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  2,024 liked songs spotify is my favorite social media

  

  zodiac signs lining the circular room. “What’s your sign?” I asked her. “Guess,” she said. She’s the kind of person who exudes bright optimism and ... , she also really likes penguins, and she’s very similar to another person

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  : 2021 Yeah, uh. There’s not exactly much going on here. Some things on my ... our regional happening in a couple of weeks, there’s a lot of work to ... programs! I’m super excited to have him as a thesis advisor because he’s done

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  significant other, Javier W., who’s currently a researcher at an MIT lab. I ... Katharine Briggs, based on personality theories by Carl Jung. Science in Jung’s time (the 1920’s) was not very rigorous or methodical, so Jung literally

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  Catherine’s employment of the word “roflstomp” to describe the act of severely ... particularly harrowing game of Sid Meier’s Civilization IV with two friends and – here’s the really good part – my professor of medieval literature. How

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  -Descriptive Mentions of Homophobia, and Discussion of Trauma ((Some Author’s Commentary ... Estrada’s “Si Me Matan” for the majority of writing this post, which is a ... ’t always be around to give advice and mentorship about navigating MIT’s many

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  choosing the abridged version

  

  hedge fund, let’s call them D. i had an offer for a quant research (QR ... finance is particularly good for the world (i don’t think it’s bad either; i think it’s very neutral) and i also don’t think QR work is that

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  take over a minute, so I used my phone’s timer to keep myself in check ... , it was more like Stud 3 because it was on the upper floor of Stud 2’s ... of MIT on gather.io, MIT sent all 2024s a little car package. The

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  a day in my life as a MISTI student ft. research and friends

  

  working on. This Friday, it’s my turn to present the progress I’ve made in ... ??"]month[/annotation] since I’ve arrived at the institute. It’s entirely on me for ... them late the previous night, so there’s that"]the morning

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Lightning Round six eminent faculty on educational technology innovations

  

  -based design course open to all students, 2.S991 Designing the First Year at MIT ... engineering education. They were most inspired by words from Sugata Mitra’s TED ... invention of the printing press. Here’s an example of why that’s true at MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  Louvre; through its great windows sculptures danced in candlelight. “Let’s ... , paging through Swann’s Way and feeling little pings of recognition at the ... Saint Genevieve’s death, her eyes clouded over with blindness, thin arms

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  "]IAP[/annotation], Bad Ideas Weekend takes hold in MIT like glitter: it’s everywhere, if ... homework packet. My second Bad Idea was S’mores with [annotation note ... a few days before Bad Ideas Weekend, I was suddenly notified that s

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  three main characters from the film Burning[/caption] In Lee Chang-dong’s ... the answer?  It’s a strange movie brimming with symbolism that leaves ... from blogger alumni. So I decided to use one of my tactics against writer’s

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  to Trader Joe’s to pick up caprese ravioli and pork shu mai  and let ... Women’s ERG Slack Channel,   seeking refuge from being baptized by spit ... tipped her extra”  ------- This poem followed a villanelle’s pattern of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  little. It’s pervaded by the soft buzzing that follows too many days of too ... it’s hit.  Why am I disappointed? As is often the case, I’m disappointed in myself. It’s a familiar feeling. That sensation when you

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [guest post] The Random Hall Milk: Gone But Not Forgotten an obitu-dairy for Pecker's oldest resident

  

  items had gone missing over the summer. Half of Foo’s murals were painted over in Institute white. Black Hole’s Goldberg-like light switch is missing. Ninety percent of the entire dorm’s baking pans are gone.   

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  fluorescence of the green walls. Green’s my favorite color, but those walls are ... (FYRE) out of Next) and find a roommate(s). After that, every freshman is ... my freshman lottery, but that’s a story for another time."]my permanent

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  glasswork, and wrought iron candlestick holders which remind me of my Baba’s ... . It’s a skill you have to develop through practice, trial and error.  There’s also a deeply physical aspect to forging. We have a power hammer

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Events

  [Joint Post] Avoiding Sunstroke Solar Cars, Solar Stories, Solar Blogs

  

  So. It’s been a while since I last was on the blogs, speed writing ... job(s) on campus.  [caption id="attachment_68922" align ... bit after the race, one of our team’s members mentioned how [annotation

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  engineering internship at a startup.  How it’s going so far: I feel super lucky ... -uniform hypergraphs. How it’s going so far: After I was accepted to the ... it’s been pretty manageable so far. Graph theory is fun! And writing

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  times, the only other set of eyes that see my projects are Kellen’s ... dual-purpose sake of nostalgia and decluttering my desktop, let’s take a ... every designer knows, it’s not a rebranding if you don’t mock it up on a

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020