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• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  my favorite part of ancient greek literature is its treatment of self-fulfilling prophecies. oedipus’s parents learn that he will kill his father and marry his mother, so they abandon him,…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  crazy party weekend from 2019 to now

  

  when i attended cpw as a senior in high school, my favorite events were cpwacc, firehose, next sing karaoke, and handwhistling. this past weekend was my last ever cpw, so…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  two years ago i watched the midnight gospel, a tv show where the dialogue for each episode is taken from a series of real-life podcast interviews. in the third episode,…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  there are two popular approaches to moving a cart. the first one is to stand behind the cart and push it in the direction you want to go: the second…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  every class i went to during the first week of fall all *checks notes* twelve of them

  

  Vincent H. '23's blog post where he mentions that it is "like magic." Class

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"

  

  ="not that there's anything wrong with that; i absolutely live for vincent

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  vincent talks about working through some of his issues. it sounds like it

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  apparently i haven’t made any blog posts about classes yet so here’s one i had the misfortune and privilege of taking three classes with final projects this semester. misfortune because…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  the notion of squad wealth has been increasing in popularity recently and it’s something i struggle to understand. the claim is something like: we can replace traditional capitalistic and commodified…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  becoming yourself Chris Peterson SM ‘13 Waiting by Vincent A. '17 Waiting

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT at Copley Square Yet more photos of #NoBanNoWall protests in Boston, plus an update from President Reif.

  

  immigrants (reflected beautifully in Vincent's post on Unity), it's been

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 31, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  Sleeping at night has become one of those mythical concepts this IAP, like unicorns or people that don’t like Taylor Swift. What’s not to like? >:( The backstory explaining this…

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  I was fifteen and intensely naïve when I graduated from high school and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is probably…

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  all the classes I didn’t take you seem pretty unsure for a girl so in love with her major

  

  degree, I'm probably not going to suddenly become a mechanical engineer ... offer is right in front of you, and you're just carving away until you

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • April 14, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  the only institution in the country to offer an undergraduate degree

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  petition 3.033 to count toward my degree! Of course, this isn’t to say that ... ’t grant it for one’s first-year summer, while course 9 no longer offers it

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  had devoted more time to the class, because it offered a lot of great ... absorb the content to a greater degree. (I think I have taken enough HASSes

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  .nano pixels developing a love for pictures, reverb

  

  the section about the MIT.nano courses offered over IAP. At this point ... before. In roughly 5 degrees weather, I headed to 1st Avenue, actually a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • July 2, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  ="MIT offers a special opportunity for students to acquire a masters degree in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  , by the way, offers free delivery for orders of two drinks or more ... 95 degrees. After our fun-filled 3rd, the 4th got off to a relatively

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010