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  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  decided that I'm just going to write about everything I'm interested in. Which is everything, including all the dry details that'll be boring to anyone but me. I'm granting you the permission to skip every section that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  to MIT certain of one thing: I would never be an engineer. In eighth ... , erased and redrew, over and over again. I remember taking a ruler to add measurements to my drawings, squinting and counting the lines on the ruler

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  2020 i refused to clean my mouth. i never brushed my teeth or flossed or ... things and merely accepted them. back then i’d told myself that you had to brush and floss every day for the rest of your life to have good oral

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  clothes, my bedding, my shoes, the books I'd yet to read, my crochet hooks ... 02139. My flight was set to leave in the morning from the B terminal of ... 'd yet to navigate on my own. At the ticket counter, I said goodbye to my

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  act I: prologue When I was a kid, I used to dread going to sleep. I ... , where I suddenly had an infinite amount of time to respond in a way that ... in a while, I’d open my eyes and check the clock, just to see that only

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here

  

  weird to just keep wearing some of these shirts around in your post ... carry a lot of good memories with them, and that it might be nice to do ... blankets out of old MIT shirts, but the idea first occurred to me as

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 27, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  'm going to do the best that I've ever done at this school, and I'm super ... never have to take a specific Course 6 class ever again, which I ... project is to make a music [annotation note="i'm probably going to join a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  I'm currently on a six hour flight back to my sunny, warm, and ... slightly outside of that: Norwalk, California.) I'm really excited to be ... home is actually my mom's secret surprise to my grandparents. Over the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  A few weeks ago, Ayomide F. 18, better known to longtime blogreaders ... asked Ayo if she'd write up how it came to be so I could post it. She did ... sent my mom rushing into the room, ready to scold me. But when she saw

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  promise to the rational, logic-based region of my brain: a promise that I ... : "But what about going to college and trying new things? Also, Hack Punt Tool was REALLY fun, and even though I can't sing to save my life, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  do funny things to your brain. ------------- On Friday, I got all ... in the dentist chair and looked at the window, trying to concentrate on ... will soon be able to eat nothing but baby food, and I have more work to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 1 Never be afraid to go straight to the top.

  

  warrants two blog entries. This is not because I want to hog the ... awesome little class that I like to call Toy Design. Also, if you can wrack your brains enough, you'll remember that I mentioned we were going to

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 4

  

  Lupe (who I'm looking forward to seeing at CPW!) asked, "is it pretty simple to travel on train or ? from Logan to MIT?" We'll be running a bus from Logan Airport to MIT all day Thursday, and back from MIT to Logan on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 25, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  Last week, I took Amtrak across the country, from Boston to San ... up to, what was happening around the train, what I was feeling, and a ... 3rd, 2023 location: South Station, Boston, MA currently listening to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  who didn't get into MIT but went on to thrive elsewhere (like this, and ... write a post "about being someone rejected from mit & learning to ... to publish it just before Pi Day, but then COVID happened, and it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  neutrality isn’t about objectivity—it’s about who has the power some words on facebook trending topics, and also net neutrality

  

  ; Mark Zuckerberg himself invited conservatives to meet with the Facebook ... back from the first meeting Facebook held to discuss the issue with ... place for the review team to ensure consistency and neutrality." John

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 20, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  seems to have become a thing of the past, even though site traffic hasn ... : you're likely to get a response more quickly, because current MIT ... population. So, I'd encourage your generation to bring the comments section

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  at a distance staying in contact with friends from home

  

  people that used to know me best. Around this time 3 years ago, I was a senior in high school applying to college. After 17 years (and soon to be ... really just wanted to get out of high school and away from home. Recently

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 20, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Northern Lights in the Not-So-North! aka GO OUTSIDE TONIGHT

  

  HEAR YE HEAR YE THIS IS YOUR TOWN CRIER SPEAKING! It is my solemn duty to inform you that NORTHERN LIGHTS ARE AGAIN PREDICTED FOR TONIGHT ... drove all the way out into rural Mass to get these views![/caption]  

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 12, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Awesome Robot Competition? LIVE?? Check out the 2.007 Final Robot Competition! LIVE May 12th/13th!

  

  DIAGRAMS??   Well then, you’re going to LOVE the 2.007 Manufacturing ... working tirelessly to create robots to overcome this year’s challenge board ... class and plan to write a longer blog about our experiences, but we couldn

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 12, 2025