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  I designed a marching band drill for MIT and I didn't even need experience

  

  , even though I've never been in a marching band (or any kind of band). The ... — Made up the "T" in MIT 100 Trombones — Seen at the left side of the field I'm very proud of my drill, and I think it should be performed at

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 15, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  trailers are right in front of Medical, and the line went in front of and ... long all day. Maybe it's because the tests of the five thousand or so ... , where they scan my ID, ask me for my last name, my date of birth, my phone

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  our perpetual battle with the mit weather machine spinning arts needs a shaman

  

  puddles and the piss of Zeus himself with only the fire of their props to ... worked at this point, we might as well try. I don’t know where the lair of the weather wizard lies. He, the arch-nemesis of our fire dragons, is

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 15, 2025
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  My First Few Weeks at MIT … one year ago

  

  to Newbury, creating long notes lists of all the restaurants you want ... much time in [annotation note="Fifth floor of the Stratton Student Center ... here. Over the past 3 weeks, I’ve found myself doing all of these - but

  • by Hala K. '29
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Honse. Nnnyeeeeeeiiiiiigghhhghhhghhhhhh!!!!! 🐎

  

  those of you who don't know, this is what a pony looks like: [caption id ... out and start selling glass ponies in the streets of Venice. [image ... of Monster with Reese's Puffs every morning for breakfast (can and all

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  sticker stories adorned on my water bottles

  

  slipped out of my backpack on the plane...silly me. I checked my location ... there. Unfortunately, I have no intentionally-taken photos of it, but I did manage to find the bottle in the corners of old photos! Pardon the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  flurry of many things, but second most importantly, it’s been a flurry of ... ="108229" /] In honor of holiday meals at home, I want to share a holiday meal away ... 12-person feasts on random weekends in the middle of the semester (very

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?

  We require letters of recommendation for our application. We strongly ... of recommendation from different academic areas of study, we understand ... of recommendation. In some cases, you may ask a teacher who you
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  dumb little poems and such emotional support procrastination

  

  vanish from my todo-list i’m getting tired of fourier transforms these ... the mud so concerned about right and wrong The giver of permission ... the echoes murmur louder Get up and fight me Are you afraid of your own

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 7, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  to [annotation note="what sounds like an incredibly draining week of ... and slander your peers) in hopes of securing a bid (an invitation to ... Charles River on the north and the glittery high rises of Back Bay Boston on

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden, part 2 a zine carved out of pink erasers

  

  ="aligncenter" width="507"] specifically from the tree in front of Walker Memorial ... ![/caption] text for accessibility: yellow aspen leaves the liminality of public ... rides This iteration of "things that are golden" was inspired by

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 20, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Parental advice, revisited… a self-referential throwback, that is somehow, still relevant

  

  makes sense, given my role.  Many of those requests, understandably, come ... from the college process.  While the specifics of each situation varies, the underlying question is almost always some variation of “How do I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] give us your words you have words. we want your words.

  

  of six sestets, having the same six end words in each of the stanzas, but in a different order. The poem ends with a tercet which has two of ... have started gradually converting the rest of 4W to the cult of poetry

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  I originally registered for 60 units of classes this semester: 18.701: Algebra I 18.404: Theory of Computation 18.905: Algebraic Topology I ... of the four technical classes I had picked out or put one of them on

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  All the advice you’ll need for the next twelve hours not clickbait

  

  letter. That moment, you will split into two versions of yourself: the you ... facets of who you are. Neither can the words "accepted" and "rejected ... . It's impossible to tell, from the outside, which of these factors

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  last minute application panic for the procrastinators

  

  , please watch this calming .gif of a cat: Take a deep breath. Mmm, embrace serenity with 21% oxygen, 78% nitrogen, and small amounts of argon ... deadline. Most schools will take letters of recommendation and other

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo is not a Hivemind Haha... just kidding... unless?

  

  Campus that I spend a lot of time on. As a honorary frosh there, I ... ), but also personalized lists for each participant. Some of my items ... ) putting on ALL of my beanies, which is a lot of beanies if anyone asks

  • by Powers '23
  • November 24, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk: messy person edition not sponsored

  

  ever see one of those social media #inspo posts featuring an ... containing a draft of [annotation note = "I meant to revise this throughout the ... [/annotation] printouts of my 18.200A (Discrete Mathematics) lecture notes The

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 19, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  “futility island” socially conscious hacking? in MY institution?

  

  small strip of grass between Walker Memorial and Building 14. It was called Futurity Island: essentially, a very very tall honeycomb stack of ... that the pipes (a "symbol of the Anthropocene") are drawing our attention

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 25, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2019!

  

  good people of Boston Spinjam are meeting on Mondays on Killian Court right outside my office for some spinspiration It's time for those of ... of MIT students are MIT students. Admissions officers can write about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2019