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  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  on Westcliff Dr. to work on DeKorte St., the lab had a good mix of ... *written by a '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest ... deeper into the possible opportunities a program like MISTI could offer

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  learned a lot, but didn't publish. Do I want to pursue more research? The ... I took a long break from blogging. I [annotation note="and will be posting quite often, for a bit – enjoy!"]recently started posting again

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Events

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

  

  , nothing quite clicked immediately. After a quick Google search, I was almost ... said out loud was like a punch to the gut since it's something I do ... D, he's got a fiance, and what do I got? A f*cking dog.   There were

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

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  For the past almost four and a half years, which is just under a ... happens when I am not in a place, I am deeply missing Random and my friends ... lived in one room. There isn’t a typical Randomite and there isn’t a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  exploring, it means you do not develop a professional expertise straight away ... -24-story-building/.  So I did do a lot of cool stuff this past ... . When I entered MIT, I had a different name and went by different pronouns

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  a l o t of our friends, which makes sense seeing as there's over 400 ... rolled back in her head and a party hat on because she died doing what she ... taking CMS.100 even if the first class didn't really do much because it's a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  [annotation note="What do these colors remind you of? Google? The MBTA ... only swap two adjacent wires at a time. Let’s do another example. We ... there a way to do something similar in three dimensions? These are the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  ’ve never been a sandwich person, so there was nowhere I had to consciously cut out meat.  I expected this vegetarian thing to last maybe a month, maybe more -- but apart from a few bites of poke, the last time I ate meat

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  story. What are you filming? Where are you filming? Do you need a crew and ... ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbyMLZ0o8V0[/embed] 12. Use your clapsticks. I learned they actually have a ... downpours, freezing with you, and generally doing a killer job. Cutting

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  about a white elephant right now. Maybe, like me, your brain would do ... I know a lot of you are stressed. You have busy brains with rodent ... was—not-thinking about MIT decisions, much like how a child does not

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  interest. As a result, I have not blogged for eternity. One day, I may ... about her awesome film-making job) and a visiting film crew from ... 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

  picture the world my phone's storage space hates me

  

  moments spread over months at a time. thankfully for us, google photos not ... ="118124" image2="118123" /] almost exactly a year later, instead of doing a ... where you took your photos, in the form of a heat map: [carousel image1

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  talking about the weekend BEFORE that, which happened to be a rare breed of weekend. “Being hosed” is an MIT phrase meaning “having too much to do and not enough time to do it,” since getting an MIT education is like

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  one hour of musings we're so back

  

  half parts. I had my friends fill out a silly google form full of silly ... a funny little thing. As the days go on, it becomes harder to return. Subsequently, in effort to break that spell, I've set a one hour timer to write

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 10, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  from their website) Because the MITSFS is a student-run library, you do ... I have embarked, dear reader, upon a reading tour of my own. I have embarked upon a journey -- a long journey! An arduous journey! -- to visit

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  , physically based simulation, ray tracing, and real-time rendering. There is a ... had to write code with a lot of math, that would create splines given a set of points. The next part of the assignment was to write a function

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  everything that your parents wouldn't let you do in the house when you were a ... existence-affirming. I should do this more often. 6.A few weeks ago ... hemisphere like a pool of microwaved butter. Spring, wrapped in connotations of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Events

  “Exactly” the Same We're not being too critical! We're MIT students!

  

  hard to work up the effort to do a comprehensive blog entry that detailed ... , let's see, when you do that you get a series of numbers that all seem ... of letters and do a Caesar Shift it spells Loortg which can be

  • by Snively '11
  • January 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  “It’s not just a working tool. It’s a thinking tool!” pronounced the award-winning makers of Snipmap, a Google Chrome extension made during the ... to make technology “think.” MIT is an excellent place to do this, as

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  where you think “I would do this thing…if I had time”? I know I have a lot ... ” calendar so I would see a completely blank slate. Google Calendar was stark ... what were we to do? Luckily, Amanda noticed that she brought a red

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023