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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  I’ve gotten into the habit of keeping graveyards for my writing—little, dedicated spaces for my sentences and paragraphs that don’t make the final cut ... darlings for nothing! sometimes the work you do, whether it's writing, music

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  GRA would make waffles for our hall; a particular fencing meet; walking ... exactly what I love to do. In my very first post, I set sidequests for ... that I'll have in between now and starting my [annotation note="for now

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  20 Things I Learned In 2020 from a course 20 who is in her 20s

  

  *full disclosure: this post was mainly written for the title* We ... their neighborhoods and surroundings for data analysts all over the world ... with the circumstances you are in and create for yourself. My social

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 1, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  this, I failed to account for the fact that I am now in the most ... bad to just slow down for a while, to focus more on taking in the world ... write something, for myself, while staring out my window. I’ve already

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  anxious. For a little bit now, I’ve been taking stock of my anxiety levels ... an essay, I guess. Anxiety: You get picks for lots of things you aren ... that important stuff for such a great non-profit? Are you spending enough

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  i visit Cape Cod and discover the most beautiful beach on Earth

  

  suggested that we spice up our orders by asking for four of what the person in ... beach, we stopped by a Stop & Shop for some burger buns, patties, and ... hunting ground for sharks. but they're not common in June, apparently. the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  vibe check i'm basically living at MIT again

  

  I moved to Cambridge for the summer!! I'm living near Central Square ... remote UROPs/jobs for the summer and it's nice to be in a space where we ... for granted once I left MIT, so it's wonderful to be back in this kind

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 19, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  have been floating around in my head for several months while I stressed out about applying to grad school. [annotation note="please"]Vote for ... for people to feast upon my feelings" posts unless someone actually

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  i dropped os 🎉 i'm a hass boi this semester

  

  was coming to boston tomorrow for the long weekend. i felt truly ... . it did wonders for my mood, and it was a chance to de-stress. i decided ... to london this weekend! [annotation note="part 1 of 2 for traveling

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 18, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  that have been floating in my head for the last few weeks resound once ... foundation is left behind, for the next generation of the MIT community to make their own. But for those who are moving on to our next chapter, the spirit

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  the joys and frustrations of 6.009 this class will be the death of me, and i love it

  

  -paid, people who choose to major in Course 6 are "selling out" or "only in it for ... if I need it makes me feel secure enough to try for a little longer and ... been right in my zone of proximal development for that. It's so

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 4, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Morning Person rise and shine

  

  [annotation note="Except for when I sleep too little the night before, because I ... a stressful rush to get to school on time for first period. Here, each ... it a very personal and productive time.For example, the early morning

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  stumbled into this opportunity by accident when scrambling for a summer UROP ... cafeterías to this type of initiative are role-models for the rest of the industry. Thank you to Rosario and Hilda at Softtek for taking care of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  . JSF is an IAP program sponsored by the French department for students ... exclusively en français. (Forgive me, Professor Perreau, for writing this post ... ("urban furniture" for lack of a better term)--the streetposts, bus stops

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  I can’t feel my face Snowmageddon 2018

  

  to hike Mt. Everest, but when the high temperature for the day has a ... we have to be back earlier than most (official IAP doesn’t start for ... mention that it’s been cold here? When I went home for a week after finals

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • January 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Cool Data Stuff, ft. Immersion I just really like data visualizations, plz don't judge

  

  STUFF GUYS WOOOO. This time, though, I cannot take any credit for the ... you to via email. For a data nerd like me, this is basically the best thing I’ve ever seen. The stats for how many emails I’ve sent

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Aliens, Bitcoin, Camps now i know my ABCs

  

  The blogs have been pretty quiet for the last week. Most of our ... 'm currently at nerd camp, but anytime the blogs go unblogged for too long, I get ... unforgettable story of Jomny, a lonely alien who, for the first time ever, finds a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 19, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  opposite our hostels and classes for prayer. And each Sunday, the Christian ... headed by our religious studies teacher. For these six years in a cozy but ... dining hall varied, depending on who you asked from “not fit for pigs” to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a few things from civic media race in sports, human experimentation, and hidden figures

  

  've been helping with through my UROP at the center for civic media ... -described "poet of code") joy buolamwini's grand-prize-winning video for the "search for hidden figures" contest:   i'm starstruck every day by the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 13, 2017
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  can read more about that here if you want!)   For context, Muti ... there, because that's one of the requirements for us to just physically be ... of the Sahara for this reason—that’s maybe one of very few places that

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016