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  Christmas in December and July

  

  Longfellow Bridge to check out the Stata Center at MIT, which they hadn't seen ... Rock is not very big, and that is true. It wasn't as small as I had imagined, though it isn't large by the standards of national parks in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Ups and downs and extras

  

  , the problem isn't really with our flux capacitor (aren't you up on your ... stereotype was one of the things that turned me off to CMU. It wasn't until a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 28, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  In Stereo

  

  today's entry to talk a little bit about school visits, so I won't let a ... among the tens of thousands of schools we didn't visit, let me tell you ... don't encourage this, it's certainly understandable with all the college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  free time or don’t feel like doing real work. Sometimes, Alexi will ... notebook, I decided it wouldn’t be complete without a few pictures, so I ... ="116771" image5="116769" /] Other notes Here are some bonus pages that I didn't

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  were interested in going D1, but I’ve noticed D3 isn’t as crunched for ... chance (I was surprised to learn that MIT wasn’t solely devoted to STEM ... , scoring goals, switching the field, etc).  You don’t need to go to a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  girlfriend in Washington D.C. It wasn't until a couple days before leaving that ... it is D.C. and inauguration season, we weren't entirely shocked that someone could be in the restaurant, but we couldn't figure out who it could

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  DEFINITELY couldn’t lose.  I am the Resident Peer [annotation note="to be ... sculptures this year. I dragged Albert T. ‘26 with me to help me ideate and ... way to stick long strips of apple peel onto a can of Peach Monster (don’t

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 2) 12 hours of coastal biking and other Spanish adventures

  

  Europe. If you haven’t done so already, consider reading Part 1: Italy ... France, and ended up in Spain. Because I was asleep, I don’t remember much ... found myself looking up. We didn’t buy much, but did enjoy seeing the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 11, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!

  

  really cold out. Bring lots of clothes. Eat. Drink water. If water isn't ... in soft ice. The first time I went to the Big Rocks, I didn't bring the ... 'm not on a Big Rock -- seem less deep. Sometimes it really isn't that deep

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  crazy party weekend from 2019 to now

  

  ohms even though i didn’t have formal singing experience and knew nothing ... can’t help but feel like i’ve failed, both as a creator and a musician ... as a result i didn’t know much about non-classical music. so when i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  ; it must be that cars run on wind,  i don’t know any other way   ... i had tires, i wouldn’t have to walk with broken feet  i should ... would do anything to change that. to just be better.  I don’t know how to

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  haven’t yet traversed the territory the cart will traverse. you tell ... again but the wheels are old so you can’t really turn the cart as well as ... chaotic, chaotic to the point that sometimes you can’t push a cart down the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  appliances. This poem is impossible to divorce from its color. I genuinely don’t ... . Not that I didn’t enjoy it - high school was the place where I a ... about was the searing heat of the tears on my face. You can’t really see

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  . Is it blessed or cursed? I can't say for sure, but now it's on the ... for the meme, but I don't really have a favorite song. I usually ... . Prompt: "Favorite book?" I just put up a generic prompt because I didn't

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  and tossed in rice balls when they couldn’t find him; some other stories ... in boats and tossed in rice balls when they couldn’t find him); another ... if we really hadn’t any on hand — and the local Asian/Hispanic grocery

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  he can't complain. I start to bag my groceries. The heavier items go ... go to Boston College, and they won't be lying. I take the identical ... altering. Of course, I didn't. I just went to Trader Joe's. I sit on my bed

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  spreads through my body. (Am I enough? What about me wasn't enough?) I'm a very emotional person, but I don't necessarily think I feel more things ... : I can't really cry anymore. At least not without some sort of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane

  

  year and graduation and "the end" all felt so far out of reach. I wasn't ... couldn't be looking so far ahead. All I had in front of me was the present ... sight and I haven't even begun to process and reflect on what the past

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 10, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  and eat up all my writing time. I didn’t want to go to MIT, because I thought that it would be more of the same; but I couldn’t not go, for it ... world doesn’t know I am taking two HASSes, where anywhere else, taking

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  family a few weeks after we came to America. At this point, we didn’t have ... you have to actively stand around and make sure you don’t burn your food ... will only eat them if I don't notice it. It's embarrassing, and I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 16, 2020