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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  Before you ask where my blog title (“The McGann Factor”) came from, I’ll just come right out and tell you: Ben made me choose it. But I’ve grown to really…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year’s Affirmations can i run MIT affirm id be so good at it 🥺

  

  . As Thomas Hobbes famously wrote, life without MIT Affirm is "solitary

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • January 1, 2026
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  another day of fall when canvas went down and made me think about internet and people and the seasons

  

  ; my life is moving more slowly. Maybe I’ll finally have a chance to reflect on the bigger arcs of my life—ending my tenure in HackMIT, jumping more into research, being more responsible about my social life—and maybe

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 25, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  was the boldest decision I made in my life, but also one of the best. I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  Isaiah N. ‘26, and they told me a little bit about life as an MIT lax bro ... lacrosse, I’m also a member of Greek life, a senior chair on the Chem ... . The game was super close but we came out on top.  Day-in-the-life in

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  commitment to this school? This isn't to say I'm the 10000%-always-on-the-grind-my-life ... as much as we spit out the phrase "work-life balance", I feel like [annotation note="As much as one can, considering my life is also on campus and

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  fighting for my life in between gulps of milk. I gave up on finding cups and ... "] i eat hot chicken and regret my life decisions[/caption] If you ever

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  anyone in my life for granted. Similarly, my brain is swimming in all the ... other. In Spain, my life got the chance to intersect with people I never

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  pivot to a career unrelated to your major. Optimize for life ... -graduation life, here's a sweater I knit for a bunny at my local rabbit shelter, who

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  period of my life where I assumed that “normal” Jews wouldn’t accept me ... life. I’m a member of the Boston Workers’ Circle, a left-leaning Jewish

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  The Apple Bake Competition is an annual event held by the Burton-Conner⁠01 one of the dorms at MIT, also where i live GRAs ⁠02 Graduate Resident Advisors, aka Real Adults…

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  descriptions of how his life and the surrealist movement are shown in the works ... life and legacy of an actual living person. Walking through this part of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  , at this stage of my life lol."]feed the hyper-competitive part of ... project! it's also a community filled with many loves of my life <3"]Hack

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!

  

  seen this much soft ice before in my life. It falls from the sky not ... worries about school, life, and things that I usually think about when I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  , or "long life noodles" translated directly from Mandarin. They symbolize a long life ahead of you, or predict the upcoming year, as long as

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  realized that most real-life houses were a lot more boring :("]quickly faded ... through some science-related event"]a key aspect of my life ... [annotation note="Engineering Life: Biotechnology and Society"]STS.011 class

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fall Adventures a day in rhode island, maine, and boston

  

  called Massimo for dinner where I ate the best tiramisu of my life ... local authors was giving a presentation about how busy life can become ... down, and put your life into perspective. He had a string across the top

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  experienced. I have a better sense of what I want out of life, but still feel that I don't know what I want out of life. I've made friends and lost ... best and worst of times. This place has changed my life. I hope I have

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  crazy party weekend from 2019 to now

  

  when i attended cpw as a senior in high school, my favorite events were cpwacc, firehose, next sing karaoke, and handwhistling. this past weekend was my last ever cpw, so…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Homestuck Day! and advice about college decisions / cpw

  

  This is your reminder that your reason for choosing a college doesn’t have to be deep or profound or whatever. Vibes are important. It’s 100% acceptable to choose based on…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2023