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  screaming a mood board

  

  vent. A while back when I was asking people for recommendation letters, my PI of three years made a suggestion. He wanted to nominate me for a ... to condense three years worth of research into a 10-12 minute talk

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  A few weeks ago, Ayomide F. 18, better known to longtime blogreaders as our own personal Riri Williams, sent me a copy of a new video she ... ’d been eyeing for a while. I strutted around for a bit before my ankles

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  camps - at every single camp I went to, I was housed in a dorm room that ... well as to the dorm as a whole. East Campus residents weren’t always ... mural, and a section of their hallway called Black Bemis. As you can

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events

  

  matches visitors to hosts definitely works. Now, for us, CPW is a familiar ... a reasonable fraction of the 700+ events to attend? I was definitely ... be helpful to post a Mini-Guide to CPW for your final hours of prep

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  in English!) JSF is a really unique program. Unlike IAP Madrid, which I did last year, it’s not a class (no homework—yay!!!). Instead of going to class, we had a packed schedule of walking tours of different

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  interviewers remain helpful). A description of the current interview process is ... some advice from a current interviewer named Nikki Springer. Here are ... , and New Haven, CT. I’m currently working on a joint MBA/PhD in

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT

  

  Hey everybody, I'm taking a break from working on 2.004 in order to ... signing in on OLPC's (somehow the admissions office got a hold of two of ... finish up my food, Chicken Makluba from Sepal (a restaurant in our student

  • by Snively '11
  • October 12, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In many ways on average-posting

  

  In many ways, the work of a critic is easy.  In the summer of 2022, I ... some point during freshman year. My roommate Jenny B. '25 was a blogger ... blogs seemed like a good platform and the bloggers, a good community

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 7, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  every class i went to during the first week of fall all *checks notes* twelve of them

  

  I went to a lot of classes in the first week of the fall semester ... is a replacement for Artificial Intelligence, so it would fulfill a ... Intelligence, and if there's a class I'm investing a lot of effort into this

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"

  

  When I applied to be a blogger last summer, “what happened yesterday ... organize my thoughts into some grand realization or wrap up a cool project ... City to stay for the summer about a week prior. Most of my stuff was

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  (Guest Post) esolangs oh man

  

  Hello world! I’m Song, I’m currently a freshman here at MIT, and I ... renumbering classes relatively soon so this might become obsolete in a few ... ="thing that compiles and runs code from a particular programming language

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  as a kid, i used to always be on edge when interacting with people ... every stranger i encountered, and it took me a long time to realize that ... instance, last fall i filled out a google form to go live with 30 strangers

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  digital fabrication; there was a manual fabrication training that was pretty ... shouldn't do when laser cutting. Each featured some videos, text, and a quiz. It wasn't too tricky, and a lot of it was based on common sense, like

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  play dough

  

  I'm a very Type A person, I'd say. I tend to need to be in control of ... room looks like a mess, but in reality it is my organized mess. I know ... 've got a system. Regardless, this led to me disliking a lot of things as a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  [annotation note="we were allowed to staple with a group of up to eight people ... then plan to form a pod with these people in the spring"]staple[/annotation] with was a whole process in itself. Thinking about the spring and pods

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  I took a long break from blogging. I [annotation note="and will be posting quite often, for a bit – enjoy!"]recently started posting again ... community. Also Petey would never fire a blogger. I think."]I periodically

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  This blog post unfolds in three parts: (1) a story about how I got into embroidery, (2) a magnificent social discovery, and (3) a gallery of ... , in our freshman year at MIT, but I think our story really starts on a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 1 ...adulting?

  

  Note: Posting a lighthearted blog in the midst of everything that ... !! Yay!! Breakfast/Brunch I like eating two meals a day because of my sleep ... absolutely SLAPS. I didn't use a recipe—I kind of just used Gordon Ramsey

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 2, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  (Course 6-3) and I’m a sophomore cadet in Air Force ROTC.  ROTC is an amazing program and a huge part of my life. However, it’s hard to understand ... information about the rewarding experience of being a cadet here at MIT.  So

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  day for almost a year now. (Freshman fall was a different, more virtuous ... an effort this break to try to move a little. Since we don’t like most ... , changing those walks to speed-walks was a fairly simple transition. Most of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018