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  someday fate of friends

  

  some core part of myself they could still easily reach out and touch, unaltered by three years of transcontinental distance. It was my first time really hanging out with them in about three years: my family moved out of

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christmas in February Shiny new toys MIT gave me this semester

  

  Lab). It's about the size of four honeydew melons (or two watermelons ... – most of that did not come from inside the briefcase. But I indeed received all of this shiny new stuff in various classes today! ... okay, it

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 14, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Uncanny Valley im gonna make you shit your pants

  

  feel a little creepy. On a graph of human likeness to attraction ... diseased and dead while others think it implies the existence of a predator ... best a collection of observations. [caption id="attachment_96309" align

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  I first stepped onto MIT’s campus in the summer of my junior year, and it was my first impression of what college life could truly look like. I didn’t visit many colleges outside of my local area in high

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  opening plays memorized, but to be entirely clear, I’m not one of them. My ... tendency to just sort of... not follow the rules), and as a result I never actually picked it up. I didn’t even remember all of the names (much less the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  – I would’ve loved to have either of those things, but my semester just ... other thing.” Of course, this was not a real conversation with a person at MIT, but rather me filling out a particular section of the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 Halloween Costume Ideas for MIT Students but they're pretty bad

  

  different tech school Tired of spelling "Massachusetts"? This is just the ... 't Massachusetts. #2 – Alchemist Show some love for one of the most notable ... : (Whether it's a scream of joy or anguish is a different question.) #3 – The

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • October 15, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  Like many of you, I have been playing Wordle, a game where you try to ... been playing it religiously. I have at least 3 separate groups of people that I talk to Wordle about. Today’s [as of writing this] was

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  this blogger does not exist join me in the uncanny valley

  

  A reader of the blogs emailed CJ the following, which CJ then ... generate blogger avatars, just for the fun of it. also there are different ... up my alley in terms of what I do for my UROP, so I gave it a shot this

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 28, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  hand size. you can have more than seven cards but at the end of a turn ... 's fine. well, depending on what your view is of "much", this isn't true. i ... ended up double the length of my current longest post. so from the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  . Unlike the murals, their contents change with the scale of days instead of years, but they often follow a few well-trod paths: lists of classes that floor residents are thinking of taking in the next semester, polls about

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  feel all of my feelings until my body hurt too much to feel anything else ... motivated by the purest distillation of every other reason combined: I ran to ... outrun anything. I would be untouchable. I had a lot of friends raise

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  If you've read any of my other posts, you probably know how much I ... helping students transition in and out of the dorm and navigating student concern during the renewal process. Being a member of this team was

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  For those impacted by Hurricane Michael (and other disasters) clarifying our policies for applications affected by catastrophic events

  

  deprived thousands of  people of power and property across the American ... approaching, these catastrophes have left many of our prospective students in ... than their application to MIT. These kinds of events [annotation note

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 22, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Hall Rush: 1E So many packing peanuts

  

  /architecture). I live on the first floor of the east parallel of East Campus, which ... 40 bags of biodegradable (edible) packing peanuts and filled the lounge ... added. This means that they stick to the sweat that was seeping out of

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • September 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  This past semester has been different than any of our other semesters at MIT (and even any of our years in K-12), in that we only took ONE ... same classes (often the timing of our schedules were different, but our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fig. 3: La dolce vita snaps from an extended spring break

  

  Amsterdam, to an even colder city up north. I guess I'll count that as part of ... incredible time seeing an entire array of landscapes and cityscapes that I had only dreamed of visiting one day: from the canals of Venice, to the red

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 23, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Vending Machines at MIT Because it needed to be done.

  

  naturally, I set out for the nearest and most convenient source of soda ... any of the vending machines at MIT were, so we wound up walking up the ... found another cluster. I ended up getting coffee instead of soda and also

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  It’s the start of my third year here, and once again I am smiling at ... ? Well, it’s the start of a new half of college. This year, I was asked ... like one or more of my professors, but too many lucky stars need to align

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  deconstruction end-of-semester atmospheres

  

  at the clover food truck on the way. i saw lots of real people, shopping and eating lunch. i saw the verizon employees on strike in front of the verizon store, and i saw a farmer's market, and lots of tourists

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 17, 2016