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• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  yourself in different worlds and try to predict the outcome based on the ... event B, which will have some other consequence C, and so on). Even as I ... that will have consequences on how my blog impacts those people, and so

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the Scenes of MIT Gala liveblog - how a fashion show is made!

  

  Over the past three years, I’ve been on the organizing board for MIT ... pics. All the models are dressed in all black, learning how to walk on ... Gala will be held on the 6th floor, set design (Maggie + Julia + Lindsay

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • April 27, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  not being on campus. I took four classes, and had one UROP, and hung out ... , and to work on satellite controls. As spring 2021 bled into summer, I ... Astro PhD program at MIT on [annotation note="technically before I actually

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  Today, some of our applicants learned conclusively that we will not be able to offer them admission to the Class of 2029. The comments on ... recently, reflecting on his own Early Action rejection from a "dream" school

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  listening in on breakfast conversations. “The curse of this degree is that now ... my posters on the brick wall facing my and Uzay’s desks. Every day, it seems, another poster falls, and I stick it back on grimly with another

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding 1000 digits of pi nom nom buzz buzz

  

  On pi day, campus was buzzing with events.  That morning, I even planned out all my pie stops: a Project Manus makerspace mentor social ... event where makerspace mentors welded on digits of pi to a steel apparatus

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Semester of poetry

  

  't really damage the end product but just bring me to a new perspective on ... images and seeing where I'm taking, picking some things to add on as I go ... bloom in unpredictable ways. I was planning on just talking about poetry

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how i feel about ai-generated art from an artist's perspective

  

  people can just enter these trivial prompts and then pass this work off on ... by AI “written in Rona’s style” or trained on my publicly available ... rely on writing as a steady source of income, and if everything goes as

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 11, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  , sitting on my bed typing a blogpost. I've started waking up way too early ... from). Waking up this early was a change. One I didn't intend on, but a ... short montage of packing a backpack, taking meds, throwing on shoes, and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] GetSimmons! Writing is hard, so here's a video game instead

  

  is not intended to be a ranking (boo), but is instead based on how many ... by Summer Moulder '26. Inspired by GetMIT by Mitchell Gu. Based on 2048

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  data diaries inspired by Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec's "Dear Data"

  

  , MIT runs on caffeine. Assumptions: If someone was holding a ... Bluebiked to Star Market (off map) in Somerville to restock on frozen fries ... , I am now thinking that supermarket basil plants are bound to die. On

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling grown up walking in adult clothing

  

  like a grown up?" i've thought about this question on-and-off over the ... 's evening. on the weekends, most of the time i'm too tired to organize things ... homework, or going on walks or meeting people or going to parties. my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  juniors experienced less than a year of it. that's why being on campus this ... as much time as possible with people. i'm most productive on my own ... Squid Game i'd watch with a big group of friends. i settled on reading a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  making things a blog about being a meche major

  

  .001 and jointly scrolling through MIT Confessions. 2.001, a core class on ... lounge as the night wears on, sitting on sofas or the carpeted floor ... sleep than we will get that night. On Fridays I have lab in 2.678, an

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!

  

  lived on campus, but usually with a[annotation note="usually food ... and an art festival. On the page those are just nouns, but in person ... ="67086" image3="67076" image4="67075" /]   I’ve been working on being

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 24, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  this is fine some thoughts at the end of the semester

  

  being on campus, and my freshman year in general. I don't really have any ... on campus has worn off. Or maybe it’s just because I’m burnt out at the ... too much on, worried about not getting the opportunity to rest enough

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  a tour of New Vassar also known as west garage

  

  This semester, I'm living in New Vassar, the newest undergrad dorm on ... , through the building, and up to my room on the fifth floor. We'll start ... well as the design of the little overhangs on the [annotation note

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iap: this year vs. last

  

  running between dance studios on campus. I'd get back to the dorm at 10 or ... ![/caption] this year, the show obviously isn't happening, but I'm still planning on ... moving at all, so I held off on doing any this year. this IAP, to be better

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  highlights of a hellish semester it's OVER. IT'S FINALLY OVER GOSDAIUOSDSOIJD

  

  WYA"]class[/annotation] on pass/no record after I saw my first quiz ... practically fused with a shelf due to all the liquid on it, a Tupperware of barley that had an entire fungal ecosystem in it...the list goes on

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 28, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Watch this year’s 2.s009 final presentations designing kindness during a time of covid

  

  This is a very brief blog post to remind you —  as our announcement on the right hand side already says —  that the 2.s009 product launch ... 's flagship hands-on courses, with a class budget larger than some offices at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2020