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• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  tab and don't reopen it for a year. i've been thinking a lot about race lately. for a lot of reasons. one is that, well, being[annotation note ... you signing in for?" - "beewa" - "sorry, which group?" - "B. W. A

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  , I was telling my sister about hunting for a place in Boston, and she ... for Undergraduate Research OPportunities. As my family demonstrates, it ... so grateful for my lab. This blog is about how I found my UROP and what

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  college dorms didn’t fully hit me until I walked in for the first time. For ... residents went back and forth for a few years, reportedly until 1972. After ... to the first post in this series, I sent out a poll asking people for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  , accuracy) and understanding the compromises settled for in attaining this ... store 2,3,9,15… in memory. For this blogpost, I’m going to talk about a ... familiarity with probability helps. For our purposes, you can think of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  For a lot of incoming MIT students, the story is the same. Four ... she walks into Walker Memorial, three weeks into the semester, for her ... solutions that can help them, because for the first time, they actually have

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  is always a cause for celebration. And, on the surface at least ... as much as I enjoy writing for the blogs, I spend the bulk of my time ... with my academic work. Even at moments when missing classes to study for

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  McCormick Observatory in Charlottesville, VA, for their first public ... astronomy professor for permission to deliver a 20-minute public talk on ... away and make a home for yourself in a bathroom stall. Dealing with it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  (I wrote this entry after spending three months working in Tokyo for ... patriotic?)(Oh, alright. Duh. President's Day.) (For those of you who don ... a little spout at the top for washing your hands when your business is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing: La Maison Française (French House) No, you don't have to speak French to live here.

  

  stretches for your hamstrings and calves, and then climb to the top of the ... four-course home-made dinner made for me, and one evening, I learn to ... for three hours per week. Non-MIT-related hobbies include "birding

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 29, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21W.762 Poetry Workshop some poems from the class!

  

  Fredlund (Sestina) The Earth Is Round for a Reason (or haven't you heard ... have never seen before, amidst staring at my reflection for 21 years. it ... -- one ready to metamorphose into a butterfly the other ready to cocoon for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 22, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bloggers Wrapped 2019 aka i harvest everybodys data, my favorite pastime

  

  It's my favorite time of year for a variety of reasons. My birthday ... RELEASES SPOTIFY WRAPPED!!! For those of you who've been following the blogs ... cheap to pay for the full version, lol"]too impatient[/annotation] to wait

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  may go] Harvard and MIT hold a math competition for high schoolers ... , which in practice, is an excuse for Harvard and MIT students to hang out with their friends in Princeton for a weekend while getting travel

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  addition to 7 local governments, one for each of the 7 parishes. I got to ... parliament is responsible for making the laws of the country. The parliament ... Barcelona) that is regularly agitating for independence. Andorra borders

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  assassins – a liveblog day 7: five remain

  

  usually goes on for a while. this is my first time playing in the hall tradition: i was a wingrep for 2E last fall, so i ran the game, but didn ... be used too easily for info): i think i'll be ridiculous and go with

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  !   I’m the lead story artist for Coco. I’m from Chelmsford, so I grew ... back in like ’99. Eventually I was there for like a year and all my ... was there for about three years. I was doing character layout which is

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  the winning team in 2013']different name for each year of its existence ... they’ve known each other for a long time. But instead of feeling excluded ... kicked out in March, our[annotation note="which we use all year round for

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  WRONG NAME for the last YEAR. apparently it’s actually called a life TILE ... cash out at the end of the game in exchange for money–$10,000, $20 ... . Shenanigans are worth it not only for the joy in the moment, but also for the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  school. Yes, that MIT. The one that has swept the Putnam competition for ... , because it’s the epitome of brains and brawn. Contending for a national ... about it, it makes sense. Students come to MIT for the greatest possible

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  way possible for me to take a quantum engineering class and get over my ... year ago because one of the professors saw me working on a project for a ... chip in December, demonstrating useful error correction for the first

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  particularly special class because it is required for everyone majoring in ... converged again for this one class. Walking into lecture the first day was an ... research projects we would be working on for the rest of the semester. It

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024