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• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  Not only the blogs' birthday—in trying to decide what to write, I discovered one of my old draft blog posts turned 10. Ten years ago, almost to the day, I was trying to figure out how to tell folks on here what the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  transcript. hence, don't try to get a 100"]A, B, or C[/annotation]) or No ... would be a D or F). There are a few existing camps of advice on how to abuse your PNR experience: Go AWOL all semester and then just try to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  state that I have been reduced to[/caption] For people who aren't caught ... . I lied to someone's parents It was[annotation note="Parents come to ... brain is too sleepy to think, but too awake to fall asleep. [-100 aura

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  “The muscles of my soul, longing for the opportunity to feel and fear ... line roughly a month before move-in, in an effort to capture just what it ... - bored. I craved excitement, wanted my life to take the shape of any proper

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  There were many incredible applicants to the MIT Class of 2028, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. The comments on this post are an open forum for those of you who want to talk with us

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  in a “draft” blog post when I applied to be a blogger. That draft never ... fun models, from the traditional orizuru (paper crane) to Christmas ornaments. I was amazed by how the satisfyingly geometric creases gave rise to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Somatic My spread for MIT's Infinite Magazine Issue XI

  

  different way, I feel like I have time to write about it. I've been a part of Infinite since I came to MIT, and I highly recommend it. There's a role for ... was Rebirth. At first, I had no idea what I wanted to do with that. But

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 17, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  memorial for a dorm goodbye east campus (for now)

  

  need to have some sort of memorial service to commemorate the death of ... years that this room has lived i've only been here to bear witness a ... , but i do know enough to have gotten to know you i've done enough in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 6, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  ways of saying goodbye joint post with CJ '23!

  

  of our favorite media. goodbye mit :’) for a fun challenge, try to ... And I still think back to that summer And I hate that I still remember ... 's laughing in the background So this is how it ends I promise to never go

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  There were many wonderful applicants to MIT this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an open forum for you to talk

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  constantly doing is that it’s often hard to put aside time for small things ... feels very tempting to put off tasks like these which require creativity ... to say, I’d like to write more now that I’m transitioning from college

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  college recently, and i realized that all of them seem less interesting to ... where i’m attracted to uncertainty. blog ideas and unfinished drafts ... ’m working on a half-finished project i tend to assume a positive outcome for

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

  involves many a prank and snark. During their stays, each resident is to ... to find a souvenir store in the faraway lands of Putz, but I will send ...  one flight of stairs ok maybe that's a lie, i used to live on stickmen (which is

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  computer science). So why am I taking (and planning to take) so many course ... taking the chemistry GIR? To answer that question, let me tell you the ... be to invest all my energy into understanding the “artificial

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  note="in fact, I started this blog to avoid reading it! but it has now ... ’t start out this week expecting to be in this position, but here we are anyways. On Monday, I printed out everything I had to read, which also means

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  , texting people if they want to get lunch or go grocery shopping once they ... enough. four years is a lot of time to change a person; reading my entries ... confusion of being 16 years old, bemoaning perceived injustices to me

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  there are many reasons for this: i don’t text as much as i used to, i have no classes on tuesdays and thursdays, i’m trying to make progress on 2 research projects so i have no choice but to work a lot, and so on. but i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  Last week I saw someone screencap my blog post and post it on /r/ApplyingToCollege. I'm flattered for something I've written to get 211 upvotes, and I'm sad that I can't keep the karma for my main. I'd have loved to comment

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  pebble. The place you want to be is farther than this, right? That’s why it ... Kentaro Miura) There were many wonderful applicants to MIT this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  months on campus before getting kicked off due to the pandemic. now i ... 't have enough experiences to warrant me being a junior. why am i perceived ... not used to being "older" and "wiser." i took classes with people two or

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021