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  MIT launches AI Education website I worked on this cool thing for my UROP!

  

  I usually don’t make *official* posts, so I’ll try to keep this one only mildly official even though it is straight up an advertisement. As some frequent readers of the…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  keeping interest a list of things i think are cool

  

  For the past week, I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do with my life and my time. I’m currently on a track at MIT to pursue…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 4, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  since i’ve been home

  

  since i got home 19 days ago, i’ve been… playing the new animal crossing, whose tropical island setting and cute characters and mindless activities and already-brimming corpus of memes has…

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  What is a zonotope? Get a sheet of paper and draw some vectors in the plane, no two of which are parallel. I picked four vectors. In this picture, I…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cooking in Quarantine making all the recipes

  

  We watch a lot of cooking content. We really like making food, watching it being made, watching animated food being made (particularly in Ghibli movies and Ratatouille), and of course,…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  HELLO. So the last three weeks of my life have been absolutely FREAKING insane. As a brief overview, I have (in approximate order): Decided I wasn’t going home Packed up…

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What I’m Up To distractions

  

  Since everyone’s doing these kinds of “what i’m doing ever since my life got turned upside down”, I figured I might join in with the chaos. And hopefully, these things…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  My high school life was a cycle of home, school, and church. My parents were relatively strict about sleepovers and hanging out, so most of my friendships were limited to…

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the Love of Darties and ChemE An audio journey

  

  I believe the saying goes “everything was all good just two weeks ago.” Okay, it’s actually supposed to say “one week ago” but it definitely wasn’t good a week ago.…

  • by kellen manning
  • March 26, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Burton-Conner long live BC

  

  I’m a proud resident of Burton-Conner, a lovely dorm with nine floors of varying cultures. The dorm is being renovated starting next year, and although I’ll [hopefully]⁠18 I really don't…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  It’s been about ten days since I came home from MIT after the great COVID-19 ensued. A lot of people have been saying this, but this week has felt like…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  i walk through campus and say stuff i cannot vlog to save my life

  

  Behold. I attempted to vlog. I was bored and the weather outside was nice, so I thought I would go around MIT and take a video of myself staying stuff…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  Since January, I’ve been having a sort of crisis about my place at MIT. I realized I’ve been learning wrong my entire life, or at least when it came to…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year playlist 2/3 of a year in 25 songs

  

  music is really important to me. i swear to god, without Spotify, i would be nothing but an empty husk *dramatic sigh* making and curating playlists is one of my…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  A special announcement about SAT Subject Tests MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests

  

  MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests as part of the admissions process. You can read about our revised testing requirements here. I’m happy…

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving Self-Quarantine 101 tldr; memes (haha jk...unless)

  

  so…for the sake of social distancing, everyone’s trapped in their rooms. most public places are shut down, so there’s nowhere to go anyway….chances are that you’re bored out of your…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Last Minute Rehearsal music in the time of corona

  

  The past week has been total craziness. As previous blog posts covered, MIT, understandably, made all undergraduate students leave campus. As a result, all campus events, shows, concerts, etc. are…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  Last Thursday morning, I met with my therapist and told him about everything that’s happened since we last met, mostly focused on the developing situation at MIT. He’d already heard…

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  Disclaimer: I actually wrote this on my flight to California back in December, when EA decisions were first released. As a result, some of these are only relevant to my…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  This week, hands down, has been the most chaotic one of my life. I feel like I’ve lived so much in such a short span of time, which makes sense,…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020