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  A Week of UROPing in few words

  

  The first month of the year is a beautiful time for students here: no every-day classes, no problem sets, no only a few last-minute, late nights. Without classes this month…

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!

  

  I thought about writing about walking on Big Rocks in the cold after this up goer five thing ended, since I wish nothing but to use normal words again. But…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  things i miss and don’t miss who is this guy? 🤔

  

  In 1984, a book lots of people have read, the people in control made some words easier, because it stops people from making big thoughts to kick out the people…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  Part of the Up-Goer-Five Game. This Eye-A-Piece, I did a lot of things. When i heard from the “big man of the computer space” that we were doing up-goer five,…

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  I love to play with big weird words, so writing in Up-Goer Five makes me feel like my brain has broken and turned into soft food for babies 🫠. But…

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things

  

    January 23, 5:00 pm Today is the first day of MARC 2024 (the Meeting about Amazingly-small Rocks and Computers), and I get to be there this year! MARC is…

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  things i have done since leaving school but only in the ten hundred most used words

  

  ~~~ cut off all my hair moved to city where the sun is out every day but it is still cold worked at a big place where people watch games…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  One of the coolest things about building and studying computers is taking rocks and training them to add and remember numbers. Wow! Rocks usually do not (and should not) know…

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  hello, after six years

  

  i have been here and there, the last six years. i think a lot of people have felt this way, because of the way that many people got very sick…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  take care of the boy from story who was put in water as a baby i am back to talk about moving the body again

  

  two years ago i wrote about how to walk in the best way. but i forgot to think about something important: the type and form of the foot. now i…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  After three and a half years of being at this school, I’ve taken quite a few classes. What have I even learned from them? I’m bad at remembering numbers (sometimes…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  For the next two weeks we will all use fewer words here

  

  It is a New Year now and I hope it is good for you. Ten years ago this time we had a thing where the students who write for us,…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  1/14/24 A while back, just over 2 years ago, I wrote a similar blog to this one, in which I recounted the days of the semester through images. I love…

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Uncanny Valley im gonna make you shit your pants

  

  Uncanny valley is a phenomenon where an eerie and unsettling feeling arises when looking at something human-like. This is why humanoid robots, zombies, corpses, and occasionally anthropomorphic animals may sometimes…

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  Over this past summer, I spent a lot of time filling out all of those “get to know you” forms for roommates and advisors and whatever other MIT things were…

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  [HEY! NOTE: If you are looking for the real, scientific reason of how albatross fly, this is probably not the place to look. I give an explanation, but my source…

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  One of my favorite places on campus is the Metropolis makerspace. It’s where I learned how to 3D print, lasercut, weld, and fiddle with electronics. It’s where I realized that…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  ‎ The water is painted with soft teal waves and tinged with an amber glow. I’m sitting on a cold concrete slab, where the tides would normally spill over. I…

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  In review — it’s been a good year. In reverse-chronological order, I… full sent a project, which was cool No one in my life has heard about this at all,…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  Compared to the previous, this semester was less tumultuous, more of a steady rush of things-to-do rather than a series of breathless waves. It helped that I got an early…

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024