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  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
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just A Small Town Girl Blogging in an awesome world.

  

  .) On top of that, moving to a big city for college ended up giving me the ... skills at the MIT Daycare, practicing for my future career in stand-up ... Boston, but I still get to fly to my awesome hometown for breaks

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Colors! Burton-Conner:12523 kbps1649 kbps140 ms

  

  Ethernet jack in the hallway, um, why? Why is it there, why is it up by the ... routers? I just can't see somebody stopping for a quick wired internet break ... kept me up until 3:30 AM, so that's a plus as well. 3) My room I've been

  • by Snively '11
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  Product Design Lab Wakka wakka wakka

  

  Maddie and I headed over to help set up the brand new shop and check out ... can't wait to use these!) When we first showed up I was assigned to ... up the templates and some normal bits, but then I got to the next set

  • by Snively '11
  • March 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  team and catching up with the project and I've delved into a mission design task-- coming up with a strategy for sky coverage and modeling each ... what do I do? I work on a brand new satellite mission planned for launch

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Where is the banana… ...and why is that man chartreuse?

  

  as I have no other use for this absolutely ridiculous piece of ... . (INVESTIGATOR PIERCE, a portly, middle-aged man with a unibrow for absolutely no ... . The aardvark looks up with a start.) PIERCE: (addressing the file

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 11, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Low The first in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Zinedine Zidane.

  

  this up into two entries. Twenty pictures is a little two much even for ... "death strip" in which you can be shot on sight, houses countless tanks for ... night's torrential rain storm had rendered them too dangerous for her bare

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2006