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• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  recommendation that you don't want to do a little presentation? I said sure. And ... a CMS major, but I still had a [annotation note="I'm in CMS.301 (Intro ... much less, but I didn't think I made a great impression by being late to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  Diving In transforming myself into a cs bro

  

  of a fear that I wouldn't do it "right" or I wasn't "smart enough" to ... new things that I just didn't know about into a MarkDown file in order ... , one week later, with a preference for my Ubuntu boot.) And, I don't

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Night Vision Funny how "photo"graphy throws you into the dark

  

  -consuming -- I can’t actually think about nothing when i’m trying out specific ... This semester I’m taking Intro to Photography. For the first half of the semester, we were thrown into the darkroom. It might as well be a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 8, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  mentions or finds it. so, i’m writing a very high effort blog about fire ... ? Yep. We don’t have a magic coating that makes us fireproof, which means ... everything else. Basically, when I’m spinning, I’m in “the zone”. It’s a level

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  deconstruction end-of-semester atmospheres

  

  i woke up naturally at 9am this morning to a sunny day, feeling ... a haircut at this place my brother recommended--the guy there said he ... then up boylston from the library back to mass ave, picking up a sandwich

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

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  contradicts the previous one. I'm sick of being offered a limited ... they likely still won't listen. But here's to trying with a spirit of ... -Sparkly-Platinum member's benefits? Incognito, so that your employees don't know that they

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  trajectory isn't headed toward linguistics, I can still do research with a ... along the way. But the most valuable stuff you get out of a UROP isn't ... More than anything, I'd say that MIT offers a merciless crash course

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  West Side Story, released in 1961. I'm a huge West Side Story fan, and I ... -Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, wanted me to get a bunch of stuff done over the next term, but I didn't ... . Don't get me wrong now; some of these may sound a little stressful, but

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  [/annotation] and didn't get it. I auditioned for a solo in one of the Asymptones ... baby steps into acapella, I have a solo in the FWACC group song. I'm ... over a crowded audience. Then, moments later, for the first time in three

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  Infinite hallway. Everyone just didn’t give a damn about anything anymore ... , so I’m really glad I was able to experience it. Afterward, I  y e e t e ... didn’t think much of it, but a lot of my friends started moving up their

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Picking A Southwest Flight Seat How to Make Flying Bearable

  

  Weighing the Pros/Cons I'm going to use a couple of initialisms here so that ... have electronics you want to use. Don't have a fold out tray to use ... Entering college has meant I fly at least 6-7 times a year and I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 22, 2013
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  fact, I didn't even know where to start. My resume was honestly kind of a ... undecided on a major, I just knew I wanted one. TL;DR I'm basically a pretty ... this internship, but seeing as it was a CS internship, I wasn't really

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  DRAW TIM (the beaver) behold the artistic talents of MIT staff

  

  guard again"]come up with two truths and a lie,[/annotation] I'm gonna be ... I am not a fan of icebreakers. It already takes a not-insignificant amount of energy for me to psych myself up enough to interact with a large

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  - either by context, word roots, or just a gut feeling. Don't ask me how you ... first semester at MIT I didn't touch the language. I was a little rusty ... together. Of course, I'm a little late in figuring this out. There's even a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  me tell you a story: One of the bloggers - I won't identify them, but ... MIT seem real to folks who aren't as lucky as I am to live a bus or bike ... , and New Mexico. When we return from such travels, we have to write up a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  the office wearing a Tufts sweater--I can’t decide if this is elitist in ... wanted but I’m now glad I have--it gives me a little more time to think ... background of all this career stuff, I’m still writing. I have a Medium blog. I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  they were doing. I'm really grateful to be part of a community where ... , except I'm pretty sure in the plan, I wasn't drilling in the penultimate ... being intimidated: as a child, hearing stories of what MIT undergrads got

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  . Jaywalk Mass Ave. I'm kidding; ;)don't;) ;)break;) the ;)law.;) Fall in ... In a very institvtional gesture of welcome, each incoming MIT student receives a stack of flyers and documents and charts and posters as soon as

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i am taking in spring 26 because i'm stuck at the airport right now. NOT ranked in terms of edibility (sorry)

  

  ="as in, i drank a matcha this morning that i'm somehow reacting to right ... dump about my classes that I'm taking this semester. This is a pretty low ... .33/6.4710: Evolutionary Biology I'm very interested in evolutionary biology for a few

  • by Janet G. '27
  • February 8, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  new information about my life just dropped [ from the archive ] roses, thorns, and buds

  

  outdated. So, I’m in HackMIT! HackMIT is a 24-hour college hackathon ... new. To be completely honest, I don’t exactly get what a bud is – some ... this post, I’ll just use it as a bit of a catch-all: things I’m thankful

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • February 21, 2026