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• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  being able to travel to Japan and stay with a host family in the summer of ... "holy-shit-what-the-fuck-is-happening" shows that you should give a try ... is portrayed in the form of a bird. It's heart-rending and will

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Hint of fall A Sunday adventure

  

  . Other than that, it was a successful trek. This is my 4th year here and ... here, I grabbed a bike and headed across campus to the Dome, with every ... this weekend! The HOTC is a huge crew regatta and the Charles was full of

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  cut, hemmed, and attached a large rectangle of the tulle to another ... pizzazz (and to hide the fact that my two large rectangles didn’t quite ... year was the year that the pandemic hit, so prom never happened and

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part One Photos and commentary of a sample floor of the East Campus dormitory.

  

  lecture. I like the fact that while EC is right on campus and next to all ... The blogfathers in the admissions office requested a while back that ... called the East Campus Alumni Houses, and each building is split into three

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 26, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  a week to do them. I just hate the feeling of finishing a pset and the ... is that they create a comfortable space to ask questions, which has ... that's usually eaten with stews and is the national dish of Ethiopia and

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  scrounging through boats, trying to find the make, model, and color that each ... post that connected the bed to the wheels. Fluorescent lights flooded my ... watched, clutching a clipboard to my chest. Exam Room 1 is not a normal

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s Not Always Rainbows and Butterflies Inspired by Paul and Snively.

  

  everything is in equilibrium and there isn't any math equations to solve... 1:48 PM: Jolts to a start and realizes that, in fact, life is full of ... study break, and... This entry is going to be really spontaneous, since

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  , Nameless Soulmate and I. I think the simpler way to say it is this: at a ... ; there’s a glow on the pavement, you walk me to the car; and you know I ... time, she’s been one of my role models. The why is a bit tricky to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  to give back. They show that the Hunt, a labor of love, is freely given ... solve over a hundred puzzles and put the answers together to find a coin ... economy. Each year’s Hunt is a gift given by the previous year’s winner to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Reason to Celebrate My advisor is a genius.

  

  incredible distinction, and one of the best things I've enjoyed at MIT is that ... people refer to the recipients as a Genius because they are awarded a ... to say that I work for her, and despite her achievements, she's really

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2006
• 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…

  

  . Somewhere in that scrapbook in the kitchen closet there's a newspaper clipping ... come to me" the way that language does. And to be perfectly honest, I was ... that it is possible to combine science and humanities...everything came

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

  Remember, Remember the Fifth of November Celebrating Guy Fawkes Day as only MIT can.

  

  the history of England, largely thanks to the catchy verses that were ... sheen. Apparently the same is true when George masquerades as Guy Fawkes ... with a humble verse, my attempt to "hack" the original children's rhyme

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  . So, in a way, there’s more of them in me than me. And that is both ... the author of Fight Club, of which there is now a children’s version ... movies make it so easy to fold up a life and sew up a problem? Quickly and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  time, and there are many days after a hard week that that is all I want to do. However, it is not the kind of thing that I enjoy for weeks at a ... school and working over the summer is that during the school year you can

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  ethnic minority in Vietnam. It is beautiful, and there is clean air, a ... , mother and son. At a call, two members of the family had to pick up the ... had. In lieu of a proper picture, I have made a diagram to try and

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sorting of the Frosh (MacGregor Style) We don't have a Sorting Hat, but this is how MacGregor does In-House Rush

  

  assigned a dorm, a room, and possibly a roommate. Fast forward to today ... stay in the dorm you are temped in or try and lottery into a different ... a chance to change dorms. And after everybody has been assigned to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The HackMIT 2016 Puzzle Just Launched and it'll (probably) take you all across the Internet

  

  .org to register. There is a randomized lottery to get in, but if you want ... from around the globe. Over a 24-hour period from September 17th to 18th ... is the weekend to meet other enthusiastic hackers, push your boundaries

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

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

  

  either an acronym or a number. There's a quirky language to MIT, a handful ... .03, 8.02, and a hass class." hosed: adj the state of being exhausted ... . firehose: n "An MIT education is like drinking from a firehose," or so the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  adjusting to prices and scrounging for the best deals, I've found a way to ... /see a movie/go to a concert because the cost is so inflated compared to ... our collective dismay, there is another side of the coin: spending money

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  The Abstract The adventure density has been high

  

  a 60L hiking backpack onto my shoulders and flew to Quito, the capital ... . That spot all the way east is a lodge in the Amazon rainforest: we took a ... malaria pills, and woke up to the sound of a cacophony of howler monkeys. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014