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• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  survived!   For EnergyHack, I was on a team with my friend Josephine R ... quick meals, but don’t get to start every project that comes to mind. My ... this IAP will give me space to fall into my own hobbies and wonderings

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  renovated next summer, and if that happens as planned, i won’t get to spend my ... ". moments after the email, i opened my courtyard-facing window and listened ... general. this was something that made me sad, given the history of my room

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 1 Never be afraid to go straight to the top.

  

  MITAdmissions home page or because I just like seeing my own face, it's simply ... Head, and immediately inside we were met by My Little Pony, more Mr ... my coverage of the Hasbro world headquarters ends because we weren

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  on floorpi anyways, i interacted with cj's pod a lot, with my ... 's lounge[/annotation] with me standing outside the door and telling them my ... shorter game with my pod, and we passed up spirit island because the box

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  here i go again i have watched Mamma Mia! seven times this year

  

  watched it during a phase in my life where I truly believed that all art had ... island based on the premise that "I will know my father when I see him ... perhaps the most unhinged moments of my undergraduate career thus far

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  Since my sophomore year at MIT, I've been an associate advisor, an ... couple of years, I've picked up some advice and tips that my advisees have ... without pigeonholing yourself too deep. [annotation note="I changed my major

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  Emily K.-L. ‘16. About a week ago I sat down with one my best friends ... Sherlock). Lydia: Okay. Who are you and what are you doing in my house ... majors where you squish humanities and science disciplines together. My

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  I've used in my life (finally something hot enough for proper wok ... year. I think a mouse died in my walls the other week. Another resident ... one of my work week tasks has been to patch up holes in the basement

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 2 Hearing Amazônia

  

  ="alignright" width="225"] A top-down shot of the rainforest. I'd never held onto my ... highlight of my trip because we did so many awesome activities that day. Our ... into several different tour groups; my group started at the main

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  right now    a lot of the times, i am my first invalidator. it is ... sorrow.    my last words stifle in the knots of my throat, so i ... can stop everything in my life for this great blue and then, when i feel

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  lately i’ve been thinking about my relationship with art ... symphonies. my attention span has gotten worse over the years, to the point ... step of creation all this reminds me of a miyazaki quote my friend

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  cities. Against my protests to get to 800, we stopped at 25% as we had ... came back to my room, I ran into Alan and they reminded me of the correct ... ."]down.[/annotation]  Disappointed in myself, I resorted instead to my iPad and started writing down

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  , but ten times: my top five and my bottom five. Can you guess which is ... my way to the Student Center, I saw several people, and before that I ... my cart were these plastic guns that I or perhaps something else

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  defense the other bloggers didn’t believe i could write a post about basketball

  

  and my favorite part of the game is seeing very effective defense. there ... individual defense. my favorite one is when one player is successfully able to ... trying your best to solve them. some of my friends have very different

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  example from the other day, for Semantle #13 (on 2/11), some of my guesses ... Toast isn’t a completely novel idea. People at my high school played "Karl ... lizards what the HELL is that THING on my SHOULDER getitoffgetitoffgetitoff

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  least, I had my answer. I went back to the Slack to share it. But alas ... identity guidelines. I couldn't find anything about the history, but my best ... identity page. There's some brief historical notes that make my best guess

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  ."[/annotation] In my head, it's kind of a mash up of escuchar and mirar. You can give ... framing this post in the form of a Letter To My Past Self. If 2016 Abby ... I wanted to go to grad school. The mask was just my way of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  my strobe lab team tried saying hi to Danny, who he thought was me, in ... confused (thinking how my teammate guessed), “yeeeessss?” He then explained ... back) for about 5 seconds before coming up with this theory. My teammate

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  Late in February, my friend Ashley '12 forwarded me a notice titled ... my program, I learned very quickly that Dudamel is not a music genre ... my friend Davie '12 (who was also at the concert) put it, he had three

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  In my last post, I mentioned that I came to MIT never having cooked before in my life, and immediately chose a cook-for-yourself dorm.  A few ... here, by popular demand (okay, like 6 prefrosh contacted me.  My

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013