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Blog / Academics & Research
Let’s Get Physical Olivia Newton-John, I am not, but I can still pretend.
's Department of Athletics, Physical Education, and Recreation (DAPER) is in charge of the physical education (PE) requirement that MIT students have the privilege of completing before grdauation. You can read more about -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
G(e)e^ks
First, a couple of questions answered. Vidal Carlos Garza asked ... you to someone who can)! That's part of why I'm here! He also asked ... of my blog is, in fact, part of a quote from Neil Gaiman's novel -
Blog / Residential Life
Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored
my dorm in a rented Penske truck. We piled all of my boxes and bags ... , some kitchen equipment, and a new pack of paper towel rolls from Costco – all of which I'll probably [annotation note="because I'm taking a Leave -
Blog / Academics & Research
What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project Where trendy styles = adding styling to trend lines
The last couple weeks of my fall semester were almost entirely ... ! For those of you who aren’t familiar, Computer Vision is the study of developing algorithms resulting in the high-level understanding of images by a -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Richard III: Behind-the-scenes [by Grace Kane '11, Guest Blogger] What does it take to put on Shakespeare at…
as large-scale or well-known as that of its nearby Ivy-league counterpart, there is still a contingent of incredibly talented, committed ... on a series of fantastic shows each term. This term I've been -
Blog / Uncategorized
winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity
culture, with tons of readings, movies, and museum visits each week. The ... taste of what I’ve done. [caption id="attachment_85363" align="aligncenter" width="225"] Sao Paulo is full of murals -- we saw this one on the drive -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections
In my junior year of high school, I had a phase of telling everyone ... from years of watching [annotation note="my favorites are coolirpa ... celebrate completing half of our undergraduate journey through hell the -
Blog / Challenges
processing in which I visit home and take time to think
the white bathroom ceiling of my childhood home, it really registered just how exhausted I was, from just over a month of being at college. It ... ; I’m intimately familiar with the feeling of overworking and of -
Blog / Academics & Research
school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks
's one i had the misfortune and privilege of taking three classes with ... of the projects were interesting and enjoyable to work on i. harmony and counterpoint i (21m.301) 21m.301 is one of the early music -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach
reflecting on how I've spent my time outside of class. Of the various activities I have tried here at MIT, teaching has stood out because of how it has consistently inspired me and given me a sense of fulfillment -
Blog / Life after MIT
Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…
College is generally held to be the last enchanted shore of youth. My ... . I haven't revisited these blogs in some time; the public ramblings of ... four hours of sleep tonight I'd be out of it for days), her idealism -
Blog / Admissions
How To Write A College Essay and other things too
Listen: writing well is hard. It is hard for a lot of different ... to guess. Sometimes it is hard because you have a lot of stories ... tumble out of you, all stiff and angular like a box of bent pipes. But -
Blog / Academics & Research
So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.
the forms and structures of argumentation, including organization of ideas, awareness of audience, methods of persuasion, evidence, factual vs. emotional argument, figures of speech, and historical forms and uses of -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…
with each addition of enjoyment. This bucket probably exists somewhere under the tunnels of MIT, and when it fills up past its capacity it tips ... there in the first place. My bucket sort of exploded last Saturday - and -
Blog / Academics & Research
First Days in NYC
externs of any in the entire program -- NICE. There are freshmen, sophomores, and juniors here, and we come from all sorts of majors -- Course 2: Mech ... , etc. The project I'm on deals with mutual funds. Since so much of what -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Structure and function, dorms and culture
's sort of backwards when you look at MIT undergraduate dorms and their ... is not actually east of Mass Ave) and Baker, Burton-Conner, Mc ... diversity, how is it that geography ended up such a predictor of "normal" vs -
Blog / Admissions
And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.
It's almost May. For those of us who are not on the waitlist committee, May 1 (really May 2, since May 1 is a Sunday) marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next. From an admissions perspective -
Blog / MIT Life
the world is blooming! and so am i?
with the colors of a tree: from green, to orange, to white, to pink, and ... ’s orchestra room door had a textbook version of these posters for their concert ... ="aligncenter" width="300"] btw this is 35 sheets of 17”x11” paper painstakingly de -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural
Since coming here, I've had two items at the top of my bucket list ... finish one of these last night! Borderline is a project that started in 2017, where students cover the walls of one of the campus tunnels with