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  I will graduate tomorrow how I feel about the past five years, and the years ahead of me

  

  itself can get. For the time that I've been a blogger, I got to be ... before coming to MIT was the for loop. When it got covered in the first ... despite the struggle, and thus I could have the patience to sit and code for

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 27, 2026
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  , by the way, offers free delivery for orders of two drinks or more ... and conserve your energy for other things (like studying… and hanging ... for the holiday weekend, and Jen ’13 came up with the awesome idea of

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  gleefully puts upon themselves. IHTFP: An acronym for MIT life. Either "I ... ; We also refer to people as their majors. For example, "What course are ... their numbers, rather than by their names. For example, 'Fundamentals of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane

  

  order of hijabs and I just think it's so pretty and also just very me so yeah. San Fran: This was the one souvenir I bought for myself after the ... my favorite South Asian drinks, so gotta have a sticker for it

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 10, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  experiences for the academic standards i’m comfortable with? could i, perhaps ... "]FPOP[/annotation] counselors (a super inspiring upperclassman!), so i reached out asking for his ... point, i’d slip and scroll through Facebook for three hours straight, or

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  . Mmmm chocolate. PooF To GO TO (Points for the Good of the Order) When it ... about $20 on it for food. If you actually need any of it, you are again ... . Coincidentally, 17 also happens to be the number of prefrosh living at Random for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  Technology Review's Top 35 Innovators Under 35 for 2008. The metallic blue ... called poly(glycerol-co-sebacate acrylate), created a mold for the polymer ... decided to study Chemical Engineering at McGill University in order to have

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  Meh. My last, like, three or four ideas for entries have not quite ... : Last weekend I walked out to an apartment in Cambridgeport for the party ... hall. We went through them in an orderly progression - 1st through 5th

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  it out aloud during class for a round of feedback. And that was it! I ... suggested forms for each week, but it was completely up to us if we wanted to ... callous outside world. Although I’ll always see poetry as an outlet for

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee

  

  ."]Yesterday,[/annotation]after turning in my last assignment for the semester and celebrating my freedom ... — Forget that. There'll be time for that later. It's the first day after the ... . The restaurant is quite small, and so we get our orders to-go and eat in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 11, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!

  

  **The idea for this post was originally Abby’s, but she is very hosed ... for frosh and upperclassmen to start hooking up left and right, but I ... . tl;dr MIT has a surprising amount of options for taking care of your

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2018
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  I moved to Michigan for an internship, but I swear it feels like it ... ’t want to throw out. I consider it a sort of graveyard for my thoughts this summer, in no particular order. Enjoy. I have one foot in the door of

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  was doing during the sound check for the webcast: telling my sailing ... (which might seem weird to some of you, but for me it’s actually really ... pavilion for our lesson, and rigged up a boat with my partner Webb H. ’14

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  how i spend my days where my (melodramatic!) summer thoughts have been

  

  , feeling wasteful for not going outside, staring mindlessly at my phone ... myself up for. Yet the thought of these days being them all bubbles up a ... , that my feelings are certain and have been for long enough, and the only

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • July 28, 2026
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT CodeIt or: the best decision i've made this semester

  

  immediately applied. I thought I would be somewhat qualified for the job now ... was then scheduled for Monday, 8/31 (The day I moved into my new ... for a student extracurricular, not a full time position or internship

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  front of me in order for me to fully understand what they're talking about ... order. Luckily, I was able to complete the question, save for a few ... really were all written in one document but it didn't make sense for them

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  gently down the stream whitewater rafting might be easier than driving on mass ave

  

  who do things in order to talk about them (like me)” I, too, belong to ... , since we had Monday off for holiday. We get four-ish breaks this semester ... countryside to escape the Boston bubble for a few days. I’m in a club called

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • October 16, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  Last week, I left the country for the first time! This was really important to me for a couple of reasons: I had a premonition that I was ... note="Dream Trips (in order): Mexico City, Thailand Elephant Hotel, Cairo

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  collecting vinyl for a while, but i've only ever bought one record. it was ... ="upperclassmen often sell their belongings for cheap on dormspam as they're moving out ... bee movie (which i got for my birthday in first grade). i liked flipping

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  favorites, in no particular order! PS sorry in advance for the terrible ... for years, ever since I learned that they’re host to (almost) all of the ... , with a different overarching theme each time. It’s known for 1) focusing

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024