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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  This year, for spring break my friend Yida and I decided to head to ... popular spring break destination for MIT students. We decided to visit ... some poutine for dinner, we got drinks at an Irish pub and watched the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project Where trendy styles = adding styling to trend lines

  

  consumed by my final project for 6.869: Computer Vision. So I thought I would ... ! For those of you who aren’t familiar, Computer Vision is the study of ... computer. For instance, here are some questions you might be able to solve

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 11, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  BLÅHAJ: the Internet meme, the trans icon, the world’s favorite plush media analysis on the Swedish shark’s rise to prominence

  

  of the content and a deeper appreciation for the creators. But even if ... form of media studies content. Unfortunately I hate video editing, so for now enjoy this Blahaj blog :).  Blahaj, Swedish for “blue shark,” is

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  's list. UPDATE: Here's the 2021 and 2022 posts. Things I read for class None of the readings for 24.900 Intro Linguistics, were especially ... is down, thanks in large part to their parents' concern for their

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  partner Cory and I have been together for almost nine years now. We met in ... High? Teaching was weird. One of my first times reserving a room for ... that room at all, and finally said I could have the room just for this

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  crisp autumn air for a lot of you. And,[annotation note = "It has ... -confirmed psychic, the tragic fate I had predicted for myself had unfortunately come ... blood oath I had taken to extort myself for the next five years towards an

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  beforehand, but I was too busy prepping for all the events I lead or helped ... laser cutter, teach them how to use it, and generate hype for MechE. When ... I spearheaded the organization and logistics for our three events. The

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  , for whatever reason, really good at acting like an MIT student." Me ... enjoy it." Rational Part Of Brain: "You like sleep way too much for a ... 't audition." Auditions for the Spring musical rolled around in February - the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay

  

  addition to more large-scale happenings at the List Center for the Arts, the ... for the T in Technology, it also has a super vibrant and scholarly ... studies, urban planning, history of architecture, etc. For example, did you

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 18, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  triumph of nature. For just a few months, the landscape alters dramatically ... tracing a pathway up until our line of sight would disappear into the ... little things we never even would have thought to look out for. I took

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  cool I guess.” Well, Joe, I’m pleased to announce that for my 6 ... reach the bottom of the screen. I chose Guitar Hero for this project for several reasons: It’s dynamic, fun, and one of my favourite

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  : yeah, i think it’s common for these kinds of narratives to become very totalizing and for people to decide to only focus on one component. clearly ... : wow, i actually like this framework a lot p: for what it’s worth, i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  for the first time in the most unguided way possible. I shimmied along ... Thomas Jefferson. I felt the need to jump out of my seat for Hamilton. I ... time you did something for the first time?" There's just something about

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  you marinate on for days, the trace of their face in the moonlight ... was worth me being stuck immobile for 2 weeks, but i digress ... and fast-paced-ness and wild stories we’ll tell for years to come. What

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  downright dangerous, especially for a woman travelling solo. Luckily I didn ... the name, short for 'help exchange'). If the helper is lucky, they ... was hard for me, because I like to shower after I run every day. Also

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  The briefest context for who I am: Hello, I am Jonathan, a sophomore ... supposed to leave Next House for Kendall Square, to ride the T to South ... have been told that a good amount of sleep is critical for such

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 2 our experience trying to prepare for the animation industry at MIT

  

  very similar for both. Let’s go through this diagram, skill by skill ... was a super fun class! We also signed up for 21W.744, The Art of Comic ... Comics class at MIT, but got more of a grasp for this skill in the two

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  traced with green marker at a kids’ arts and crafts space with my little ... . We had lost contact for about a decade and by complete coincidence both ... dating. My to-do list for today, in between my laptop and my tea, written

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  are some of them. All based on true stories, of course.  For those of ... got this. No matter what happens, I’m so proud of you already for ... experiences when they visit MIT for the first time is that the Infinite corridor

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  have to relax,” she told him, not for the first time. Ted favored her an ... for his shoulders, her arms clamping gently onto them. “Have a seat ... have been mistaken for a safe box with a screen. From within it, The Real

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014