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  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  To set the mood: i'm so tired... by lauv & troye sivan   What a headache Where does the time go?! We're somehow halfway through the semester already. I envisioned my final semester to be ~ c h i l l

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  Growing up, I wasn’t always a fan of movies. It may have been an aversion to enjoying “mainstream” culture, but I always shied away whenever family friends gushed over their…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  talk to people! from the person least qualified to give this advice

  

  I’m halfway to my bachelor’s degree which is exciting but also nerve-wracking. You don’t really get a chance to redo college, but that doesn’t stop you from wondering how things…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wryping styles wryping = writing + typing

  

  'm using a standard style. (ok, i'm lying a little, CI-H classes also strived

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017 Yultide Day 2

  

  street, Boston—"natural water" is way more expensive than regular H2O

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 26, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  Sinus pressure and general malaise have prevented me from typing up this post as eloquently as it could be, but the story below has been bouncing around my head for…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  I G H T – animation assignments. So the long weekend Saturday, 10

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  A friend of mine (whose honesty, even under cover of anonymity, is something to strive for) wanted to release this into the world, as it has been an interestingly prominent…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  Not every writer is an artist. Not every piece of writing is a work of art. I realized this last year as a high school senior when I was frantically…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Events

  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  Fight!!! @ MacGregor Shoot people with Marshmallows with H Entry, then

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  Hello from Barcelona! I’m here for an astronomy conference. (You may be wondering: who is this girl and why is she talking about astronomy? Does she even go here? The…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)

  

  As you may have gathered from these blogs and/or any time you may have spent here, MIT has a lot of completely amazing people. One of these people is my good friend Lauren H. '16, who (among other things) happens to

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  in my update on Lydia's blog -- I'm Melissa H. '13), and the burnout

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  So I think that the goal was that this post be filled with wisdom and enlightenment from the generations gone by, ready to fill eager young minds with the knowledge…

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  I graduated My brass rat is upside-down and my dorm room is bare

  

  This is what Websis has to say: Wow. *     *     * I’m on the train with my family, and Boston is now out of sight. I…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!

  

  Last week, I raised my right hand and exchanged a Vulcan salute with Leonard Nimoy. “That greeting originated in Boston,” Nimoy said, to cheers from the Boston Symphony Hall audience.…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  From the MIT Lit dept’s Spring 2014 course catalog: 21L.705 (Major Authors): Old English and Beowulf hwæt ƿe gardena in geardagum þeodcyninga þrym gefrunon hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon… Those…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  January 11 Hostel Colonial House, Quito I’m currently wearing two t-shirts and two sweaters. We are at 10,000 feet, so I guess the cold temperature shouldn’t have been a big surprise,…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  David Helfand: “Unfortunately we don’t have time for a formal Q&A session, but I’m sure that Neil would be happy to stick around for a few minutes and answer questions if…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  I’m taking advantage of the Starbucks wireless network, at the Westin Arlington Gateway hotel in Virginia – and feeling overwhelming vertigo. I had the same feeling two weeks ago, while…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013