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  I designed a marching band drill for MIT and I didn't even need experience

  

  me to choreograph a piece for MIT. The app is surprisingly easy to use ... makes sense, and the tutorial was easy to follow. My drill involved ... every MIT sporting event. To anyone in MIT's music department: If you

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 15, 2026
• Blog / Uncategorized

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

  

  how to write to y'all. I think it stemmed from some internal rubric forcing me to complete my thoughts, to fully flesh out and consider every ... I never finished writing this past semester: a sequel to my tarot blog

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 7, 2026
• Blog / Classes

  Cells, Cells, and more Cells you've met me at a very course 20 time in my life

  

  to hopefully catch these blogs up to my current life, but instead of ... ="Biology"]Course 7[/annotation] classes to get my pre-reqs completed, so I didn't take ... surprised that I like this class! The content is much more intuitive to me

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 3, 2025
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  one hour of musings we're so back

  

  a funny little thing. As the days go on, it becomes harder to return. Subsequently, in effort to break that spell, I've set a one hour timer to write ... thought it best to process those in private, in the pages of my paper

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 10, 2025
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we ... on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist, or you want to learn more about it, you can read more here. Waiting

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  corridor” has taken on new meanings for me. at mit it refers to a long ... with picking the best possible version of myself to become - deciding on where to live and who to spend time with and career choices and so on. i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  ]\LaTeX[/latex]. And they’re all Paolo’s! That changes today. MIT exposes us to so many ... bloggers to write posts about these concepts this month. To kick off this ... everywhere, from algorithms to superconducting circuits. What is duality? As a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  take care of the boy from story who was put in water as a baby i am back to talk about moving the body again

  

  two years ago i wrote about how to walk in the best way. but i forgot to think about something important: the type and form of the foot. now i have lived longer, so i know more about the best way to walk, and i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  For the next two weeks we will all use fewer words here

  

  students who went to this school in the past and used to write for us, could ... different. From 1/15 to 1/31, the people who write here may write only using ... with this picture that he made to teach about  goer five using only these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 15, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  It seems to me that we swath an imaginary future world in pretty ... current world is not good enough, and we need to strive for change, and we ... to the linearity of time, hence this preoccupation with the future: the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  parkinson's law asserts that work expands to fill the time allotted to it, like a gas does. so i'm telling myself that i need to get this ... requirement of being on an f1 visa. in theory, i should have less work to do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  -edited compilation of notes from my cross-country train trip from Boston to San ... listening to: two people, one white, one Black, discussing race relations ... running two hours behind, although if the Amtrak schedule is to be believed

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] GetSimmons! Writing is hard, so here's a video game instead

  

  Combine other dorms to reach the almighty Simmons Hall ... How to play: Use your arrow keys to move the tiles. When two tiles with ... is not intended to be a ranking (boo), but is instead based on how many

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  amongst the stars a comic

  

  in NYC.  In an attempt to get back part of my soul after what ... , inspired me to draw the comic above. There are a lot of nebulous feelings I'm trying to define and process right now, but I don't feel like airing that

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  In the near future, MIT Admissions will release the EA decisions. To kickoff the season, I thought I'd share a little bit about my acceptance to ... th, 2020 Last year, on Saturday, December 19, 2:14 PM CST, I drove to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 6, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Senior Week On The Blogs!!! oh no, we’re all so old

  

  all has been a true honor. But alas, all good things must come to an end ... week that we will not be getting this year, we present to you the very first Senior Week On The Blogs!!!! It is often when things come to an end

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  whiteout conditions forget your mission, just get out alive

  

  vague desire to go to classes and do work. but i don't actually want to. i wake up and i'm already tired. i no longer know if i want to go to my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now

  

  resolutions for this semester is to blog more so I figure it’s as good an occasion as any to get something out into the world. As I started writing ... delivery I ordered to arrive. The sun was out today, fully, in a way it hasn

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult

  

  'm finally here to enjoy all of the great things it has to offer! For all of ... nearest Trader Joe's to campus is a quick six minute ride on the MIT Shuttle ... quarantine semester. We started a pod tradition of going to Trader Joe's every

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 30, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  My Favorite (Kitchen) Things cue julie andrews singing

  

  , i only knew how to make scrambled eggs and boil pasta"]how to cook for ... drawback that now there is nothing more appealing to me than the kitchenware ... kitchen stuff. Some of them have been gifted to me, others I purchased, and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 7, 2021