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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  here I started taking them all the time, just to remember that day the ... at the end of year two here, I have a whole portfolio of hilarious moments forever preserved from the exact second they happened. So if you

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Photos of Freshman Spring 📸 My attempt to take a photo a day for an entire semester.

  

  The summer before college was my last summer of being 18, and thus my ... . They had little booklets at the front of the library for children to log the amount they read over the summer, where each booklet completed would

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • October 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  I don’t believe in quantum physics. Yes, I know that all the math ... , anyway. Sure, I’ve seen demonstrations of the photoelectric effect and the ... want to see is something like a person falling through the floor (via

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Admitted Early

  

  YOU! GOT! IN! Come hang out with us in the comments, you all star ... hope you feel like you’re on top of the world, and we’ll have some ... made it, that mean I made it Everything I had was for the team, I

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  we made things and want to show them to you 2.009: an iconic mech-e senior capstone class!

  

  Tonight, mechanical engineering seniors will showcase the culmination ... Kayode D. '27, who are posting their live reactions to the whole event. P.S. I'm on Team Yellow! On the team, [annotation note='Earlier this

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  My highest achievement at MIT.

  

  ="650"] Third to last day of the archery class I took for my final PE ... ="650"] The instructor let me take it home![/caption] I SPLIT AN ARROW ... 's the closest I'll ever get to it.

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  tote bag tour i have so many things to carry

  

  floppy rectangle of yellow there. I tried my best to retreat under the ... that one’s foldable enough to take on the go, I cried silently. I need ... short enough to swing from my grasp without scraping the ground. That one

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 2, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  October, and kept working on it for the next few weeks. And then months. And ... the day, then spent my free hour on a hallway bench, then continued on ... out to my third class of the day. After classes, I took the elevator up

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  things i have done since leaving school but only in the ten hundred most used words

  

  ~~~ cut off all my hair moved to city where the sun is out every day ... the sun and in the cold played lots of games got back into hitting ... flew on many air cars to places near and far enjoyed life by the day

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 19, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  I hate Bevi. It’s frustratingly slow, the user interface makes me ... . [caption id="attachment_90476" align="alignright" width="179"] The industrial ... working as soon as the WiFi goes out ([annotation note="Ironically, most

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  I’ve learned many things after coming to MIT. But among the ... high school was competitive to the point of being toxic, and that it’s important to pick the people that you hang around with wisely ( I have now

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Beantown. sketchbook showcase!

  

  something along the lines of, "Oh, you know. Gonna roam around Boston :)" as ... three or four locations by the time I'm writing this post, but I still had a great time! [You can click on the pics below to enlarge them

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  self-destruction my entirely self-inflicted problems

  

  story understand explores the consequences of superintelligence. in the story’s climax, he introduces the idea of self-destruct commands - since the brain is just a collection of neurons that have no choice but to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 27, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  this list, read this. He finds himself sitting in the neighborhood bar drinking a beer at about the same time that he began to think about going ... , lauded for its innovation. The cute graphics and innocent opening belie a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  my room an evolution

  

  "]No,[/annotation] but I present to you the brief evolution of my dorm room.    Freshman ... carpet to match with my roommate, which in hindsight was not the best choice because the colors made no sense together and she moved out after a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  has nothing to do with the November Rule). I finally have time to ... really November but whatever): I visited the Boston Public Library, which was nice! I got to see the John Singer Sargent mural on the third floor

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  struggled with writing blogposts in the past few months. It’s not for a lack ... , but that’s the problem. I feel like I’m on a rollercoaster, or some other janky, [annotation note="like the ones in the courtyard during REX

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  incredible excited for a lot of these classes, but mostly just the prospect of ... instead of being cooped up in my room. But really the whole point of this blogpost was 3) I am happy and loving living in the Delta Phi Epsilon house

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  from the shackles and am finally cooking for myself again. The first ... one. We love rice cookers here in the blogs, and for good reason. First ... so easy to use. They're actually magic in how they work. You put the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• Blog / Events

  MIT Mystery Hunt is happening! watch the kickoff at 12 PM EDT today, 1/15

  

  Hello! I'm writing this very, very smol post to tell you that the MIT ... part of the winning team last year. Here's an excerpt: A puzzlehunt is a ... . It’s like a Sudoku or a crossword, but you have to figure out the rules

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 15, 2021