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  lin-manuel miranda scares me my final paper for an MIT class about musicals!

  

  school obsession, I felt contractually obligated to write about a song from ... the 6th grade, and aside from the song “My Shot” (which I find a bit ... from a single moment of weakness, Hamilton’s infidelity is only the next

  • by Allison E. '27
  • May 24, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary an image a day keeps the psets away

  

  helpful notes from a 6.034 recitation. It wasn't my recitation, but I ... from buying my big rug for my pants, wore a plastic bag as a shirt, a ... 's accessories. 11/2/21 Leaving Macgregor from working on a pset with the earlier

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  spent a lot of my time going from place to place to place, but we were ... of people that have a hard time transitioning from pass no record to ... Personally, I have always considered myself a pretty social person. I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  Competition, which was my only IAP course, aside from a Broomball class I ... received energetic announcements from multiple sources about a new Media Lab ... sunshine streaming through the frosted window - I was greeted with a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  I blogged, I was on a train from Darmstadt to Salem; since then, I ... yesterday that I took a train from Berlin to Frankfurt - for what is ... 'Germany 2010' album on my computer currently contains 1,563 photos - and a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  at are gone (RIP Shinkansen, Steam Cafe, Cafe 4…are food trucks still a ... got a modern makeover; there are multiple brand new buildings changing ... there are just a whole lot of stories to reminisce about and tell over and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Halls are Alive with the sound of mischief :)

  

  favorites from the past year: Impromptu Concerts There’s a piano sitting in ... -100 piano![/caption] Juggling in Lobby 10 Many a night I’ve returned from a ... less aesthetically appealing–I think MIT has a vendetta against ceilings

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back-to-school special i'm a senior now :o

  

  adjust to being a bit further from classes and food places than i'm used to ... feels like it's been so much longer! it's been a busy but not overwhelming two weeks. i have felt much more at peace over the past few months (a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday (in Snaps) and my longest Snapchat story ever

  

  practice, a friend from Technique, the yearbook, photography, and design club ... that I took from a camera checked out from Technique, the yearbook ... (Take a look at “My Monday” by Yuliya K. '18 for her day in the life

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime Happenings A summer of research and relaxation in Boston

  

  Finals ended over a month ago, so quite frankly, I have no excuse for my disappearance from the blogosphere. I’ve been meaning to post a compilation of end of the year reflections from my lovely friends and amigos

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  : everyone should travel* at least once a month (from here on abbreviated as ... (Looking for a CPW Post? Read Rachel's! Looking for retreat ... toiletries we collect from hotels. *think further than Walgreens This year, I

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  of third grade, when after a few minutes of reading from a picture book ... classroom had a preliminary spelling test. The first biochemistry recitation had a suspiciously young, suspiciously energetic recitation instructor

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ye Olde Career Fair An MIT tradition...and a great opportunity for a discussion on leadership!

  

  from Day One I next talked to a representative of a small programming ... representative I talked to was from a huge company with more than 100,000 employees ... When I was first applying for the GEL program, I heard a lot of

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunday in the Park With chemistry

  

  and cross the Harvard Bridge without getting knocked over by a militant ... down a ramp that winds straight into the lushest pad of greenery ever seen outside of a salad that contains neither fruit, nor croutons, nor

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2008 MIT will even help you find a date

  

  spirit of full disclosure, my roommate did buy a t-shirt from the Coop that ... ’t fantastic, but this was the view from a previous visit: Alas, I am happy to ... much. Prom is a nice excuse to dress-up, see what your friends look like

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  . Here's a shot of some of us at the brunch (I'm third from the left): Our ... out about the MIT sororities before going to CPW, so this was a perfect ... fraternities are right across the river, accessible by a short walk or a ride on

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Cristen Chinea Cristen Chinea '10, for whom MIT might mean "meteorologist in training."

  

  see a tear. "I call her my miracle child," she says. From a young age ... 'Miracle Child' of Public Drinker Earns a Full Scholarship to MIT ... of drunk, but drunk enough. Belinda started the day with a bottle of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  respite from a very busy IAP (which I'll hopefully get to blogging about ... , I decided to answer a bunch of questions from the blogger bot that ... :15!) Type up/embed/describe a short scene from a favorite book or movie and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  everything i think i’m not (rush, part 2) and what it would take for me to be it

  

  from the entrance and walking by each table, pausing for a moment if it ... sit in our friend’s room for a few minutes and get away from the intense ... to see a message from a brother of one of the frats—Nathaniel, who I

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • November 25, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  things i’m thinking about a brief series of incomplete thoughts

  

  , a New Years blog, a blog from the beginning of junior fall where I complained about everyone being way too scared of junior fall, a blog from the ... how to write to y'all. I think it stemmed from some internal rubric

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 7, 2026