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  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 / Miscellaneous

  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. '26
  • 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.edu⁠23 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-Conner⁠30 one of the dorms at MIT, also where i live GRAs ⁠31 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 / Athletics

  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.⁠42 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 Campus⁠46 east of Massachusetts Ave., where most of the academic buildings are , I spend a lot of…

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  Hey folks, it’s been a while. I’ve been very focused and not in a writing mood for the last couple months, but I’m back and I’m excited to start cooking.…

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  How do you raise hundreds of thousands of dollars, design the merch that defines half of campus fashion, build software that powers hackathons from around the world, and do everything…

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  In Milan I was constantly toeing the line between speaking solely in English, which I feared would make me seem like an entitled American who thought the whole world should…

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how the first midterms actually were xoxo gossip girl?

  

  Contrary to popular (and probably well-founded) belief, I once was psychic. Not only did I successfully predict the 2021 Pantone Color of the Year (with a Google Slideshow as evidence)…

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 15, 2024