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• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  opening plays memorized, but to be entirely clear, I’m not one of them. My ... tendency to just sort of... not follow the rules), and as a result I never actually picked it up. I didn’t even remember all of the names (much less the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  – I would’ve loved to have either of those things, but my semester just ... other thing.” Of course, this was not a real conversation with a person at MIT, but rather me filling out a particular section of the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 Halloween Costume Ideas for MIT Students but they're pretty bad

  

  different tech school Tired of spelling "Massachusetts"? This is just the ... 't Massachusetts. #2 – Alchemist Show some love for one of the most notable ... : (Whether it's a scream of joy or anguish is a different question.) #3 – The

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • October 15, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  Like many of you, I have been playing Wordle, a game where you try to ... been playing it religiously. I have at least 3 separate groups of people that I talk to Wordle about. Today’s [as of writing this] was

  • by Paolo A. '21 G
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  this blogger does not exist join me in the uncanny valley

  

  A reader of the blogs emailed CJ the following, which CJ then ... generate blogger avatars, just for the fun of it. also there are different ... up my alley in terms of what I do for my UROP, so I gave it a shot this

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 28, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  hand size. you can have more than seven cards but at the end of a turn ... 's fine. well, depending on what your view is of "much", this isn't true. i ... ended up double the length of my current longest post. so from the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  . Unlike the murals, their contents change with the scale of days instead of years, but they often follow a few well-trod paths: lists of classes that floor residents are thinking of taking in the next semester, polls about

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  feel all of my feelings until my body hurt too much to feel anything else ... motivated by the purest distillation of every other reason combined: I ran to ... outrun anything. I would be untouchable. I had a lot of friends raise

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  If you've read any of my other posts, you probably know how much I ... helping students transition in and out of the dorm and navigating student concern during the renewal process. Being a member of this team was

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  One of the coolest parts of my job is that I actually get to spend a lot of time outside of the Office of Admissions (or currently, on Zoom ... ’s a guest post from one of those awesome people who make the MIT

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  summer tidbits a picture and annotations

  

  [annotation note="i'm going on an alarming number of flights this summer. the two sets of flights to pheonix, arizona are work-related, but the rest comes out of my paycheck. TT i'm going to anime expo in LA this

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 4, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  For those impacted by Hurricane Michael (and other disasters) clarifying our policies for applications affected by catastrophic events

  

  deprived thousands of  people of power and property across the American ... approaching, these catastrophes have left many of our prospective students in ... than their application to MIT. These kinds of events [annotation note

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 22, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Hall Rush: 1E So many packing peanuts

  

  /architecture). I live on the first floor of the east parallel of East Campus, which ... 40 bags of biodegradable (edible) packing peanuts and filled the lounge ... added. This means that they stick to the sweat that was seeping out of

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • September 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  In the past five weeks or so, the pace of my life has dramatically ... ’ve found myself with a lot of time to “stop and smell the roses.” There ... January. Some were finishing of UPOP seminars. Some had internship

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  This past semester has been different than any of our other semesters at MIT (and even any of our years in K-12), in that we only took ONE ... same classes (often the timing of our schedules were different, but our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fig. 3: La dolce vita snaps from an extended spring break

  

  Amsterdam, to an even colder city up north. I guess I'll count that as part of ... incredible time seeing an entire array of landscapes and cityscapes that I had only dreamed of visiting one day: from the canals of Venice, to the red

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 23, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Vending Machines at MIT Because it needed to be done.

  

  naturally, I set out for the nearest and most convenient source of soda ... any of the vending machines at MIT were, so we wound up walking up the ... found another cluster. I ended up getting coffee instead of soda and also

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  It’s the start of my third year here, and once again I am smiling at ... ? Well, it’s the start of a new half of college. This year, I was asked ... like one or more of my professors, but too many lucky stars need to align

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  deconstruction end-of-semester atmospheres

  

  at the clover food truck on the way. i saw lots of real people, shopping and eating lunch. i saw the verizon employees on strike in front of the verizon store, and i saw a farmer's market, and lots of tourists

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  Lydia here: some of my favorite things I’ve learned at MIT, from my ... math but which are, indeed, math. In particular, math includes many of the things we find beautiful—our very perception of beauty, actually

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016