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  Autumn Questions Omnibus Answers to questions asked in my blog's comments. And there have been a lot of…

  

  It's time for another Questions Omnibus, where I answer the questions that you've asked in the comments... Thanks, in part, to the transition to the new site, and my travels around the country for the office, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  As it gets colder and colder in Boston, things are heating up on the court and in the pool as MIT Winter sports continue to ramp up. Here are four student-athletes, from the Swimming, Diving, Squash, and Men

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  the musical we’re currently listening to, Ghost Quartet, starts, and it's also how most of our conversations for the past two weeks have started ... Quartet because it’s the musical we are currently obsessing over, not even

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcome our new bloggers! Huzzah!

  

  After much deliberation over the 66 applications we received this ... hometown, and has much to tell you about the virtues of serif fonts in this day and age. Boheng C. ‘28 from California, who has biked all the way

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  Well, are you rural? You might have heard about the STARS College ... from a rural or small town?". This is an iteration of one of the most ... admission process?" While I know the ideal answer to the question above is

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2024 Episode 7: The Apple Music Awakens

  

  Oh boy, it's finally here! Everyone's favorite time of the year that we've all been awaiting anxiously for so long... The fall final exam period at MIT! wait... that's not quite right... Uhh, the weekend before

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  objective: "Get to the top of this wall, in any way possible". This flavor of activity reminds me of the mental motions to solving a math or programming problem, where often formulating the challenge is the easy part, but getting

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 Pt.2 lecture videos go brr

  

  time here thus far. So far on the blogs, I have written about two of them: the MIT Monologues and a class I developed and taught: 18.S190. I plan to write about a few more of these projects over the summer, but I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  When I was applying to be a blogger in September, one of the first questions was about why I wanted to be a blogger in the first place. Amidst ... this statement can be true when i rarely blog in the first place... oops

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  first real snow!! wow so magical

  

  i woke up this morning and it was COLD. i checked the weather. lo ... [annotation note="grocery store in the student center"]laverde's[/annotation] to ... them and was immediately seized by the need to try them, even though i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  food consumed this week, mostly free or: how to get away with rarely cooking

  

  … You get the point. So now, I am conducting an anthropological study on ... the best. Beast (2E) has food on the free food table nearly every day of the week.   A few tips: always be prepared to consume free

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  hungrily gaze upon the little pieces on the screen as they hop from square to square, devouring and moving forward and moving back. I quietly trace the ... gets what, who ends up on top at the end of the day. I've been listening

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  , 2019. Google tells me the length of my hiatus: [annotation note="No."]Was the duration of my hiatus intentional?[/annotation] The world may never ... break the hiatus the next week. It just never happened. [annotation note

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Things That Made Me Happy (and Sick) It’s me and my infection’s TWO MONTH anniversary!! 🎉😍

  

  with the world differently than I used to. Things I used to enjoy kinda ... because I’m wearing all black in the Florida sun). Right now, all I have for you guys is the two months of illness and a phat bundle of electric

  • by Powers '23
  • January 4, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  what ROTC is unless you’re in it or you’re familiar with the military. I wanted to answer some of the questions I get the most, and provide specific information about the rewarding experience of being a cadet here at MIT.  So

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  way back when, i wrote about the mistake of a courseload that i took ... algorithms class and possibly the most important class of my major. RIP my GPA ... the adjectives that code in the real world is [annotation note

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  feelings. i spent the entirety of my saturday afternoon psetting for only ... great the first semester and did average around that second semester. so ... lot of the time my purpose in being at such a highly regarded

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  separate by terms, shall we? I'm officially retired from the sport of basketball, as of late March. Our season ended in the first round of the NCAA DIII Tournament, which is pretty cool because it's the second time ever

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  Birthday Dad! And also Happy Muslim Women’s Day! I’ve been toying with the idea of blogging about the Muslim community at MIT for a while now. To be honest, I didn’t quite know where to start. Do I talk about the Muslim

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done done done end-of-semester happiness

  

  the first time in recent memory, i don't feel burned out at the end of the semester! the final was for 14.64 (labor economics), a class i ... classes, i've ended up reducing the problems to mathematical manipulations

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 24, 2017