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• Blog / Hacks

  MacG 50ish years ago an email from an alumnus

  

  I asked in a rambly 10-minute-long video tour of my MacGregor single ... is a qualified lightly"]lightly[/annotation] annotated version of his email! Abby,   A Google search of MIT MacGregor House led me

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  With the influx of the 24s terrorizing (see: joining) various Discord servers I'm a part of, I've realized that there are certain things about MIT ... there is...a lot about the school that a lot of people don't know about

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  vague memories of him making and offering me cookies but I am rude and I ... ’s raining gently, so I am marooned on a bench under the roof of the laundry ... . Cory is reading a book (I think it was One Hundred Years of Solitude). I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  I made at the beginning of my freshmen fall. I run from the people I ... it's you. At the end of the day, you are the common thread in all of ... the pits of your stomach. And so you start to overcompensate for that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My Blogger App, five years later i've finally dyed my hair blue

  

  past, all of the bloggers you see here on this site have applied using ... note="i like to think of myself as a Real Adult"]Real Real Adults ... what I had written and photos I submitted, both so you can get a sense of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 16, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  photos of their loved ones and leave out food and offerings that their ... A couple of Fridays ago I had the opportunity to sit in on an LSC preview of the upcoming Pixar film Coco, hosted by storyboard artist Dean

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  ’m Sophia, the past head and creator of the Massachusetts Institute of ... thoughts on food. (PS: Even we’re a little confused about the stylization of our club name. But we love the feel of 'mince.' It’s an action that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  deep of a topic. "Just write about your favorite shows and stuff, Mel," I keep telling myself. "How hard can it be?" But some part of myself still ... interests." The logical part of me knows that's probably the dumbest thing

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  A few weeks ago, a friend of mine approached me with an idea for a ... college, and I agreed. For sake of privacy, though, we agreed that the entry ... 's worth sharing: after all, MIT has one of the best medical systems in the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  back to the very first week of college. One of my friends offered me a ... idea of blogging about the Muslim community at MIT for a while now. To be ... ’t think of a better way to showcase the Muslim community than through some

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  marked our second year as part of the consortium, and we’ve received a lot of great questions about the partnership—questions like: “What is STARS?” “What does MIT do as part of it?” and “How can it help me?” Well, the

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  One of the events for the class of 2024's [annotation note="because this is our first time actually being on campus"]second round of ... Me, to be delivered at the start of the fall semester. That reminded me of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  awake this early. Of the four people I'm sharing a room with, I'm the ... back to sleep, and after checking my phone for five minutes, I get out of bed and put on pants. The smell of scrambled eggs brings me downstairs

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  that offers up so much wisdom and perspective to all of us. I can't wait ... , especially this last semester, memorable and good. Here are just a few of them ... reiteration of my Peace Corps rec letter for you, but let this be a public

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  here at MIT.  We’re both active members of the dance community; we joined Mocha Moves in Fall ‘19 and are members of Dance Troupe, but I’ve done it ... ’s memey and lots of fun MissBehavior — an all-female urban dance team; has

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  popular in Japan. There is usually very little mention of Lilo, however. 52 ... an extended amount of time, it's really difficult not to hear about ... incidence of these accidents from peaking, the Japanese railway authorities

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: REGRESSIONS a documentary on MIT, and why it's so important

  

  ('22) and Wesley Block ('22) on the history of the Institute, spanning from World War 2 to COVID-19. It uses 80 years of AI-enhanced archival ... pinnacle of technological innovation. Exploring several themes and arcs, it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 12, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT-vangelion: Behind the scenes! how we made the Pi Day 2023 video!

  

  nothing but ramen noodles and slept in the basement of Stata like ... Toonz 🤮, the  t h i r d  dimension, and lots of Neon Genesis Evangelion ... didn’t know that I was going to be in charge of this year’s Pi Day video

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • March 12, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  I've had my fair share of time with roommates and friends in the past ... townhouse in the suburbs of northern Virginia. There were five of us in total ... luxurious apartment in Somerville, Massachusetts, two of those friends the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  Back during IAP of last year I wrote an entry about a brand new "toy ... to a couple of people in the room. Chris M (of blogger fame) has one ... seeing what my pen did. "Well shoot, I've already sold like three of these

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009