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October 2026

  1. how to become paulie bleeker
  2. i have never been this unprepared for a test
  3. Chasing Butterflies
  4. Dream
  5. applying, four years ago
  6. Massachusetts Institute of Eggs
  7. How to cure a cough
  8. an arrangement i worked on for video game orchestra!
  9. FROSH SCAVENGER HUNT LIVEBLOG AAAAAAAAAA
  10. A Witch Stabbed Me 🧹🗡️
  11. Professor Justin Solomon on AI, math, and education
  12. free listening
  13. The Sophomore Slump
  14. b.i.r.t.h.f.d.a.y.c.a.k.e
  15. Note-Taking in its Many Forms
  16. i miss home
  17. Obligatory Spider-Man Post
  18. bringing my digicam to class for a “week”
  19. wtf i can code things??
  20. The Incorrect Biological Hypothesis
  21. my classes are exploding
  22. Embarrassing Mistakes I Have Made…So Far
  23. Welcome to My Museum of MIT
  24. experiments on a sample size of one
  25. i have slept 30 hours in the past two days
  26. trying to find poetry under calculus
  27. My Unusually Long Prequel to Sophomore Year

September 2026

  1. Roadtrip Roadtrip
  2. i went camping again
  3. a love letter to McCormick
  4. good things come to those who wait
  5. HUGE dormspam haul!!! 😱😱
  6. Beaches and Bioreactors
  7. We’re number 1 — but for whom?
  8. I exploited the infinite worm glitch
  9. Art After MIT: A Blogger Collab
  10. choo-choooo
  11. [LIVEBLOG] 2 Girl 1 HackMIT
  12. liquid nitrogen and nothing else
  13. don’t build the torment nexus
  14. my “first” “week” of “classes” at mit
  15. Classes I’m Taking My Freshman Fall!(And Other Things Too)
  16. morning shrine
  17. i’m a sneaky little scavenger
  18. this pan is going places
  19. Welcome to our new bloggers!
  20. Return to Campus
  21. I didn’t know a lot coming into MIT
  22. how to get from east campus to the student center
  23. IHTFP (PE registration edition)
  24. All the 2026 i3 videos megapost
  25. i went to the ig nobels!
  26. i did nothing these past two years, part 1
  27. A Recipe for Staying Whimsical
  28. last week, i failed at a jigsaw puzzle and knot theory

August 2026

  1. Airport Problems, Three Years Later
  2. Just Released: Report of MIT’s Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use
  3. two homes
  4. Riven
  5. i hate orthogonality
  6. Preparing for College
  7. another
  8. Talent is everywhere. Opportunity should be, too
  9. Details of D.C.

July 2026

  1. [Guest Post] How to get paid to be funny
  2. how i spend my days
  3. working very, very hard
  4. bike lane etiquette
  5. everything i am, anything i’m not (rush, part 3)
  6. Learning by Doing
  7. what not to pack for the dorms
  8. what to pack for the dorms
  9. I went to a World Cup Game!!!!⚽⚽
  10. Be a Blogger 2026!
  11. How the World Cup Will Conclude

June 2026

  1. There Are Too Many HASS Classes I Want To Take
  2. school break thoughts
  3. [Guest Post] Designing the 2025 East Campus Rollercoaster
  4. Letterboxd for movies i watched on the plane
  5. A moveable feast
  6. The Misadventures of Carl
  7. Short Story from Last Summer
  8. what does the end of high school mean, for you?
  9. crossovers in socal
  10. A Wedding of All Time
  11. would’ve, could’ve, should’ve
  12. how i’m feeling now
  13. So You Want to Make a BrassRat?

May 2026

  1. Collecting information about my friends
  2. I will graduate tomorrow
  3. lin-manuel miranda scares me
  4. tier-listing all the classes i’ve taken at mit
  5. [Joint Blog] All* the majors at MIT, plotted
  6. “someone needs to get fractal161 on green building tetris someday”
  7. another day of spring
  8. five wacky and wild weekends
  9. content
  10. the softest members of MIT Video Game Orchestra
  11. 14 Questions with a Course 14 Professor 📈📉
  12. g e m i n i j u i c e
  13. [LIVEBLOG 🔴] Making My ENTIRE Comic Portfolio BEFORE THURSDAY
  14. The Holy Grail of Hacks Returns
  15. Living to Create
  16. Brahms & Tomorrowland (2015)

April 2026

  1. high schools, highway miles, and an MIT story waiting in rural ohio
  2. I Want A Radio Show!!!
  3. I did a comedy set* in front of 1000 MIT admits
  4. cpw is pretty cool tho :D
  5. I just need to write my thesis
  6. How to UROP
  7. East Campus (Part 2)
  8. cpw 2026 camera roll dump
  9. kindness friday live blog!
  10. GAY BEAVER MARRIAGE IS REAL
  11. Check in on my cross stitch livestream during CPW – link inside!
  12. *THE* double, doubled + b1ner cribs!!!
  13. some cpw events i’ll be at
  14. Spring break Q&A: Part 2
  15. all the classes I didn’t take
  16. [Guest Post] A circle of shared breaths
  17. a lonely but exciting road
  18. I Made the MIT Admissions Blog TCG
  19. Behind the Scenes of Thirty Pies
  20. the life I could’ve lived
  21. everyone* knows each other
  22. CPW will not be perfect
  23. gallery of my notes
  24. stupider than ever
  25. I’m coming back to cross stitch on campus again
  26. Junior Year Sticky Notes
  27. [Guest Post] A Day in the Life of a Clown College Student
  28. [april fools] interview with james e. tetazoo
  29. Minesweeper Monday: Episode 3
  30. mit x caltech the wedding

March 2026

  1. I DECLARE BASICNESS!!!!!
  2. all the notes i took in (another) week
  3. Motion of Manhattan
  4. kindness friday
  5. Spring break Q&A!
  6. six MIT students walk into a german bar
  7. MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online
  8. Open Thread: Admitted
  9. Open Thread: Waitlisted
  10. Open Thread: Not Admitted
  11. LIVE BLOG: see MIT through my eyes
  12. Pie Day at the Massachusetts Institute of Tasteology
  13. eating everything at eastern edge
  14. A Collection of Creative Questions

February 2026

  1. post-blizzard pics
  2. made some art about the iberian peninsula
  3. new information about my life just dropped
  4. SUCH a fruity guy
  5. a penny for your thoughts?
  6. whimsically signed,
  7. rating underwear colors in my inbox
  8. Crusty White Dogs Appreciation Post
  9. All 42 cheeses I tasted in college
  10. classes im taking!
  11. What I Learned This Week
  12. A Love Letter to Tetazoo
  13. I designed a marching band drill for MIT
  14. [GUEST POST] Cooked Cooking
  15. between now and departure
  16. Day in the Life
  17. what i am taking in spring 26
  18. The Classes I’m Taking This Semester
  19. Are you ready for some FOOBAW?
  20. vienna & prague, in 194 photos
  21. i have fridays off this semester
  22. IAP in BRASIL!
  23. chronicle of a snowstorm foretold
  24. [Joint Blog] What It’s Like Studying Design at MIT
  25. [Joint Blog] What It’s Like Studying Design at MIT
  26. An (overdue) blogger update!
  27. Embracing the Penguin

January 2026

  1. WE BUILT AN IGLOO! ❄️☃️
  2. East Campus (Part 1)
  3. Building a Robot in 3 Days
  4. [liveblog] gingerbread stata
  5. lorde made my nyc itinerary
  6. wednesday at wai & aina (liveblog)
  7. An MIT Acronym Quiz
  8. i got a cat
  9. my last semester is here
  10. things i’m thinking about
  11. blogger wrapped 2025
  12. New Year’s Affirmations
  13. Wanting to Do Everything

2025 277

December 2025

  1. wherever you go, there you are
  2. Life in the Fast Lane
  3. things im doing during break
  4. tick tock tick tock
  5. let’s talk about financial aid
  6. MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online
  7. Open Thread: Admitted Early
  8. Open Thread: Deferred Early
  9. Open Thread: Not Admitted Early
  10. being bad at ice skating
  11. IT’S SNOWING
  12. the children yearn for the snow quarry
  13. [Guest Post] 202.9 (slightly cursed) Tims from the Class of ‘29
  14. MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Tuesday, 12/16/25, at 6:28 PM ET
  15. 2.009 LIVE BLOG 2025
  16. 2.009 LIVE BLOG 2025!!!!!
  17. day in my life except it’s a live blog
  18. passionless
  19. Cells, Cells, and more Cells
  20. Urban Studies and Planning at MIT!
  21. Acception Therapy
  22. 39 windows and 2 friends
  23. A Trip to AfroTech

November 2025

  1. How I Made the MIT Orientation Trading Card Game
  2. I’m still reading applications
  3. HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! 🦃
  4. everything i think i’m not (rush, part 2)
  5. I Made MIT-ish ASMR
  6. at a distance
  7. I Went To The Ballet!
  8. scuba do or scuba don’t?
  9. our perpetual battle with the mit weather machine
  10. Northern Lights in the Not-So-North!
  11. cute date ideas
  12. Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In
  13. one hour of musings
  14. did you miss the EA deadline?
  15. I have never been trick-or-treating, (until now)
  16. just one more gnome game
  17. time travel is overrated
  18. The Small Things I Like About Autumn

October 2025

  1. happy halloween! 🎃👻
  2. Lost in other people’s stories
  3. another day of fall
  4. oh no the future
  5. Boston, through the lens of my children
  6. Summiting Mount Monadnock
  7. gently down the stream
  8. The Periodic Table of MIT
  9. my MIT admissions essays
  10. “Hala’s Escape from Groundhog Day”
  11. liquid nitrogen and everything else
  12. what is and isn’t me (rush, part 1)
  13. How to Overcommit Responsibly
  14. classes i’m taking! (fall 2025)
  15. On Being the “Dumb” Friend

September 2025

  1. 1 Fish, 2 Fish, a Lot of Fish, and a Snail
  2. what to expect when you’re expecting
  3. snip snip
  4. loftblogging 3: liberation via customization
  5. rage, as explained by thermodynamics
  6. time dilation
  7. picture the world
  8. an infinite nine year old
  9. My First Few Weeks at MIT
  10. September Equinox Appreciation
  11. i made a dress out of target bags
  12. i became british for a summer
  13. 3 Simple Steps for Making New Friends
  14. [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting
  15. Welcome our new bloggers!
  16. cookies
  17. albums i like and why i like them
  18. getting back in the groove
  19. [Guest Post] This is Junior Lab, not Junior Theory

August 2025

  1. New Year Resolutions in Fall
  2. I LOVE TATTE💖💖💖
  3. Clinging to the Coattails of Identity
  4. my semesterly planner
  5. Rejection Therapy
  6. proof of life
  7. first time in cdmx
  8. The Courage to Change
  9. clownazoo part 2

July 2025

  1. [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family
  2. [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame
  3. Robots, Space, and the Stories In-Between
  4. my hottest STEM takes
  5. My design won an MIT merch contest
  6. [liveblog] presenting at the Open Sauce maker expo!
  7. how to be a microcelebrity
  8. Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student
  9. Tour of an MIT student’s notebook
  10. Life Tokens
  11. Be a Blogger 2025!

June 2025

  1. To ASE Or Not To ASE
  2. alone in cologne
  3. the fear and delight of fire spinning
  4. Pictures From a Year of Classes
  5. for change in (expected + unexpected):
  6. been walking a lot recently
  7. From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage
  8. [Joint Post] THE WORLD’S gREATEsT CROSSOVER EPISODE
  9. MIT Bloggers Sniped Wrapped
  10. All the 2025 i3 videos megapost
  11. [liveblog] morbing at the airport

May 2025

  1. friendful
  2. [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes
  3. [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes
  4. I graduated.
  5. king of boston -> king of the world?
  6. Eating my words at Area Four
  7. the threek post!
  8. [Joint Post] DesignPlus
  9. How to build a Tamagotchi
  10. [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker
  11. [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker
  12. How I chose my classes
  13. What do you see now?
  14. Answer these 13 questions and we’ll reveal the perfect dorm for you!
  15. I am lethally bored in the airport
  16. What is the value of college?
  17. Am I rural or small-town?
  18. setting things on fire
  19. reviewing my classes this semester
  20. Scootah Hockey
  21. Awesome Robot Competition? LIVE??
  22. Shoulder Season Treat
  23. MIT is a jock school
  24. Dining Hall Alchemy
  25. SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  26. sophomore accumulations

April 2025

  1. Thinking Outside of Absolutes
  2. Behind the Scenes of MIT Gala
  3. Every class I’ve taken at MIT
  4. [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review
  5. I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!!
  6. ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING!
  7. [Announcement] The MIT Bloggers are hosting an AMA!
  8. The Cost of Living at MIT
  9. Lax bros
  10. doctor worm
  11. the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh
  12. Food, glorious food
  13. am i boring
  14. Exploring MIT’s sports facilities
  15. poem snippets
  16. PE classes are…great!?
  17. Rats !
  18. classes im taking this semester!
  19. Little Pieces of Living
  20. mit x caltech rivals to lovers
  21. [Guest Post] A day in my life!

March 2025

  1. seven scenes from Paris
  2. in a funk
  3. Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣
  4. emails to self
  5. Honse
  6. Ebony Affair as a Pre-Frosh
  7. BLOOD MOON FEST IS REAL!!
  8. one weekend in March
  9. “we have the winter olympics at home”
  10. concord market is finally here!!!!!
  11. [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston
  12. MIT Dining Halls
  13. speaker talks and gallery shows
  14. ST PATRICKS DAY
  15. MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online
  16. Open Thread: Admitted
  17. Open Thread: Waitlisted
  18. Open Thread: Not Admitted
  19. Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world
  20. Taking the L: Part ✌️
  21. meet the simmons elevators!
  22. Eating Studio Ghibli Foods 🌾
  23. What is engineering, anyways?
  24. moving on, as shown through free t-shirts
  25. Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post)
  26. I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025
  27. Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics
  28. GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025]
  29. Hydranting My Spring Semester
  30. [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application
  31. ms paint sidequest
  32. Bad Ideas Month
  33. Night at da Opera
  34. [live blog] BLUEPRINT 2025
  35. Tour de Frat

February 2025

  1. Colors of Campus
  2. what makes fear worth it
  3. parallels or juxtapositions
  4. notes on hope
  5. I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost
  6. sticker stories
  7. What Is This, a Crossover Episode?
  8. SONIC JUBILANCE
  9. Fall 2024 🍂
  10. a house tour of mit sororities!
  11. small changes feeling big
  12. How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT
  13. Polymer Police
  14. notes from a week of new classes
  15. Electrical Engineering V-Day Doodles
  16. [guest blog] y(I)APping
  17. UROP reveal!!
  18. Ssp
  19. clay crash course
  20. anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀
  21. I FINALLY PASSED THE SWIM TEST!!!!
  22. I have senioritis
  23. It’s Not Bra-Ket Science
  24. snake doodles🐍🐍
  25. GELcamp
  26. real things
  27. How to Make Money at MIT
  28. happy LFDOC!
  29. (another) postcard from GTL spain

January 2025

  1. Where the Free Things Are
  2. the blogs at twenty
  3. Affirmations
  4. rearview reflections
  5. Thoughts from the Dungeon
  6. in search of lost time
  7. You always have been
  8. infinite corridors
  9. Everything is different now
  10. I’m Still Here (for now)
  11. throughlines
  12. Living Meaningfully
  13. In which I am somehow still an MIT student
  14. The After
  15. Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing
  16. A Great Hunger
  17. Liminal Activities Period
  18. 6.5 Years Post-Graduation, I’m a Beading Artist
  19. Memories
  20. Repilot
  21. Three patterns from the pattern language of my life
  22. Mystery Hunt mile markers
  23. Ten Years (On Dreams)
  24. Full Circle
  25. Hi again (and goodbye)
  26. Don’t forget to check in with yourself
  27. Things change, but the friends remain
  28. MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School
  29. 14 years later
  30. That rings a bell
  31. I may have been accepted to MIT, but
  32. what i talk about when i talk about running
  33. Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years
  34. [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth
  35. I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog
  36. It’s been a long road…
  37. the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻
  38. what i ate in a month*
  39. Jill Biden waved at me
  40. Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now?
  41. Reporting from… Doha! 🐫🐫
  42. [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT
  43. Final projects from the fall
  44. 2.009: the product engineering process
  45. MARC 2025 (not a live blog)
  46. what I’m doing this IAP
  47. [Guest Post] Your Guide to Boston Cafes
  48. shifting seasons
  49. [Liveblog] MARC 2025
  50. [live blogging] astronomy field camp
  51. 2024 in Review
  52. Creative craze
  53. books I read in 2024, ranked
  54. reviewing MIT’s Intro To Deep Learning
  55. a postcard from GTL Spain
  56. LOOK AT MY NOTION!!!!!! 🌱
  57. Top Ten of All Time; 2024 Edition ft. Barack Obama
  58. (Not) Home for the Holidays
  59. letter to my 2023 self
  60. everything i made this year

2024 211

December 2024

  1. Minesweeper Monday
  2. hihi i’m back
  3. Pictures from a Semester of Classes
  4. new york without instagram
  5. how i (kinda) studied for finals
  6. parallel universe
  7. MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online
  8. Open Thread: Admitted Early
  9. Open Thread: Deferred Early
  10. Open Thread: Not Admitted Early
  11. holidays in boston
  12. simfinite hopscotch!
  13. Saturday Night in Simmons
  14. Blogger Wrapped 2024
  15. a blog from the universe
  16. A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth
  17. DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN??
  18. a text convo on failure
  19. MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Tuesday, 12/17/24, at 6:28 PM ET
  20. [joint liveblog] finding the BALANCE with 2.009
  21. we made things and want to show them to you
  22. Aiden Wrapped
  23. what’s in the box?
  24. How to Build an LED Acrylic Sign

November 2024

  1. I love musicals!
  2. [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters
  3. Things I did instead of thinking
  4. [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors
  5. chances
  6. Unveiling the New Varsity Weight Room
  7. And the Whistle Blows
  8. FYI: Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025
  9. 🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖
  10. *THE* double
  11. tick tick tick
  12. Mathisms
  13. How I lost aura points
  14. “what if I get rejected”
  15. I tried* to run to the airport
  16. If I ever come back
  17. [joint post] blogston commons
  18. someday
  19. 24 Pumpkins
  20. Ellie on the M.T.A.
  21. what i ate in a week*
  22. This blog post was written by a winner
  23. all the notes i took in a week
  24. I watched the sunrise this morning
  25. I think I am slowly going insane
  26. The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟
  27. The Craziest 3 Days of Soccer Ever
  28. people appreciation post
  29. halloween down the infinite

October 2024

  1. The Photos of Freshman Spring 📸
  2. Learning about the ABCs
  3. i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me
  4. My highest achievement at MIT.
  5. The Romance of Learning
  6. I walk a lonely road
  7. Sweet summer song
  8. look at the stars
  9. love in the time of unlimited data
  10. Taking the L
  11. how the first midterms actually were
  12. Pictures from a Month into Classes
  13. If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester…
  14. climbing the wall
  15. Trail Notes
  16. The Halls are Alive
  17. [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort

September 2024

  1. a lesson in the feminine arts
  2. this ain’t (not) Texas
  3. turning back time
  4. I Don’t Know
  5. In the Music Cubes, no one can hear you scream…
  6. 必须好 – pt. 1
  7. The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖
  8. get SLAPped!
  9. Pics from the WMBRBQ!
  10. things that made me happy lately
  11. hokey pokey
  12. greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity
  13. tunes of interphase!
  14. dance dance dance!
  15. LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳
  16. how not to be a mathematician
  17. learning how to drive
  18. From First Visit to First Week
  19. a year of counting fish
  20. New bloggers? New bloggers!
  21. [joint post] a guide to mit gyms
  22. [joint post] a guide to mit gyms
  23. What I’m taking this semester!
  24. 4 comfort songs for your first day
  25. We’re So Back
  26. Painting by number
  27. Pre-Sophomore Year

August 2024

  1. “What the hell is water?”
  2. my summer internship
  3. Social Engineering
  4. MIT after SFFA
  5. Home Under the Dome
  6. [guest post] crumbly fruit and the importance of keeping at it
  7. [Guest Post] a space for women at mit
  8. TESS Science Conference III
  9. Christianity at MIT
  10. feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately
  11. Home is where the Heart is

July 2024

  1. my STORY of helping Wyoming students shoot for the STARS
  2. A Summer in DC
  3. My Product Design Internship in Austin
  4. I Hate Superman.
  5. summertime!
  6. All the 2024 i3 videos megapost
  7. Be a Blogger 2024!

June 2024

  1. Becoming a Mad Scientist
  2. My ML model finished training right after I finished this post
  3. Italy
  4. the world is blooming!
  5. AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post)
  6. done with the b.s.
  7. checked off

May 2024

  1. updates
  2. Doesn’t Feel Real
  3. I Hate the Last
  4. [Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28
  5. Backstage at the CPW Closing Show
  6. [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore
  7. Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope!
  8. chasing the aurora
  9. tell your friends you love them
  10. Cubes, Tetrahedrons, and Wind Chimes
  11. I painted a mural for Borderline!
  12. i stole a vhs player!
  13. browser archaeology
  14. tote bag tour

April 2024

  1. an orange tour
  2. Flipping Failure
  3. packing for the road
  4. CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour
  5. thoughts on math@MIT!
  6. cleats on feet, smile on face
  7. Lessons from Loomis and Whitney
  8. eclipse chasing, undergrad edition
  9. what’s the point?
  10. MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality
  11. What Your Campus Wheels Say About You
  12. Snippets of Iceland
  13. total eclipse of the cruft
  14. radio society out of context
  15. Welcome to CPW!
  16. finding place
  17. Spring Break.

March 2024

  1. F kx
  2. 2026 ring premiere!
  3. an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial
  4. Something to chalk about
  5. B1ner Cribs
  6. welding 1000 digits of pi
  7. Pirates and Pi and Rats and Pie and Rats (except there are no rats)
  8. classes i’m taking this spring
  9. MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online
  10. Open Thread: Admitted
  11. Open Thread: Waitlisted
  12. Open Thread: Not Admitted
  13. No Ceilings
  14. IAP Cooking
  15. Beaverheimer (Pi Day 2024)
  16. loveallurfriends
  17. am I doing this all wrong?
  18. Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

February 2024

  1. art block
  2. rural winter, city winter
  3. Home(sick) for the Holidays
  4. love letter to the ‘tute
  5. An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion
  6. how to succeed in business without really trying
  7. Christmas in February
  8. [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E
  9. Winter Sports at MIT
  10. can’t stop smiling
  11. A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 2)
  12. We’re Only Getting Older
  13. [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT?
  14. We Stan Matt Parker
  15. ripping shirts
  16. Jebby Awards 2024: See All the Winners Here
  17. A Week of UROPing

January 2024

  1. the Big Rocks are calling and I must go
  2. things i miss and don’t miss
  3. A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words
  4. This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard
  5. [Live Writing] MARC 2024
  6. things i have done since leaving school
  7. How to train your sticking-together rock
  8. hello, after six years
  9. take care of the boy from story who was put in water as a baby
  10. learning about Things!!
  11. For the next two weeks we will all use fewer words here
  12. snapshot diary 2.0
  13. Uncanny Valley
  14. “You are capable of more than you know.”
  15. In which I “get a life” again
  16. How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings,
  17. welding spiels
  18. go alone
  19. in this coming year we run
  20. what I did this semester
  21. My 2023 Libby Wrapped
  22. Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024
  23. firsts of first year

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December 2023

  1. I Miss College Application Season
  2. I swear this isn’t an ad for Google
  3. The Sophomore Stupid
  4. the pieces
  5. the contours of a wild ride
  6. my gap year of nothing and everything
  7. class sketching
  8. djent is not a djenre
  9. 6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness
  10. lots of words and a tungsten cube
  11. MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online
  12. Open Thread: Admitted Early
  13. Open Thread: Deferred Early
  14. Open Thread: Not Admitted Early
  15. Waiting…
  16. the mortifying ordeal of being known
  17. Watch the “Wild” 2023 Final Presentations for 2.009: Product Engineering Processes
  18. MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/16/23, at 12:16 PM ET
  19. Blogger Wrapped 2023
  20. grad school vs. undergrad
  21. Music for Pre-decisions De-stressing
  22. my shattered laptop
  23. GUYS IT SNOWED!!
  24. SIMMONS GOT A TRAMPOLINE!!!
  25. Curseroad
  26. many pink dresses
  27. a fun bet
  28. ‘Til the Net Breaks
  29. Blogger Retreat 2023
  30. transitions
  31. art things #1

November 2023

  1. Always the Art Kid
  2. I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1)
  3. why i didn’t post over the summer (oops)
  4. Semester of poetry
  5. eat food to live
  6. chugging along
  7. It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown!
  8. journey to the end of the world
  9. a time capsule of east campus
  10. dumb little poems and such
  11. Fall Adventures
  12. Home 2
  13. it’s getting colder and i’m getting older
  14. %e2%98%85%e2%98%85%e2%98%85%e2%98%85%e2%98%86
  15. Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT”
  16. november again
  17. tim’s wardrobe

October 2023

  1. A Week in the Life of a Student-Athlete
  2. requiem for the desert
  3. How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube?
  4. Repainting the Smoots
  5. I failed the Swim Test!
  6. and i’d do it again
  7. Collections
  8. close your eyes and put your finger on the map
  9. Noise and time
  10. Better ways to get around campus
  11. Walk Across Rhode Island
  12. sitting down
  13. Nobel Prizes in your pocket
  14. In many ways
  15. Baseball!!
  16. Attack of the Acronyms
  17. My Summer in Japan
  18. Setbacks

September 2023

  1. Misconceptions
  2. How to make a glass pumpkin
  3. river and rainwater
  4. i dissected a roach
  5. browser archaeology
  6. dogg number
  7. climbing and becoming
  8. Fall Sports at MIT
  9. Strands
  10. walking into the MEng
  11. welcoming our new bloggers!
  12. Simmons Cat
  13. Food for Thought [guest post]
  14. four ways to unstrip a screw
  15. so you’re starting your first year?

August 2023

  1. making meaning
  2. life, with the brass rat
  3. leaving season
  4. Taste
  5. The MIT Major Arcana
  6. flowers of fire and light
  7. a not-so-cruel summer
  8. Happier Than Ever
  9. Walking the Kerry Way
  10. in Black Valley Hostel
  11. Folding with Flair
  12. telling the tale

July 2023

  1. classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already
  2. things that are golden, part 2
  3. quiet moments
  4. BLÅHAJ: the Internet meme, the trans icon, the world’s favorite plush
  5. A Pre-MIT To-Do List
  6. here’s everything i thought about in 25 minutes
  7. Train Coming
  8. existential cubes
  9. We Really Aren’t Kids Anymore
  10. sophomore spring
  11. in remembrance of my sticker collections
  12. Hydrate Happy
  13. Be a Blogger 2023!

June 2023

  1. Skill Issues
  2. Drawing from Life
  3. Summer On-Campus #2
  4. Somatic
  5. 6.115 Microcomputer Lab!
  6. Failing
  7. how i feel about ai-generated art
  8. Reaffirming our commitment to diversity
  9. memorial for a dorm
  10. “i can only draw stick figures”
  11. All the 2023 i3 videos megapost
  12. Bookends
  13. MIT Gala
  14. goodbye
  15. ways of saying goodbye
  16. thank you notes
  17. goodbye goodbye goodbye
  18. [guest post] time passes from spirit island

May 2023

  1. they want to see you fail
  2. dance dance revolution
  3. The Oreo Post
  4. [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Paradiso
  5. 10,000 Ways That Won’t Work
  6. 18.S190 Pt.2
  7. last concert
  8. My blogger bio over time
  9. burning out past the finish line
  10. “So, what HAVE you been doing?”
  11. i don’t want to say goodbye
  12. Ranking Every Class I Took at MIT
  13. defining the future
  14. I am finished with my undergraduate career.
  15. every day it gets a little easier
  16. selecting for obsession
  17. Zeno’s Paradox
  18. classes are over!!!!
  19. Every song I’ve referenced
  20. Parental advice, revisited…
  21. branches
  22. the luxury of bad art
  23. Fredventure, Part 3
  24. Living
  25. smoke and spice
  26. stories
  27. slow burn
  28. art in burton conner
  29. SHASS Hack
  30. recently read
  31. clownazoo
  32. prophecies
  33. Fredventure, Part 2
  34. Circles, circles, circles
  35. coming off the path

April 2023

  1. running out of time
  2. what we mean when we say the people
  3. Your credit history is too short
  4. why i chose mit
  5. New Major in Climate System Science and Engineering
  6. Mist in the streets of Boston
  7. dtyd weekend
  8. how to meet curious people
  9. Fredventure, Part 1
  10. crazy party weekend
  11. Too busy to write a blog, check out my playlist instead
  12. Happy Homestuck Day!
  13. Hottest ever CPW
  14. spring break in San Juan
  15. False Precision
  16. avoiding responsibility
  17. DRAW TIM (the beaver)
  18. Reaching for the STARS*
  19. miserable and magical
  20. dinners with friends
  21. winning
  22. 17 Ridiculously Useful Tips Every Blogger Should Know
  23. Announcing new blogger avatars!
  24. [joint post] part 1: a jaunt across Europe

March 2023

  1. CMU / Parallel Universe
  2. Beantown.
  3. [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1)
  4. it’s been thirteen days
  5. You don’t have to be a founder
  6. making art for fun
  7. How Hard is MIT?
  8. Letters from the 2023 decisions threads
  9. Write about Tea
  10. just do it
  11. 21M.712: Choreography — Making Dances
  12. Non-Blinding
  13. 168 Hours
  14. choosing
  15. BREAK MY BODY, LIBERATE MY SOUL
  16. things that make noises
  17. MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online
  18. Open Thread: Admitted
  19. Open Thread: Waitlisted
  20. Open Thread: Not Admitted
  21. MIT-vangelion: Behind the scenes!
  22. [Guest Post] The Southbound Train
  23. an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs
  24. SnowDays
  25. MIT-vangelion (Pi Day 2023)
  26. gesturing around MIT
  27. Changes that I’m making this semester
  28. what your favorite study spot says about you
  29. study spots at MIT
  30. you’re on your own, kid
  31. I went to TwitchCon
  32. Solar Catsby
  33. faith in the future
  34. [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away
  35. work expands

February 2023

  1. major takeaways: from every semester of mit
  2. self-destruction
  3. Radio Nerd Shenanigans
  4. All the food in my cabinet
  5. yo-yos, comics, and other adventures
  6. Anew
  7. at the South Asian Youth Initiative
  8. happy singles awareness day
  9. Some Art About Other Art
  10. leaving
  11. Ten days of live-action roleplaying
  12. Introducing MIT Illuminations at the Welcome Center
  13. Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life
  14. I Hate Change
  15. [guest post] on undergrad
  16. Untitled Pigeon Post
  17. Ten
  18. love is stored in the yarn
  19. Every Piece of Media I Consumed in My First Week of Class
  20. feeling old
  21. i will miss learning and dressing up everyday
  22. everyone i know goes away in the end
  23. winter in Brazil
  24. last first day (take 3)
  25. it’s always day 1
  26. i was sick when i wrote this :(
  27. Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep?
  28. i made furry art for Caltech
  29. positive and negative energy
  30. winter things
  31. The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version)
  32. church gardens
  33. So, What Exactly Happens?
  34. “So what’s being a blogger like?”

January 2023

  1. Tips for applying to UROPs
  2. Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later
  3. the npc life
  4. MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education
  5. happy year of the rabbit
  6. W m
  7. hike the desert
  8. Purgatory
  9. academic struggles
  10. i don’t know where you’re going
  11. dress your wounds and stay in bed
  12. i wish we’d grown up on the same advice
  13. Diarios de Madrid: Semana 1
  14. the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset
  15. Bright IAP
  16. eighty hours (pt. 4)
  17. eighty hours (pt. 3)
  18. (Bitter)sweet home
  19. eighty hours (pt. 2)
  20. dont want to write
  21. eighty hours (pt. 1)
  22. writing gary wang’s wikipedia page
  23. Above Ground
  24. every book I read in 2022
  25. HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD
  26. meandering
  27. What I made in my documentary class
  28. New Game
  29. Communication Intensive
  30. writing and faeries
  31. Fonts of MIT
  32. an album a day
  33. 23andme
  34. intention

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December 2022

  1. uncertainty
  2. Under Water
  3. lookin’ at the blur of this semester
  4. checkboxes
  5. difficult difficult lemon difficult
  6. a semester in glass!
  7. 18.S190
  8. rating classes from this semester
  9. plastic knives spraypainted silver
  10. Links Sent to My Group Chat
  11. I Feel *a* Last
  12. final exam distributions
  13. [Guest Post] GetSimmons!
  14. Things I enjoyed reading in 2022
  15. Is This All I Ever Will Be?
  16. Worms, Revisited
  17. MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online
  18. Open Thread: Admitted Early
  19. Open Thread: Deferred Early
  20. Open Thread: Not Admitted Early
  21. ice skating
  22. making solar cells
  23. Look at these pictures I drew in class
  24. the hardest you’ve ever worked
  25. Monologuing
  26. MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Saturday, 12/17/22, 12:17 PM ET
  27. first real snow!!
  28. LSC Presents: Black Panther 2
  29. “the worst they can say is no”
  30. blogger wrapped 2022
  31. Simple Harmonic Motivation
  32. i’m back .gif
  33. is leadership the same as management
  34. Growing Pains
  35. laser-powered happiness
  36. Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall!
  37. 21M.285: The Beatles
  38. I made an AI write most of this post
  39. hero’s journey with a splash
  40. Choose My Senior Spring Classes for Me

November 2022

  1. whiplash
  2. Video games I’ve played this semester
  3. 08 rules
  4. a hackathon, a marathon
  5. What’s in an MIT Student’s Bag
  6. art and work
  7. gratitude
  8. Don’t Eat the Hot Glass
  9. I DON’T NEED YOU ANYMORE.
  10. i don’t know how to comfort people
  11. I failed an exam last week
  12. beautiful moments
  13. Putz and Tetazoo are friends!!
  14. beauty is overrated
  15. [joint post] give us your words
  16. best places to sleep on campus
  17. “i’m not depressed!”
  18. Starting over sucks
  19. a farewell to my phone
  20. I Can Talk to Anyone
  21. Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post]
  22. how dorm structure shapes social life
  23. ambition
  24. Make a Lamp!
  25. Out Sick
  26. How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs
  27. The Best and Worst Places to 💩 on Campus
  28. Fun things I’ve done lately!
  29. Black Panther 2 Plot (Totally Real) (Not Clickbait) (Please Click Anyway Though)
  30. i quit an internship on the second day
  31. back to high school
  32. blind spots
  33. bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things
  34. Is This All?
  35. Immaterial Girl in a Material World

October 2022

  1. senioritis
  2. This is why we can’t have nice things
  3. Always Rooting for the Anti-Hero
  4. Womanhood
  5. Living the MEng life
  6. My Life Is In Shambles…
  7. On psets and projects
  8. Fwacc
  9. Let’s talk about interviews
  10. falling in love with october
  11. Exam Cram
  12. how to move carts
  13. The Concert / The View
  14. mid semester check-in
  15. [guest post] The Random Hall Milk: Gone But Not Forgotten
  16. Meeting our new president!
  17. A New Year, A New President
  18. mit made me rational
  19. someone’s gotta do it, but not me
  20. 5 Halloween Costume Ideas for MIT Students
  21. Pigeonholing
  22. Comments on A Boring Friday
  23. MIT: REGRESSIONS
  24. Sensations
  25. contradictions
  26. LSC – It Doesn’t Suck!
  27. how i handle canker sores
  28. Picture Yourself as a Worm
  29. A Boring Friday
  30. data diaries
  31. sunscreen
  32. Taking 3 math classes this semester
  33. The Art of Trying New Things V.2
  34. I Miss the South
  35. on the question “where are you from?”

September 2022

  1. frosh thingies
  2. 10 things I learned in 10 projects
  3. we named 2124 cities of the world
  4. carly SLAY jepsen
  5. Amicus briefs and the ABCs of a diverse MIT
  6. it is the escape
  7. [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT
  8. food consumed this week, mostly free
  9. Next House (on Wheels)
  10. 2,024 liked songs
  11. Student holiday!
  12. why do you do what you do
  13. A Part of Me
  14. A Half-Century Retrospective
  15. MITWE Goes Digital
  16. Exercises in Style
  17. re-orienting
  18. unicorns
  19. papurgatory
  20. Atomic Friends
  21. The CrimZone.
  22. scheduling woes
  23. My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined
  24. I Hate the First
  25. Introducing the baby bloggers!
  26. rush wilg
  27. Impressions of a Harvard Class
  28. every class i went to during the first week of fall
  29. last fall / last fall
  30. A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year
  31. Your last first day
  32. You’re doing it wrong
  33. [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus!
  34. magicians
  35. I get a temporary cat
  36. motivation
  37. is everyone growing up without me?
  38. my last first day
  39. A poem for every day of August
  40. It Lives.
  41. life lessons from my internship
  42. REXachusetts Institute of Technology

August 2022

  1. five things I love about New York
  2. what i drew this summer
  3. The seniors are tired but the frosh are fine
  4. a few new things
  5. Tales of Two Parallels
  6. baby steps
  7. sharp and soft
  8. institutional memory
  9. A Day at the Forge
  10. the lying lives of adults
  11. Maiden Voyages
  12. Lessons Learned from (Watching) D&D
  13. by bike, by train, by wind, by rain
  14. and they’re going to better places
  15. everything i cooked this summer
  16. your best american girl
  17. i feel completely fine
  18. I Should’ve Been Working When I Drew These
  19. Sophomore Fall Goals
  20. work-life balance
  21. A day at Seaborg Technologies
  22. I am reading so many books!
  23. you ain’t gonna need it
  24. novelty
  25. bumpers
  26. everything, all at once

July 2022

  1. in which i blog again
  2. Chalk of the Week
  3. train of thought
  4. what i’m up to this summer
  5. Becoming a better programmer
  6. Too Good To Go
  7. you can care about things
  8. a day in my life as a MISTI student
  9. feeling grown up
  10. pole dancing and punching things
  11. to now and forever
  12. a night in hannover
  13. welcome to new york
  14. [Guest Post] The Alleyway
  15. here i go again
  16. Questions from Beyond
  17. [joint post] unsubscribe
  18. [joint post] unsubscribe
  19. and they were roommates
  20. Work
  21. on knowing what I’m doing
  22. Be a Blogger 2022!
  23. [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces

June 2022

  1. solace in the self
  2. Sk8
  3. COPENHELL
  4. soulsearching / coding
  5. City Strangers
  6. to build a (taste of) home
  7. things i wish i could do
  8. how to sail against the wind
  9. Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One
  10. what happened yesterday?
  11. tea shirt
  12. fish metaphors
  13. bay area parties
  14. An American in Copenhagen
  15. I did not graduate on time
  16. starting
  17. Summer On-Campus
  18. [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova
  19. Don’t Stop Believing
  20. Super Sketchy Background Activity
  21. by the time you notice it’s too late
  22. post-semester paradise
  23. catching up
  24. MNL → BOS → SFO
  25. All the 2022 i3 videos megapost

May 2022

  1. turn out the lights
  2. Me and the Firehose
  3. a jaunt to Philadelphia
  4. the first day of work
  5. you & i will always be back then
  6. I went to a motorcycle festival
  7. taking care
  8. Making my Ring Delivery Dress
  9. defense
  10. I painted my door!
  11. My freshman year is almost over
  12. i (don’t) want to be alone
  13. Avatar
  14. my last undergraduate monday
  15. my problem list
  16. An interview with AoPS
  17. dealing with loss
  18. On Trauma, and MIT
  19. Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd
  20. choosing where to go

April 2022

  1. Let’s think about my future plans!
  2. random thoughts about choices
  3. who started the fire? (not clickbait)
  4. swatches of MIT
  5. zero knowledge
  6. Today 2
  7. at least it’s not covid
  8. 21W.762 Poetry Workshop
  9. Declared My Major :D
  10. My dorm room’s 24-year history
  11. glassblowing & me
  12. two years after my book auction
  13. in the prospect of leaving
  14. spring break!
  15. amongst the stars
  16. ode to grocery stores
  17. Hold your breath
  18. synthesis
  19. Julia’s Day Out
  20. my first spring break!!!
  21. a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon
  22. how to tackle CPW
  23. i’d like to write a happy post
  24. CPW Problem: What Can People Wear?
  25. (Guest Post) esolangs
  26. Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret
  27. 10 Fun (and REAL) Facts About MIT!

March 2022

  1. Everything Everywhere All At Once
  2. We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles
  3. The long view
  4. childhood and disney world trips
  5. there is no time left
  6. tryharding
  7. (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not
  8. speculation
  9. Touching grass
  10. Stuff that happened on Pi Day (besides decisions)
  11. MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online
  12. Open Thread: Admitted
  13. Open Thread: Waitlisted
  14. Open Thread: Not Admitted
  15. Crafts for Ukraine~
  16. Creating the MIT-verse
  17. on a stage in black and red
  18. ignorance
  19. into the pi day verse
  20. in transit
  21. New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops)
  22. weld your own bike

February 2022

  1. Lies in MIT, lies about MIT
  2. Visiting the Museum of Science
  3. Semester Two
  4. oh, the crash
  5. aquaporin adventures
  6. tetacats
  7. on fitness, health, and food
  8. Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept
  9. Ring Delivered
  10. the happy ending is you
  11. knot again
  12. Caring for the body
  13. zero bandwidth
  14. Mocha Show ’22: Mo’Mixtape
  15. tired and busy and tired and busy
  16. Intertwined
  17. Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner
  18. 2024 ring premiere!
  19. on wordle, french toast, and copyright law
  20. Friday Night, Off-Campus Style
  21. nothing & everything again & again
  22. still a physics major
  23. dear kuya
  24. my room
  25. love languages
  26. sea glass
  27. some IAP adventures
  28. 22 Hiatus Adventures
  29. 2021 Reflections & 2022 Resolutions
  30. day one, six out of eight
  31. happy lunar new year
  32. teaching web.lab

January 2022

  1. growing over time
  2. the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech
  3. [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab
  4. how to make a minecraft bot
  5. The future isn’t the answer
  6. this blogger does not exist
  7. IAP trip to the natural history museum!
  8. looking at old journals
  9. Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later
  10. Cleaning
  11. cognitive augmentation
  12. *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is—
  13. In The City That Never Sleeps
  14. 30 questions with my roommates!
  15. bored in iap
  16. Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing
  17. Trust
  18. a conversation with my mom at 1 am
  19. The joys of web development
  20. hold me (but not too close)
  21. [Guest Post] Rush Course 12
  22. snapshot diary
  23. living the sloth life
  24. major uncertainty
  25. actual conversations i definitely had last night
  26. Four Friendly Body Pillows
  27. A Recap of My Junior Fall

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