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  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  here at the foot of the Rockies. There’s snow on the tracks, and the ... the mountains. I am feeling rejuvenated after a good night’s sleep; I ... french toast (8/10) and listened to her talk about her sons and her life’s

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  ) Good morning! It’s a beautiful morning out here in the [annotation ... Station to [annotation note="no, that’s not a real word; yes, I stand by it ... don’t. It’s probably the best train waiting area I’ve been in, which is

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  Putting together a semester’s course schedule is a nontrivial ... , there’s a lot of “darn I can’t take class A if I take class B because they ... determine the class list way before Registration Day. It’s great for

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  abilities and get Sanatan’s. You would have had to step back and build ... : it’s really hard to be noticed, so i want to be the kind of person that ... magic i’ve found has been non-academic in nature. that’s part of why i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  sharp and soft featuring: my favorite naruto moment

  

  , this is the result: the samurai’s sword (left) slashes straight through the ninja’s sword (right) and breaks it in half. then the samurai ... , though i know it’s not their job to. perhaps they didn’t notice, or perhaps

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  On April 16th, 2020, my life changed. That’s a kitschy way to put it ... memorable than usual, because it’s the day my first novel went to auction. It ... had asked everybody to leave campus, so I was at my boyfriend Chris’s

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Events

  2024 ring premiere! amogus??

  

  The 2024s got their first look at the class ring on Friday! Having a class ring, or Brass Rat, is an integral part of the MIT experience. It ... many '24s," I said to Grace at one point. Maybe that's because the 2024s

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  notoriety of the class and its near-universality among Course 8’s I am fairly ... photoelectric effect (Einstein’s Nobel prize winning experiment!), and the ... acceleration on earth’s surface  (the best pendulum designer gets a pendulum as a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  shoebox in my closet me! There’s more to the floor than my gremlin cave ... bopping to music every time you run into him   confused-24s Eva is probably playing Geoguessr in the kitchen while Alyssa’s air-raid-siren laugh

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  -cold-not-rainy California and moved on with our lives. It’s been raining lately, and I get ... to tell myself that there’s not much I can do about the past, and that there’s not much I can do now besides put myself back together. I’m trying

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Thirteen Theses on Wide Tim In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false.

  

  from the preface and first thirteen theses of Guy Debord’s classic The ... consumption. The spectacle’s form and content are identically the total justification of the existing system’s conditions and goals. The spectacle is also

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Take Care of Us asking for change

  

  ="aligncenter" width="4096"] art from alina s. '24 that summarizes what i'm talking about ... overwhelmed and it's difficult having to look 2025s in the face and say 'Yeah, I ... 2025s that MIT is good most days, just not this particular day. I am

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taylor swift songs as applicants emergency evermore post

  

  But there was one prize I'd cheat to win The uptight honors student who’s applying to the entire U.S. News & World Report Top 20 universities ... , "Well, it's made for me" The kid who’s ready to figure out who they are

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  nonsensical, or the way mathematicians often hold obvious truths at arm’s length, scrutinizing them with a skeptical eye and asking “How do we really know it’s ... to now, still one of my favorites. Say yes to things. It’s okay to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  —and all the memories and friends we’d made there. There’s a wooden sign ... to make and new stories to tell. It’s not the same, but it’s still home.

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  Yamato’s. I want a full, productive year working on my UROP. I want to see people’s faces and eat snacks together at lab meetings and I want to be ... tunnels anymore, and it’s much harder now to make spontaneous lunch plans or

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  warmth feelings i miss

  

  while the sprinkler showered us. the memory’s linked most closely with ... the presence of others. and yeah, it’s not as if i haven’t been ... me now. yeah, that’s it. i guess this post is just to say that i miss

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  senior appreciation post in which i rant about my idol

  

  , an imposter syndrome so strong and unavoidable that it’s impossible to ... can stop her hair growing back every time she cuts it. It’s as if she ... , waistlines be damned. Of course she would always foot the bill because she’s

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 15, 2020
• Blog / Public Statements

  A letter from President Reif regarding George Floyd and Minneapolis

  

  moment, this afternoon’s graduation celebration will offer us all the ... . At this moment, let’s do what we can. I believe a place to begin is by ... humanity’s greatest challenges. A community where we aspire always to treat

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  danceAP IAP: wonderful. sore muscles: not

  

  ! it’s 10-1 on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and although classes go by quickly ... each class, but it’s all so informative that i enjoy doing it. i ... on those during the day. that’s a lot of dance fam   i’m really

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 26, 2020