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• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  community here at MIT that has awesome events and is a ton of fun to hang out ... AHHH CPW!!! Was the name of my last blog post I wrote prior to CPW last year, and it is, once again, that time of year! This year I'd like

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  streamers. Also hanging out with Ethan at TwitchCon. Three of my biggest ... Every year, I try to set aside a chunk of time to reflecting on the year. This is usually done in the form of setting New Year's resolutions

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  below are in the format of Poem Title by Author (poetry form) Table of ... Mejia (Triversen) the rotting and fettering corpse of our love sits ... Spring by Alisa Hathaway (Blazon) my room contains a giant looking glass of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 22, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  December, when EA decisions were first released. As a result, some of these ... terms of what to do and what not to do, what works best for me and for the majority of my friends, and how to essentially survive my first year at MIT

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  and African communities on campus, and would also be a big part of ... roles to revamp the African Students’ Association, he was one of the first ... of 2016, where he and other MIT students worked on interesting startup

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  There is a small rock in my shoe. In Fall 2016, University of Missouri ... spend a lot of time reading articles and opinion editorials about a lot of our frightening modern day issues, and I spent a lot of time thinking

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  a day in my life as a MISTI student ft. research and friends

  

  things didn't work out because of covid. I chose Germany because of my long-running interest in the country and its culture, as well as because, of all the ... research at the meteorology institute of the Freie Universität Berlin and

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  It’s cool to care but maybe care a little less

  

  the toilet. In front of me, next to the door, was a featureless white ... -aalaga sa'yo." Living alone is hard. There's no one to take care of you ... replied. Not quite. It means you're supposed to take care of yourself

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  feeling, to think that I will bow out of this universe in under two ... First, I have three very exciting pieces of news to share with you ... (Astronomy Picture Of the Day)! According to the Greeks, the Pleides were the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary an image a day keeps the psets away

  

  were choppy, disjointed, or I simply did not like them. Of course, when a ... went. But for this term, it was kind of a blur. I couldn't really think ... started looking around for things to stir thoughts in my head, a stimulus of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 3, 2022
• 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)

  

  A couple of Fridays ago I had the opportunity to sit in on an LSC preview of the upcoming Pixar film Coco, hosted by storyboard artist Dean ... a bit of his guest lecture and the Q&A that followed. Enjoy

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

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  My sophomore year of high school I ate too many donuts. When I woke ... fact of my life now; I’ve made it a joke.  I feel like throwing up, I say ... complaining about being nauseous. One of my friends said to me, Oh no, I hope

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  ="aligncenter" width="300"] !!![/caption] Hank is a man of many passions: science ... ’ve been a fan of Hank (and his brother John) for basically my entire conscious life. I stumbled into the Green brothers’ corner of the internet

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT-vangelion: Behind the scenes! how we made the Pi Day 2023 video!

  

  nothing but ramen noodles and slept in the basement of Stata like ... Toonz 🤮, the  t h i r d  dimension, and lots of Neon Genesis Evangelion ... didn’t know that I was going to be in charge of this year’s Pi Day video

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  Back during IAP of last year I wrote an entry about a brand new "toy ... to a couple of people in the room. Chris M (of blogger fame) has one ... seeing what my pen did. "Well shoot, I've already sold like three of these

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  Content Note: This post contains mentions of death, depression, and ... of MIT students this fall, the characters talk about two types of ... feel happiness or pleasure. It is described as a type of numbness, a numb

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: REGRESSIONS a documentary on MIT, and why it's so important

  

  of social distinction. Students at prestigious universities undergo ... ('22) and Wesley Block ('22) on the history of the Institute, spanning from World War 2 to COVID-19. It uses 80 years of AI-enhanced archival

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 12, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  usually amount to advertisements of events and programs and people trying to ... group of students to bike across the country, from DC to San Francisco ... idea of a long-distance bike trip caught my attention. I had never

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  more context (the "real" story, if you will). One of our close friends ... surprise him out of nowhere with his newly found skills. This has been a ... evolved into a larger research expedition of creating a chess engine and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  content warning: extended discussion of anxiety, depression, suicide ... 's part of the job description. if he doesn't do it, then he's not doing his ... 're already be— cj: okay, shut up. the two of you, shut up. dan: … alan

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021