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Blog / Life after MIT
Listen to “MIT Is…” with Cynthia F. ‘18 on the MIT Trashion Show, escaping the MIT bubble, and UROPing at the Media Lab
around the idea of an audio thing for awhile, and decided to give it a shot ... , the communications coordinator for MIT Student Life and erstwhile ... develop at MIT, Kellen recruits students to take over these accounts for a -
Blog / Admissions
Listen to Admissions: Holly on applications, art, and action team an experiment in the sounds of admissions
anyone who doesn't blog would like to be interviewed for the blogs. A few ... Counselor for Communications, and she basically makes all of our print ... and radio shows, and used to run one for my college newspaper, so it -
Blog / Academics & Research
The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too
policies that make me both happy and sad. For every excellent teacher and ... challenge my thoughts and misconceptions. For most students, the humanities ... exhausted all relevant choices. MIT doesn’t offer many options for its purely -
Blog / Academics & Research
What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet
students pre-registered for the course, representing 9 different majors and ... with Ethan Zuckerman, the Director of the Center for Civic Media, cofounder of Global Voices and MediaCloud, and board member for Ushahidi and -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Before You Arrive on Campus: Orientation Edition On REX, safety, free stuff, and making the most out of it all!
better way for you to feel welcome and pick the perfect-est living space ... Library, the second largest in the country. Purchase tickets for performers ... . Student Rush tickets are also available for film, opera, ballet, and -
Blog / Academics & Research
Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher
all-time high. I have a Basic account, but I could try Premium free for ... questions correctly. I felt like I lost sight of the forest for the trees, and ... ’s freshest in my memory. Computer Science has ruined normal English for me -
Blog / Academics & Research
Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.
that and putting it together into what works for me. I hate those cliche ... . Summer is a good time for planning and reflection. My nerdy corner of ... have an obsession with productivity for the pure sake of productivity -
Blog / MIT Life
Caps Lock Pancakes DINNERISH.
For the past four and a half years I’ve lived on an all-women’s floor called BMF (badass mother—s) in Random Hall. Most of our social and home-academic life happens round the clock in the kitchen, over food and homework and -
Blog / Admissions
High School Summer Research Programs And the science competitions that could potentially follow
A cat ran on my keyboard So here is a link to MIT’s list of summer programs at MIT and elsewhere, check it out! It really summarizes things well. Acronyms… -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?
sometimes say that I judge people for a living. While I had no formal background or training in judging people, I have been judging people for some time now, and it is the task for which I am paid; I am basically a -
Blog / Academics & Research
bump MIT students design products
gigantic balloon tower... design elements for a stunt show.... create specifications for fruit... or break things apart to learn. Despite the fact ... easier while juggling their child and groceries. For our technical review -
Blog / Admissions
My new job @ admissions like nick saban, but for nerds
the blogs, for the office. And I'm still helping Kris out with them and ... duties for many years before then. Essentially, my job is to find some of ... , or Olympiads, or Maker Faire. So what does this change for any of you -
Blog / Extracurriculars
The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…
Note: The following is adapted from an article I wrote for CMS.350 ... too :-) It's three in the morning and MIT's campus is, for once ... day, it's the main artery for foot traffic among academic buildings, but -
Blog / How to Human
Staying Organized In which I look exhausted and talk about my notebooks
Apologies for the video length/quality this week. MIT has me sufficiently hosed this weekend, following an already-stressful week. Such is life. Hopefully you're able to decipher my rambling in this video! If -
Blog / Academics & Research
(My Third) First Day In which I attempt (and fail) to do a timelapse vlog
First off: I apologize for the shakiness of this video. For some ... laptop from exploding overheating while it was processing videos for ... a more postive note, in a mad search for video stabilizing techniques -
Blog / Academics & Research
Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.
for CityLab. Yet it feels as though I’ve lost (at least part of) my ... ’ve forgotten how to share thoughts and information...without latent concerns for ... famous for "thinking out loud" on his corner of the web.) In that moment, I -
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Blog / Admissions
I Suppose It Was Inevitable That We Have An Office Instagram a list of some other places you can find the blogs (and the bloggers)
other way than navigating to or searching for MITAdmissions.org. Of course ... distinction between what bloggers post for us and their "personal accounts" on other platforms intended for other audiences. However, when we were -
Blog / Community Projects
Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.
) for three laps around the course in as short a time as possible. We knew ... little worse for wear after yesterday's heavy flying. The time to beat was ... . Adam (who we are forever and ever indebted to for his amazing flying, and