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  Oh the Places You’ll Go! Did you know Dr. Seuss was a SigEp?

  

  the United States, and taking a walk around Philadelphia at two in the ... The land of 85% humidity, cheap food, and scooters that can ... gaps in the blinds. I rolled over, and realized - to my delight - that I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ambulance! Ambulance! So I'm in this serious long-term relationship.

  

  It is four days into IAP and I have yet to sleep in my own bed. In ... half an hour since returning to MIT on Sunday, and I was only home for ... 've really been home that I'm on the verge of emailing housing and telling them

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  An (overdue) blogger update! I'm trying to come out of writer's block lol

  

  as I wanted to, and I was largely unsatisfied with the posts I managed ... wasn't an announcement or a tongue-in-cheek joke, and the one before that ... about pursuing computer science and engineering in general, so I’d let out

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 4, 2026
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  perhaps it was because our school was 80% Caucasian and in the heart of Portland, Oregon, the whitest major metropolitan area in the country. And it ... voted onto homecoming court and student government.  But it is also true

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I who have nothing Darling, 'tis I who loves you.

  

  a sign of royalty, princesses drank water from clay vases and then ate the clay, which would absorb all of the water in their bodies and give ... -conditioned (!) hostel room, listening to the dude above me snore, and I thought that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  . A friend and I have arranged to watch The Elegant Universe after our ... decision applications to college, and, for many of my senior friends, applications to graduate schools and fellowships. My stress falls mainly under

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  states of being are transient, and I am more confident and happier than I ... and the painful awareness that you are almost certainly less happy than ... slightly unlucky. Something doesn’t work out, and I end up incongruously sad

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  United States are vast and complex and work very well—but this also makes ... A lot of people living in the United States don’t understand how complicated water is. I created this post as a sort of quick-guide to water, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Events

  The Stuff of MIT Legend I'm about to tell you a super cool story. It happened two years ago, but…

  

  years ago, but it's super awesome and while it's hard to exactly explain ... and today, MIT hosted hundreds of middle and high school students for a ... Space Weapons" and everything in between. You can check out some of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Guest Post] A Day in the Life of a Clown College Student by Joy X. Clown College ‘29

  

  school, I had gotten into amateur juggling and realized my true dream: not to graduate from some generic school like MIT and become an engineer or ... college and run off to the circus.  My friends and teachers told me

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2026
• Blog / How to Human

  remember me on family

  

  for my Lolo and restore him to a better state. I feel useless ... movie had ended, my hands shook with such a fierce tremor and I remember just calling up my grandparents and telling them how much I love them. A

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 1, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2023 For all of the Blogger/Spotify Data Junkies

  

  I received a January MIT Newsletter and saw a summary of Ankita D. ‘23 ... among MIT Bloggers. I showed my brother and he said “Well now you have to go there, Kayode, that’s all you listen to.” And he’s not wrong

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 10, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  two kidneys," and [annotation note="Can you really be certain you only ... , though, I’ll spare everyone the pain of Schrodinger’s equation and just ... longer in high school and b) supposed to be somewhere (read: class) right

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 16, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part one) random trinkets from freshman year

  

  -the-potential-value-of-a-random-reciept-sentimental-types. We’ve always kind of been like this, and it wasn’t a problem in high ... and decided to give us a bag of things she no longer needed, but thought ... was a fairly large hollow ceramic mushroom. And since the beginning of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 29, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  personal tumblr blog, other universities, random google searches, and of ... Holy Beaver! You’ve received your letter from Hogwarts MIT and you ... grand master list of links for any and all of you going to any college at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m laughing out loud cheek. muscles. cramping.

  

  professor last night, and frankly everyone is just counting down the minutes ... !!!!) and saying "Forget science. I'm dropping out to be a Benedict ... ://web.mit.edu/subjectevaluation and wrote: I. Hate. These. Emails. Any motivation I have to fill out

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  at the bus stop were demonstrating this tactic, and had chosen the ... , some of which were fashionable, and some of which were unfashionable ... tears of frustration, they crystallized on my cheeks and shattered one by

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  of offering ''universal access to human knowledge," and, in pursuit of ... plenty of time to read both the New York Times and the Boston Globe. The ... Brewster Kahle '82 (right, courtesy Library of Congress) and the Internet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  Authors): Old English and Beowulf hwæt ƿe gardena in geardagum þeodcyninga ... of the Old English epic Beowulf, and in this class you will learn to ... , and lonely winters; of haunting beauty found in unexpected places; and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  making meaning exit right in 0.1 miles

  

  (QS) in marine microbes, where bacteria produce molecules and behave ... supervisor. me: i've been running it for A While now and it's on iteration 700 and every 100 iterations it does that which is very ??? i think i might

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 30, 2023