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  Chasing Butterflies on community and friendship

  

  It’s an autumn evening in 2019–my first year in my high school ... ’d never been asleep, and the one shout becomes many, all in unison. “BUS ... top of my shelf of memories, because in many ways it’s the best monument

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 28, 2026
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  "]for historical reasons,[/annotation]opened in April of 2018, after SL1, SL2, SL4, and SL5 were in service. CJ: We filled a couple blackboards following ... route through a whole loop, and even run between adjacent stations. In

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating the PM Interview the crash course i wish someone gave to me

  

  wanted to work on it in the future. I'm writing this post because I ... qualified I am to write this, but I thought I'd just give my two cents in for ... time in college, it was pretty evident my interests couldn't be really

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  Choosing classes at MIT is like filling up a skill tree in a video ... , there are too many great options; with over 300 classes in [annotation ... . Many of them probably wouldn’t work in real life. But nevertheless, it

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  journey to the end of the world visions

  

  ago. i created a new world, i booted up survival, walked around in some ... , playing minecraft in utter secret while my mom wasn't looking. i walked and ... , and then fill in the middle with straight lines and planes: this is

  • by Ali C. '26
  • November 16, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  you who are now in college and used Google Docs to write your essays, I ... wondering how I could express something meaningful in so few words. But in the ... to any Common App schools in that round, so I wound up using this essay

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Class Projects

  Designing a Calculator with FSM Logic A web dev lesson from an MIT sophomore!

  

  many of our Course 6 freshman friends reach out to for help in their introductory courses. Robert lives in Maseeh Hall, was born in Goma and grew up in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I hope you enjoy

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  senior house / pilot 2021 / senior house facts, and a thought

  

  and a number of faculty, staff, and alumni in work to promote personal wellbeing and academic success in your community. As you know, we received ... unsafe behaviors and activities occurred in the house during the turnaround

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  does a 5k, 10k, and half marathon in November while Disney World does a 5k, 10k, half marathon, and full marathon in January.  The Goofy ... medals if I do this one!" I registered in April and began my training. I

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Events

  So You Want to Make a BrassRat? A very very very long year in review.

  

  in the footsteps of another blogger, Jessica Z. ‘27, and serve as the ... class at their halfway point through the institute. In a nutshell, this ... the BrassRat/RingComm as shown in the non-exhaustive list below (partly

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 31, 2026
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A circle of shared breaths rediscovering synchronized skating at MIT, by Eleanor L. '27

  

  synchronized ice skating, I was VERY excited. not just because [annotation note="in ... skating culture in general is lowkey underrated!! and also Eleanor is so ... coherent program. Teams typically range from 12 to 16 skaters, all moving in

  • by Janet G. '27
  • April 14, 2026
• Blog / CPW

  CPW will not be perfect and it doesn’t have to be

  

  experiences you’ll ever have. How overwhelming, you may ask? At my CPW in 2023 ... in the weeks (and maybe years...) leading up. One of my closest friends ... of events on pure adrenaline. The subsequent days felt slightly more in

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 8, 2026
• Blog / How to Human

  liquid nitrogen and everything else 🐸

  

  last year of Mathcamp. In hindsight, it’s no surprise that I applied to return as a JC a few months later. And when my offer popped up in my inbox ... way I could spend my summer ceased to exist. In June, I learned how to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 9, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  Preface from Jebby: In addition to participating in Next Haunt with ... , so I’ll go in with a general overview of this year's timeline! [March ... before and were interested in continuing. Additionally, I was able to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  , driven by passion, and a feat made possible by community. In fact, when I ... ="Residence Exploration Week"]REX.[/annotation] In the past, we’ve built rollercoasters, a ... fort with a bouldering wall and net suspended in the middle of the second

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  …ufacture mischief? In which I mansplain how my friends manipulate each other ... campus to help with this, luxuriating in the joys of free Starlink wifi ... . There are so many ways to find your people in college, and I want to talk

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  meet cool people through classes, who have pushed me to think in new ways ... ="obviously class numbers are not in the ten hundred most used words, but I'm leaving them in to make searching for the actual classes easier if anyone wants

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  mighty in the S-tier. Sometimes classes at MIT feel difficult for the sake ... approximately 1.28% of what was said in lecture, but it was reassuring to know that some of my friends were in the same boat. Lab was a whole 'nother

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially ... learned everything I needed to at MIT. But in these moments of reflection ... explained in one of my earliest blogs, freshman Cami learned the importance of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  them. However, in total, 72 units was too many. I skipped most of my ... in at 6 am and promptly went to sleep. This wasn’t a great use of time ... this in another blog, but I did nearly all of my readings this semester

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022