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• 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 / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  that I was "so, so tired," even though classes had just started. And then ... harder, driven by a lack of breaks and the persistence of pandemic ... . MIT was going “back to normal,” and I would too. This semester is worse

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• 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 / 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
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  holidays in boston a photodump for you to procrastinate with

  

  holiday season, and I'm coming in hot, live from my bed watching Frozen ... the exam :("]8.01 final tomorrow.[/annotation] And despite the genuine ... at least a little holiday joy and optimism (whether or not you

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 16, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  simfinite hopscotch! hippity hoppity blue tape grandiosity

  

  other friends, and I descended to begin the odyssey. We started brewing up strategies, designating some people to squares, and others to numbers. I was on number duty, and as it turns out, counting upwards is pretty damn hard

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  to be hitting this week. Last night my friends and I wandered from B1 ... of fake blood and medicine bottles on string lights. I chatted with a ... basement. I went to get water and two people were switching shirts in front

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  GUYS IT SNOWED!! yayayayyaayy

  

  for the last month or so, and every once and a while a [four days from ... spark of hope!! Then, I’d check the weather again an hour later, and it’d be gone. And I would be sad. Rinse, repeat. About a week ago, that “30

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  SIMMONS GOT A TRAMPOLINE!!! it's awesome, possum!

  

  " align="aligncenter" width="672"] Trampoline!!!! and also the ping pong ... , and 2 days ago they were finally unpacked. Inside was a TRAMPOLINE!!1 ... in Indiana that we got from our neighbors and I adored it so…until it

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  After two long years, it’s time. It’s dark and raining slightly, the only light on the Harvard Bridge coming from the streetlights and the ... than usual. I am holding pallets of bright green, yellow, and purple

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  just do it don’t say you’re gonna do it!

  

  and many days ago, I shuffled into [annotation note="Don’t ask me what this stands for because I don’t remember and it’s kind of silly. It’s a ... as a noun and a verb (CNC: to cut out a part on the CNC mill

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 23, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Black Panther 2 Plot (Totally Real) (Not Clickbait) (Please Click Anyway Though) Not a fanfiction about Black Panther (because I am not a fan)

  

  Black Panther 2 comes out this Friday, and everyone and their dog ... , no, I am not one of those people. Not just because I’m busy and ... clips and hearing rumours from my friends). In particular: Simmons (my

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  feeling was that I was not good enough, and, at a school where I already ... [/annotation] and didn't get it. I auditioned for a solo in one of the Asymptones songs, and ended up being assigned the lower harmony part. At the time, I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  strengths in conversations are listening and asking questions, but when people ... theorizing will be wildly inaccurate and the only way to really understand your ... comment a lot, and i think i’ve definitely been guilty of excessive

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  a season of secondhand joy on mudita and vicarious delight

  

  groups, and this time of the semester is when they all give their ... shows this semester, and it's so nice to just sit down next to friends and ... each other—there's no expectation to—but you're friends, and so you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  at East Campus"]slightly dangerous ride[/annotation] and things are flying past at a breakneck speed. I’m trying to grab onto moments and ... in me. I look back at who I was a month ago and it takes me some time

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  seattle ➞ mit an epilogue in bullet points and pictures

  

  and a curse. i was spending most weeknights by myself in a tired haze ... more fun, and there would have been more things to do."]i thought a lot ... ="ideally a city, and seattle is quite nice -- i'm concerned about when it's not

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 8, 2019