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• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  since 2019 due to the pandemic. DTYD is traditionally held in Burton ... place in Walker Memorial. Origins (taken from my 2020 post about Burton Third) DTYD started in 1969 when two Bombers (Classes of ’70 and ’71

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  who started the fire? (not clickbait) playing detective

  

  For the last few years, I've been living off-campus in a house full ... 't living in the house at the time, but there were about four WILG members living here. According to them, somebody had first smelled smoke in the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 28, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  making things a blog about being a meche major

  

  Maybe my favorite part of course 2A is sitting next to my friend in 2 ... note-taking. Midweek finds us gathering in a lounge and trudging through the psets, untangling each other’s equations when they get in snarls

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  it now. I’m living in it. That glow is strongest around EC. It’s in the way people gather in the courtyard to build a giant fort, three stories tall, which overlooked the REX events. It’s in the way we dress

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  . Classes are done, grades are in, and I’m beginning a senior-year road trip ... today. (In fact, I’m starting this post on a plane from Boston to Las ... . This post is hard to write. Not in the emotional “I’m not ready to say

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Thirteen Theses on Wide Tim In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false.

  

  , sacredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion ... Society of the Spectacle.' (1967) Unless otherwise credited in-image, all ... .][/annotation] [caption id="attachment_65325" align="aligncenter" width="768"] 1. In

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  highlights of a hellish semester it's OVER. IT'S FINALLY OVER GOSDAIUOSDSOIJD

  

  and a mf pandemic??? ANYways. as i've talked about in previous posts ... . living in a dorm last year was wonderful because I could have all sorts of ... in the downstairs fridge, which prompted all of us to start sorting

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  me whether I was a morning person or a night owl in high school, I ... 't necessarily the case, though. I spent most of high school in a vicious cycle of ... halfway through junior year, in January 2019. On average, it tells me that I

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  did not read them all in the hours between 12 am and 3 -- feeling ... against except my future self in 9 am class -- it felt sort of disingenuous ... that would decrease one’s happiness (think living in a pandemic, taking

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  then feel guilty about it later. There's no in-between. The issue is that I haven't yet found a rhythm that works for me in terms of finishing ... turn it in ten minutes before it was due. Like...where is the middle

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Places I Became Human Hey guys, I think I'm back :)

  

  I kept my composure until I didn’t. Nothing in particular triggered ... to scream. In a single moment, shaking under a stream of hot water, an ... ’t the same person I was at the end of September. In September, I wouldn

  • by Powers '23
  • November 21, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  damn, i haven’t blogged in forever and it’s stressing me out (alongside a ... , which i spent dancing with my team and chilling with my floor in Maine. i ... water or eating healthy at all, and how all of this is documented in a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  .0001 (Intro to Computer Science Programming in Python) — real talk. aside from AP Computer Science, i didn’t do any coding in high school ... THICC 5/5 cannot be described in words 😩 (lol MIT is not a bad place to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The final stretch ...of 2017

  

  choose any topic or field to explore in the realm of computational ... the labs in 6.034 Artificial Intelligence   A Non ... day, and turned it in. My last assignment for Junior fall complete, I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  It was the dead of winter in the smoggy capital city of Chile ... Spanish speakers anywhere else in the world would fail to understand, found ... claims began to roll in. In total, four name brand jackets, about $100 in

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  interview: joy buolamwini hidden figure, poet of code, low-key actual superhero

  

  i mentioned joy in a blog post a few weeks ago, when she won the $50000 grand prize in the search for hidden figures contest. i've been a ... empower communities via tech education and highlight bias in algorithms. i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  ," taught by the inimitable Prof. Julie Shah. In aerospace (and lots of other places) lots of people place their trust in software--software that flies ... operate in social contexts and therefore have social responsibilities, and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  , I realized that it would probably be in my best interest to take the ... in the tunnels with friends a few times before, but as a directionally ... importantly, in one piece. I immediately crashed when I got back. Snow is

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  exhilarates because it means forward action, and not just in classes, but in ... missing my family intolerable. But then I arrived in Cambridge, walked past ... , and fell in love. I sit now between the columns that support the mighty

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

    ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire ... Spiral of Doom? Never fear! It’s similar to what a lot of us used in high ... /listener subjects, academic warnings that do not show up in the transcript you send

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013