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  Uncanny Valley im gonna make you shit your pants

  

  Uncanny valley is a phenomenon where an eerie and unsettling feeling arises when looking at something human-like. This is why humanoid robots ... hasn’t been explored much with scientific rigor and simply remains at

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  , I think, is universally agreed upon to be an age at which you ... gawking at the height of the buildings. It feels strange to be in the center ... I’m most certainly trying to find my place and I’m not at all sure how

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  get my haircut at an actual salon, since she thinks that if I bleach and ... looked at me slightly expectantly, and I finally answered - “Six years ... freshman IAP, and I’m bad at remembering to condition it. After I left home I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  This past Sunday, at 4 AM on the side of U.S. Highway 1 on Badger ... [/annotation] and stopping at least five McDonald's; a tragedy that would cost us 125 ... 's alright now, fortunately."]we lost Jonathan at mile 32 to some hip flexor

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden, part 2 a zine carved out of pink erasers

  

  Arts at MIT) in Fall 2020, but I didn't have any more blocks to carve ... would make me feel bad if I messed up. At my level of block cutting

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  I can begin to even explain where I've been. At the risk of sounding ... particularly hedonistic weekend in the desert of California at Coachella a couple ... stared at the blinding lights from the stage in front of me, I felt

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  the city is from nature. In Tucson, no matter where you live, you are at ... they looking at? We got closer. The glass cases held reptiles: snakes ... , their scaly bodies indistinguishable, at a distance, from long fallen

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• Blog / Events

  LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue

  

  following semester, thanks to the brilliant LSC chair at the time, who resolved to do at least one film screening before graduation. I was lucky ... projector at a constant 24 frames per second. That gives you one reel of film

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  completed two years at MIT, and I plan to graduate after I finish four years ... my podmates; other times I feel frustrated at how few new things I ... . We marveled at the cheap, fresh produce we had gotten, and at how much

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  I suck at finishing text novels, but it turns out that I just haven ... gripping Last Night at the Telegraph Club, I devoured the story of the ... myself take whatever train of thought arrived at my mind’s platform.  I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  to now and forever

  

  been my friend for the past thirteen years, came and spent the weekend at ... that felt so blatantly grown, adultish. Hosting an old friend at my one ... the blogs. He was, in fact, my best friend at MIT. But due to some

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 15, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  be the exact colors of my room in East Campus. At 11 pm we get another ... very, very carefully. I can't stay in my room, but at least, just the ... brain telling me I'm not good at anything. Several sad things happen at

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  's something that my family members would poke fun at and point out and I think ... middle school. I hated running. I was not good at it. I am asthmatic and ... the weaker side, how at the age of 7 I couldn't do a proper pushup or

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  's. More on that later."]last year[/annotation]at MIT? Packing up and leaving ... what's best for me. I know I'm not the best at everything. That ... respect to undergraduate life at MIT only; I'm not saying I've got this

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  first panic! at the disco fanfiction, if not the first serious fanfic i ... protagonists i've ever encountered, but also horror at the fact that i could ... throam now to save myself some embarrassment with the fact that panic! at

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  originally wanted to do during IAP: A micro-internship at a civil ... choice on a pass/no record grading scale at any point after our first semester"]P/NR later.[/annotation] And given that I was quarantining at home

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  - Accomplished! This past summer I had the great opportunity to work at Microsoft and I'll be working there next summer as well! Read at least 5 books ... Gloria Chao, a story focused on a freshman at MIT. I also reread a bunch of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  actually find me in a photo in this post!']micro-internship[/annotation] at a ... do essentially whatever I wanted, which is sometimes hard to find at ... sunshine and roses would be lying. I've never been very good at identifying

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  directly to experiences that I've had at MIT, or people that I've met here ... nisha sort of had the right idea here"]foaming at the mouth, “OMIGOD ... saying here i have never literally foamed at the mouth. that would be

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  that. Hell, I did last IAP with my two classes. At the same time, I ... during this IAP started on January 4th. When do my friends at other schools ... at a school that already has a perfectionist, workaholic culture, an

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021