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• Blog / How to Human

  happy singles awareness day

  

  Last week, one of my friends, “Mike”, asked me if I had any Valentine’s Day plans. I didn’t, so he asked me if I wanted to go out to a…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  see that last week, the Comparative Media Studies/Writing (CMS/W ... .I.-assisted writing. CMS/W is where I did my grad degree, and also occasionally teach ... marshal facts and ideas into convincing written and oral presentations." CMS/W

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  Even as a kid, school never fit right for me. I recall my third-grade teacher told us all to “divide your page in half.” The other students made horizontal or…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  writing gary wang’s wikipedia page why did I fill out the wikipedia page for the ftx cto?

  

  Cross-posted on my Substack here. A few weeks ago, I stumbled upon Gary Wang’s newly-created Wikipedia page. Gary Wang, for the uninitiated, is the former CTO of FTX. He’s quite reclusive,…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  In sixth grade, even if you had a crush on someone, you would never ask them out. The reasoning was simple: it was embarrassing and high-risk. The potential outcomes weren’t…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  crossposted on Substack here. I’ve never really wanted to be beautiful. There were moments I wished to be desirable, and I suppose that is adjacent to beauty, but beauty does…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  Near the start of the pandemic, I decided not to come back to MIT full-time during fall 2020, since I knew I wouldn’t get that much out of Zoom University.…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  rush wilg bunnies inside this blog post

  

  Since Fall 2018, I’ve lived at WILG, an independent living group at 355 Massachusetts Avenue, a seven-minute walk from main campus. You may know us from my previous blog post…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 13, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  This summer, I worked for fourteen weeks as a software engineering intern at a start-up that focuses on artificial intelligence and data science. My team was focused on AI-powered audio-to-text…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  This summer, I took an art class through the Student Art Association at MIT. These classes aren’t for credit and if you’re an undergraduate student, you can become an Art…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  in which i blog again four-ish blogs in one

  

  21W.755: Writng & Reading Short Stories The syllabus for this ... .  21W.771: Advanced Poetry Workshop This was actually the second time I ... work on hands-on projects in art and textiles, 21W.755 and 21W.771 where

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 29, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  welcome to new york went to nyc & all i got was this blog post

  

  When Taylor Swift’s 1989 album dropped, I read a review describing “Welcome to New York” as the musical version of a peppermint latte. It was Taylor’s first decisively pop album and I…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 12, 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 of other MIT undergraduate women. We’re part of MIT’s FSILG (Fraternity, Sorority, and Independent Living Group) system.…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 28, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  On April 16th, 2020, my life changed. That’s a kitschy way to put it, because our lives are always changing at every moment, every breath being a cobblestone placed on…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  the only way i can convince myself to write anything for the past two weeks has been bullet points. lists in lists in lists. i wrote an entire short story for 21w.755, reading and writing short stories, entirely

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  Content warning for hate crimes, anti-Asian racism, gun violence, sexual harassment. Like many, I’m heartbroken over the shootings that happened in Atlanta recently. I’m heartbroken as an American citizen, but…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  i’m studying abroad this semester hello europe

  

  Yes, you read that title right. I’m going to be studying abroad this semester! For real! Okay, sadly, it’s a remote program, because *gestures wildly at the state of the world*.…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 7, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taylor swift songs as applicants emergency evermore post

  

  24 hours ago, Taylor Swift came out with a new album and everyone lost their minds. If you haven’t listened to it yet, please go do that right now and…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds like home Quarantine songs, from my home to yours

  

  This post is long overdue. These are not the circumstances I had hoped to meet you in, but since I’m already stuck in a staring contest with my computer screen…

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What I’m Up To distractions

  

  've been playing some League w/ friends ever since I got back Codenames

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2020