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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology a non-comprehensive analysis of the 95 tabs I have open on my phone

  

  a few tabs I keep around permanently because I am likely to refer back to them often. Most things, however, are ephemeral, because I can ... hours of inactivity,[/annotation]which tends to keep things pretty clean

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 27, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  , because to be honest, I’d been feeling weird about UROPing at all. I didn ... -seated anxiety and a general feeling of not knowing what to do. All the buzzwords ... overcame some of my fears. I'd been meaning to start the UROP search earlier

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  , some have less, but you do kinda have to map out a courseroad if you ... majors here, and it’s hard to choose. # “What course are you?” a tour guide ... anyone who goes to MIT,” a bearded farmer told me when I worked on a farm

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  something fun to do — go through (approximately) the same week every year that ... commentary about the things that I am (or was) up to. Without further ado ... : we have a weekly meeting on Sundays to help plan our competitions! With

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  stories from anyone willing to share them. Cheers to everyone who collaborated to make this post a reality- hair’s to you! (ha, ha) [intro ... , often compared to a baby duck. Here I am on my first day of school some

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  simplicity of daily routine, implicit enough to be anything but noteworthy. Grades seven to twelve of my education in Nigeria were spent in a boarding ... . Early morning wakeups led to grumbling sounds and shuffling feet; a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  the great fortune to be an MIT Arts Scholar I attended four EXCELLENT ... I cry. When my kids perform in the 2030s/40s they're going to hear ... walked to Killian Hall and was totally astonished when the ticket collector

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

  -lost enough to tread memory lane, at least two events stand out in my mind ... -generation... If both your parents went to MIT... If you intend to major in the ... to political identities, from cultural backgrounds to academic

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  general excitement to begin my second semester at MIT (keep in mind this was back during IAP, before I'd started having to actually do any work for these classes), and you can hopefully understand why I was so excited to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  So, a quick recap of my week before I launch into repsonses to the ... , people kind of freak out. So they want us EMTs to be familiar with the facility and to be able to properly deal with radioactive contamination

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• 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 / Challenges

  sophomore accumulations because i miss show and tell

  

  This week, as classes began to die down, I told a friend: "the only thing I gained this year was academic hardship." Sophomore year tends to ... myself working harder than I ever have to keep up. But there's much more

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  trip options, we agreed to go to all three [an opera, a concert, and a ... how long this was supposed to be, and they told me FOUR HOURS. I signed ... ="111897" image5="111896" /] We went to see the opera “Lysistrata, or The Nude

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  In 2004, I applied to MIT.  It was a paper form, the first part, and ... over, trying my best to be legible.  I was 17, and I thought this sort of ... wanted them to like me! In 2014, with my MIT degrees and my own blogging

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 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 / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  hackathons from around the world, and do everything else necessary to run a ... HackMIT, the club I sold my soul to at the beginning of freshman fall and ... this is a weekend where you spend a short amount of time trying to build

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  've reached this strange turning point in my life where I want to do things more than I want to talk about them, which was not how I thought about things ... the self, in an autonomic sense, and how we might begin to attempt to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  my bookshelf, at the perfect vantage point to scornfully watch me. It ... ’s house. I underpainted it pink. It looks bad, and I don’t have the time to ... of guilt, pushing down the desire to grab my paint brushes, because I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  This summer, I got a side gig to put up chalk art in the Welcome ... wheels on them so you can roll them out into the lobby for visitors to see ... wondering how large of a range of places people are coming from to visit the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  about how I was going to make my dress for senior prom. I had never used a ... desire to be quirky with a nonstandard prom dress. Unfortunately, my senior ... neither did my DIY dress.  I finally had the chance to dust off my

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022