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Blog / Art, Literature, Music
the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth
for the first time, with a short story I wrote over winter break. It was ... story ended up winning a national award, and I flew to New York City for ... got to make up a story and give my problems to a fictional character -
Blog / IAP
Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts
the heck[/caption] I could tell the story of that morning-- the story ... 've told that story before. What I want to talk about, is a tiny detail on -
Blog / About Decisions
it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred
them as well. Each of their stories is unique, and each provides its own comfort and advice. Here is another such story—hopefully, it, too, provides ... Your Story", "it's only a matter of time," a matter of waiting for that -
Blog / About Decisions
[guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…
club i like stories and writing and because of that i now like genetic ... what i wanted. i loved writing and stories. cramming them into my head ... found that i wasn’t bad at it. (i wasn’t good, but that’s another story -
Blog / About Decisions
The Art of Waiting how to burn some time
Paper Menagerie and Other Stories: the namesake is the only short story to ever win all three short story awards, so good ah La casa de los -
Blog / Academics & Research
Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me
genres of music, clothing, and stories that are unique to the African ... could explore. I began to be able to listen to Uber drivers tell stories ... truth as possible. Behind every sound and stroke of language is a story -
Blog / MIT Life
Closer Calls and rising unease
would be back from school anytime soon, unloading stories about their ... -minded noises in response while working on a short story that looked funnily ... and worries—stories to write, classes to pass, codes to debug, friends -
Blog / Admissions
Announcing New Bloggers for 2010! A digital debutante ball...
story - I loved how much I loved reading Kate's blogs, whether about math ... -Cultural Culinary Story." When he gets to campus, Emad hopes to join Live Music ... , they'll be able to tell you more about their own personal stories, which -
Blog / Admissions
Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".
makes them special is the stories that the tour guides share. I've known ... . And of course, the story of Oliver Smoot never gets old for me ... 've heard Alina's story, I'll need to drop in on the others guides' tours to -
Blog / Miscellaneous
American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.
kidding. It's a big deal. The story behind the first Thanksgiving goes as ... big feast together to celebrate a successful harvest. But every story ... Thanksgiving (because we all know the story wasn't that simple, and the way we -
Blog / Life after MIT
What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.
that I should write a book telling stories about real scientists and ... ), but there are no standard answers about the best way to tell a story. I ... impress? Tell stories like you would over lunch. Get out there and tell us -
Blog / Events
I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.
tell a story well? What makes a good story? How do you create a story -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Past, present, and future
helped design. You can read their story, as written by Jeff Roberts '01 ... stories of their battles, whether they won or lost them - in the former case ... where they're going. It's a long and colorful story. Those of us here -
Blog / Admissions
Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.
news. Below, I've highlighted four major media stories featuring Marilee ... read or listen to the entire story. In the New York Times: Her Mission ... Correspondent Jim Fallows. In the lead story of the magazine's first-ever college -
Blog / Academics & Research
MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.
West Side Story, released in 1961. I'm a huge West Side Story fan, and I ... . Long story short, I had a less-than-ideal UROP experience the summer -
Blog / About Decisions
Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.
The Associated Press has a nice story about "Gap Years" that has been ... LuisObispo.com. You can read the story yourself here, but I'll pull out some choice ... down. Life, college, career -- it's not a race. The other story today on -
Blog / Classes
writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard
Fenian Cycle, stories about the hero Finn mac Cumhaill, famous across all ... were to first discuss the strengths of the story, then address a list of ... story which could be improved. Finally, the author came up with a few -
Blog / Events
hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP
. The tl;dr is that every story follows one [annotation note="this has ... hopes of making their story stronger, and I wouldn’t be surprised if media outlets prioritize stories that follow a set of guidelines"]core outline -
Blog / People & Identities
a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!
magazine. I read the first story sitting on the floor in the hallway ... ’s story reminded me of a toned-down, literary version of the next-to-last chunk of Gaiman’s Neverwhere. Why do artists tell stories of failure? Was