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• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  days in [annotation note="Independent Activities Period"]IAP[/annotation], Bad Ideas Weekend takes hold in MIT like glitter: it’s everywhere, if you look hard enough, and it catches the light, even in the dark

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  sticker stories adorned on my water bottles

  

  still in the luggage area, submitted item retrieval paperwork to the ... did manage to find the bottle in the corners of old photos! Pardon the ... cover other things, like fridges or laptops, but I like them all in one

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint liveblog] finding the BALANCE with 2.009 watching the 2.009 annual showcase (with Kayode D. '27)

  

  audience POV. In some lucky turn of events, Kayode D. '27 and I managed to ... up on my typical habits of putting in way too many photos, but in the ... , then the photos we take are in a format that can't be uploaded easily

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  My highest achievement at MIT.

  

  Edit: Okay, it wasn't split as neatly as that scene in Brave, but that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  realize that at least for me, I won’t know what I am interested in for at least a few years after college graduation. And that’s okay. In fact, I ... like though! At MIT, I have explored areas that I never have before in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  : stove-cook your oatmeal and never look back. If you want to talk to us in

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  GUYS IT SNOWED!! yayayayyaayy

  

  now: 30% chance of <0.05 in. of snow for 20 minutes] has popped up. A ... % chance of <0.05 in. of snow” popped up a couple times for yesterday (Wednesday, 12/6), but in the last fiveish days leading up to Wednesday it

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

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  'd do it again. in my preparation for this class, i read one of the problems in the first chapter, and i thought to myself "i can't solve that ... is in your problem set, that topic you tried to independent study but

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  flowers of fire and light making art with printed circuit boards!

  

  oblong "petals" are created by spinning the poi head in the opposite ... "antispin." In other words, if your arm is moving clockwise, your wrist would ... to lay out all of the components in a schematic. My main components

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 16, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  . The other day, I called Allen, one of the underclassmen in my wing, and ... videogames. I sometimes play my friend Satya in Smash, and I don’t think I ... , and I’ll probably try to continue playing chess once in a while, too

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gala a premiere event celebrating fashion, arts, and culture

  

  creation, discussion, and appreciation of fashion. Since its launch in 2018 ... out here, range from explorations of South Asian identity to studies in ... looks come to life in the runway show, and additional designers had the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  . I became interested in songwriting after listening to Olivia Rodrigo ... distance between souls in crisply-produced three-minute bundles. [caption id ... among dark churning waves. In tenth grade, I entered a writing contest

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  's been a decade, and only brief snippets of that MIT still remain in my ... honestly, does the distinction even matter? When I was in my late teens, people would ask, Rona, why did you choose MIT if you're interested in the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  history book in the form of blogposts). And when I first started out ... insane degree. Coffee was a part of my identity in,,, perhaps an almost ... I haven't! Yay! Insert digression here:   When I was in my

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Untitled Pigeon Post 🐦💕

  

  tried holding out, but I was young and wanted to fit in, so peer pressure eventually made me cave in. “Okay, fine! … but just one page.” I closed my ... [annotation note="Not to mention all the in-between cookies-and-cream patterns

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  Two summers ago, I visited my friend Shruti ‘24 in their home state ... "]We[/annotation] drove up to Paterson Falls, a waterfall in the middle of the industrial ... you in Europe?!” I rode the high of my “European” adventure for a few

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  me now than they did while they were in school i have a bad habit ... removes uncertainty, and in doing so shrinks the realm of possibility for ... was “you have some of the best ai infrastructure in the world and could

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  If your decision was deferred, then we will reconsider your application anew and without prejudice in Regular Action. Many MIT students were initially deferred; you can read some of their experiences here, here, and

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  and never look back. If you want to talk to us in the comments below, we

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  whiplash feelings from yesterday

  

  somehow always manage to feel burnt out at this point in the semester ... more about this school than you did in any previous year, that after ... have a positive impression of) everyone in the room 7pm: you get free

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 30, 2022