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  The Boston Festival of Indie Games In which I geek out on campus with a bunch of gamers

  

  —super fun. Dalton playing with Sifteo Cubes, a new type of touch ... the happy expressions of all these people; where learning to play a new ... Boston Festival of Indie Games! The 2nd annual convention hosted here

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Winter Break Reading List "Take a look, it's in a book, it's reading rainbow"

  

  's tragicomic tale, A Confederacy of Dunces. This 30-year-old medievalist lives at ... anticipated, but some), I'll be reading a few books to pass the time. Some of ... of these books, it's the fifth or sixth time I'm reading the book. Some

  • by Bryan
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  plants at home. Only a few of them are growing here and the rest are new. I ... scattered. I spent a good part of the month here, at the Sufi Foundation of ... me. I wasn't at MIT: I was one of twentysome fresh MIT students

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  spent 1/3 of my life at MIT. This will be the longest I've ever spent at ... as of late has been graduating but still staying at the same place ... to MIT because of the "weird people" they believed to be at MIT. Not to

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for transgender students in light of the military ban and our ROTC program(s)

  

  equal treatment for all our students. In the face of the new ban on ... banning the recruitment of transgender people to the military. While the implementation of this order is still under review, its prospect has caused a lot

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Design Squad: Pretty much the opposite of The O.C. A show where 8 teenagers use their engineering skills to build some really cool stuff.

  

  As a kid, I always secretly dreamed of being on a TV show. Had there been a program like Design Squad - a new reality design competition ... with an array of engineering challenges. Working in groups of four, each

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  new freshman at a ...certain liberal arts school on the other end of ... girls, and at first found kinship in the physical similarities of age ... caught up with them at various events during the course of the week. One

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  positioning was most effective when directed at the plume of hot gases above the ... ignition taught me something new. For the Spinning Arts club, I went to one of our weekly fire jams. I've been fire spinning since freshman fall

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  A Year away from home An intro video rant to my time in China

  

  Lunar New Year!!! I finally made it around to making this video about my ... much practice I need to do. I spent a good amount of time trying to ... it in Chinese and writing English subtitles (I have a new respect for

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 5, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  airport terminal). During one of those adventures, at a restaurant in Rome ... long alumni typically wear it – I’ve spotted it on the fingers of a few others my age – but it has been present in all aspects of my life ever

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  How to (Im)properly Get an Independent Study another step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  up At this point, you kind of forgot that you sent an email to your ... in mind, as opposed to emailing all three at once. And on top of that ... For our very last semester at MIT, and our very last course 6 class

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  through half of my time at MIT. It's strange, and scary, and...viscerally uncomfortable. Is time real?? I've already lived at my current house for longer ... 's a weird experience. I can compartmentalize the last 14-ish months of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  at MIT, and I promise, I’ll blog about it soon. I’ve been thinking of ... fifty minutes of Multivariable Calculus. At its core, MIT is a community of people who aren’t merely brilliant and quite apt at undertaking the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  -year at Northeastern University!"]younger sister[/annotation] stayed home on ... live at MIT and have a taste of independence. After returning home and ... In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  a perfect long weekend in other words: i did no work and now am kind of a mess

  

  enjoyed the show, even though they were a bit out of their element at a 10 ...   at the end of the day, i felt a vague sense of dissatisfaction ... i had SUCH a nice President’s Day weekend. a lot of it was consumed

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  is not a place where parental desires matter. At the end of the day ... arriving at MIT, you might harbor the notion that it is a magical place where ... honeymoon is over and you find out that it is a lot of work. The work is

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Events

  #WeAreMIT SMASH helped jumpstart an intense conversation between students and administration

  

  Support Services at MIT, and Dr. Alan Siegel, Chief of Mental Health ... , very happy with her new toys back at my parent's house. ... SMASH stands for Students At MIT Allied for Student Health. I am on

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  after their success at the Battle of Vimy, and the 22e was established as ... while chilling in a café chock full of university students finishing their ... Canada! My friend Yida, showing off the giant ramp of the snowboarding

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ★★★★☆ Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023

  

  the ground—at home I did a good 40% of my homework and 90% of my You ... [annotation note="courtesy of the valiant desk guardian Ekanem O."]the front ... stacks of packages are reaching NBA-player height, so if you've received an

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  production of a musical  I went with Silu S. ’24 to watch Six at the Emerson ... for no reason). I learned that the singularity is at the center of the ... underwatering or a mix of both.  at the beginning of this year, with some

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022