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  dear kuya i promise this post is mostly in english

  

  Dear kuya, kumusta ka na diyan? Anong balita, malamig ba diyan? Dito mainit, ngunit kung bumagyo Para bang lahat ng tubig sa mundo ay nandito [Dear kuya, how are things…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  my room an evolution

  

  I had a vision. Every year, my room would have a different aesthetic. Was this followed to a T? No,⁠01 thank you covid  but I present to you the brief…

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  Here’s a list of things that I consider love languages, because the standard ones–acts of service, quality time, gifts, words of affirmation, and physical touch–are fine, but love can be…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  some IAP adventures as told by my camera roll

  

  During the month of January,⁠02 well, this year the spring semester started on January 31st, but close enough MIT offers an “Independent Activities Period” where students do essentially whatever they…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 4, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  Hello dear reader! It’s been a long time since I last posted here. I returned from my gap year last September. I knew I’d changed a lot over my gap…

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2021 Reflections & 2022 Resolutions

  

  View my 2020 resolutions and 2021 resolutions. There were some 2020 resolutions I couldn’t accomplish due to the pandemic, but since the world has adapted since then, I was able…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  09:35. i hobble out of bed and pour myself some milk. there’s a ridiculous amount of snow outside. i pull out some leftover pizza and walk to the kitchen to…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  happy lunar new year the year of the tiger

  

  Happy Year of the Tiger! It is my birth year, which means that I have to wear red daily to ward off bad luck. Somebody else asked me today why…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  teaching web.lab aka what i spent all of january on

  

  some context: web.lab / 6.148 is a web development course offered every iap at mit. i took the class in 2020 and was an instructor in 2022; you can find…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  Sometimes I worry I have too many blog posts that are just paragraphs of my thoughts without any exciting MIT anecdotes or events. I feel like my thoughts can be…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech version: slightly jaded

  

  “I think I should have a midlife crisis a little earlier,” I said today, while my friends and I were walking down the river to Trader Joe’s. [I’ve been planning…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  this is a post by my good friend aidan chambers ’23 who is a physics major at mit! this past semester he took 8.13, junior lab! ///// Junior Lab (8.13)…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  how to make a minecraft bot reflections on my microsoft internship

  

  This last month, I was a micro-intern on the Semantic Machines team at Microsoft and got to work with Minecraft. I learned some cool things about language models and AI…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  this blogger does not exist join me in the uncanny valley

  

  A reader of the blogs emailed CJ the following, which CJ then forwarded to me:  i remember your posts (college apps, haiku) about robo-CJ, and I wondered if it might…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 28, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  MIT’s Independent Activities Period is cool because campus has lots of different unusual classes and events that you can sign up for — but it’s also cool because there’s so…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  I’ve been reading my old journals this winter break, thinking about the person that I was two years ago, the ways she’s changed and grown and carried on. I wrote…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Cleaning A psychoanalysis of the recently deleted folder in my notes app

  

  It’s been a little while since I’ve blogged, which is partially because I’ve been telling myself that I don’t need to blog at any given moment, but mostly because I haven’t…

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  last semester, aside from doing work for the classes i was enrolled in, i also read through all the course materials for a few other classes i was interested in…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is— My delta flight this IAP, a couple of weeks late oops

  

  Here’s the thing, I’m usually very lucky on flights. I’m the epitome of the “arrives late to the airport; makes it on the plane anyway” person. 39 Is that a…

  • by ana~
  • January 18, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  In The City That Never Sleeps NEEEEEEEEW YORK CIIIIIIIIITY

  

  This IAP, I was originally supposed to take an MIT class called Spanish Incubator, where I would study Spanish poetry and literature in the ever beautiful Madrid, Spain. However, obviously,…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 17, 2022