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  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  gorgeous Simmons pic from Snowpocalypse 2015; photo credits to my roommate ... , it’s been a lot more work already, but actually, I think I enjoy my ... one of my classes, 6.005: Elements of Software Construction)  

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  friends here; one, [annotation note="hi Matthew :D"]my current roommate ... -edited compilation of notes from my cross-country train trip from Boston to San ... there. Despite the waking, my sleep was fairly restful; I had one

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Siete Ciudades de España A very busy IAP

  

  . From left to right--me, Shawany (my host from Madrid), and my roommate ... This IAP was my first time ever outside of the United States! El ... internships. So starting this year, my plan is to pack my IAPs with as many

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  of my friends in high school who were coming to compete. We meet at ... entertainment on my laptop, but my battery was going to die and I realized I didn’t bring my charger with me. This didn’t turn out to be that bad, since

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  about your work. I would tell my roommates a lot about my project at ... Practices Take Home Assessments Where do I start? Resources My Personal ... qualified I am to write this, but I thought I'd just give my two cents in for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  assassins – a liveblog day 7: five remain

  

  last updated: october 22, 5:15 pm   my hall, 2E of Next House ... usually goes on for a while. this is my first time playing in the hall ... consistently as long as i'm still in the game. my strategy is more or less to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  semester. I started working with Julia L. '26 and my roommates Jenny and Nora ... and because I had a lot on my plate. dropping a class definitely helped ... about it. my only threshold was to not be super mega unready for the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  The Oreo Post i tried them all* !

  

  In July 2018, in my application to be a blogger, I left a note at the ... have to admit up front my cardinal sin: I have not tried all the flavors ... anecdotes. Then I'll wrap up with my overall thoughts and a tier list! In this

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary an image a day keeps the psets away

  

  started looking around for things to stir thoughts in my head, a stimulus of ... having my google drive run out of storage (thanks to me uploading photos ... semester, sweet and sour, while I looked through my photos. Let's start at

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  twice, but Livescribe reared it's head again in my life, so up comes ... them. I figured this out 10 minutes after buying my pen, when I showed it ... now, so does my Toy Design professor, and my friend Ben, just after

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  the cool things about helping run HMMT is the staff exchanges. My first ... different from my PUMAC visit. When I visited PUMAC four years ago, I went ... phones, so I had to use my phone to look up directions. Because I didn

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  fall, I've never really had any roommates. For my gap year, I moved to a ... Campus meant being able to glance at the line outside my window and line up ... , where they scan my ID, ask me for my last name, my date of birth, my phone

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  's what everyone thinks - but I consider my roommate to be a genius and she ... MIT EC in Taipei). I'll try my best to translate/capture the most ... 'm going to be with a bunch of nerds! My friends used to laugh at me because

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  my part :(. The Great North American Eclipse happened on April 8th ... changing right before my eyes and there was nothing I could do about it. At ... % and 100% felt far beyond between 0% and 99%. My eyes began to well, and

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Infinite Magazine [joint post with Kidist A.]

  

  scout ship earrings, got my roommate to model them, and then used ... [Masha] I first encountered Infinite at CP*, the spring before my freshman ... mine 'NYC critters,' and I still have it tucked away in my bookshelf at

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 27, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  working for my previous company seventeen months ago, after interning there ... knew I'd be interacting with them a lot less. There's a plea my heart ... ? two. alan Someone recently asked me what activities I did during my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  's hunt that got the most solves. At A Loss For Words, a cute minimalist ... course, puzzlehunts aren't just about the puzzles. In my previous post I ... time to talk about all my favorite puzzles before your attention span

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  I’ve been reading my old journals this winter break, thinking about ... and carried on. I wrote a lot while I was living out of my car ... ’t journal much during the fall semester — my friends and I keep joking that we

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  first week of the summer program, I reconnected with my old roommate ... : Audience: There were points in my recovery where a post like this could have ... alone in my trauma; I don’t want others to feel that way. Though I know

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  my roommates (who I live with again this year!) out our window to ... ."]urgent[/annotation] to think about as I end my time at MIT and “move on” to the next phase ... ’ve thought about measuring success in my life.  meaning: This section is

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020