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• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  about how the strongest ongoing theme is coping with contradictory ... i am today. in lies in mit, lies about mit, i talk about the duality ... this larp. and yet, all i want to do is play video games (like slay the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  laps. My whole body is physically pulsing with warmth afterwards, and my breathing is slower and more even than usual. I definitely feel calmer and ... algorithm, which is a cool way of doing parameter estimation for complicated

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  jolts you from both sides and you realize again, that this is not a place ... shame you thought you would only feel as a child while learning what is right or wrong. It's that oppressive, invisible feeling that someone is

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  , or perspective on the world. Personal is probably the better word here ... feeling. When I started MIT however, art became more of a temporary escape ... -driven art is lesser than; I needed breaks and making impersonal art gave me

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  signed up for forwarding all my MIT emails to my Gmail, made [annotation ... . Just for some context, this is what I mean by [annotation note="If you ... to MIT students generally and first-years like me. Since starting this

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  magician Not only is any sufficiently advanced technology indistinguishable ... , in fact, is my definition of magic – competence so much more advanced ... is magic in february one of my friends was complaining about their

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  I know now), they glow with a sense of MIT, and particularly East ... it now. I’m living in it. That glow is strongest around EC. It’s in ... , everyone sporting Rush T-shirts from years past; on the back of each shirt is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  another day of summer ♬ ba-ba-da-ba da-ba-da-ba ♬

  

  -seasoned piece of avocado toast with one. 9:32 AM I start work. My UROP is data analytics and research for the MIT Center for Information Systems Research, a ... the MIT Teaching and Learning Lab. I found this job last minute after

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Hint of fall A Sunday adventure

  

  Last week was MIT in Hard mode. Psets, a midterm, papers, interviews ... . Other than that, it was a successful trek. This is my 4th year here and ... , yellow, orange, and red is present. I forgot the Head of the Charles is

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  bare. and mit is here, too, as a sort of virtual public. on the dorm ... 'm sharing a place with three other interns, two of them also from MIT. so it ... in the kitchen. somebody always makes sure the stovetop is clean and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Disco balls in space From an antique bookstore to Drive-By Truckers, and back

  

  One of my NRAO friends is a big fan of the band "Drive-By Truckers ... happy to tag along. (It is very telling that when the crowd started ... looking at?" he asked. No stars, I replied: my friend is studying Saturn

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  Yup, it's true: CPW 2010 IS ALMOST HERE!!! My poor inbox is ... study is slowly but surely slipping away. I can't wait until all 1100+ of ... list of things to pack. Notice that one of the items listed is a camera

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  Going Home We're halfway through MIT? o____o

  

  evaporated (10-20 minutes). 8. While the chicken is cooking, begin preparing ... as much water as there is rice. 10. Place rice on stove at high heat ... and place on freshly steamed rice (when the rice is ready). Be careful

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  Truffle-Making, and am currently missing the OrigaMIT Paper Folding) I ... . When your application pieces are processed, they will be posted on the MyMIT ... the same time, the records office is processing those extra supplemental

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  's this common narrative at MIT that three technicals and a HASS is a ... major, not a major crisis necessarily, though it certainly is a question ... true that is anymore. I think, in a vacuum, I love physics. But I don

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  of course, weeks are a Social Construct, and really every day is just ... is my start point because Saturday is the day of the week, out of all ... able to get done. Sunday is also Bread Day around here!!!! In addition

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  you an idea of what MIT projects could be like (at least for ... Climate Change? If you follow MIT blogs, you likely understand that climate change is real, and the result of human activity. The evidence is

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  Caltech, Bring IT on Just some harmless rivalry...

  

  From the Caltech homepage: Caltech Pranked by MIT Today MIT pulled one over on Caltech today. MIT students stole a 130-year-old, 1.7-ton cannon that has been on the Caltech campus since 1972. It now sits in a

  • by Bryan
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

  The Putz-Tetazoo exchange program is a longstanding tradition where a ... involves many a prank and snark. During their stays, each resident is to ...  one flight of stairs ok maybe that's a lie, i used to live on stickmen (which is

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  This is the first half of this post and it was written March 5th ... about where to meet Charlotte and Caroline because, 1.5 years at MIT, and ... communities “entries,” is because they all have different entrances! *mindblown

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018