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  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  strangled alive by now. I imagine she was a kind, gentle soul once. But after ... exposed. His work was illuminated by a skinny desk lamp, and various wires ... minifridge by my Course 2 neighbor. Its creation left me with a deep seated

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  -perfect self. Who are we if not what we are called by others? What happens when ... , for better or for worse (as proven by my continual use of ‘beige flag ... it destroyed by the Kens, Barbie remains notably apathetic and

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28 by Andre H. ‘24

  

  toughest campus issues by collecting student opinion and harnessing students ... the technology, maybe one day you’ll drink water cleaned by our ... Classroom program by [annotation note="MIT International Science and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 21, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking this spring study abroad edition

  

  , i decided to go for it.  my class started by introducing exponential ... vectors at a point in a surface are given by derivatives of curves lying on ... of all of this is seeing KL divergence in class last week (sponsored by

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 22, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  lead to big highs, but I figured they’d be outweighed by even bigger lows ... focus did mean that my social life was often more dominated by groups with ... down my verbal filter, and rather than being drained by long hangouts, I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  . When I entered MIT, I had a different name and went by different pronouns ... exploring my sexuality and gender identity by changing how I present myself ... exploring also kind of sucks. Because what they don’t tell you is that by

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  everyone around me in new and different ways — that I’d be inspired by their ... all shoulder. They’re the best part of this semester by far, and I ... from the end of the trail to the train station was the worst part by far

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  and less. Empty plots and grazing fields are being replaced by modernist ... livestock is dwindling, replaced by the distasteful urbanity of a Southern ... summer evening, punctured by lazily fluorescing fireflies. Earthworms on

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  circle around the terrifying prospect of becoming old by undergrad ... . I go to bed by midnight and wake up early to take advantage of the ... disperse. We'll be leaves drifting out into the world, carried by winds

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  direction, I would have to continue going to boring meetings surrounded by ... . [caption id="attachment_87293" align="alignnone" width="381"] "Masks" by Shel ... -five or thirty people. By the way, all of these observations are made with

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  surrounded by another pile of radios and oscilloscopes. I had never seen such ... books, and the older ones were literally falling apart by the seams ... around with Tesla Coils. Assembly - most of this part was done by Shreya

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  by [annotation note="Musical Theatre Guild, one of the theater groups ... nothing. Okay, maybe that is a bit of an exaggeration, but not by much. I ... read Fatima’s previous blogs, you know by now that I am somewhat fond of

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  -seven consecutive hours of consciousness in my scramble to actually finish it. By the ... 's In Search of Lost Time, and some poetry collections, as recommended to me by ... is so close by. I've changed so much, and I didn't even notice, because

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  quickly as they appeared. Or other times, I am only respected by my male best friends because I am not being pursued by them. Only when I have no ... that at age 12 I was told I had dick-sucking lips by someone I had viewed

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  another repair shop that stocked 3a screens. “By the way, sorry if I ... -crushing silence, during which I told time by the angle of the sun.   Finally ... taken by my new shiny phone[/caption]

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  ) inconsequential problems to not be excited by intelligence alone. extremely ... excited by walmart than i am by stripe proposal: i want to work on projects

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  sort of got one leg over by jumping, and then, like, stumbled in. It wasn ... [annotation note="Oops. I have been forbidden from using this word by Alison ... only ones that seemed even mildly bewildered by my appearing act

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  like the sky. No matter how fast the train was whizzing by the trees of ... the first half of my college experience by focusing on the trees and ... bit by bit, they blurred into beautiful sea glass the color of trees and

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  finish The Secret History by Donna Tartt, which I really enjoyed, and to ... 's writing style. idk if this is a hot take"]The City We Became[/annotation] by ... it [annotation note="inspired by the prospect of some contest deadline

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  . I’m surrounded by pamphlets, business cards, cute bookmarks and ... ago, to go to MIT. I was struck by the fact that it would be waiting for ... . “Disaster Management” by Ariel Katz, if you’re interested. It was about two

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022