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• Blog / Personal Projects

  I exploited the infinite worm glitch experiencing motherhood for (thankfully) the first time

  

  I hate rainy days. Not because of the wet socks or gloomy skies, but because of the horrid little creatures that are summoned by the rain. The mere sight of a snail crossing my path or a wiggling worm on the pavement

  • by Leanne F. '30
  • September 22, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  I didn’t know a lot coming into MIT why does it feel so embarrassing to learn

  

  One of the most embarrassing memories I have happened during a summer ... since I clearly already knew how to use LaTeX, I could help some of the people around me. So, instead of spending a few minutes embarrassed to

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 10, 2026
• Blog / Classes

  Classes I’m Taking My Freshman Fall!(And Other Things Too) can you believe they're letting me do one of these?

  

  favorite type of post: one about my classes! I’m taking 5 classes this semester, which is kind of a heavy workload, especially when one of those ... ’m taking: ES.1802 - Multivariable Calculus ES.5111 - Principles of Chemical

  • by Leya E. '30
  • September 16, 2026
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things

  

    January 23, 5:00 pm Today is the first day of MARC 2024 (the ... this year! MARC is two days of very bright people from MIT (Makers of ... past year. These ideas cover all sorts of different areas – faster

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2,024 liked songs spotify is my favorite social media

  

  me of East Campus, and when she turned on the red lights I noticed the ... . “Guess,” she said. She’s the kind of person who exudes bright optimism and takes any shift in the winds of conversation in stride. Funnily enough

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [joint post] unsubscribe a post about fortune cookies

  

  cookie content, not pedantic deliberation on the origins of particular ... mailing lists have thousands of people on them, someone inevitably does, and it all sort of cascades from there. CJ: Someone replies, giving advice

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 7, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  Poetry Day! It's not very much of a leap to think that I could be bisexual the end result of this is that i now have far too many haikus Also i ... old blog posts, and then used gpt-2-simple to retrain it on a bunch of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  explains his life to me in terms of his calendar schedule, which has ... -hour red blocks, many of which overlap. He talks me through how this week he ... is “one of those”, you might say). He runs through his hangouts at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... food that has fallen on the floor. I am probably the age of some of your ... represent my decade of twenty-somethings (my least favorite phrase after "meat

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  When you last heard from me, I had just arrived at The Middle Of ... the most. Each of us is paired up with a Teach For America teacher; my ... 100% Navajo, and about a quarter of its students go on to graduate. Even

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  keep my job as an admissions blogger. There are a lot of things that come along with the roll of admissions blogger. We blog (duh), are asked to ... and Christmas cards for admitted prefrosh, scrub spam off of our entries

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  I had lots of stuff planned for you guys, but my friend Ben (not ... webmaster of http://www.qwantz.com (because of stuff like this already posted on that site). All of a sudden, the hack pictures were all over the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  i’m a sneaky little scavenger acquiring furniture in the bay area

  

  some ideas, courtesy of me and my amazing summer roommate grace :D 1.  find furniture on the side of the street in the words of one of my friends, “welcome to the wonderful wastage of the bay area”! i lived in

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 14, 2026
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  There were many incredible applicants to the MIT Class of 2030, which ... comments on this post are an open forum for those of you who want to talk ... civilly and with the best of intentions, even though this may be a difficult

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2026
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I designed a marching band drill for MIT and I didn't even need experience

  

  , even though I've never been in a marching band (or any kind of band). The ... — Made up the "T" in MIT 100 Trombones — Seen at the left side of the field I'm very proud of my drill, and I think it should be performed at

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 15, 2026
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  There were many incredible applicants to the MIT Class of 2029, which ... of you who want to talk with us, shake it off, and get back up again. We ask that you converse civilly and with the best of intentions, even

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  disproven it. And that my smartphone – its tens of billions of transistors ... modern understanding of quantum mechanics. It's just... none of it... feels ... , anyway. Sure, I’ve seen demonstrations of the photoelectric effect and the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  pliers to Boston. In my room, there’s a shelf of books taller than a man, stuffed full of fantasy. My eyes flick to the books I loved, gloss over the ... midlife crises[/caption] Every time you come home you are reminded of how

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a not-so-cruel summer this one's for the girlies

  

  -thought, over-analyzed, over-felt every moment of it // dyed my hair purple ... //    happiness of celebrating girlhood // celebrating art and uniqueness and strangeness // acknowledging the complexities of motherhood

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  saw the light of day (mostly because I forgot about it until last semester), but now I have a brand new batch of internship origami for your ... because of a book I’d found in the school library. It contained a variety of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023