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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  Over this past summer, I spent a lot of time filling out all of those ... question, as if I’d never snapped out of the trance of college apps, and one of the most common ones I noticed was “what are your hobbies?” But

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fall Adventures a day in rhode island, maine, and boston

  

  baking cozy desserts, love comfy sweaters, and generally love all of the ... during late September, I made it a goal to make the most of autumn ... exploring Boston more than I did the first few weeks of school

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing MIT Illuminations at the Welcome Center

  

  included a list of creative touches we had added to the space to make it feel ... ) Today is the day of that loud blog, because last week we officially ... Illuminations in MIT News where I am quoted telling some of the story of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Video games I’ve played this semester trimps, mother 3, hades, and vampire survivors

  

  Slay the Spire Bundle for Palestinian Aid I'm the kind of person who ... hours. Sometimes I play new games too. I have a huge backlog of games ... to battle. You colonize more and more of the unfamiliar planet you find

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  actual lottery keeps getting delayed, but the actual process of ranking dorms was an experience in and of itself. In trying to figure out who [annotation note="we were allowed to staple with a group of up to eight people

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  I wasn't actually planning on writing a start of semester post this ... I've consistently done this type of post for [annotation note ... moment, like a lot of the shit Trump is constantly trying to pull, whether

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest post] Eating Your Way Through MIT The story behind Chop Stir Hack, an MIT student food magazine

  

  of MindHandHeart-funded initiative to make an MIT student cookbook to ... below, Elizabeth '13 and I were modestly involved at the beginning of that ... proof of concept. I am so impressed by where the CSH team has taken this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  Final Project Demo Roll if only they were more helpful to the world at large

  

  For those of you who have been following my blog posts this semester ... vast majority of my classes, and created some pretty cool things, even though everything was online and the motivation loss was real. In light of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 1, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part four) senior trinkets

  

  This is the fourth and final installment of our sentimental objects ... usually include a picture of the ceramic mushroom itself in these posts. But ... time to do so before we left campus in what was the craziest week of our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  One of the first things I did when I got to MIT was join the campus ... ="aligncenter" width="313"] another perk is the incessant stream of emails from record ... version of history. My [annotation note="Though the station is now operating

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  next to normal on mental health

  

  content warning: extended discussion of suicidal thoughts.     i recently listened to the soundtrack of next to normal, this 2008 musical about a mother who struggles with bipolar disorder. one of the more

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 3, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  2.009 It's not a class, it's a way of life

  

  for mechanical engineering students (aka gotta take one of them to graduate). The premise of this class is to ideate, design, build, and present a brand new product by the end of the semester. 1 Unifying theme

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 28, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  A few weeks ago, when I blogged about the commencement of the Class of 2018, I made a note about the address given by Colin Webb, President of the Class of 2018 (and newly-elected member of the MIT Corporation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  questions about them feel free to ask in the comments! 3 Best Parts of living ... at the very least you can’t tell that thousands of ~20 year olds have lived here. 2) The proximity. All of my classes are just across Mass. Ave

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  before my senior year of high school, I went to meet with the IB ... strategy. I presented her with my list of colleges, mostly state schools with a few oddball private schools thrown in there. Nothing on the level of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  . And if you are like me, this makes you sad, because you were one of ... couch reading books for upwards of six hours a day sometimes. Figure 1: An informative diagram that I doodled Here’s a list of all the books I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft

  

  (for a visual summary of the trip, scroll down for pictures) “Let’s go on a trip. To Salem,” I asked my partner a week ahead of a long ... , I had to choose the latter. One perk of being a poor college student

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 7, 2016
• Blog / Events

  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  [esidence] EX[ploration Period] again (including the herculean task of scheduling ... few days ago I had a lot of fun chilling with a few of you at Giant ... of giant cards). Today while my code is running I am continuing to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015
• Blog / Events

  How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break I didn't go to Florida or Cancun, but I still had a lot of fun!

  

  Two weeks ago was our Spring Break at MIT, and the halls of Tetazoo ... seven people in it, one of which I knew prior to the program and five of ... alum from the class of '82, and she had a lot of really great input on

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  , the hostel bed is very cozy and has lots of wool blankets and a big ... Ecuador!) and gazing at Cotopaxi. t When I finally dragged myself out of ... with tomato, coffee, yoghurt and granola, a cup of all kinds of fresh

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014