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

  

  studying for swe interviews because of my explorations as a novice electrical ... . I became a Campus Ambassador for Monster Energy! I came out as trans ... priority for college is to learn how to embrace life.  Life is a series of

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

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  , blend, stir, and sample for two and a half hours until dinner was served ... for the year. Maita '10 cooked a trough of wonderful German potato ... mentioned it for about 1/4th of a sentence, but I like to prolong my fleeting

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee With a title like that, it has to be good!var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol)…

  

  asking for a cookie sheet or trying to figure out who dumped a bucket of ... , claiming you were invited via e-mail 3)Create a Society for Male Engineers ... one Reply All and you've got a recipe for disaster. On October 22nd

  • by Snively '11
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  DOMR My first crazy picture entry from Germany.

  

  've been in Germany for a little over a week now and I've already climbed 509 ... . Monday was a totally random holiday... luckily, MIT has prepared me for ... ice cream cone. Anyway, for a relatively low price, you can even get

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting…the 2008 Brass Rat!!! As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to describe the unveiling…

  

  ." * * * * * * * * There was a lot of anticipation for the design of the seal shank. Last ... brass plated in the MIT Lab for Metallurgy. Just kidding! ('ll be here all ... played a prank on us this year. Actually, the Brass Rat is one of the most

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  WMBR: College Radio at MIT will anyone watch the entire 36 minute video? probably not

  

  even made a playlist before, and my voice isn't really the best for ... [annotation note="a job that involves setting the schedule for each season and ... 's. A little bit more about the station: WMBR has been around for a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Burton-Conner long live BC

  

  ...[/caption] The good ol' MIT touch...   Cool Squirtle Conner 5 For a bit ... commencement. For an interesting bit of trivia, the floor had a space ... I'm a proud resident of Burton-Conner, a lovely dorm with nine floors

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  cryptography for security. A blockchain is stored on every node in the network ... integrate a blockchain database, I had to learn Solidity for Ethereum. It was ... York. It was a bust. My team left halfway through and I gave up trying to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  wrote my mom a poem for Mother's Day and I only made a phone call. She ... deleting this dud of a post because I had left it unpublished for a month ... would have no weight on you now. I know for a fact if I had read this a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questions and Answers Evan Broder is taking over my job.

  

  did a blog for them (I've been reading your blogs for quite a while) I ... So first off, props to Evan for answering all these questions in his ... mentioned that. Also, BC's policy is kind of a policy in name only. If the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I do what I do A few reasons I'm still on this planet.

  

  performing arts. I auditioned for (and made) two of MIT's excellent a capella ... that I liked my biology classes a lot, and made a class plan for a double ... . Biology I just have a hand-waving explanation for this one, because right

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Reading What’s in your beach bag?

  

  that I find left out for the taking on a table in lobby 10. Emperor of ... about you, but I love to be reading a few books at the same time ... This is a quick read and I read it one day after complaining on facebook

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  a little spout at the top for washing your hands when your business is ... MIT (except for eating noodles, but that would've required a lot more ... (I wrote this entry after spending three months working in Tokyo for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  day for almost a year now. (Freshman fall was a different, more virtuous ... , literally screaming for the bread.        - The day after Christmas, we saw a ... degrees Fahrenheit in Miami for a couple of days (yes, in Miami, water

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  German) first. The exhibit is in a completely dark room except for the ... except for one– glow in a certain sequence: the singular purple bulb ... for a while, even though, after a few cycles, I knew which phase of the

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  , for that matter) of Dorm Rush. As a result, they aren't quite sure what ... have to live in a dorm for a year, you might as well find one that you ... assigment. If you're a prospective student, allow me to explain. During the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  one hour of musings we're so back

  

  subsided, at least for a wee bit, and I'm excited to be back. — Is this ... I worked throughout the spring semester on a demo for homeowners and ... bolts. For three months, I was wheelchair-bound. It was a humbling

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 10, 2025
• Blog / CPW

  an orange tour 🍊🍊🍊

  

  Last year, I hosted a pre-CPW [annotation note="fyi this was streamed through a website on the Google Chrome app on my iPhone so pls forgive the ... agenda, I polled my dorm for orange recommendations—results here. Ever

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • April 29, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  amongst the stars a comic

  

  blogger, I suck at reading text novels for fun. The past two weeks have been ... a lot. As a cherry on top, I tested positive for covid this week ... 's honestly been a soulsucking semester so far, I went full-on retail therapy at

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  "]in-major classes,[/annotation] which was a big adjustment for me, and I moved entries ... , because for once, I don’t want a fresh start.[annotation note="but I ... twice a week, and I’ll go forth into my senior fall, feeling brand-new for

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020