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  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  extra questions on the spot, which we also delved in to. I’ve never ... different. Everyone here focused on genre-specific elements, like pacing and ... arts culture Harvard classes on the whole were harder than MIT HASS

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  of the four technical classes I had picked out or put one of them on ... two weeks, but on the same Thursday. 18.701 has weekly problem sets due midnight on Wednesdays so every other week, I had 4 problem sets due in a 24

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  which? Homeoptotes On a certain date, I carried a crate with a lot of weight, and on a cart it did skate. It was late, three hours past eight ... predators and nets, intent on approaching a desination. They swam past a rock

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  and experiences to weave into stories later on. Blacksmithing, as a ... . Open forge takes place once a week, usually on Mondays or Wednesdays, for ... , to make a hook. Repeat that on the other side, so you have two hooks

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  friend. i was pretty confused, so i asked on twitter:  “a dilemma I ... much do I care about changing other peoples’ minds vs focusing solely on ... out of your control, so it doesn’t make sense to put too much weight on

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  I’m sitting on the floor of my dorm [annotation note = "I am actually ... conferences. I had a thermo pset and an essay to work on the night I found out ... full of thoughts on how to iron out the next several chapters, how would

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  . February 20, 2020: I write my name on a little piece of paper, sit in 10 ... prompt for our weekly poem; this week, what we write is up to us. Purely on ... , a glow, a feeling of heat on the hand. I add the line I am the glass

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  this blogger does not exist join me in the uncanny valley

  

  thousands, if not millions of images to train well, so 148 images was on the ... GAN reported evaluation metrics on had >500 images, so I wasn’t confident that CycleGAN could be trained on the tiny blogger dataset. So I decided to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 28, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  lot of stepping on and off of chairs. I didn’t really know how to set ... on my part. I happened to pod with someone who knew how to do squats ... ’t started on my own for fear of injury. As soon as the Next House gym allowed

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to put together an ohms concert apparently we have a concert this weekend

  

  on trying to produce a score which is as close to the original song as ... and more active sound, and so on. in the case of the ohms this also ... will usually find an existing arrangement of the song on the internet

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 17, 2021
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  printed on semi-trucks, Fry’s and Coke and Target, coming in to the city ... , running my finger through the thick dust on the empty shelves. I wound up ... garage, munching on bugs that skirled around the pavement, drawn by the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  myself having a lot to say about the impact those classes have had on how I ... I expected: I’m still focusing on physics, CS, and earth science ... how much I enjoyed my math classes. I was always planning on taking the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Things That Made Me Happy (and Sick) It’s me and my infection’s TWO MONTH anniversary!! 🎉😍

  

  suck (like sitting on a beach all day). Things that used to suck are ... two things. it’s like a venn diagram: (excuse the dark photos. I'm on ... . Tons of stuff is on the positive y-axis, too. It hasn’t always been like

  • by Powers '23
  • January 4, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  out each other's names on sight and placing air kisses on each other ... had fabricated something out of nothing. I clung on to my friend because ... 've got a pset I forgot about!" "Whoops, left the stove on haha..." "Yeah

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  ’s because I’ve been on the road for several weeks! Every year, admissions ... ). I cried because I reflected on the time I went to a small carnival in ... interacted with on the road would experience their own world-shifting when they

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  just another manic wednesday yes, i am absolutely stealing from joon

  

  [/annotation]in order to write down the poem on the paper i keep by my bed. here it is ... on MITConfessions. 9.35 - 9.45 am: i reluctantly get out of bed ... on some clothes. 9.45 - 9.57 am: i walk over to the[annotation note

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  all of campus puts on a bazillion fun events for them!) I wanted to ... afterwards. My parents didn't come with me; they stuck me on a plane by myself ... exploring a new city on my own (I'd always been picked up at the airport

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  it has colour. i tread carefully on my way to the bathroom, my legs ... froze over, I wrapped myself in a warm wool coat and pulled on gloves and ... stars reflected there in that icy mirror. I laid down on that polished

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  ’s a myriad of expressions on their different faces that I’m trying to ... out supplies, building bathrooms, and helping to treat people on this ... treasured moments (sprawled on the pitch black sand in Wadi Rum, gazing at

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  of embraced that perception -- we call ourselves “da twins” on these ... people on a regular basis this past semester, without right away revealing ... did learn we are twins. Two instances stand out. Allan: One person on

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018