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• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Designing the 2025 East Campus Rollercoaster by Zack I. ‘27

  

  -scale wooden build project to attract freshmen during orientation week. In the ... undergo a stringent design and approval process culminating in a review by a ... construction in August of 2025, I was the designer and project lead for the 2025

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 18, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  cash out at the end of the game in exchange for money–$10,000, $20,000, even $50,000, equivalent to the payday salary of a “computer designer” in ... possible arson in Burton-Conner after a 4:00 am fire alarm? Probably at least

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cubes, Tetrahedrons, and Wind Chimes Silly lil musical instruments for a silly lil guy (me)

  

  the music. Rockin' in the Wind Do you ever hear wind chimes gently jingling in a calm breeze and wish they’d sound more like plates breaking or a metal pipe hitting the ground? Rockin’ in the Wind is a set of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / CPW

  an orange tour 🍊🍊🍊

  

  me. Isolated color is a fun lens in which to view the world. I hope you find some joy in it, too. P.S. For context, I didn't film this livestream

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • April 29, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  cleats on feet, smile on face thoughts on injuries and spring season

  

  and practice for the first time in eight and a half months? You guessed it: I did! Since my injury in preseason this past fall, where a collision in our scrimmage against Harvard left me with a broken bone and a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  paint with five other girls in my sorority. Further down the bridge is a ... ’s rewind 65 years ago to when it all began.  POV: it's 1958 In the fall of ... the shortest pledge in the class — none other than [annotation note

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

  life, with the brass rat we're halfway there????????????

  

  event is somehow both underwhelming and overwhelming. Underwhelming, in ... , in that everyone is there. There are few moments in the MIT journey ... waits on one person before taking their photo but that one person is in

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 26, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2023 i3 videos megapost

  

  and culture of their residence halls. In the ’90s and early ’00s, these ...  (alongside tours!). I’ve embedded all the 2023 i3 videos below in case you would

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  A credit card is something I, in theory, knew I needed eventually ... landlords care about. I knew all this, in theory. I've known for a few months ... shoes that have growing holes in them. Or health insurance, or taxes, or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  DRAW TIM (the beaver) behold the artistic talents of MIT staff

  

  saved in my phone with various truth and lie options, because I've been ... warm-ups can be helpful in certain situations, and that facilitators of ... -sharing because I'm the only person who knows everyone in the room. So my strategy

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 5, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  because of the academic environment i was raised in - other people doing ... of events are often blessings in disguise. friends joining new groups ... demons. in that moment i realized that i wanted nothing more than for my

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  what your favorite study spot says about you badly stereotyping places to work on campus

  

  and comfort, even if you're lowkey still in your TikTok fake vine phase ... ideals, and are likely in the [annotation note="undergraduate association ... 're in your head a lot. you make decisions only after considering all the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  writing gary wang’s wikipedia page why did I fill out the wikipedia page for the ftx cto?

  

  , and what blind spots might be embedded in my studies as a math and ... and I might write more about them in a later post. If I were being ... of kinship: yes, Wang is the most common surname in the world, but it

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I Should’ve Been Working When I Drew These ✨but i wasn't✨

  

  What the title says. [caption id="attachment_77399" align="aligncenter" width="356"] in my notes for 18.01a (single-variable calculus), specifically about the normal distribution[/caption] [caption id

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  people had to do all of those things for you you know how in ‘avatar ... instrumental in designing and building and maintaining almost every aspect of our civilization you expect me to just work a chill tech/quant job and relax in my

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  Back in my first semester, I wrote a lot. I had spare hours each day ... in journals. I'm approximately four weeks into my second semester, and ... , likely still in my clothes from the day. I'm also around people more often

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  actual conversations i definitely had last night happy new year i guess

  

  myself from saying that because i'm normal, haha A: in a sense aren't we ... "we're all trying to act normal" isn't weird A: we're driving in mario kart A: like we're driving along in life A: at any moment we can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  an “uncommon piece of advice that I had heard or given”. And in that ... to get into MIT”; I could tell you the things that I did in high school ... only makes this even harder: in a face-to-face conversation, I can ask

  • by Phi A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  “It’s all right. It’s just a small pebble in your path. Just a tiny pebble. The place you want to be is farther than this, right? That’s why it ... be a difficult time for you, but we ask that you converse in the

  • by Decisions
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  “Going up in flames” “Trial by fire” “Burning out” “Burn it all ... considered using a fire idiom in the title of this post, but decided to go with ... a lab in CSAIL. I could say a million great things about my mentors

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021