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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SONIC JUBILANCE A day at the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building at MIT

  

  Banjos & Basements: A Brief History of Music at MIT Music has been part of MIT since the Institute’s earliest chapters. By 1884, 23 years after MIT was founded, the…

  • by Jeremy W.
  • February 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  and Writing the Essay - 21W.735 Maybe this class is partly responsible

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  !). Poetry ~ words I'm taking 21W.771, Advanced Poetry Workshop. It's a great

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  My friend Eric recently wrote a blog post about isolation at Harvard that resonated with many readers. Several people have mentioned similar experiences at their own universities—student populations filled with clout-chasers, dispassionate…

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

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  House']4W[/annotation] people. I got like two tossups in the entire

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  This is my fourth (and last) post like this. See 2019, 2020, 2021. Things I read for class These are all taken from 21W.765 Interactive Narrative. Going for a Beer (1100 words). Content warning: domestic abuse

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  I once asked a boyfriend if he would give up his life for ten billion dollars. “Yes,” he said. “Because the amount of good I can do in my lifetime…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  Recently, my friend rejected several people who were interested in him. This friend is single and would like to have a girlfriend, and these women had no obvious dealbreakers that…

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

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  It's been—checks watch—two weeks since I last posted, which is a week's gap longer than usual. Oops! As part of 21W.765 Interactive Narrative, we were assigned to read Raymond Queneau's classic Exercises in Style

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  On Friday, I watched Everything Everywhere All At Once, a movie where a woman gets to experience many of the other universes that might’ve appeared had she made a different…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  some videos of the initial camera tests. [embed]https://youtu.be/Pz1PMsW

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  <3'] is Semantle.[/annotation] I was introduced to it by Jenny W. (G

  • by Phi A. '21
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  how to make a minecraft bot reflections on my microsoft internship

  

  This last month, I was a micro-intern on the Semantic Machines team at Microsoft and got to work with Minecraft. I learned some cool things about language models and AI…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  tl;dr Today I’ll be answering your questions about MIT portfolios in the comment section below. To tide you over before questions come in, I’ve compiled some of my thoughts on…

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  took 21W.755 Reading and Writing Short Stories, I absolutely hated

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  I decided this summer was the summer I’d get my life together, once and for all. For the last several summers, I’ve floundered in a soup of confusion and unease…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  respond in 1 minute[/caption] [visually_hidden]email text: from: jerry w

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  things. Five. I'm taking 21W.755 Reading and Writing Short Stories this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  In August I celebrated my four year workiversary⁠03 🍰 as the in-house designer on the communications team at MIT Admissions and Student Financial Services. Essentially, in the months when I’m…

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  seven questions with youtubers the mit side of youtube

  

  I talked with MIT undergrads who make YouTube videos! Read on to learn about their unexpected challenges, college advice, and wild moments. Interview answers have been edited for brevity. Give…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 14, 2020