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  dogg number there is no one better to be than myself!

  

  Spotify artist's "Dogg Number". That's the header for our HackMIT project ... among my friends for the past year, mostly because when I found it, I was ... HackMIT team designs merch for attendees. This year, hackers got a dark

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  album[/caption] Her music reminded me of what I’ve tried to do for a ... for the first time, with a short story I wrote over winter break. It was ... for years, like how I felt trapped between the dichotomy of being a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  CJ historian but for the history of myself throughout the years, and ... to become a part of. This was the long and short of the story, but for ... for dessert. And let me tell you: that slaps. Thank you Brennan Lee

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  open stores and the outdoors; this is mostly true for adults as well ... ’re a college student, for a brief time you can basically do whatever you ... of other answers out there. for example, if you asked me three years

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  there are other circumstances, too, in which the cost of trying for ... . For similar reasons (with the bonus fear of getting hate-crimed), I don ... feel bad for no reason, so maybe I won't ask a question in a class group

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  over a crowded audience. Then, moments later, for the first time in three ... September, I had auditioned for seven or eight [annotation note="this seems to ... first concert. I auditioned for a solo in [annotation note='"Sucker", by

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  . [annotation note="short for Public Universal Feline"]PUF[/annotation] usually ... quite a bit of time in Ilani’s room. For the summer, though, PUF was ... cat. PUF also has impressively large lungs for a relatively small cat

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  sharp and soft featuring: my favorite naruto moment

  

  as a surprise that all my favorite battles are mental ones. for ... problems with inventing new meanings for words: you end up with associations ... . be careful about the language you create for yourself). i assumed that

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 21, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  for my dorm room walls well before I actually got accepted to college ... the set as some sort of bucket list for places to visit. I bought the ... NYC bookstores, a couple of days before leaving to Russia for the fall

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  my classes are on Zoom (or Whoosh for 6.031). Content-wise, all my ... to make life for international students even more difficult. Great. My ... for a black woman- me- to say that she mattered- that I mattered

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  watching Harry Potter for the nth time. On a normal day, there are at least ... workouts for us. The first night I tried, we did it outside at 11 pm, and it ... house. Since I knew my dorm, Burton Conner, would be closed for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  Dakota was, for the most part, uneventful. I[annotation note ... friend who had also fled campus for SD in March,[/annotation]so we shared ... on campus, so we headed straight for our dorm, Next House. I'd been

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining, Dig-Ins and Dives Lady Afeefah travels across campus in search of the best eateries

  

  Afeefah and we're rolling out looking for MIT's greatest Diners, Dig-Ins and ... specials and kosher foods, the hall is open for business for most hours of ... first time eating at Baker. Even after being on campus for a whole year

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Hint of fall A Sunday adventure

  

  , looking for any and all signs of fall. My only directive was to maximize the ... the city. You get to check them out for 30 mins at a time before you ... I've never actively sought out fall leaves. It's still a bit early for

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Meet More People a guest post from Amy F. '20

  

  strongest friendships. For example, I met my best friend (hey Alex!) four ... there for the best and worst times. People want to know you. Because that ... for others to know us, we need to be vulnerable so others will do the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  -in throughout the course of the day. All the things I’ve taken for granted in a ... . 16 events in 3 days. We’ve been planning for months. And as our CPW ... experiences for the PREFROSH! Our CPW begins with the Costco run of a lifetime

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  airport, so I scurried around and looked for MIT folk for a solid twenty ... looking for. I was hoping someone would have an MIT shirt on or something ... , and I stopped for a second as the chill of Boston froze me. I had just

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more ... years back, for example. When I was practicing with an instructor, did she ... ’t understand and lyrics of prepubescent pop stars I already can’t relate to. For

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  course 16 advisor for the first time and expressed my abject terror at ... ’s luxurious Institute mattress for the pure joy that is throwing together a ... waste time searching for like the freshman that you still feel like most

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2017 it's never too early to start reminiscing

  

  Commencement day, I almost got grabbed by police for getting too close to the ... . It's time for the next year, whether that's college, senior year ... 's how Commencement went for me. Because I wasn't graduating this year, I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 9, 2017