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  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  students can't have fun? On Saturday, I met up with a friend of mine who ... a code from the app. After biking around for half an hour, you return ... gusto. Yida and I were cracking up for a solid half an hour watching them

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  classes im taking! strictly

  

  to look like im hacking the mainframe: I went through a few fonts ... 220 TrueType font. 18.100B: Real Analysis I missed taking a math ... , and Law After several semesters, I finally have a chance to take a

  • by Victor D. '27
  • February 16, 2026
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Things That Made Me Happy (and Sick) It’s me and my infection’s TWO MONTH anniversary!! 🎉😍

  

  vacation and doing the best I can with a camera, markers, and printer paper ... graph, I guess I can explain some things about my semester in a way that ... because I’m a human who wants to graduate from MIT. I would do these again

  • by Powers '23
  • January 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  'm a little too ADD for straight up productivity. I have a hundred ... minute. For as long as I can remember, I was one of the smartest kids in my ... and getting a lot out of other things too- things I can't get out of a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  ’ll be an interesting thing to try for a month, but I don’t expect to like ... like that? What are your hours? Can I even trust you anymore? (Absolutely ... life. Are you hiding something from us?” “I hear it’s really dirty…but I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a not-so-cruel summer this one's for the girlies

  

  production, the music video for ‘I Can See You,’ everything // screamed to ... // cry and cry //    i love being a girl // let me be //  ... // watched Qala a little too late and cried a little too much // cut my hair

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  software that you can use for a free 30-day trial or buy for about ~$25 ... laptops for MIT I was dead set on getting a tablet. I researched tablets ... enjoying the laziest IAP I can muster. I sleep until at least noon every day

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  in a place where only driving made any sense. Now that I've been ... taxes, which can double the price of a car. I’m not sure how this ... Copenhell, a metal fest, for four days, during which I didn’t really have time

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  Hole, where I chilled in the corridor outside Black Hole lounge for a bit ... is often, I can escape into my room or a quiet place and when I don ... . I also ran into Susan S. ‘15, who was working on a GM meeting for an

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  . Can't really take it while I'm skating in North Carolina? Here's a throwback to last year's Eastern Sectionals, as I was vying for a spot on the ... routine. For the free skate, I was really nervous going in. I had a rough 6

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  supplies for team bonding events, since we were all virtual. as a captain, I ... more, where I could take on as much responsibility as I wanted at a given time, and where I felt the same pride of being on a dope team that I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  time for a summer update. i'm in seattle! again! this time i'm sharing a place with three other interns, two of them also from MIT. so it ... buys a bouquet of flowers from safeway and we put them in makeshift vases

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  unread in a tiny corner of the internet, so I can dust off the MIT ... ) My deepest apologies for the hiatus; now that I’m not at home (where an ... playing cards which I intended for friends to draw on so I have a completely

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  the living room being a place for my “experiments.” I grew up gluing ... grade, I came across a highlights video for the 2014 Fair held in Los ... where I realized being a science fair junky was pretty darn cool. It was

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  what I can get from the little taqueria right in MIT's front yard. For $4 ... during the parts of the year where I can't find the time to cook for myself ... but this to say: you have to try a burrito from Anna's. If you're up for

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  up to the point where I wrecked mine. To actually make the cup a cup ... than my first class, I can definitely say that try #2 was a success ... MIT is really cool. MIT has a glassblowing class. I took the

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  range of events you can attend at MIT. A New Hobby! I have a new hobby ... humanity. For example, I can now make arguments on why AI should not be ... page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  that I grew up in a community where I was able to even cultivate so many ... again, I am speaking from a background of socioeconomic and academic ... . You can probably tell from my writing—for God's sake, my blog posts have

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  unspoken rules in a way that gets buy in from everyone?  How can any of this ... in Germany for a summer, I could read and understand the language. But ... though cut both ways. - I've been in Tokyo for a week, and will be here

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  appropriated by Argentinian dissidents in the 1980's). From there I found a list ... stretch for me to have gotten to the American Civil War from there. I grew ... required me to take a CI-M class, I opted to keep afternoons free for a 20

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006