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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  asked Ayo if she'd write up how it came to be so I could post it. She did ... mother’s shoe closet and beelined for these crimson-colored wonders that I’d been eyeing for a while. I strutted around for a bit before my ankles

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  FAV ), impala so abundant that we ended up eating it for dinner one ... post series* For as long as I can remember I have wanted to travel the ... wanted to be when I grew up and I would tell her about my plans to traverse

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

  wanted to do for the fun of it, and I gratefully showed up, listened to the ... in the wrong direction, I saw Random Hall for the first time. As I ... community, primarily freshmen, to know them. Always on the lookout for free

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  popped up and started speaking to my friend in Chinese. I hardly even got ... homework, sometimes asking me for help. When I see Chinese-language updates ... . The next time I took a Chinese class would be at MIT - and I ended up

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  I made. UPDATE: Here's the 2022 post. Things I read for class I took ... ). Content warning for domestic violence. This isn't a short story, but I think ... (3381 words). Content warning for violence. This one's cheating because

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  got switched to hard mode for me after November started (and no, this ... before I sat in Bates Hall for about two hours and made progress on my ... [/caption] Monday: I woke up with cramps. On top of my 3-week old ankle sprain, the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  corner of the Internet, to sum up all my feelings from the past four years ... . I'm a full-time employee writing and editing scripts for the You ... of school for a loooong time. And I do, and I did, and I took a break

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  away. I recommend giving them all of the recommendation forms for every ... yourself as a match for each place. Teachers often find these conversations very helpful. If a teacher asks you to write the recommendation for them

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  apologizing for being late, and whom am I to reject tradition? So let me first ... you get older, time has a way of sneaking up and past you, the way that, for many people, one's birthday shifts from being a moment of annual

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  i don’t know how to comfort people

  

  academic environment, you most often turn to the people around you for ... . after all, we’ve only barely known each other for two and a half months ... think, but you can’t force people to talk. so i wait for something to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  strong. By June, I had written first drafts of my essays for MIT and ... drained. For the high school seniors out there who are applying to college ... . Not to mention having to keep up with school and other responsibilities

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 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 / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  going on, but I really want to write up at least some of my scraps. To ... have been floating around in my head for several months while I stressed out about applying to grad school. [annotation note="please"]Vote for

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 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 ... -printed trinkets. Cards and letters. A gift from a friend. It fills up, but not ... foundation is left behind, for the next generation of the MIT community to make

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 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 ... preferences of the royalty. Each group came up with their own method, some ... cafeterías to this type of initiative are role-models for the rest of the

  • 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

  Aliens, Bitcoin, Camps now i know my ABCs

  

  The blogs have been pretty quiet for the last week. Most of our ... , picking up long-dormant projects, and starting new initiatives. I'm currently at nerd camp, but anytime the blogs go unblogged for too long, I get

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  take the month to catch up on sleep, work on personal projects (or bad ... '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

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 13, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Good Morning, Sportsracers! *erases introductory post draft for the umpteenth time in the vain hope that he'll stick…

  

  Introductions are generally a clunky thing for me. There's some basic ... judged for quoting HMS Pinafore in this person's presence? Would this be a ... up my face in a ridiculous manner? (That last one has worked a couple

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • September 14, 2014