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• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  Louvre; through its great windows sculptures danced in candlelight. “Let’s ... , paging through Swann’s Way and feeling little pings of recognition at the ... Saint Genevieve’s death, her eyes clouded over with blindness, thin arms

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  "]IAP[/annotation], Bad Ideas Weekend takes hold in MIT like glitter: it’s everywhere, if ... homework packet. My second Bad Idea was S’mores with [annotation note ... a few days before Bad Ideas Weekend, I was suddenly notified that s

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  three main characters from the film Burning[/caption] In Lee Chang-dong’s ... the answer?  It’s a strange movie brimming with symbolism that leaves ... from blogger alumni. So I decided to use one of my tactics against writer’s

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  to Trader Joe’s to pick up caprese ravioli and pork shu mai  and let ... Women’s ERG Slack Channel,   seeking refuge from being baptized by spit ... tipped her extra”  ------- This poem followed a villanelle’s pattern of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  little. It’s pervaded by the soft buzzing that follows too many days of too ... it’s hit.  Why am I disappointed? As is often the case, I’m disappointed in myself. It’s a familiar feeling. That sensation when you

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [guest post] The Random Hall Milk: Gone But Not Forgotten an obitu-dairy for Pecker's oldest resident

  

  items had gone missing over the summer. Half of Foo’s murals were painted over in Institute white. Black Hole’s Goldberg-like light switch is missing. Ninety percent of the entire dorm’s baking pans are gone.   

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  fluorescence of the green walls. Green’s my favorite color, but those walls are ... (FYRE) out of Next) and find a roommate(s). After that, every freshman is ... my freshman lottery, but that’s a story for another time."]my permanent

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  glasswork, and wrought iron candlestick holders which remind me of my Baba’s ... . It’s a skill you have to develop through practice, trial and error.  There’s also a deeply physical aspect to forging. We have a power hammer

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Events

  [Joint Post] Avoiding Sunstroke Solar Cars, Solar Stories, Solar Blogs

  

  So. It’s been a while since I last was on the blogs, speed writing ... job(s) on campus.  [caption id="attachment_68922" align ... bit after the race, one of our team’s members mentioned how [annotation

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  engineering internship at a startup.  How it’s going so far: I feel super lucky ... -uniform hypergraphs. How it’s going so far: After I was accepted to the ... it’s been pretty manageable so far. Graph theory is fun! And writing

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  times, the only other set of eyes that see my projects are Kellen’s ... dual-purpose sake of nostalgia and decluttering my desktop, let’s take a ... every designer knows, it’s not a rebranding if you don’t mock it up on a

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Experiment… featuring Emily '22, Felix '23, and Alison '23

  

  [/annotation] who were trying to [annotation note="Wait, that’s hilarious 😂 - Felix ... ="lmao who’s this nerd? -Alison"]league[/annotation] that featured memes and a ... be [annotation note="so funny story. Petey’s rejection email actually

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  the point I could squat both the bar, plus 30 pounds. That’s a whole 75 pounds being lifted purely by the sheer[annotation note="ok, there’s other ... . To be completely honest, I can’t see a future where that’s true for me

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  class, what can we say. Do we have regrets? What’s the status of our 21E vs. CMS struggle? The short answers are no regrets and it’s (more ... opposed to other REST’s because of its applications in Computer Graphics and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  is to cut myself a break and realize that it’s ok to feel uncertain and ... to enjoy myself. I hope the main takeaway from reading this is that it’s ... internship search, with another semester’s wisdom under my belt to decide what

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  should also click the links. If you want to see more of YQ’s paper art, you ... ! My name is YQ, and I’m one of Lydia’s friends from Random Hall. A few ... part of OrigaMIT, MIT’s paper folding club. MIT has a really cool and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  (like the wonderful 18.S097 Special Subject in Mathematics: Introduction ... a UROP, for a total of 69 hours of intended work. That’s three 12-unit ... Harvard PHIL 179 lecture. Luckily, it’s a lot of fun, a “college classic” of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  of pieces. One of the TA’s was even dressed as R.B. Woodward, MIT ... easiest costumes to pull off: ninja. Krystal’s Guide to Being a Ninja in 10 ... -ish T-shirts that you’ve hoarded from career fair, borrow someone else’s

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  York Times bestselling!) novelist who’s also written comics for Marvel ... first page, but it’s still about three years older than the second image ... eventually got connected with First Second, Macmillan’s comics publishing

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  (Barbara Streisand lyrics—too optimistic; “The Fool’s Prayer” by Edward R ... was the perfect time to go to 103 Irving Street. As in, Julia Child’s ... part about Julia Child’s cat. That must have been the luckiest cat in the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012