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• Blog / Challenges

  passionless had a crisis, got a tattoo

  

  never been to them that I can think of them this way: means of a better ... permanent urge to escape, eternally assuming the grass is greener on the other ... believe in what Lorde has said about how people don't change day-to-day or

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  dance dance revolution lessons from ddr

  

  , and the player’s job is to step on the pads at the same time that the ... , don’t i want to be able to read the next two or three sets of arrows at ... yourself the answer is to think even harder and plan even better. but maybe

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  . It’s already exposed me to a lot, some of which doesn’t even have to do ... magnitude of that respect--I didn’t really expect to lightly socialize or even ... on some level, which feels a bit strange. I guess, for most of my life

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  semester of your MIT experience, and it's coming to an end. Sophomore fall is ... years, or maybe because you're "locked in" to your path and desperately need to find a job or something productive to do over the summer. Senior

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  week or two ago, which is like Splendor but better, and I’ve played it at ... legs were both straight, or of the top wasn’t curved in the way it is ... part of the bar on top. It was challenging to use the bandsaw to cut an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  are intentionally designed to be solved by one or two people, ideally of ... ' take on this program because it's one of those "you get what you give ... 's Spectrum newsletter that goes out to "friends and supporters" of MIT. I agree

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  I work on, and I love my grit, my capacity to suffer, the feeling of ... pliers to Boston. In my room, there’s a shelf of books taller than a man, stuffed full of fantasy. My eyes flick to the books I loved, gloss over the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  to mention it shows up better on the page and doesn't fade. My pen of ... . Scribbling stuff down is a part of how I process, and really useful to me for ... contents, which is really really nice, but I was too lazy to make one for my

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  ? Senior spring is supposed to be the best semester of college, where we get ... longer getting any of those things, which is immensely sad and frustrating ... course that all on-campus students had to take. There's still a ton of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  .008 is a manufacturing class where you're required to make a large batch of ... the precursor to modern robotics. CNC mills or lathes are machines which ... part on a solid modeling program, import that file to a CAM program which

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July A video experiment just for the heck of it

  

  fun. This particular experiment is a product of 1) wanting to test the ... /insomnia at two in the morning, which allowed me to record (still kind of subpar ... creates an annual video series called "Letters to July," sort of like a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  in mind when I wrote this, but one year is a lot of time to hold on to ... was finally able to read over the past week, and propped on my legs is ... better. Well I ate most of my meals either at Alpha Delta Phi or at the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  have a better chance of getting in. But based on self-selection and a ... MIT, PAKSMIT, is collecting donations and manage any sort of ways to ... city (that too in India) I missed out on lots of competitions and science

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  zero knowledge ^ not you after reading this post!

  

  one of the things i’m working on outside of class this semester is a ... asking a bunch of people what the color of each ball is to get a consensus ... verifier is, they might ask to repeat the swapping procedure 10, 100, or 1000

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  …More CPW The last of my photos from the weekend.

  

  photo I have; do you have any better? I came to the office one morning of ... . You get a sense of what it is we do at MIT, how we play, see the ... to 1,000 potential members of next year's freshman class. Are you going

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Road I’m On Life's a lot to think about sometimes...

  

  the end of the day, they aren't going to do your psets for you, or call ... Langer Lab is in about 24 hours, or that you really need to start blogging ... sardonic words of the ever-quotable Winston Churchill, "This is the sort of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Over is the Wait Just thoughts...

  

  was made of. Now fast forward to today and what is on my mind. Today, I ... To all of this year’s applicants: Pi day is long gone, and after 6 ... of a life to live. And then after a blink or two, in my case, anyway

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 18, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  BLÅHAJ: the Internet meme, the trans icon, the world’s favorite plush media analysis on the Swedish shark’s rise to prominence

  

  is always an element of chance to what does and does not go viral, I ... laughable awkwardness of the situation is magnified by the dazed expression on ... relative accessibility. Blahaj is affordable compared to other plushies of a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow lovers, unite! The sky is falling...

  

  , And if we’ve no place to go, Let it snow, let is snow, let is snow! The ... are about five inches of the snow on the ground right now, and traffic ... that it took her to walk across the Harvard Bridge (which ironically

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

   externship program is a pretty cool opportunity for MIT students to take advantage of ... months ago...which is terrible. Senior fall ended up being a little more overwhelming than I thought it was going to be - a confusing whirlwind of psets

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013