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  lin-manuel miranda scares me my final paper for an MIT class about musicals!

  

  (allegedly) engaged in the blasphemous act of… Google Doc roleplaying… Anyways, I was never good enough at singing to actually do musical theater in ... well as stem? like, not just in the “yeah we’re a stem school but we care

  • by Allison E. '27
  • May 24, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14 Questions with a Course 14 Professor 📈📉 An interview with Jon Gruber!

  

  personally found the real-world analogies and anecdotes in lecture to be far ... . How did you become interested in Course 14? Do you have any words for ... in [annotation note='The "EECS" department, which currently straddles

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • May 6, 2026
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  , both in the sense that I haven't appeared on the admissions blogs for a while, and in the sense that I haven't really been engaging in self ... sparing a thought for all the woes which continue to sit in the back of my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  -Eritrean Students’ Association) to my room to discuss recent developments in Ethiopia ... operator’s voice in Spanish, an absurd, confusing moment. These events ... without the communication interruptions. In my room on a cloudy Saturday

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  ? Well, there has been a lot happening, although in some ways very, very ... post detailing how and why I went on leave from MIT, in honor of my three ... everything in in one go. But! Like the Great Pumpkin rising from the pumpkin

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  Covering my walls in postcards and various other pieces of paper is ... set on a really amazing day in September, at Strand, one of my favorite ... girl in [annotation note="sadly I do not know which region of Russia this

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  Previous me wrote in a blogpost that I "did not want to write about ... and recess, in the hall and during class. Then in high school I took ... habit hasn’t died, but really it was a decision; I came in determined that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  When I tell people that I spent January in Andorra, their first ... compile an FAQ. January in Andorra FAQ What's Andorra? Andorra is a tinnnnnyyy little country in Europe. It's about double the size of Boston by

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted

  

  YOU GOT IN!! Come celebrate with us in the comments and—more importantly—share this wonderful news with your community and loved ones! We’ve cooked up some special things for you (like CPW and the 2030s Discord

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2026
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Things change, but the friends remain

  

  Hello! A lot has changed, but the friends and the vlogs remain. Doing this in the only way I know how :) [embed]https://www ... picked up running. I guess that's what happens in your late 20s and 30s.

  • by Celena C. '12
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Admitted Early

  

  YOU! GOT! IN! Come hang out with us in the comments, you all star! And—more importantly—celebrate with your community and dear ones. We hope you feel like you’re on top of the world, and we’ll have some

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  I watched the sunrise this morning

  

    that doesn't mean I don't matter I'm no insignificant blip in the ... ; something in which the only constant is change because time marches forward

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 7, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  ; the exhaustion in the undergraduate community has been palpable since ... seemed worse than anything I had seen in a long time—I imagine the exodus ... that I cannot quite recall, and in any case, it didn't linger, not in the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  . Internships were cancelled, in-person opportunities can no longer happen, and ... this post by saying that I am extremely lucky to have an internship in ... internship offer in hand despite [annotation note="i even went to this weekly

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo is not a Hivemind Haha... just kidding... unless?

  

  I finish performing in my first MTG production (post about that coming ... scavenger hunt! What’s that, you may ask? Well, Tetazoo is a floor in East ... ’m inclined to participate in a three-hour challenge that the upperclassmen set

  • by Powers '23
  • November 24, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Poetry from 5 AM This Morning Don't worry, I drank an entire MUG of espresso

  

  home! All of this amazing and terrible chaos culminated in me sitting in ... all of last week's craziness, watching the sun rise with toast in one hand and a pen in the other made me feel human again. It probably hurt me

  • by Powers '23
  • September 30, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Applying While Transgender #InHonorOfMarshaP

  World Pride in New York City and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots – a momentous occasion in US history that many argue sparked ... the same time, we were sadly reminded that while some in our community

  • by DJ Rock
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  summer tidbits a picture and annotations

  

  the rest comes out of my paycheck. TT i'm going to anime expo in LA this weekend, then visiting MIT friends in SF next weekend. i'm also taking a ... have no idea what's happening in august."][/annotation] [annotation note

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 4, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  in using the same username and password that you use to log in to your ... are ready to receive your decision online before logging in to decisions ... in between. We can't wait to welcome them to campus to join the 4

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  February(ish) Updates and Notes aka my life in photos and haikus

  

  photos are in this order because we are student-athletes, not athlete-students. The top photo is a week in the life of Junior spring. I’m currently in 5 ... ’s each class with a summary, in haiku form: 2.671: Measurement and

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • March 1, 2018