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• Blog / Personal Projects

  things i’ve made and/or consumed art, movies, shows, and more

  

  .  EmbroideryI started this piece last spring semester thinking it would take a couple of days and a maximum of 20 hours. I was off by a factor of ~2.5. I ... (cheesy, I know) hence the attempted stitching of a fingerprint around the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 28, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  Campus courtyard grill. A traditional email to EC residents confirmed that ... are high on my favorite burger list (and trust me, I am almost a local ... second CPW, as an EC resident, when a friend with a rainbow-colored beard

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  sort of decide to send in a supplementary essay can i do that via email ... only a few days left before we go into selection ... . ------------------------------------- Raghav wrote: "I have a question similar to John's. I do IB and my school

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  'm the author of such classics as That time we streamed a dance party ... derived during a lecture and my brain almost popped It's been four years since I've written a blog entry here, which seems ridiculous but that

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  for quicker or easier paths.  So anyway, I think a smart idea would be ... ="" align="alignnone" width="267"] for reference, a lemming[/caption] My ... which classes have psets due which I do not want to finish. I also have a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  at 4 PM, my apartment’s heaters start to kick in and create a truly ... of my Hot Admissions Takes right now, anyway; my brain is plagued by a ... .) Instead, this post is about how I, as a person, interact with that process

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  mater. For Sylvester, who introduced the term, a matrix is where a ... mahal kita. It’s neat that kita is a pronoun that doesn’t just indicate ... ’t think I’ve seen a pronoun like this in other languages. And it’s kinda

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  . It’s a daunting task, as the systems we’re designing are underspecified and open-ended, which means that there’s a lot of groping walls in the ... and lots and lots of talking. Most of my classes this semester devote a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  ’s a Friday night, but campus is quiet in the summer. My door is open. It’s pretty hot in here, but I’m pretty used to it. There are a few ... wearing a red dress with white polka dots to match her red (pink?) hair. She

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  A guest entry by Adam The blogging machine that is Mollie is running ... have a test tomorrow?] So I, the gallant boyfriend, am stepping in to ... MIT, I've worked as a UROP on two research projects. Freshman and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  An unexpected discovery, from a few centuries ago It takes more than four years to get to know a place

  

  how little I still know about where I live. Last weekend, I went on a ... 't bode well for my dish. Well it turns out there's a big Whole Foods Market literally a 5 minute walk from the Trader Joe's I frequent that I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Announcement] The MIT Bloggers are hosting an AMA! Ask us anything this Friday and Saturday!

  

  ; The MIT Bloggers are hosting a 2-day [annotation note="If you don't know what an AMA is, it's basically a Q&A session with a person or group of people based on a specific topic. It has its roots from the r/IAmA

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 15, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  “we have the winter olympics at home” the winter olympics at home:

  

  When I say that snow was a statistically significant factor in my choice of MIT, I mean it. I'm on a mission to spread the New England winter ... my friend Siyi C. ‘26, a fellow winter enthusiast who occasionally

  • by Allison E. '27
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Memories I know this feelin', yes I know it very well (Thutmose)

  

  helped admit. It felt poetic, in a way. I embarked on a new career as a ... : "Don't you think it's time to leave MIT behind?" A question I know many ... CPWs past on the walls, and a picture of the quad near room 3-108 rested

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christmas in February Shiny new toys MIT gave me this semester

  

  Yesterday, we were promised a snow day at MIT. Although the snow ... with the time but I had a busy Wednesday okay"]today[/annotation], I ... work with at MIT these days. There's a lot to unpack here. (Indeed, I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 14, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  edgy, I've spent the past month and a half feeling as though I am ... just playing a game of distraction. As of late, I've been watching my life happen before my eyes like a movie of some sort instead of actively

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  ="alignright" width="225"] quogs in a 'metastable state'[/caption] spent more time ... .  compared to last year, I now live closer to our main wing lounge so I spent a lot more time there, working, or not, and made a lot of fond memories

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 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 ... -CJ, and I wondered if it might make sense to try using a Cycle-GAN to ... up my alley in terms of what I do for my UROP, so I gave it a shot this

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 28, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  's campus. The passage of time was a frequent topic of discussion: how could ... ="Sort of. I'm probably sticking around a little longer to get a master ... . How could I be a senior when I had never even been a junior? I was very

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT gave my pod free art supplies!! and despite being hosed, we used them

  

  long as they were an MIT student. I'm a casual artist who paints once in a blue moon, but my roommate is artsy and paints pretty often, so I ... , paintbrushes, a small copic marker set, paintbrushes, and a marker pad. This

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 7, 2021