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  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  After two weeks of pure torture (that's what MIT is in the end, don't kid yourself), I was really looking forward to relaxing this weekend. Of course, I did nothing of the sort. (That's in the true MIT spirit as well

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / IAP

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

  

  This is part two of a series, consisting of a lightly-edited compilation of notes from my cross-country train trip from Boston to San ... Eastern half of the country; South Dakota, which is designated by the Census

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept by julia p. '24

  

  and I am a physics major in the class of 2024. This week is eating ... chance to share my personal experiences. Trigger warning: discussion of ... windy because I was scared that a tornado would come out of nowhere, while

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 23, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Choosing Classes: Choice Paralysis [skye from valorant voice] help a girl out would ya!

  

  One of my favorite things about college is browsing all the classes I could hypothetically take and imagining my futures in them. Of course, the imagining bit is a lot more fun than the...actual taking of them, but I love

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 3, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  In 2019, MIT swapped out all of their coin-operated laundry machines with "Washlava," a laundry platform consisting of IoT-connected machines ... )"]part of the building with no elevator.[/annotation] It wasn't a huge deal

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  of the big reasons we decided to take course 6 classes in the first ... covers 5 main areas of computer graphics - splines, character rigging ... two-week pset associated with each of these topics, and an open

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  During my hiatus, I spent a lot of time working and [annotation note ... tips of my fingers soldering, sliced the tip of another with a box cutter ... of that misfortune made [annotation note="and consequently, me

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

  have passed since freshman orientation, turning it into this blur of free ... under a mound of problem sets and midterms. However, each time I'm thought ... -racial... If you identify as a child of a single-parent... If you are first

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  Harvard announced that they were evicting the vast majority of their ... value in a detailed account of the exodus from MIT from the perspective of one of its students. I included the daily new case count for MA in each

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  , I inspected the snips of mint green hair that had settled on my black ... of calm consideration. They have a really lovely ambiance, with ... dull roar of a hair dryer.  I walked into the store with overgrown

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / IAP

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

  

  This is part three of a series, consisting of a lightly-edited compilation of notes from my cross-country train trip from Boston to San ... here at the foot of the Rockies. There’s snow on the tracks, and the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  "][/video] This is also probably the most terrifying 3 minutes of my life to ... I spent most of September and October doing safety trainings and ... also meant that I semi-regularly appeared in the door of my old UROP

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

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

  

  -enjoyer, please take a moment to think of our beloved Milk as you drink your own Milk in the bottom of your cereal bowl, mug, or biohazard bin. The annual ... desk workers, the government, and the like. Last but not least of the

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2022
• Blog / Mailings & Comms

  Be a Blogger 2022!

  

  alarming amount of tropical fruit plants on my apartment front stoop there ... time for those of you who might want to be bloggers to share your garbage with the world https://youtu.be/-tKgY5Ye-ak?t=373 livestream of me

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  . And, uh, I'm not sure I would cite any of the 24.903 readings here. I ... read it! Across the brown wrinkled forehead he drew a streak of white and along the high cheek bones he drew a strip of blue paint. He paused and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  I Could Never Do it Alone People of a semester, thank you

  

  use my final post of 2021 to share the best part of MIT — the people. I ... share memories of friendship in the form of a poorly formatted digital ... probably dying of heat stroke. Marina T '25, Kidus Y '25, and I laying

  • by Ella T. '25
  • December 19, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] art and things zine making + what makes us, us + thank you cambridge + yomp

  

  . I’m from the East Bay of California. I share a birthday with Mitski ... clear that this is a tech school. Outside of classes, people are making ... ’s part of what makes things exhilarating or exhausting, depending on the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  i saw twenty one pilots at td garden in boston live music is very much alive and here to stay

  

  I wanted to share that with you all. trigger warnings: talks of ... barricades, I was hooked, and I knew I had to go to concerts for the rest of my life. High school was a pretty difficult time for me. I had a lot of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Public MIT panel on the science behind vaccines, and ending the evolving pandemic

  

  a webinar on the science of vaccines, and the role they will play in ... shortly thereafter at the same link. Because I know a lot of our readers are ... event. Alert readers may notice that one of the speakers is former

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 4, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  How does one write a first post? This probably isn't the way...

  

  of eternity and create a legend—a legend that people would whisper about across the shores of Valhalla. Then, after writing a slew of blogs ... desktop called “Graveyard of the Forsaken”, the hero realized that the

  • by kellen manning
  • December 12, 2019