cami for letting ... Arts. I wanted to share with you what makes MIT such a special place for ... also known for its generous financial aid packages for international

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 21, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  Grow Up. I can’t listen to Never Grow Up for long without tearing up ... lyrics--Taylor Swift’s voice. For at the least the past eight years ... shower, while grocery shopping, probably even in my sleep. For the longest

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  b.i.r.t.h.f.d.a.y.c.a.k.e because i really think having friends determines awesomeness you cherish and keep enjoying

  

  way or another for the past 3 years. This year, Hannah and I were tasked with the weighty responsibility of baking the cake for a little gathering ... , beautiful, and just straight-up awesome. How hard can that be? Or rather, how

  • by Emily P. '28
  • October 13, 2026
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  morning! The sun is coming up over Denver, CO, and it is a beautiful day out ... seats in the lounge car are very full as we prepare for the journey over ... ended deciding to get up and wander Union Station. I have come to the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  my waking up at 2 P.M.) As I order pizza from Domino’s for lunch, I ... its tail’s end, I find myself optimistic for 2017. There are at least ... , but for a spate of fireworks, making January 1 just another day. For me

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what’s in the box? why is spring cleaning a common phrase but not fall cleaning hmm

  

  for me. i woke up to grey skies and decided to go back to bed for ... posters were done very well. i unfortunately only pulled up for the half the ... decisions, i believe i pulled up for a while and jammed for a bit. very fun, i

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 1, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  professor that I've had the pleasure of learning from for the past three ... for the course is to pick a spot in nature relatively near to Boston, go ... modern writings (which I got a lot of inspiration for). Ultimately, on all

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  up filing a patent at the end of his internship for a new radar ... , he would call up Milton with an idea, and they would work on it for a ... throughout the country for the past year, with intermittent internet shutdowns

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018