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• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  friends failing to skate, falling, and laughing about it. After a good 10 ... -obsessive amount of time to look through the course catalog and major requirements ... possible class schedules for colleges I didn't even apply to. Something about

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  possible. (image from Pinterest) I don’t remember when I failed to enjoy my ... fear of high places. I talked to my roommate until early morning, though ... dorms to explore, a hundred activities to pursue, a thousand friends to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  ? But apparently a website that failed to inspire respect for an ... ever want to know the surface area of a golf ball with radius 3cm covered ... have abruptly shed their quiet greens to give way to an explosion of reds

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  How to Build an LED Acrylic Sign Your Complete Beginners Guide

  

  initial plan was to cut a thinner version of the letters from a sheet of ... an idea to bringing it to life are things I don't think I can ever get ... we could do to change up the Chocolate City lounge space, I absolutely

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Eating my words at Area Four Mushroom and fontina pizza my beloved

  

  . During the dinner, Petey also mentioned (in response to my initial distaste ... wood-fired pizza made from a 10-year-old sourdough starter, A4 is the go-to ... [/annotation] even when you fold it in half. To appreciate just how cursed this

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  , and I still haven't found a novel way to detail my first three and half ... the superiority or inferiority of crunchy peanut butter compared to creamy. Initial arguments centered around texture or lack thereof (looking

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  our experience doesn't seem to be as common, and this is technically our last undergraduate summer, we wanted to outline what we’ve done in each ... anticipated feeling burnt out, and really wanted to give ourselves a break. Plus

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  longest hiatus I've taken from MIT blogging, but I really don't want to fail ... Back during my senior year of high school in 2007, I went to CPW ... wanted to live in, that dorm being Burton-Conner. Burton-Conner has 9

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  workers, and her unsympathetic teachers) range from trying and failing to ... capital Y capital A, but I'm really enjoying it. The characters fail to ... class became more important and I found some fun extracurriculars to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  in my friend's car to head back to the West Coast. We stayed in small-town hotels, accidentally drove through Canada, listened to a lot of [annotation ... prior, so I have a very distinct memory of us trying to find and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  .   Wherever our path takes us, we may take the initial steps to ... ). It was a remarkable speech that really brought everyone to their ... and specificity than almost anyone I've heard. So I wanted to share it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  Full disclosure: Regarding the tagline: I have no idea how to write an ode. To be totally honest, I'm not even really sure what an ode is. I googled "how to write an ode" but then got distracted by one of my

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  students are assigned to lead activities during the Engineering Leadership ... "Initiative and Resourcefulness" and DC means "Diverse Connections ... 's all about feedback. Feedback and self-assessment are effective ways to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  separate according to density and the initial degree of intermixing**. Voila ... insanity native to jungles clotted around the siren shores of Winter Break ... .” Mystery resolved, the fruitcake was donated to Random Hall and East Campus

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  -messy-maze that is applying to college), it was that we didn’t give into our initial ... up to only a small sample of MIT experiences, painted a beautifully ... after they happened to try to remember if we said everything we wanted to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week in the Life Hello, Google Calendar.

  

  Climbing that I failed to wake up for. I ended up going to see a talk by the ...   Hi. Meet my Google Calendar, the metronome to which my life ... semester, and I'm going to explain my classes and how I spent my first week

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  every aspect of my experiment was failing me. It was here that I came to ... in Physics research that fail to do either of these things still prove ... rewarding classes that the Physics department has to offer at MIT. Given the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  just one more gnome game it will fix me

  

  friends to gnome game. My protege Joy is something of a prodigy, achieving ... online that go into the 10k region. Also, once my roommate managed to get a ... THE BALL AND THE GROUND IS YOUR HAND AND YOU WANT TO KEEP THE GNOME

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  surreal moments that have happened while I've been here. *** Cut to the ... shops and randomly decided to eat at a fancy restaurant (Brasserie Liberte ... , "Just books?" As much as I wanted to impulsively blurt something sarcastic

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  /disrupted], and my 11th grade teachers barely got to know me. I feel like my ... have known me for a few weeks]. Who should I ask to write letters on my ... of regular and advanced classes, but..." — but they all boil down to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021