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  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  , when I expected the retreat would still be going on. But a short email exchange later, I realized we actually would be back in time. I’ll fill out ... , October 14th at our Heads of House’s cabin in Concord, MA. As we drove, I

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP of Coding time to catch up

  

  ,000 views in four days. It's funny, I had thought that to garner views, my ... where I photoshopped things in creative ways, i.e. "My Two Cents". However ... when semester classes aren't in session, and I agree. IAP is a much more

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 5, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  I’m sitting in the quiet car of a Northeast Regional Amtrak train, writing a blog post for the first time in almost four years. Since I started MIT in the fall of 2015, I’ve taken the trip from New York to Boston

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  The train in Spain is ungainly, take a plane I'm an MITblogger, get me out of here!

  

  work with Amtrak and studies in Course 11, I think I have a job for you ... 'm glad that we ended up going. It's unlike anywhere else I've seen in my ... would be if you came to MIT! This stands in stark contrast to ten years

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  50 Years of NASA One small hack for MIT, one giant leap for NASA.

  

  people in MIT's legendary Course 16 program (Aero/Astro Department) would ... talking about in the morning, and I managed to catch a glimpse of it on my way to a 7.03 (genetics) exam in the morning. After the exam, I headed

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 2, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  , and planned that it would take about a third of the hours it did, so I ... pattern, one I still haven’t figured out a response to. In machine shops, I ... waist, her hair flying in the wind while he turns the gas. I looked, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  like a moment in time, sips away like a bottle of wine. Here I am ... in diary pages and used calendars. Another year until I acquired the ... potential classes because I’m considering double-majoring in computer science

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  is the picture i have in mind: i was so preoccupied during undergrad ... set in stone as i imagined: i’ve already switched jobs and roles, signed ... brutal. i was reeling from moving to a new city and living in a house with

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  .  From the letters I would write for my grandparents overseas in elementary ... 's something that I've simply convinced myself to be true, but MIT in fact does ... how I think. How I make sense of the things that are happening in my

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  in volcanoes, and I wondered, again, how grad school would suit me ... , and/or see people. I love the cafe in the morning. Classical music ... yet unwritten, the ending not set in stone. I left with two characters

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Time-sensitive matters

  

  's programs in those areas and would MIT not be the right place for me if I ... to answer in time, but i'm STILL struggling to decide between Yale and MIT. I love science but I'm also very interested in International

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  the five stages of grief: i. denial in which I wake up, horrified ... a notoriously difficult exam in a fraction of the time ii. anger I ... excelling at math. I'm mad at MIT: I'm taking 102 units in an attempt to start

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  ways of saying goodbye joint post with CJ '23!

  

  yourself. TT: I would feel the same way if I was in your situation. TT: Which ... . from everything goes on: But if I was gone tomorrow, would the waves ... 's laughing in the background So this is how it ends I promise to never go

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  you that you feel get you closer to your goal in life? So I guess what ... expressed some interest in it when I was about ten, and after that my family ... school, I would have been less likely to figure this out - I would have

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are No Uninteresting Things I'm taking classes. If you ask nicely, I might tell you about them.

  

  I would have a problem if Snively managed to get more posts up than me ... that I don't have to think about in the circuits that I design. 6.034 - Artificial Intelligence: Mostly what it sounds like. I'm more interested in

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  , I would provide shelter or food for them, resulting in a symbiotic ... figure out how I would constrain the balloon. I tried thin strips of duct ... so she keeps live worms in her room. I really wanted to see them burrow

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  because I’m wearing all black in the Florida sun). Right now, all I have for ... , chaotic joy.  But I think there might be something to pick apart in those ... graph, I guess I can explain some things about my semester in a way that

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

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  math major at a tech school in the ‘80’s. When was the hardest that I worked? I told myself, in freshman spring, that I would never take 4 ... telling myself, ‘no way in hell this will work.’  I know all my little

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  and i try to find my place

  

  and I told him that for once in my time at MIT, I want to be good at something, to have my niche. I've been struggling a lot in finding my place ... in the mirror and I see my accomplishments. I think of how far I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And Then There Was One Juan Salvador Acosta has broken the pact and succumbed to the mighty razor.

  

  Folks, it is a sad, sad day in the MIT Admissions Office. Juan ... the only remaining wookie. I must go now and weep gently. May my beard catch the tears that would otherwise run with the ink of your applications

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 31, 2005