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• Blog / Blog Projects

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

  

  creds to Allison for the post title <3  welcome to today’s episode of m*thbusters!⁠01 censored bc idk if it's trademarked or not today, we’re clearing out some classic misconceptions that…

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  This summer, my friends in LA kept telling me I hadn’t changed at all since high school. I expected to feel annoyed: in an objective sense, I’m a lot better…

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  24 Pumpkins a journey through the streets of Boston

  

  As a person who hails from a land devoid of seasons, I consider it my utmost duty to take advantage of any fall-related activities that come my way. Amongst other…

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Ellie on the M.T.A. writing about the T, on the T

  

  I grew up without any public transportation. The closest thing we had in Arkansas was an old-fashioned tram system in Little Rock, and a single bus route that I don’t…

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  what i ate in a week* living the influencer life (clickbait included)

  

  note: i wrote this as a project for #BlogstonCommons, which was a mini-outing-blog-challenge that i did with a few other bloggers where we just tried to write a blog as…

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  This blog post was written by a winner my entry for #BlogstonCommons

  

  Author’s note: I wrote this for a challenge that I participated in with Janet ’27, Allison ’27, Ellie ’28, and Sara ’28! I won by hitting 500 words first, which was the…

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the notes i took in a week riveting stuff, i know

  

  Not too long ago, my desk was covered in every variety of stationary imaginable- brush pens, washi tape, wax stamps, glitter pens, you get the gist…  Today, my collection of…

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Pictures of what Could Have Been drawings i made for blog posts that i didn't end up posting

  

  I’ve been cleaning up my collection of drawings in Procreate, and I keep coming across drawings for blog posts that I decided not to publish. I thought it’d be fun…

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  I watched the sunrise this morning

  

  one of the reasons I love dawn is it reminds me that the sun will always rise on my worst of days during my best of times no matter what…

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  Last week, Professor Han made an exciting announcement during 6.5940 (TinyML) lecture: the class was holding a competition, with AI development boards (worth $500+) as the top prizes! The competition…

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  One email. Over forty recipients. Scraped from search.mit.edu⁠38 a convenient place to find EVERY MIT PERSON EVER , I assembled a mailing list of faculty, grad students, undergraduates, and more.…

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  The Craziest 3 Days of Soccer Ever broken records, halloween practice, and senior day!

  

  Hey, everyone! It’s time for everyone’s favorite update… soccer season!! We just wrapped up our regular season, and I wanted to share the last three days that led up to…

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  in the past months, I have felt the impact of various people around me on the quality of my life with full force. MIT is so vast and there are…

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Photos of Freshman Spring 📸 My attempt to take a photo a day for an entire semester.

  

  The summer before college was my last summer of being 18, and thus my last year of eligibility for a ~special program~ my local library ran. They had little booklets…

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • October 31, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  The Apple Bake Competition is an annual event held by the Burton-Conner⁠45 one of the dorms at MIT, also where i live GRAs ⁠46 Graduate Resident Advisors, aka Real Adults…

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

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  I’ve always been a little bit of a hypochondriac, and while that is probably connected to a lot of deeper things than this blog can go into, there is one…

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  My highest achievement at MIT.

  

    Third to last day of the archery class I took for my final PE requirement The instructor let me take it home! I SPLIT AN ARROW Edit: Okay, it…

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2024
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?

  We require letters of recommendation for our application. We strongly recommend having one letter from a math/science teacher, and one from a humanities, social science, or language teacher. Additionally, a…
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  I took a test early last week for my Japanese language and culture class.⁠57 21G.S55: Japanese V I woke up early that morning to study for it, scrubbing the sleep…

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  As a resident of Simmons, one of the farthest dorms from Main Campus⁠61 east of Massachusetts Ave., where most of the academic buildings are , I spend a lot of…

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024