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  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  selection is worth running through traffic. Me, for looking at least four ... the empty seats had half an unconscious person in them that I really ... in weird places. Universe, for not having ubiquitous power outlets. A

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  sucker for the retro cyberpunk-y sci-fi aesthetic. There was this film in ... hellfire on about how you should never ever use Wikipedia as an academic ... to this. For example, did you know that [annotation note="btw i

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  in six weeks. On Wednesday I had an appointment with my therapist. The ... next 24 hours doing mostly nothing. "In college, everything has an end ... to think about leaving that behind." He looked at me, waiting for a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  This weekend, in some order, I: 1. slept for twelve hours straight in one night 2. watched experienced the Rocky Horror Picture Show, live ... an Asian-American growing up in California, I had personally never

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  the blogs in 4th grade or so. I, for one, was definitely not one of ... and resulted in me mainly looking at the positive elements without any ... told to wait 3 more months. 3 months in college app season felt like an

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  at the South Asian Youth Initiative a New Haven adventure

  

  all for it. Neil points at signs that fascinate him as we look around to ... Thai place.    6:45 pm - We are waiting for our food in Basil ... our way. We look around for a while, Sarah and Bhuvna get Yale merch and

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 22, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  [Joint Post] THE WORLD’S gREATEsT CROSSOVER EPISODE Jebby '25 is my flatmate

  

  and get an ad for body wash where everyone is talking with a British ... knife until my collarbone hurt. Jebby got stuck in the corner spending an ... . Fortunately for her, I sleep with it at night so it stays in my room most of the

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • June 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  ), and I meet my beautiful friend for lunch, and on my way home in the ... Morrison, listened to a new song, and looked over my last assignment for ... and forth in the woodshop. Arabic music is playing. I have come to an

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  More IAP updates

  

  The Maslab 2007 competition (the culmination of the class for which I ... have been working very hard, and dealt well with setbacks. There was an ... proudly sent out some photos of their robot without giving any context for

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  2009: Let There Be Bloggers!

  

  looking for 4 incoming freshmen to compliment our contingent of talented ... pretty high. The exception will be for video. We're looking to add video ... for certain that we will only hire someone with an active blog, we will

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  see this weird in-between age bracket that is usually absent from campus. Parents are usually easy to spot for a couple of reasons. First, they all have name tags, proudly displaying their names. Two, they usually come in

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Uncanny Valley im gonna make you shit your pants

  

  Uncanny valley is a phenomenon where an eerie and unsettling feeling arises when looking at something human-like. This is why humanoid robots ... nonhuman features. The nonhuman movement of an android and its human

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  .  And while that's nice for the ego, it's not so helpful in terms of ... buildings are always open. You can easily find an open classroom for students ... contact the lab.  For example, I got my current UROP (in Langer Lab at the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

  was in Texas and Audrey in California. As for the other “interesting ... and created something [annotation note="Audrey '24: psst look out for ... in October, I was scrolling through the @mitadmissions feed when I came

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist News Within the next week, we plan to admit approximately 35 students from the waitlist.

  

  how this year looks in a few weeks. The waitlist committee has been ... For the third consecutive year, we will admit students from our ... is an understood part of admissions that some people will shuffle

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  quiet moments out in the rural English countryside

  

  fields. and i love it   it’s quaint tucked away in an abundance of ... an ice cream shop together when i passed them, with ice cream in one ... this summer, i’m living in a small, cozy house out in the medieval

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  went a little differently for me as an upperclassman than it did for me ... challenge was an awesome idea for me. I only have classes on Wednesdays and ... invincible for two weeks in October. I was glowing. My mood took the most

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  old. No one looked like an undergraduate. I dismissed all three of ... clouded with pain. What. Body sculpt? As in, trying to make your body look ... My PE class for the quarter is "zumba", taught by a very cheerful

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  them looked something like this. In the week or so leading up to the ... underwhelming. It might’ve been because I allotted 45 minutes to an hour for ... pretty well. I collapsed in bed at midnight (super early for me) completely

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  dorms was an experience in and of itself. In trying to figure out who ... stare at my phone for an hour to have a conversation with a friend. Beyond ... or for worse, the same person I was in high school. But also, how could

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020