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  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  theory and methods in the social sciences. My first real Harvard class ... In my sophomore fall, I wrote the art of trying new things, where I ... this! Classes CMS.701 Current Debates in Media taught by Ed Schiappa

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  the fact that I was taking classes I was genuinely interested in, plus a general excitement to begin my second semester at MIT (keep in mind this was ... , that's almost as much time as I spent in class in high school! Hopefully

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I love musicals! Wicked just dropped and I am LOSING MY MIND

  

  friends: [annotation note='in MoSCoW method hehe, learned this through a ... worry not: there are no Wicked spoilers in this blog Last Friday, I ... film for [annotation note='The film was announced in December of 2012

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  workings of the black-box tools we took for granted in 6.2050. For example, much of our work in 6.2050 relied on hardware simulators that magically work; in 6.S965, we spent the first two weeks discussing how they work

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  in the Z-Center... I tried to orient myself to the layout of the ... . It didn't look that bad on Google Maps after all! Since I didn't want ... it back from our 6 hour trip in one piece with the Roomba! This past

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  slow burn you and the void

  

  idk man it was a strange day. haven't written horror in a sec. also ... morning pale and grey. There are jobs that need doing in the basement by the ... flaws in the designs. Someone else, perhaps as sleepless as yourself

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 6, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  , 2019. Google tells me the length of my hiatus: [annotation note ... think in general it came down to (1) being hosed and (2) wanting to avoid the perceived finality of writing. 1. Being hosed I was trapped in a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  platform, Chinese proceeds exactly in the same way as it did when it was in-person. but the simple fact that i'm in my room and not in a classroom ... ="this seems like a lot, but i read 150 books in my junior year of high school

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  , and 53 seconds away. But who’s counting? In the mean time we stayed in ... underneath my bed or in the closet, I put on my best MIT gear and made the ten ... restaurant in Boston? Cambridge? Nah, my parents wanted Maseeh Dining. I didn

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  methodic math and CS problems I get in my psets. It's also incredibly useful ... place for that. I took a lot of language classes in high school, but it wasn't really something I expected to continue in earnest in college

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  I've lived my entire life in Salem, Oregon. I like Oregon, it's clean ... traffic laws. My grandma lives in Vancouver, Washington, about an hour drive from my house. In fifth grade my parents and I were driving to my

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  a fancy restaurant in Republic Square, Yerevan, after I and some other [annotation note="A program that sends MIT students to work/teach/study in other ... Dilijan, a neighboring city in Armenia. I thought about how I would rate

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  -graduation trip to the Bahamas -- he's been raised in a hard-core ski family, and ... to travel with an MIT airplane-scientist-in-training... I'm kind of ... burritos (I'm pretty sure they must have crack in them... so good. So

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  English words, I can describe things in a non-caveman-like way this year ... . Anyway, after all that excitement, we got to the hotel and checked in. I'm currently sitting in the lobby writing this post while I wait for the opening

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  , or tune in for Google Hangout sessions, or just struggle through the ... past. But for now, in dreadfully uncreative bullet form, I’ll highlight ... filming takes a ton of work (more on that in a separate post). Our video was

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  in person. I don't remember exactly how I stumbled upon him, but I just ... "what." for the fifth time in a row. By that point, I had already ... am utterly in awe of everything he does. When I read Jonny Sun's name

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Hello, Ma Sheng Li Gong A journey of four years begins with a single blog.

  

  . We were en route to Mathcamp 2004 (which was held in Colby College, ME), and we decided to stay in Boston for a couple of nights before heading ... tossing around a Frisbee in front of Killian Court at dusk. I still remember

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  Over the summer, I’ve centered on a fear that I have in graduate ... happen. I’ll write some paper, it (hopefully) gets published in some ... : “Wow, that was a terrible paper. The writing was bad, the methods made no

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 18, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  May. In between the two semesters, during January, is Independent ... .6721 Negotiation Analysis, which meets for 8.30-4.30 for three days in a row towards ... dollars in prizes, and an opportunity to work on software-related projects

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  consider {insert town name I have never heard of} a small town in their ... the inherent strengths of this experience. So this is where I come in ... U.S. Census, about 60 million Americans live in these rural spaces

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025