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• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  wound up in Random Hall. I didn’t even recognize her when we re-met during ... things got mixed together, and some things haven’t been separated yet, like ... own without looking anything up, but I haven’t learned any faster

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  as Buddha's Delight and T. J. Scallywaggle's), but many, many ... be ECs aren't the 'deciding factor,' but when the acceptance rate is ~4 ... playing an instrument that isn't taught in school? One last query is, in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 2)

  

  I don’t get to make much during the semester, except on slow weeks or when I really, really don’t feel like p-setting. At the end there are ... have. If you haven’t, you should also read part 1. 19. Sweet potatoes

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  to rely on throughout your time at MIT. I couldn't recommend it enough ... , hopelessly misinterpreting T routes (at one point, our group of three ended up ... excitement gave way to something else, a restlessness I couldn’t really name. I

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  minutes before my alarm goes off. i haven't woken up naturally in a while ... blinds do a terrible job at blocking the sunlight, but i don't mind, most ... appreciate my TA, though. "i don't want to make you feel obligated to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  -12:30) Frankly this lecture wasn't super engaging, but I think that was because it ... projector wouldn't work so it was just an auditory lecture so I honestly ... :30-6:30) I did a really light legs day since I didn't have that much time. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  support of my application. honestly, i don't know him too well since the ... fair and we don't get to present it or anything until late January ... topic, Bryan wrote: Although 500 words don't seem like a lot, it's what

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  How I Made the MIT Orientation Trading Card Game The Insatiable Urge to Collect Continues...

  

  helps you see what works well/doesn't for games like [annotation note ... built around the cards is so rich that most people don't even play the ... crowd. I didn’t want to overload information, so I left some info out

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Overcommit Responsibly sidequesting like a pro

  

  two bars. So if you’re physically sick or mentally exhausted, you won’t ... housekeeping than take points away from my social life. As a result, I still can’t ... line of words 15 times because your brain isn’t parsing any of the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 6, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  random conversation about art. In fact, funnily enough, I didn’t know my ... -life balance. Suddenly, I had so much extra time that I didn’t know what to do ... en plein air painting, I couldn’t anticipate my next stroke, let alone

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  . While I didn’t enjoy the flavor, Colin drank his entire bowl in one gulp ... it came to foreign language, I felt like 2-4 years wasn’t enough to ... though I knew that they very likely weren’t talking about me. During the

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [live blog] BLUEPRINT 2025 by the Blueprint Team // come see what we're baking!

  

  ) but also this is what we were hired to do T.B.H. Hi i'm evan and i ... chewy (6.8/10). janets a great director but she doesn't let me get extra ... sandwich" alison: "hardware is advanced" teresa: "i can't let them know i

  • by Janet G. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  's how it goes. Y'all don't care about what's going on in the life of a 30 ... couldn't find me, so I had a nice half hour to reflect about choices ... exhausted and feel like laying down and sleeping you'll be at 5 percent (doesn't

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Aiden Wrapped a year in review

  

  don't think it's my favorite movie of all time, but it is my current obsession, especially as someone who hasn't seen Wicked on stage and was ... (probably) won't watch: Moana 2, Gladiator II, It Ends With Us, Twisters

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 3, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  bloggers are actually really cool and based and it was kinda sad how we didn’t ... independent college students who tAke AgEnCy with our lives, we decided to ... tweaking here my bad"]haven’t slept since yesterday oops

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks

  

  vhs player. I have a habit of buying/getting things that I don’t need ... that there so people don’t steal.  Lucky for me, though, someone broke ... Armageddon Records, which stressed me out so I didn't take any pictures. It

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  . I don’t have much to say about this class… I did indeed learn some ... for 4.341 often meant going somewhere and doing something that wasn’t ... class; I didn't develop many of them fully for lack of time, and as a

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  help, I received it. I wasn't prepared for the level of rigor that this ... there won't penetrate the wall I've gradually built around my ego over ... people didn't find this midterm as hard as I did, as I scored over two

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  who I was, and while I might wish I hadn’t used so many commas in ... stop spinning for just a moment. I didn’t know what direction my world ... were often unintentionally memorable. I explain that you shouldn’t try to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  don't have any exams, project classes contribute to midterm season too ... at the semester's midpoint. Student groups likely don't run retreats or ... ! These ten weeks aren't all equal though, as the effects of midterm season

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022