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• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  a week of high school, I felt strange pangs of loneliness more often than ever. I wrestled with this sense of isolation and alienation a lot, particularly during first semester; part of it stemmed from trying to find the

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  curiosity got the best of us. On one sweltering day, my oldest brother and I ... puzzles / a morning tendency Solving puzzles like these is one of the few ... different. There’s so many types of puzzles, ranging in shape, color, and

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  usually amount to advertisements of events and programs and people trying to ... group of students to bike across the country, from DC to San Francisco ... idea of a long-distance bike trip caught my attention. I had never

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  it out aloud during class for a round of feedback. And that was it! I ... ,”  my coworker coos, recounting his afterwork escapades between sips of ... the whirr of the office microwave drown out the thought that he

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  hit me that I’m now a college student. Not only do I have a bunch of ... drink water. (Speaking of which, here’s a friendly reminder to go get water.) I’m stuck in a bit of a situation where I’m weirdly better at the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  defense the other bloggers didn’t believe i could write a post about basketball

  

  and my favorite part of the game is seeing very effective defense. there are way too many kinds of defense for me to be able to cover them all in ... kind of defense is man-to-man defense, where each player on the defending

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  The MIT Monologues performed last weekend. MITMo is an offshoot of the Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, but all of our monologues are ... ’d just hung. Most of us were in the black-and-red we’d wear onstage, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  Some of you may wonder: how do people eat food without a meal plan? Well, dear mortals, I have perfected the art of photosynthesis and ... winter, rapidly decaying window of daylight, and my delayed sleep schedule

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video

  

  , and a bunch of other people (mentioned below) put too much work into it ... ’m excited to give you the full story of the complete mess that we made. Here ... through a bunch of ideas, like a Buzzfeed/Tasty-style video of a pie recipe

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  become a mosaic of all that life gives you. Your high points lay the ... every step forward with humility. And while all of those moments and ... full of finals studying to do. I’ve been one of those 1800 kids for the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  data justice for senior house

  

  surrounding the conversion of senior house to graduate housing. joon included full transcripts of emails sent from the chancellor's office to ... first semester at MIT had the lowest graduation rate out of all the other

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done done done end-of-semester happiness

  

  the first time in recent memory, i don't feel burned out at the end of ... loved (not reflected by my spotty attendance). in many of my course 14 ... and letting myself lost sight of the underlying economic intuitions

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 24, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  flurry of moths, freed from the beacon that had attracted them, flew off ... .. - - - First, an explanation of who I am and why I’m posting on Anna’s blog. I’m an alum of French House. I graduated in 2012 with a double major in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  . Is that one of this year's end-of-the-world scenarios? Not exactly ... B+, you might feel robbed. But enough of the preemptive justifications. Let me tell you a story of two Bs. 8.02 8.02 was a second semester

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  impassively toward night, the last hanging breaths of August condensed into ... estimates, I caught six different strains of flu on the way home at 6:30 pm. Nonetheless, after a quick homemade dinner of soba, ginger, almonds, and dewy

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee With a title like that, it has to be good!var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol)…

  

  went over like a bag of rocks with the MIT administration. Long story ... audience of this site. I support Snively 100% in wanting to have that ... mission of the Admissions blogs. It's something that needs to be worked out

  • by Snively '11
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  figure we can each only type fast enough to catch half of what he says, so between our two entries you'll get either ALL of what he says or half of ... here so it looks like we get to skip the Intl admissions part of the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  2024 in Review the things and stuff of 2024

  

  This was one of the years of all time. I learned a lot, less about ... of some beautiful ideas, I settled into my life at MIT and now have a circle of people who inspire me and illuminate my life, and I feel more

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  hours, maybe. But as for this particular piece of the internet, I haven’t blagged since the fall semester started due to trying to get on top of ... picked the right major!   (An example of some ridiculousness from

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

  

  several renovations. What does the bookshelf of an MIT student look like ... Comics Understanding Comics, one of my books for Toy Design. Nightwork ... ? Uncle John's Bathroom Reader This is where I get all of my random

  • by Snively '11
  • March 14, 2008