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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Write an Original Song (ex?)-emo kid gone rogue

  

  being bad at. I had no vocal training, no guitar lessons, a few years of ... short to not at least try, and whether or not it’s any good I’m proud of ... ; whenever you have a moment of free time, you're sitting there, jangling

  • by Powers '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

  cells to help with that. I shudder at the complexity within all of us ... , my friends will got on boats off the coast of Alaska, work at JPL, CERN ... . The rest of the day promises no surprises. I’ll need to find food, wash

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  18th. Of course being that it was a long plane ride, I wrote some entries, read some books, watched some episodes of How I Met Your Mother (I ... , after all, some time away from the internet might be healthy right? At

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / Events

  DATA FOR BLACK LIVES this weekend at the media lab

  

  at all costs. The basic algorithm that resulted in the election of ... , resurfacing under the guise of progress. At this very moment, police ... conference is happening all weekend. check out the livestream at

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 18, 2017
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  ’ve taken at MIT: every week we’d write a poem in our own time and then read 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

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

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  some guys tend to just fling themselves at MIT (I imagine this kind of ... 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

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh no the future obligatory “i am old” post with pretentious morbing

  

  year, I am a senior. Most of the friends I first made here have all graduated and all those afterwards shall carry on Tetazoo’s legacy of fiery ... often joke about graduating being the equivalent of dying. It’s funny and

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 23, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  've been in a bit of writing rut but, as I was reading through an email I ... work 9-5, hit the gym, eat dinner, and have the rest of the evening to ... the ease of wellness when the fall term comes around, but I know I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 15, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.

  

  . At the end of each week we were all handed blank notecards that we were ... through my entries and by looking at frequency of posting and tone of entry ... five hours of sleep last night, but for some reason I'm awake and feeling

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  climbing the wall why so defeatist?

  

  defeat- propel me back towards our station at the end of the mat, where my ... There are a lot of phrases in the english language that can be used to describe me- "athletically inclined" is not one of them. I can

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • October 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  . Yesterday, I woke up at 7:35am.  Starving, I got a sandwich to-go at the Student Center and then trudged off to the basement of Building 35. Along ... rectangular aluminum blanks into a pair of finely detailed molds and then

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  It’s Friday, Friday… hacking Mikey

  

  Late last week one of the bloggers was talking about her spring break plans. They were all very exciting, with lots of travel and warm weather ... ." Yep. The students here at MIT may be on spring break, but the office is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer & the Coming Commencement stuff and things.

  

  introduced as a senior at MIT. Yikes. Of course, all the actual seniors are ... forward to waking up at 6:30am on friday. I'm stationed left of the stage ... I'm living at Bexley for the summer and working just a short distance

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Even More for Admitted Students: Share Your Story Another open thread for '11s.

  

  honor of that anniversary, I'd like to hear your stories. I know you all ... part of the Class of 2011? Did you dance? (I did!) One year ago, I hadn ... other people where I'd applied early, or that I'd applied early at all

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  School’s… in Excitement! Passion! ...Class?

  

  Today was the first day of academic year 2005-2006 at old Tech! (I ... of this afternoon and evening sitting around the lounge, eating pizza ... , begun. Some of the freshmen even started doing problem sets. They're so

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  loc at the base of my braid, passing a crochet needle up through the ... . Ukulele I bought a ukulele at the beginning of quarantine, and I’m only ... bangs at the beginning of my sophomore year and kept them at a consistent

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  bloggers.addAll( newBloggers); System.out.println("Hello, World!");

  

  his “A Tale of Two Employees,” which starts at 6:50. That’s all! I ... . Reading your applications was a huge joy to all of us, and the final ... musician. I tried to listen to one of his songs and I ended up listening to

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

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  this long at MIT without getting some form of disease. I'm sure part of ... Vaporub type of sick? Not once in the past ~seven years. Then a few weeks ... regardless of how I avoided the plague for so long, the fact of the matter is

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Got Us iPads! [UNBOXING VIDEO] ft. my cat and my new apple pencil

  

  expensive models, and at least 3x the cost of my still-pretty-good iPad. Also ... will tuition be?", and "will we get grades in the fall?".  Many of us had ... the lack of generosity of some other parts of the plan, like financial

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Spring From Student to Grader: My Unified Engineering Story

  

  concentration, which is public policy. I was slightly skeptical of 17.303 at first ... , one bake sale at a time. Our first bake of the semester is probably ... 'm excited for all of them! Today I had two of them, and tomorrow I'll get to

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 3, 2020