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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  . “Melissa” and then “Help!” and then “Melissa” and in a much quieter voice ... around his small, money-sucking apartment, a pinprick in the vast mix of ... months, but you know how the calls have been going. And dad, well, is still

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  first impressions of LA the struggles of moving cross-country for an internship

  

  are no trees and the sky is so big. i've lived in new england for the ... . seeing so much sky makes me uncomfortable in unquantifiable ways - i feel ... a swimsuit. but now, the beach is 2 miles from my work and i

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 31, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  most often about AFROTC is "but what do you do every week?" Cadets in Det ... Force officer. As a freshman, I'm in AS.100, and right now we're learning ... already had a simulated forward operating base set up, much like a base that

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Events

  To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before: P.S. I Love You THANK YOU LSC

  

  (which is coming up in a blog post very, very soon!!!). Soon enough, we ... to the ShowPlace ICON Theatre in Seaport, a super nice venue that made ... kind of what was going to happen, but it is SO MUCH BETTER watching the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A little something while you wait. Don't plan on doing work until we finish this.

  

  work, and life is good. But in the meantime, you probably want to do ... Blogs wide game of Funny Farm. It is pretty much impossible to solve ... with the phrase "On A Farm," which is connected to a bunch of boxes

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Past, Present, and Future This all "began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the…

  

  everyone in the entire office is reading thousands of applications and ... , going to a formal, and then maybe some stuff about playing in the snow. I ... FAR It's funny how much MIT helped me identify my identity. Like I did

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  my right, when all of a sudden a big green sedan is cutting right in ... 're trying to hit is only a foot in front of you. So as the car kept driving ... and in a complete sentence, "dammit, this is a terrible way to die." My

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  NM – u? Sometimes there just isn't that much crazy in my life. Splish splash.

  

  secret life goal #11 is to get on television, I made a big show jumping in ... , meetings - and spend my nights awake with worry about how little I have to blog. Last Wednesday, I knew it was supposed to snow pretty much all day

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  and accepted in a way I never really was before. Is everyone at MIT ... it reminds me a lot of my own CPW, though it may be taking place in ... to one of the top universities in the world. My freshman year is ending

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Classy celebration, 5E-style

  

  birthday. Clayton decided that we would celebrate in style with a "Gentlemen ... hadn't worn a skirt or dress since I was junior in high school. I doubt Clayton would have cared that much, but as it happens, I'll need a nice

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  and a therapy in itself. Give it a shot and let me know how it goes < ... When I graduated in 2018, I was talking to my partner about how lost ... not a single game is downloaded on my phone or computer.   I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Events

  The REX That Was a review of the most recent confusion

  

  , which is part of how housing is assigned. According to MIT's Dormitory Council: REX (Residence Exploration) is a fun time filled with tons of ... live, REX is a great opportunity to find out about the different parts of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Isaac Lozada Isaac Lozada comes from Texas to MIT.

  

  MIT, the No. 1-ranked university in the nation, according to a ... 's Army orders called. His father is retired from the Army and working as a ... is his name. ''It'll be a huge culture shock,'' Isaac said. So far

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  considering Thanksgiving is usually just the three of us in a big empty house ... /CCD/computer communications, that is to say, I took emo picture of myself through a hole in a ... telling me to look up. The moon, jupiter, and venus in a right triangle

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  interactions (outside of my home) for a year, I'm not sure I know how to talk to ... to a small but significant sense of normalcy. Now, in honor of the ... , and spent time plotting out how to decorate my room (which may have a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  rusty old bike is 19 mph; I wonder how fast I'd be able to go on a sleek ... has become such a constant in my life recently, and I fear I'm starting ... through a phone camera. In that case, the Moiré pattern comes from the fact

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Events

  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  ’m assuming that I’m right. The Water War is a yearly tradition in which we East ... around in our badass Rush shirt or wearing a brightly colored cowboy hat ... parents are sketched out by how hardcoar East Campus is :P). But any of us

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  . There is a thing called the Tetris Effect, where you see tetris squares in ... played in 2018. And the reason I did so is because I had a friend. I had ... California. The first time in about a decade itself that it is changing

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  On a weekday, I meet my friend Alberto H. ‘17, who I haven’t seen in ... year, and we’re all always busy, so this is, surprisingly, a rare chance ... have. I like my work a lot. Coding in 6.005 has become really interesting

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  -earth.' " Yes, this is pretty much how Junot speaks during class. We then shifted ... and have a great first semester, Class of 2011!) As I wrote in a ... . Good call, guys. We students in the class knew he wrote a well

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007