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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  students to explore MIT dorms and find their future home on campus. REX occurs during Orientation Week, and all the dorms hold events showcasing ... to campus and quick access to a dining hall made up for it. As long as

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  passionless had a crisis, got a tattoo

  

  treating New Year's Eve as a reason to make a charcuterie board and talk to friends instead of a day of radical change and contemplation. I mostly ... 's lives to feel like there are a million possibilities, and I feel like I

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  As the summer turned to fall, my housemates and I prepared to move ... 's. More on that later."]last year[/annotation]at MIT? Packing up and leaving felt so strange. The pandemic had somehow compressed and expanded time

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

  ="🤷"]something?[/annotation] A month passed and I still hadn’t thought of the idea but, as it ... animation, and I knew I wanted this year's video to be animated. So, I emailed ... by with no response, so I sent her another DM and it turns out I

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  ="a nice MIT perk is that you can just email most professors and they ... and professor at MIT,[/annotation] and I lamented about my fears for the future, coming back to MIT, and feeling a bit lost. He gave me a lot of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  ; and as a prefrosh, getting a glimpse of the amazing things my future classmates had learned and done. I’m still intimidated sometimes, now, but I ... which is positive and supportive and caring), other people’s skills don

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  Cambridge and Boston, so keep an eye out for it. Also keep in mind that I am ... you see any errors, please let me know and I will fix it as best I can ... because I relish the time I get to spend spacing out and basking in the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  "Dudamel - Open Rehearsal" and asked if I would be interested in attending ... 'm definitely down! :)" and reserved a ticket. A month later, Google Calendar ... !") but we squeezed and "sorry! excuse me!"d our way in. Flipping through

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  Midnight. We switched off the generator and the glaring light died. A ... .. - - - First, an explanation of who I am and why I’m posting on Anna’s blog. I ... Math (combinatorics) and Music (opera singing). I then spent a year in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  words what the show was about, what I thought during the show, and how I ... one of my sisters (and friend I made before MIT through FRC), Erin B ... and emailed me asking me to audition. As a shy freshman, even the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Got any threes? Go fish!

  

  restaurant right across the bridge in Boston), and talking. That's right ... talked and talked and talked and talked, until eventually, the subject ... bajillion mailing lists and never bothers to take themselves off of any of

  • by Snively '11
  • September 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Frank Zappa played The Pope on an episode of Ren and ... night, sometimes alone and sometimes with 40,000 English fans in K√ґln, and I have to say that just watching the game is way more exciting than

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Temporary Band Entry Title And we hope we passed the audition.

  

  tonight and give a free midnight concert all over campus except for Building 10 and Killian Court. No, really. Our audience included the Stata Center, countless Biology graduate students in buildings 56 and 68, the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  ...and have you seen "Underworld?" My friends in Harrisburg and I ... trilogy, except with less irony, lower production values, and no Bruce ... "Friday the 13th Part 9: Jason Goes to Hell" and "Drainiac" for about 5

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  called 21M.299: World Music Studies - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys. I wanted to take a music class and this seemed like the most bizarre and ... world on sea music, and it was an insanely fun class!  At MIT, all

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  craving the napa cabbage and meatball soup that my dad used to make. along with the phantom taste of salt and light broth on my tongue, there was ... overseas, and with covid restrictions it's hard to see them. my mom's coming

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  had helped choreograph, perform, and produce. https://youtu.be/VFJtkg5ieYk It was (and is) incredibly arresting and compelling video, and I ... , and I have reproduced it, unedited, immediately below. I put my first

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  acquainted with such gems as Homestar Runner, XKCD, Leeroy Jenkins, and Fark ... conference/convention about internet culture. Come celebrate and mingle with your favorite internet memes and engage in academic discussion about the

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I Went To The Ballet! 💎 color me refined 💎

  

  tutus and the word pirouette, but I haven't even seen [annotation note ... single-file to get on the bus, and on the way out of the classroom I threw up all over the rainbow carpet and had to go home sick for the first

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 18, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  Hi everyone! I’m Callie T, and Ellie invited me to share what my day ... last term, and the term before that, and also everything that’s happened ... 10 am physics lecture. All my sets are terrifying, and I’ve been

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025