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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Guest Post] A Day in the Life of a Clown College Student by Joy X. Clown College ‘29

  

  ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0CyOAO8y0 It’s a special day for me, because on the same day last ... now, which includes a mandatory lab. It’s really fun! We’ve been ... doesn’t exist just to be theoretical—that’s why lab sessions exist

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2026
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Building a Robot in 3 Days FIRST X MIT Edition

  

  teams, and working to bring STEM into their communities. It’s hard to ... sixth graders so much smarter?”  Yes, I know it’s a little over the top ... home just to do more work. Dinner conversations revolved around the robot’s

  • by Hala K. '29
  • January 25, 2026
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  In review — it’s been a good year. In reverse-chronological order, I ... .009, where I presented a solid five times, usually with about one hour’s worth ... and academic. And it’s worked. I recently got a jellyfish haircut that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  1940s after a high volume of drowning-related deaths at war. It’s been ... swim 100 yards. That’s the [annotation note=" or .09144 km, whatever that ... looked at everyone’s skill levels and taught us in groups accordingly. We

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  , but it’s largely written with first years in mind. This is in no way a ... Plus and BorrowDirect”']Harvard library card,[/annotation] because it’s a ... windows? On tougher days, it’s nice to have at least one thing to help get

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  It’s cold down here, and dark, so I’ll keep this one brief. I'm in ... beautiful and exciting, and from another angle it’s also beautiful and ... ! Another cool rock similar to the first cool rock. A river!!" There’s

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  . I drank water greedily; we’d brought more than enough.  “Okay, let’s ... ! Let’s go back.” Then I slept for all of Christmas day and felt mostly ... , vaguely following the river. We caught up on one another’s adventures as we

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

    “It’s just a few more weeks,” my mom told me, on the phone ... math major at a tech school in the ‘80’s. When was the hardest that I ... anyway. Sometimes even doing it well. It’s my addiction, every semester

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  , because I got too hosed to finish it in March."]room.[/annotation] It’s late ... in the publishing industry, and writing one’s unique experience in ... painter, finding none. I thought of The Last Five Years. The ending of Katz’s

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech version: slightly jaded

  

  today, while my friends and I were walking down the river to Trader Joe’s ... entirely finished but we are finished, and it’s enough to scrape an A. I live ... , and struggle until it’s done, and maybe sometimes it’ll get done well. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  was worse — because it’s always getting worse, because writing on an i ... , potentially, because of the added strain from lifting weights.  That’s been ... worse. If the former is true, I might well push through a set; if it’s the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

  Day video team. Almost instantly, my mind went back to Angela’s bread ... "]next meeting[/annotation] Angela explained that the Studio Ghibli film, Howl’s ... junior and currently serves as the president of MIT’s Music Production

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

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  I moved to campus this past weekend! It’s super exciting! I will ... Classical Mechanics Study for the biology and chemistry ASE’s Go out into ... quickly gave up on the ASE’s, figuring I would be better off just taking the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  about my relationship with poetry over the years. Here’s the earliest ... -up poem. after the symphony’s final note  What I remember most about those ... scherzi.    I can’t listen to Paganini’s Caprice No. 24 anymore. In

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  my parent’s home computer, effectively dashing my chances to continue on in my pursuit. I doodled in a sketchbook here and there, but it’s ... 't actually color like this anymore[/caption] Well, what’s changed now? Why am

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  THE FINAL FANTASY 7 REMAKE IS OUT since 6/15/15, i have literally lived for this moment

  

  remembered as one of PS4's best. It's so big, in fact, that they're breaking up ... BOOM), I did not go all out. But now that I’ve been accepted, there’s no ... FANTASY SEVEN. To most people, it’s a classic Japanese role-playing game

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 16, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  It’s been four days since the beginning of sophomore year. That means ... ,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest series adieu (not going to lie, it’s a bittersweet ... better option clearly exists. And that’s what I did. I took a leap of faith

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  before us, their eyes squinting in the glare of the merciless sun. There’s ... , holding eye surgery clinics, and organizing major relief trips in the U.S ... towards clinical volunteering. There’s so much I want to say about the state

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  it so that it looked like a starry sky. Here’s a before-after picture - I think we did a pretty good job! That’s the story behind my door ... .” - Henry S. ‘18   “I love my door!! It has existed at least 7 years

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part two) sophomore trinkets

  

  program for Yaoi on Fire, the fire spinning club’s summer and fall semester ... was in it!! 11) Chroma’s second edition, which we were both staff on ... .... nope not at all… blog about this to come... 17) Rune’s 38th edition

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 25, 2018