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  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  I. October 2021. It all started last year when Jonathan H. ’25 asked Nicole H. ’22 and I quote, “Do you have time to waste?” He pulled up the iafisher.com…

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  Among my defining personality traits are playing 2048 in the year of our lord 2022 — many people have made fun of me for this, but it’s like a fidget…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  Amicus briefs and the ABCs of a diverse MIT A SCOTUS filing with Stanford et al, and a strategic action plan for an inclusive…

  

  A few weeks ago, MIT —  in conjunction with Stanford, IBM, and Aeris Communications —  filed an amicus brief⁠13 For those less familiar with American litigation practices, an amicus brief…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 27, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  特别的爱给特别的你 我的寂寞逃不过你的眼睛 This summer, during my three-month internship in Seattle,⁠16 which I will describe to you in painful detail in a later post. a group of intern friends and I…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  Mel: This is a guest post by my friend Mitali C. ’24, a course 20 and a very lovely soul, who I invited to write a post anytime. This is…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  food consumed this week, mostly free or: how to get away with rarely cooking

  

  People in dorms with dining halls occasionally ask me, “So in East Campus, what do you eat?” My answers have varied, from “Free food!” to “A lot of things,” to…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  I encountered the Next House moving carts on my first day at MIT. I remember walking up to the front desk, stomach full of butterflies and a little dread, and…

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2,024 liked songs spotify is my favorite social media

  

  A few weeks ago, I visited a friend at Harvard. She snuck me into the observatory. There were murals on the walls in a manner that distinctly reminded me of…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Student holiday! lots going on!

  

  Today’s an MIT student holiday! Years ago the faculty decided that students don’t have enough holidays, so they added some to the academic calendar, to guarantee each month has at…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  Recently, my friend rejected several people who were interested in him. This friend is single and would like to have a girlfriend, and these women had no obvious dealbreakers that…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  Warning: this blog features spoilers for the video game Celeste regarding the plot. I highly encourage you to play the game if you haven’t, it’s one of my favorite platformers.…

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITWE Goes Digital We stan Fred in this household 😤

  

  With all the WiFi problems in 32-123⁠64 One of the big lecture halls in the Stata Center and PE registration website outages, it’s easy to forget nowadays that MIT is…

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  It’s been—checks watch—two weeks since I last posted, which is a week’s gap longer than usual. Oops! As part of 21W.765 Interactive Narrative, we were assigned to read Raymond Queneau’s…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  re-orienting REX et al.

  

  dear past me,  I moved in last year on August 17th, a couple days earlier than international students move in.⁠66 you can request an earlier return in case of limited…

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  i. in the business world, a unicorn is a startup with a valuation of over one billion dollars. this says very little about the internals of the company – there…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  I have read slightly over 200 pages’ worth of papers this week. I procrastinated 115 of them until the day before I had an assignment due on said papers for…

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Atomic Friends a comic

  

  I’m taking 21W.744, The Art of Comic Book Writing, taught by Marjorie Liu. Note that it says comic book writing, meaning that we are writing the descriptions that will then…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The CrimZone. there are 2 impostors at harvard

  

  This isn’t about cross-registering at Harvard. I was thinking about cross-reg, but I didn’t want to overload myself this semester. It’s about a running joke between Fatima and me that…

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  Putting together a semester’s course schedule is a nontrivial endeavor. Aside from making sure that I’m on track to graduating on time, there’s a lot of “darn I can’t take…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined A story about cream soda

  

  When I first arrived at MIT last year, the International Student Office gave a presentation about adjusting to life in the alien environment that was the United States. As a…

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 15, 2022