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• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  event, here are 20 things that I’m grateful for in my dorm. 1. I live there Can’t say I’m not grateful for that. Moving on… 2. The bathrooms My ... emoji. I was a 🅱️elevator 🅱️itch last year until it broke down for a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined A story about cream soda

  

  consumed so much American media that I felt more than ready for this transition. However, nothing could have truly prepared me for the absolute ... atrocity of the American version for about a month. That all changed one

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  focus. It's just that when I step back for a second, I realize that I ... are particularly out of place for my life now. It’s just that the ... ="all that introspecting when writing college essays has to count for something

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT” student art in the new welcome center

  

  Welcome Center. The new center is going to be the starting point for ... , activities, and workshops for Cambridge residents and visitors from around the ... out a call for artists.  I saw the call for artists on dormspam and I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 3, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  -brain freshman year me decided that it was completely okay for me to ignore the ... essential. the first few months form the basis for the rest of your experience ... ability to do any of these things. you have to make time for your partner

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  It's April. I’ve been on campus for close to two months now. It ... out the [annotation note="curse my room for having such a good view ... , though! Just today it was like [annotation note="24 celsius for the normal

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  and I were Protobowling feverishly. For those of you who weren't quiz ... practice for competitions. And while Paolo and I would definitely just play on this website apropos of nothing, we were in fact practicing for a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sunset/sunrise swiftly flow the days

  

  , and, for the most part, I have been[annotation note='I promise that a ... horrible, not great. It was fine, for the most part, until two weeks ago ... meant seeing the sunrise very occasionally for the first time in months

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  ran for the next week or so and then stopped because it was allergy ... day after not running for a while, I shocked myself by running my first ... waited for the right day, and in the middle of a snowstorm in early May

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  "]anonymous Gamemasters[/annotation] and funded by the de Florez Fund for Humor, dormspam ... :30PM ET!"]progress to a live game show[/annotation] to compete for $399 ... the is the term for emails sent through dorm mailing lists. The games

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  [annotation note="great for nighttime walks"]Paul Revere Landing Park ... 't for me working outside — a few weeks ago, i gathered the freshmen in ... camera and read/worked/painted for a couple of hours. it was really nice

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  future a void. But maybe for this blog post we could pretend? We could ... my advisor to let me sign up for three humanities classes and one ... leisure. But, for the first seven weeks we met, it was really nice! I took

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  2.009: Product Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni out there, it's sort of like FRC, but for products

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  through this initial job hunt, we realized there is still A Lot for us to ... hadn't reached out to anyone for recommendations. We hadn't requested any ... signed up for two test dates and found 3 recommenders willing to write us

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  A Year away from home An intro video rant to my time in China

  

  so please forgive me for the countless mistakes I make… I still have so ... it in Chinese and writing English subtitles (I have a new respect for

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 5, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  For winter break and the first half of IAP, we are in North Miami ... day for almost a year now. (Freshman fall was a different, more virtuous time.) Because semesters are very sedentary for us, we have been making

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  . To the point where it feels like I never left for winter break at all ... . I’d like to think that I’ve finally nailed it. So for those of you that are winter-naive (like myself), there’s hope. And for those of you

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  beaver, just like (and for the same reasons as) ours. Recently, Daphne ... they can register their schools for the exam. If you're an American

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back 2 school

  

  to be anxious about returning to school for my last semester. there was ... oaxaca, mexico. i scheduled meetings. i registered for classes and started

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  would be better for other people to just write a blog for me (although ... me happy When dining has my favorite muffins for breakfast Waking up in time for breakfast Naked brunch Regular brunch Sushi in

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017