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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  Philbrick, from my small apartment in LA and set up a time for a meet and ... posting with an artist at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, who was interested in working on an floating sculpture by Marta Pan for an exhibition

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday A day in the life.

  

  up. Wondered why anyone would ever be awake at this time. Wondered why ... miracle cure for back pain. Decide to go swimming. 9:58 AM: Made it to Z ... self: work out more often for reward of hot shower. Note to everybody

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  ? Well, I finally made it home and then spent a lot of time catching up on ... . Our room was like a maze for a few days. Responses to comments ... term- which is cool for them but by no means necessary. Of course, there

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All? how do i live without regret?

  

  , took it for granted, didn't challenge herself enough so she dropped her computer science major just to end up as some strange cop-out major instead ... research and just applied to grad school for media studies? Why am I going

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  spoilers for this movie, I still somehow ended up surprised at the end Man ... was probably quite lovely, but my stomach was too tightly knotted for me ... pencil down and saying goodbye to genetics, at least for the time being, I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  [Joint Post] THE WORLD’S gREATEsT CROSSOVER EPISODE Jebby '25 is my flatmate

  

  and get an ad for body wash where everyone is talking with a British ... are names of real places. I've been here for two days and I'm really ... cultural research, including searching up a list of cuss words and their

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 4, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Eating my words at Area Four Mushroom and fontina pizza my beloved

  

  Area Four (A4) is a popular pizzeria/cafe near MIT. Known for their ... -to pizza spot for many MIT students. But not me. I am A4's biggest hater, as I believe their pizza defies all known laws of reality. For one, the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  thoughtful or whatever than those who hike up hills just for a breathtaking ... value our relationship so much for that, but to paint it all as simply ... wielding academic language to dress up a platitude. This isn’t to say that

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  Sometimes, you need to let things go up in flames. . . . I have struggled with writing blogposts in the past few months. It’s not for a lack ... … And I will, eventually. Hopefully. But for now, I’m going to tell you

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Rate My Setup a guide to my room in Simmons

  

  -home labs (2.678: Electronics for Mechanical Systems and 16.851: Satellite ... to use old newspapers to set up a safe soldering surface. Almost all of the equipment in this photo is for 2.678, including the soldering iron

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 17, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  sourdough start & restart & starter this is and is not a metaphor

  

  use for everything else. Every morning, I would wake up and come down to ... because I've been a sourdough bread conoisseur for like a decade, that ... sourdough starter, like having a pet, is very good for me. But also a bit

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 19, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  A lively Dead Week what i've been up to

  

  all the things I've been up to -- and there is some studying, I promise ... annoying because I have to get out of bed for a morning meeting >< The ... discuss how we felt about this semester and plan for next semester to be

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  sometimes hard to maintain, and I live in perpetual fear of messing it up even ... right now, so I'll leave that for later. For now, I want to make a list of ... in the wrong direction and almost end up in Tufts. No, we did not make

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Seniors let's talk

  

  life-changing. You started in one place and will end up in another. You ... ’t wait to throw your cap up high at graduation. But you’re also a tad bit ... open yourself up, in essay after essay, decisions become really REALLY

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 17, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  posting--or for a more dramatic flair, The 7 Capital Vices I Have Oft ... , Professor Hazel Sive had an inspirational quote as her first slide up at the ... have ideas for posts that are going to be great!! So great! I just need

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Fears and Hopes how to move forward

  

  Twitter newsfeed for too long. I check Facebook, Reddit, Tumblr. Everywhere ... from 9am onward to be with one another, listen, and share our hopes for the way forward. In the afternoon we might open up to discussion, feel

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • November 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  semester is starting to heat up and being off P/NR is mildly terrifying. I ... .004 lab and quiz to study for, a thing for my UROP I don’t know how to code ... throats and chests. “Life sure does suck sometimes.” “Yea.” It was $6 for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toilet @ MIT The Ben Schreck Shits 2015 Calendar.

  

  was just one calendar, for my friend's birthday. The year after, back home in LA, we were talking about how we wanted to one-up it. The next ... decided to clean up the toilet, which was also a photoshoot on its own, with

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  ’s capital. I frequent it often for my electronic needs—to replace printer ink ... made up of shops that look onto the streets, small shops always abuzz with the vibe and chatter of people searching for anything from clothes

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  (Spark!) 3,000 middle and high school students descend onto MIT campus for ... . To practice, I e-mailed French House to ask for sample prompts. Every night, I randomly pull up three of these prompts randomly, to practice the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013