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  Letterboxd for movies i watched on the plane Do I... lack media literacy?

  

    [annotation note="as of posting this blog"]A few days ago ... rough-terrain medical stretcher for the Langa Township outside of Capetown ... ="768"] Here's a photo from the website showing the stretcher as of last

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 17, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  passionless had a crisis, got a tattoo

  

  friends instead of a day of radical change and contemplation. I mostly ... was a year of deduction. This is a pretty normal time in most people ... . Nonetheless, I want a year of assertiveness, eagerness. It's much easier to know

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Eating Studio Ghibli Foods 🌾 At a mini-restaurant pop-up by MINCE <3

  

  At the start of this month, I had the chance to eat at a Studio ... Ghibli fan with an ever-growing collection of Totoro themed objects, I was ... , one of the club's new members. I'd only been to one MINCE pop-up before

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 11, 2025
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  incident Some friends and I were sitting on the floor of MG’s room. I was browsing email in search of free food when I came across Splash, a program ... , however, know a bit about writing, and came up with the novel idea of “How

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  to answer and ask the same set of questions: what’s your name? where are you from? what are you thinking of majoring in? It got to the point ... now I've learned to say “I'm thinking 4B and 15-1” so I kind of sound

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  remember walking up to the front desk, stomach full of butterflies and a ... of the gigantic moving carts and, somewhat clumsily, maneuvered it to ... ="In retrospect, this description makes the decisions I make in the body of this

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  away, helping out around the house. We were doing a lot of renovations in hopes of selling it later this year, which included repainting the doors ... dark oak paneling with each stroke of my paintbrush and becoming

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  eternal dissatisfaction wish i could write more, care less

  

  one here is one of my tiny struggles over the past few weeks, and it ... day, where i deconstruct a little the notion of being productive. it is, of course, one thing to know and another to believe. it is the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 12, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation ... was not ready for it.[/annotation] The intensity of the weekend didn ... of my parents had raised chickens before coming to America, so the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  with a group of friends and acquaintance from MIT instead of moving back ... school and high school– I liked to think of things in term of absolutes ... always feel like this, you get the idea. One of my favorites of the blanket

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  song from Bowling for Soup. This, of course, made me think lmao, remember Bowling for Soup? This, of course of course, made me get sad about growing ... between good and bad music. In keeping with the theme of nostalgia and high

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  internships, travel, stay on campus or any combination of the above. So since ... 't really on either of our minds. And we were lucky enough to be in a position ... decision to take a break. We took the time to decompress from the rush of MIT

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  -absence of productivity - three things I have not experienced consistently in a ... research at a tiny university on the outskirts of Mexico City, which was a really cool adventure. My research internship was part of our MISTI program

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  I am not sure about the rest of you guys, but when it comes to me I have a good amount of friends, but more often than not they are simply acquaintances. However, I do have a very small amount of special people in my life

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  soldiers, barroom regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening ... danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives ... walk freely at night.” from The Journals of Sylvia Plath I am in New

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  A little while ago, I was just heading out of the bathroom on my ... room, shut the door, and stood behind it for a couple of seconds. A moment later, I heard the sound of approaching footsteps. The door swung

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  Have you ever had your car pulled out of a parking lot muddy field by ... 's kind of fun to sit in your car while it wags around, a tractor's tail ... along I-81S past a flurry of state forests. We made a quick stop in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  to many of you. But it's true) Being a nerd, I did nerd things. I read a lot of Star Wars books. I wore a fanny pack in the front with extra ... Physics of Baseball. Also, I went to nerd camp. In 1998, when I was about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  semester - and also, I've mastered the art of changing out of a suit in a ... much to say in this entry other than to give a brief update of how my ... of my life. It has been a time of epic failures - but also epic

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! (2010 Edition!) yay pictures!

  

  Dear Internet, No, I am not dead yet. I had a lot of great food in ... pictures and stories of groupwork: From Louis, '14, New York City A photo from Peru after 4 days working to clear the yard of bricks, hills, and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 9, 2010