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• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  just kind of barged into their home and asked for an unplanned tour ... into a love letter to literally all of Loop but if one of you all happen ... Hi! Welcome to my comprehensive documentation of my time here in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  friday night was the beginning of teammate hunt, a puzzlehunt written with some excellent puzzles. it's written by teammate, and i know lots of ... around for a few more hours until the end of the party. and when everyone

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  Roughly a week ago, on a Thursday morning, at the crack of dawn, I ... found ourselves, at 6:30AM, at the beginning of the end, ready to make the ... from a state that is also occasionally the butt of jokes so I won't go

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Year Sticky Notes mainly thoughts on post-grad life & friendship

  

  halfway mark of spring semester. I stayed on campus this year, so I had a lot of time to think about all the things that weren’t deemed time-sensitive enough to focus on during midterm season. I’ve also recently gotten into

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • April 3, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  amount of thought, energy, and time that goes into creating any sort of ... 113 days. As of yesterday, I am officially a second semester senior ... month of this year in Europe, studying abroad in Madrid before going on a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  , there’s a lot of “darn I can’t take class A if I take class B because they ... ’re notified of whether you have a spot in that class are subject to the whim of ... to take their class through an [annotation note="the anxiety of writing

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  commonly known as the first day of school. I walked into the first lecture of ... had come to $3.14, the monetary equivalent of the ratio between a circle ... jokes (out of pity). It is currently the first day of school’s eve, more

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  into a perpetual tourist. That's not so bad, I guess, because I fit right in here. Not a day goes by when I am not absorbed by a mass of tourists with cameras, taking pictures of the most random, well, crap, that I

  • by Snively '11
  • February 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  International conference followup A post especially for international students: casting a wide net to find a good college…

  

  a just few of the standouts on this list, and how they might fit into ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... people, and came away with a few new ideas. One of the most interesting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  million feelings unseen. Of those, here are some: (1) Pride - The last time ... , unbelievably, my last week here in Germany. On the last day of teaching in Berlin ... flurry of good-byes, hugs, and promises to keep in touch. But even those

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  their happiness: with eyes crinkled into moon slivers, both rows of teeth ... perhaps it was because our school was 80% Caucasian and in the heart of ... most of my time doing math. I haphazardly dyed my hair at home and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  ="100166" image2="100165" /] Before we go into the proof of such a bound, let's use ... sometimes ask me how I got into the type of math that I do. And my response is ... got me hooked into my area of mathematics: the fact that I could ask a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  sourdough start & restart & starter this is and is not a metaphor

  

  first name of disputed etymology, like most Roman first names, but thought ... 's what I name everything important." 🥺) I realize it's not exactly a ... should be bubbles. And I have bubbles. But after one whole week of no

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 19, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  this era of shanties, and we had insane insight into this part of History ... wikipedia-rabbit-hole-inducing one being offered, so of course I took it. It’s taught by Professor Joe Maurer, one of the most knowledgeable people in the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  aspect of life has been stripped away owing to miss Rona. During the online ... conversations, but most, if not all, of the interactions I end up having brought ... compilation of some of my favorite calls/interactions in the last few months. I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  a night in hannover one of the most chaotic travel experiences of my life

  

  enjoying it a lot for a number of reasons: not least because in Europe ... , and I have a bunch of weekend trips planned for myself. Two weeks ago, I flew to Greece for a couple of days to spend time with my parents (who

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 13, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES

  

  questions that (1) are along the lines of "What are my chances of getting into ... In the spirit of [annotation note="This weekend, high schoolers who ... authentic(!) lectures."]Campus Preview Weekend,[/annotation] some of us

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 18, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  said, I went into MIT without a concrete idea of what exactly I was ... committed to MIT in late April, I feared being sucked into a world of constant ... I first stepped onto MIT’s campus in the summer of my junior year

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  apartment gym has closed again, but I'm hoping to get back into the swing of ... video games this year and got back into playing them. Binding of Isaac ... Hello and happy new year (kind of)! I was really bummed out to make

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  *THE* double, doubled + b1ner cribs!!! ROOM TOURS! GET YOUR ROOM TOURS!

  

  year of roommate-ship, I combine the two blogs into one mega room ... While some of you may be familiar with my roommate and I's sophomore ... people a new tour of the double, they joke that it's as if a chasm opened

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 16, 2026