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  some thoughts i have a few

  

  it's about time I tackle some of the more difficult things for me to talk about. These are pretty hard for me to talk about, mainly because I ... rest by finally writing about it. Glass Blowing For those of you who don

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  : Writing and Reading Short Stories  I didn’t write a single short story for ... in my work (which I wasn’t doing for the class, so he really didn ... the semester, and I’m still extremely grateful for his leniency and open

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  to simply use for their next year at college or spend on themselves ... to farmers. I asked Hassan for pictures of the chicken farm and hE SEn ... graduating (aside from the chicken farm!) and reached out to him for this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  . We had lost contact for about a decade and by complete coincidence both ... dating. My to-do list for today, in between my laptop and my tea, written ... to me from me for my 21st birthday. Its lid broke during the move from

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• 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 ... gotta support me for the plot or something. also who knows maybe spiders ... the facts now oops"]she had to fix* those before the post was fit for

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / Class Projects

  What I made in my documentary class three videos and many, many lessons

  

  for 2022. I love photography and writing, and video is a nice marriage ... signed up for the course this fall. I also wanted to take this class ... already had for video. Lastly, I wanted to learn the basics of Premiere Pro

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  Calibri. For the rightmost poster, the top half is also in Calibri. Then ... . But the website for the Atlas Service Center uses Flama, and the Atlas ... how the lowercase C in Flama has closer [annotation note="Strike one for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  heartbreak that creeps up on you: don't wait for me, I can't come, that slow ... beautiful for an Asian woman? I was young enough to think that I already knew ... given both of us an easy hubris, the sureness that we were destined for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  there are many reasons for this: i don’t text as much as i used to, i have ... and financial cost to family, and so on. but the most chilling part for ... complete loser who feels really really good for a few hours every day.’ He

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  on the back, which you’ve wanted for like two years. take the extra ... for the first time, because you know questions will come up over and ... instructor note - it’s a snow day announcement. endorse an answer for the first

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

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  Growing up, Thanksgiving was an extremely important holiday for my ... graduate students from the local university to our house for a Thanksgiving ... . Cooking for thirty people was no easy task. Every year, a menu would go up

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  CMS.621: Fans & Fan Culture the class that changed my career trajectory?

  

  I usually reserve these kinds of posts for life-changing classes, the ... . I was extremely excited for all of these papers, albeit a little ... fulfills for people. It helped explain why people became fans of things

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  for the past month: And, before you ask, yes, I refuse to use Google ... of a simplification for how engineering works, because much of its ... beam made of wood. And while this works often for general calculations

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  : However, some of them, usually the problems that were stepping stones for ... “result” of each group reported to a manager. For any given group of 3, the ... CEO. For instance, suppose you have 9 test subjects, whose responses

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  great option for anyone adMITted who wanted to consider it (and now, a ... Tessa is on the right, excited for an incentive flight on a KC-135 ... abbreviation for Reserve Officer Training Corps. It is a training program

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  )-funded program under the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) umbrella. It ... "rotation measures" for each millisecond pulsar (MSP) in the globular cluster ... value for each MSP in the cluster and then have fun comparing them and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  action would be to e-mail my professor and my TA. After procrastinating for a few hours, I finally hit "send", and away went my request for ... for their help during the semester, etc, and returned to angsting

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  . Inspired by the wildly popular TED talks, the “TIM” in TIMtalks stands for ... motivated for the summer! According to Anjali ‘12, the Director and Founder ... positively impact our students. That was one of those ‘ah-hah!!!’ moments for

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  Assistant at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and I still stay ... intellectual mancrushes of mine are as profound as the one I have for Professor ... winners of the Hunt, he and his team created the challenges for this year

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  Ocean away. I was ready for new streets, new faces, new classes and ... , signed up for every activity ever, and enjoyed rushing around from one ... speaking a word to anyone (no time for words), rushed back out to my next

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011