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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  -250 for an hour with 250 other very hopeful people, and feel like the ... . March 12, 2020: After my afternoon classes, I walk into the glass lab for ... prompt for our weekly poem; this week, what we write is up to us. Purely on

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

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  classrooms around campus. She asked for my ideas. Something deep? I suggested ... out what I wanted to write, then procrastinated for several months ... Spain, travelling alone. I met a flamenco dancer for hot chocolate and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  spread myself across campus. I stepped into New House for the first time ... little and doing the same for them."]big,[/annotation] ehua, and meeting ... because it's been something that has been on my mind for almost three years

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  conversations with friends so many different ways to feel lost

  

  'm going back to i'm just here in nyc for a bit _____ m: since i’ve gotten ... : okay so my take is that mit selects for people that like to or have a ... , and he’s suggesting all these schemes for how he can turn the fishing

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 21, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  that is a big component of what i look for in good friends. freshman year ... something that i'd get sent to the hospital for"]occasionally literally) foam ... [/annotation] A LOT of anime. For somebody [annotation note="i still claim this, but

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  an exhibit for the Singapore Writers Festival. So I wanted to write ... always my first love, and after I won a national prize in tenth grade for a ... reputation for melodrama, but in retrospect, I think that this magnification of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  IAP for short. It's an excellent chance to do whatever you want! If you ... implement them as modules for Microsoft's open-source privacy toolkit. At the ... (snack bar, a fridge of cold drinks, and plenty of machines for various hot

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  keeping interest a list of things i think are cool

  

  For the past week, I've been thinking a lot about what I want to do ... am not patient enough for it. project management - I'm gonna be ... lot about what the future holds for me, if I'll get to pursue all these

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 4, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  intern for Massachusetts Science and Engineering Fair. I essentially design social media posts and do some ~research~ like things for MSEF and it ... between urgent reminders to please for god's sake do your psets you dirty

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  , to work together and find opportunities for both countries to benefit ... administration came under sharp criticism for collaborating with a regime that ... that they would suggest for the Admin to revert the current situation or

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  UberPool. Kamoya is Nigerian like me. He lived in Lagos for several ... way for a lot, but when we knock on the door, and it opens, the light ... fails to feel at least slightly terrifying for reasons I'm still trying to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  is a masterpiece. If you have the Internet for it, I strongly encourage ... mathematical surfaces. A cabled LOTR sweater my mom knit for me, as evidence of ... for my art and not let it get subsumed by schoolwork and psets. This

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  that most people don't know beforehand what they're optimizing for/how to quantify all their choices, and there is a post hoc rationalization for ... early and on time, do your work for long hours, and hope to win the favor

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  Kayla E. '15 and I decided that it was a great idea to go out for a run ... and acetominophen. I bothered my friend Sarah W. '16 for help wrapping ... since I could barely walk. So I waited for the pain-killers to set in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  apologized for admitting him. i said that he could have gone anywhere else and ... true for all of you: "MIT is a hard place, made all the harder for the ... necessary for this kind of reflection, of course, but i have personally found

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  a blogger. But sometimes reality takes unexpected turns for the ... comfy little bed and move them like my biology intended for me to do. I ... start. Reality: The square dancing life is not for me :’o Before

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  Prize "for extraordinary service to children." I was equally surprised to ... across the country for this event + children from Massachusetts ... called Side By Side: they've been rehearsing together every weekend for the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  When people ask me where I grew up, I hesitate for a moment before ... you know someone who had a clown for a neighbor. You know, if that ever ... memory. This spring break, I went to Chicago with my family for a weekend

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  's already a reading assigned for 5.13? This is nonsense. This year is going to ... the many things I have to look forward to. For starters, I've slogged ... appealing. It's like...watching Breaking Bad for the first time (which

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  , and this was the perfect project for me to pass time between Track ... College in Massachusetts, and worked for the US government, travelling the ... round, it was a crystal clear 50 degree (Fahrenheit, of course, for the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012