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  First day of school The first day of school

  

  , my backpack would be loaded with paper and colored pencils, and I ... own film series) and afterwards slept like a rock. This morning, I woke ... classes (Course 2) and filling in the rest of my schedule with classes in my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House: Where The Sidewalk Ends A tour of Next House!

  

  I'll put it here: " We are one of the largest and friendliest dorms ... out, have fun, and enjoy their time at MIT. Situated on the banks of ... , downtown Boston, Fenway Park, and the infamous CITGO sign from many of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  I’m still here. Promise.

  

  -credit class that meets twice a week for an hour and spend the rest of my time ... ! Yay! Go check out Luis's Blog and say hi. Next, Mystery Hunt! Yes I ... , metapuzzles, and some data about teams involved in the hunt. One of my absolute

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  their own style of taking notes and keeping organized. But if you’re looking to start keeping a little notebook or everything and have no idea ... second was a multipurpose notebook that I handcrafted and bound in 8th

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  before. I felt lost and unhappy, wondering if I truly did not belong here ... nothing is impossible (and in some ways, it did that for me), for the most ... peers and professors, people I respected and admired, solely because I

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  blurry memories of restaurants, relatives, and a zoo. I flew over to California a Monday afternoon and stayed there with my family for a day before ... ourselves and our bags onto the 14 hour flight. The best part was that not

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  and it’s something i struggle to understand. the claim is something like: we can replace traditional capitalistic and commodified forms of value and support by organizing into small squads of people that hang out a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  , because it's just so sad and generally emotionally taxing to think about ... in the "before times," of course. We wear masks in class, and because ... comparison to the spring. And incredibly real, to the point where I'm just so

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  've been having a crisis over whether to go to grad school or not. And as ... I am very tired. And I don't think that I'm ready to go quite yet ... keep me busy. I'm taking less classes. And yet, I feel like my brain is

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  breakfast, I have an egg sandwich with tea, and for dinner, I have the juiciest, most delicious chicken and quinoa. This blog will focus on the ... many other appliances save for the few plates, utensils, and other

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  never did during the academic year. a friend and i walked to a 24 hour ... and lobster tail (it doesn't have [annotation note="if you want this, go to Alive and Kicking Lobsters in West Cambridge"]actual lobster

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  album, but you just alternate between playing "Lover" and "The Archer" over and over. If necessary to lighten the mood, finish with one play of ... mind of the speaker and the listener, and miscommunication arises when

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  A lot of very stressful things have been happening this month (and ... as we would have liked). But, there were also a lot of really good and ... one test towards the very end of the semester and no final, which is

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  quizbowl is, you can probably skip this intro paragraph and go straight to ... quizbowl is that you form teams of 4-5 people, and two teams sit in a room and listen to questions, and you hit a buzzer when you know the answer

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Got Solar? guest post by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20

  

  *written by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20 (members of MIT SEVT) as a ... was tested, scrutinized, and pushed to its limits and after many stressful nights and over 1,700 miles on the Oregon trail, the finish line was

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 6, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  I have simultaneously done nothing and everything this IAP. After an exciting ten day family vacation in Japan and Hong Kong (highlights include: that time I petted multiple owls, and that time I ate three bowls of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  April, and we just finished [redacted] and [redacted] [redacted] [redacted]. My roommate and I have been making plans for renovating our room (more ... prepositions), and mixed with a few people that are really really good at doing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  necessity but out of enjoyment, and wakes up when it can no longer be considered morning. Summer is a time for pools, Pokemon, and playing in no ... hours a week, I never lost that boyish charm when it comes to the two and

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  under the tunnels of MIT, and when it fills up past its capacity it tips over and you get showered with psets and tests and remember why you were there in the first place. My bucket sort of exploded last Saturday - and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  'd also suggested that we start early, but I had tests on Monday and Wednesday that I'd had to tool for, and I had already spent nearly four hours ... optimistic and cheerful. I always do 004 projects in the lab so that I can get

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 19, 2005