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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  Recently, I’ve been trying to record music. I have a mic setup thanks to the rap class I’m taking this semester with Lupe Fiasco; my living group has a piano…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  I first arrived at MIT as a tourist, a thirteen-year-old with glasses that didn’t flatter my face and blunt bangs I cut myself. It was spring break of eighth grade,…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• 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 / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  The other day, my friend sent me photos of herself trying on potential wedding dresses. She recently got engaged to her boyfriend on their third anniversary. I liked looking at…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 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