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• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  My friend Eric recently wrote a blog post about isolation at Harvard that resonated with many readers. Several people have mentioned similar experiences at their own universities—student populations filled with clout-chasers, dispassionate…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  nsuns and c25k) depending on the day... M/W/R 10am-10:30am commute to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  House']4W[/annotation] people. I got like two tossups in the entire

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  This is my fourth (and last) post like this. See 2019, 2020, 2021. Things I read for class These are all taken from 21W.765 Interactive Narrative. Going for a Beer (1100 words). Content warning: domestic abuse

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  I once asked a boyfriend if he would give up his life for ten billion dollars. “Yes,” he said. “Because the amount of good I can do in my lifetime…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  [/annotation] trying to convince Sarah W. ‘26 and Nolan C. ‘26 that Missouri actually

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 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 / 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 classic Exercises in Style

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  On Friday, I watched Everything Everywhere All At Once, a movie where a woman gets to experience many of the other universes that might’ve appeared had she made a different…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  some videos of the initial camera tests. [embed]https://youtu.be/Pz1PMsW

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  <3'] is Semantle.[/annotation] I was introduced to it by Jenny W. (G

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 13, 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 / 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

  

  much Ruth yeah well i guess we'll just have to see Like i checked w the ... 😔 Ruth Oh no :(( Well take a breath, take a second, go pee or w/e I am ... stop, also Waiting at help Will text w any updates ! Ruth okii sgsg

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

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  This is my third year doing this; see the 2019 post and the 2020 post I made. UPDATE: Here's the 2022 post. Things I read for class I took only two (count 'em: two) classes that had readings, which were 21W.755

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  tl;dr Today I’ll be answering your questions about MIT portfolios in the comment section below. To tide you over before questions come in, I’ve compiled some of my thoughts on…

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  took 21W.755 Reading and Writing Short Stories, I absolutely hated

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  I decided this summer was the summer I’d get my life together, once and for all. For the last several summers, I’ve floundered in a soup of confusion and unease…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  respond in 1 minute[/caption] [visually_hidden]email text: from: jerry w

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  things. Five. I'm taking 21W.755 Reading and Writing Short Stories this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  Hello! I have some new pandemic-flavored poems published as part of an exhibit for the Singapore Writers Festival. So I wanted to write about my relationship with poetry over the…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020