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  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  ! Lydia K. '14, MEng '16 My partner Cory '13 and his high school friend ... had to see it again, and bring my family this time. https ... digression: through a stroke of luck, my car rental reservation for a sedan was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  GUYS IT SNOWED!! yayayayyaayy

  

  gremlin noises. Some of my friends were also yelling excitedly (albeit in ... AHHHHHH!!!! I love snow!! I’ve been checking my weather app slightly ... for PE class registration :( And so… Tuesday night, my roommates and I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Semester of poetry

  

  hope) aesthetic way. It feels like just following my mind onto a web of ... my drawing skills are very subpar so don't pay too much attention to it ... i felt when my dad sang about a wandering coban (shepherd) to help me

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I went to TwitchCon and met so many people!!

  

  (specifically game livestreaming) so fascinating. I went with my best friend of ... field. One of my professors, T.L. Taylor, was also at TwitchCon to attend ... , Quackity, and others. I also am a huge fan of OfflineTV and had my eye on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 3, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  (or, y'know, graduated). But the more I hung out with my friends on 2 ... , sitting on my bed typing a blogpost. I've started waking up way too early ever since I got back from my trip home for winter break. It's making me

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling grown up walking in adult clothing

  

  place. daily or weekly traditions, like getting on a call with my friends ... . filling payroll forms, and talking to hr. signing ndas, calling someone my manager, lunch breaks. the 9 to 5. especially the 9 to 5. my work hours are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  friendly and probably like 32% of my remaining sanity; I'm glad they exist ... My first impression of MIT was through Math Prize for Girls, and it ... a weird sense of nostalgia every time I walk past Flour on my way to

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  Whether I like it or not, my senior year at MIT is coming to a close ... with a group of (vaccinated) friends across a few national parks out west ... trying again and again to write my [annotation note="although i am very

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  —how have I changed in the last year? I suppose that I'm more confident in my ... nail down. Have I become more independent? How have my values changed ... , though, I find glimpses of my past, and it brings me some clarity. In 2018

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  cuts and scratches littering my hands fueled my trek to campus. Today was the last chance I had to work on and impound my robot. It didn't work ... , but the fundamental problems with my robot, Flipstream, were too

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  one of my closest friends at MIT. She introduced me to her UROP, and the ... ). Pick my battles. I was incredibly argumentative as a child, and I learned ... hill you want to die on. On a similar note, every word out of my mouth

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  quick dispatch from my new room on the first floor of senior haus, just to share how my semester is going. somehow, 1.5 weeks into classes ... semester where i am genuinely excited about all of my classes! i'm in: 14

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  , I realized that it would probably be in my best interest to take the tunnels instead of freezing and trying to make my way through snow-covered sidewalks. I had yet to master the tunnels and navigate through them on my

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  my time in school, and he told me about his efforts to get his friends ... community: The probability of my vote affecting the outcome of an election is so low that casting a vote is a waste of my time. But what if the value

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  some of my closest friends and mentors. Being in a boat together forms ... Engineering, and one of the most awesome experiences of my life has been rowing ... sport and can’t imagine my MIT years without it. I am sharing my story

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music, Photography, and Two.js i am proficient at two (2) of these things.

  

  cool things with my time. So I finally cleaned, and more importantly, reorganized my room. After attending a synthfest in the Media Lab a while ago ... to play with), I realized how much I missed my synths from back home

  • by Joe B. '18
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Forget These I forgot to bring them when I first came to MIT.

  

  to pack extra pants. When I went home for my birthday, I remembered my laptop case and charger but forgot my laptop. When I came back, I forgot my suit. And my toothbrush. Ugh. Well today I spend the second night in my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 19, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  finished my last final Thursday after two not-so-fun back to back 18.03 and 18.02 exams. Sitting in front of my desk at 4:57pm, I realized that ... garlic bread that had recently been introduced to my stomach said no

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m laughing out loud cheek. muscles. cramping.

  

  due, one of my friends slept for one hour last night, I have to submit a paper draft to my research advisor tonight, I e-mailed a paper to my music ... made me laugh over the past few days. Brace yourself for insight into my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  I’m very lucky in that my family lives in central Pennsylvania, which ... busses to more expensive and less environmentally friendly planes, unless it’s for something important, like, recently, picking my little brother

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013