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• Blog / Class Projects

  What I made in my documentary class three videos and many, many lessons

  

  for 2022. I love photography and writing, and video is a nice marriage ... signed up for the course this fall. I also wanted to take this class ... already had for video. Lastly, I wanted to learn the basics of Premiere Pro

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  heartbreak that creeps up on you: don't wait for me, I can't come, that slow ... beautiful for an Asian woman? I was young enough to think that I already knew ... given both of us an easy hubris, the sureness that we were destined for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  there are many reasons for this: i don’t text as much as i used to, i have ... and financial cost to family, and so on. but the most chilling part for ... complete loser who feels really really good for a few hours every day.’ He

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  teaching web.lab aka what i spent all of january on

  

  on the back, which you’ve wanted for like two years. take the extra ... for the first time, because you know questions will come up over and ... instructor note - it’s a snow day announcement. endorse an answer for the first

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  Growing up, Thanksgiving was an extremely important holiday for my ... graduate students from the local university to our house for a Thanksgiving ... . Cooking for thirty people was no easy task. Every year, a menu would go up

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  CMS.621: Fans & Fan Culture the class that changed my career trajectory?

  

  I usually reserve these kinds of posts for life-changing classes, the ... . I was extremely excited for all of these papers, albeit a little ... fulfills for people. It helped explain why people became fans of things

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Choosing Classes: Choice Paralysis [skye from valorant voice] help a girl out would ya!

  

  understand, and ready for change. Topics include specifications and invariants ... representation independence; design patterns for object-oriented programming ... applications and to account for human intelligence from a computational point of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 3, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  decided to "deep clean" MacGregor. This meant that, for the first time in ... ton of good reasons for choosing MacG, but this was supposed to be one of them. I ended up having to pay for a storage facility in the area

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  opted for a coach seat—so I’ll be sleeping upright for the next three days ... train track maintenance, I’ll be sitting on a bus for a stretch of my ... a wonderful essay about the color blue: “For many years, I have been

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  : However, some of them, usually the problems that were stepping stones for ... “result” of each group reported to a manager. For any given group of 3, the ... CEO. For instance, suppose you have 9 test subjects, whose responses

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  )-funded program under the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) umbrella. It ... "rotation measures" for each millisecond pulsar (MSP) in the globular cluster ... value for each MSP in the cluster and then have fun comparing them and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  action would be to e-mail my professor and my TA. After procrastinating for a few hours, I finally hit "send", and away went my request for ... for their help during the semester, etc, and returned to angsting

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  . Inspired by the wildly popular TED talks, the “TIM” in TIMtalks stands for ... motivated for the summer! According to Anjali ‘12, the Director and Founder ... positively impact our students. That was one of those ‘ah-hah!!!’ moments for

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  Assistant at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and I still stay ... intellectual mancrushes of mine are as profound as the one I have for Professor ... winners of the Hunt, he and his team created the challenges for this year

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  Ocean away. I was ready for new streets, new faces, new classes and ... , signed up for every activity ever, and enjoyed rushing around from one ... speaking a word to anyone (no time for words), rushed back out to my next

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  (Apologies for not posting lately, life has been spitting in my face ... has to do with the fact that for almost my entire life I’ve had to deal ... registered within 3 minutes of reading that e-mail. Who was obnoxious for the

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  I had all these entries planned for the next few days, but all of that is going to have to take a back seat in order for me to document to ... school kid for his lunch money. Well, I couldn't stand for that, so I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  wednesday at wai & aina (liveblog) and leaving the mit bubble

  

  right now, but it's been sunny these past few weeks. for the most part ... there, searched for something to set out on for the coming January. And ... -Wide Opportunities in Organic Farming. WWOOF is a work exchange program for organic

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • January 21, 2026
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh no the future obligatory “i am old” post with pretentious morbing

  

  ’t have the money for another grad student,” or if they secretly think I don ... I did for the past three years in college because living costs don ... cursed glowing object for the past hour. My laptop battery broke last week

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 23, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'

  

  -In As we gear up for the second STARS (Small-Town and Rural Students)@MIT Fly ... behind the scenes to open applications and plan for the Fall 2025 STARS ... 20 high school juniors from small and rural towns nationwide to MIT for

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • March 20, 2025