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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  About a year ago, I wrote about the origami I’d made at my internship in a “draft” blog post when I applied to be a blogger. That draft never ... semester), but now I have a brand new batch of internship origami for your

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  you’re on your own, kid

  

  considered me a friend taking time to check in on me. Another common thing I seem to hear alongside these check-ins are "I don't know a Cami without ... of my college experience up until this point has been a joint venture

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  over a crowded audience. Then, moments later, for the first time in three ... ="lovingly known as FWACC, pronounced fff-whack."]Family Weekend A Cappella Concert[/annotation] in the only way they know how: a group song. The last time FWACC

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  who started the fire? (not clickbait) playing detective

  

  For the last few years, I've been living off-campus in a house full ... , short for Women's Independent Living Group. Last summer, there was a fire ... ="aligncenter" width="1000"] a news headline about what happened[/caption] I wasn

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  i’ve known for a while that i’m a pretty awful conversationalist. my ... ask me questions i often pause for a while to think before giving a ... factor might be that the presence of other people forces me to think at a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  . but in a group of three, it gives the impression of a triangle overlaid ... perceive a triangle. this is a gestalt effect. we can then imagine the ... , invisible form emerging when it doesn't exist, a shape that clearly exists isn

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  is not a particularly interesting age, and the past year itself has also been a little barren, devoid of many of the experiences that a year ... calling myself a writer, and that I've become much more interested in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  New York Trips that we went on with Arts Scholars!

  

  One of the groups we are a part of is Arts Scholars. This is a group ... events and is a great way to join an artistic community at MIT!  One of ... difficult to describe, but essentially it was a very moving, for lack of a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  work // life trying to figure out the balance

  

  interns wait for someone to pick us up and take us to a welcome and orientation meeting in a conference room somewhere. we watch a prerecorded video clip of godaddy's CEO sincerely welcoming us. then a real person goes

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 17, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  . Maybe your experiences were similar to mine; probably a lot of them were, tbh, since I followed a very typical path. In middle school and freshman year, I joined some clubs, learned a lot, and had fun; sophomore and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  A 21st birthday has significant significance in the U.S. because you ... available to everyone in most other countries since they were a preteen. I ... ’ve acquired on the way to becoming a full-fledged adult (in no particular order

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Hello Summer! Finally done with finals

  

  Finally the year is over. After a week of relaxing, I can finally ... lazy to finish up this week. Spending a whole year at MIT really changed ... classes in a few months. However, the break from the constant demand of

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  free time that I have. Here’s a picture of my bookshelf that has grown ... semester was kind of in a lull period in terms of work, I vowed to finish a ... the end of the semester and fifteen more the following semester! A lot

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  even be mailed an absentee ballot to their dorm. TurboVote is a classic example of a well designed civic technology: solving a societal problem by ... . Making this happen involved a lot of students, faculty, and staff working

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  last friday a lot of my friends walked at commencement after a speech from tim cook and a ceremonial turning-of-rings. this class especially -- "my" class -- carries a lot of people who taught me how to care, how to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lego Heroines interview with the amazing Maia Weinstock!

  

   recently won (!!) with a set of extraordinary women in NASA. Maia is currently ... accounts, so if you ever find yourself laughing at a funny MIT tweet, you can ... fumbling to turn off the recorder in the last few seconds. Despite going to a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  I wrote this email two nights ago, a little after midnight:   ... contemplated going back to sleep and worked on my urop instead. then i took a ... with toons, ate dinner with toons, sang a concert with toons, and ate ice

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Institute of Contemporary Art College Night #2 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  ., and Th., ‘19, emerged in a grand procession. The leader, in a furry cap reminiscent of Russian monarch fashion, carried a golden cardboard crown on a ... cheered. Hugs followed. Solar Car Captain P. ‘17 presented me with a very

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 27, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Snowmageddon Infinite amounts of pancakes, international adventures and poutine, and icy apocalypse preparation

  

  working on a bunch of cool video projects while more relaxing things like ... Andrea H. '18 have been planning a pancake-eating contest for weeks to decide who truly is the greatest lover of pancakes. Last Wednesday, a group

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What’s cool about Nick’s room artsy people, walls, and East Side living

  

  A few weeks ago, a friend at Princeton traveled up to Cambridge for ... so we (me and another very close friend) met him for a meal before ... we take for granted as residents of the East Side. In a similar

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 3, 2014