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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a walk down memory lane in the form of albums

  

  listening to old music for the sake of ~ nostalgia ~ and oh boy, these ... incredible musical journey throughout my life and I thought I'd try and take ... musical phases, I'll try and put them into bullet points in the beginning of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 1, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  because I didn't feel like I had the stats and awards to bolster me up to ... -- important extracurriculars, mandatory tidbits and facts, quirks and ... : bioengineering nonprofit organization equality in STEM and social justice

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  my free time reading, and also a significant part of my non-free time ... class became more important and I found some fun extracurriculars to ... aren't famous for how much spare time they have and nothing to fill it

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  engineering, both civil and mechanical. “Uhh, copper?” “No, like, music.” “Oh ... . I signed up for two twelve-hour shifts deconstructing the stages, and ... the first night.     While waiting in line, my friend and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  My old computer and I had a complicated relationship. We spent three years together, and they were three of the most formative years of my life ... indestructible, and according to the Internet a solid development machine. It had

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project Where trendy styles = adding styling to trend lines

  

  share with you guys what me and Nathan, my project partner came up with ... 128 x 128 images, each depicting a scene, and each labeled with one of ... , golf course, and supermarket.  For the final project, our mandate was

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 11, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  asked me to blog an entry that she wrote in Zambia last night, and I realized that it's kind of bad when Mitra blogs more frequently than I do and ... dedicated to Laura and Ben Jones's Mom, both of whom are celebrating their

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  course! That Saturday was the Manchester FIRST Regional, and I was psyched ... -packed weeks to design and build a robot that they think will do well at this ... during my junior year of high school, and it was seriously awesome. But

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  things. But if someone told you that they’d have flight AND strength AND invulnerability AND heat vision AND frost breath AND … AND … AND… You’d call them ... and pumped into by big corporations. I thought he seemed like a Boomer

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  boredom and morbid curiosity, I downloaded and read through a 400 page radio manual. I took the test, got my license, and joined a local [annotation ... met in ham radio was either old, white, or a man, and often a

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  Con Vice President, a job involving lots of organizing and working with different folks to help make residential life at MIT better; my ongoing and ... [annotation note='a professional staff member who lives in the dorm and helps

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  little sleep. I haven’t eaten since yesterday evening, and I’ve sort of ... , though, is a precious commodity, and I’d like not to squander it, now that ... much work and far too little desire to do it. I put on the largest shirt

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

  It’s Nice to Meet You Finding my confidence through inline skating.

  

  , elbowpads, and wristguards at Goodwill. I had always wanted to learn, but ... seemed very friendly and flat with bike lanes. My first attempt ended with ... mind, hitting a sidewalk crack and falling straight to my knees. I put

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • March 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  classes and UROPs, the homework piles up throughout the week. Also, there is ... stand working in my room. I feel cramped and not as productive as there ... locations around Cambridge and Boston to complete the majority of my work. I

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  floor. I opened the door and found my roommate, James Deng, standing outside, a cup held to his chest. In response to my jumping in fright and recoiling into the space behind me, he grinned and said, “I am the one who

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  what it's like to survive at MIT with no TechCash, no cash, and a ... bought lunch at Stata, handed over my ID and was alarmed to see that little "low warning" sign. I have $1.70 in my TechCash account, and the reason

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  getting back in the groove 🎵groovy groovy🎵

  

  , the sophomore fall! *** Uh so yeah I'm gonna be a sophomore, and just ... for 10B. You're done with the GIRs and starting classes specifically for ... class sizes are still larger and the classes are well-known. Well funny

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 3, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

  ??"]cookies.[/annotation] I grew up as a massive baker, and every December I take it as a mission to bake as many cookies as possible and hand them out to people I ... ="The icing on the cake, the cake is a lie, to take the cake, and cakewalk

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  other things."]IAP[/annotation] I only took one class and it already ... [/annotation] of the weekend: inauguration. Here's a cluster of weird and very ... shops and randomly decided to eat at a fancy restaurant (Brasserie Liberte

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  teeth that need to chew on something or you’ll grow wild and mad, and so ... i right"]brain and hands[/annotation] or just doing the equivalent of ... ="specifically the Google one it’s so bright and happy!"]Minesweeper[/annotation] in

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024