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• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  La La Land did not win (and it’s not a joke!). Afterwards I learned ... met the magnificent beasts Loki and Peru. It’s been a good night ... place to call home for a week. agent jynnie’s quarters are warm, ambient

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  mother’s shoe closet and beelined for these crimson-colored wonders that I ... are this really fun way to tell a story through choreography. (Here’s a ... heels is fun, It’s hard as hell but the best part about being a dancer

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  , to get some things off everyone’s chest and provide a safe space to ... operator’s voice in Spanish, an absurd, confusing moment. These events ... “international” as a fluid term--I don’t always mean literally students without U.S

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  Morality. It’s a very “MIT” class, counting for both my Philosophy and Neuroscience requirements. And it’s been pretty amazing so far. This week, we are ... shirt is from MIT’s annual production of The Vagina Monologues, which has

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  . Cecilia’s Parish in Boston, where I go every Sunday, and proudly belted out ... . Cecilia’s are similar in that they are both Catholic and carry out the same ... things like, “you’re lucky”. That’s definitely true--I had supportive

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  we’re lame, or because there’s not much to do in the first place. It’s ... . It’s pretty hot in here, but I’m pretty used to it. There are a few ... . She says “you guys, it’s weird to think that this is probably the last

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES

  

  . You can also upvote other people’s questions if you really want to see ... questions as we can. You can address your question(s) to all of us, or to specific bloggers. Whether you’re a high schooler, MIT student, someone’s

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 18, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  the "nerd culture" that MIT is known for, but it’s also tradition to ... festivity. The Moon shall glow ablaze, like a dragon’s eye, A drop of scalding ... moonlight’s full, Only at the BLOOD MOON FESTIVAL." FRANK: I'm just going for

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  -day fever dream. Here’s a diary of everything that went down during GELcamp ... coordinate the GEL1s. Check out their website to learn more! Our journey to ... build a solar farm to help offset MIT’s carbon emissions! Half the time we

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 6, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  the MIT Media Lab’s then-called Learning Initiative. In 2018, I started ... farewell post?  Let’s start with the easy things, the stuff that hasn ... renovation last year (losing Verdes and Anna’s! RIP), still kind of has that

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Pirates and Pi and Rats and Pie and Rats (except there are no rats) 3.1415926535897932384626433832795… idk the rest.

  

  I [started] writing this blog on 3/17, and it’s the warmest day that ... semester."]2.S02[/annotation], and 21M.299. The last one is a world music studies class about “Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys.” and it’s AWESOME

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  I first stepped onto MIT’s campus in the summer of my junior year ... . In fact, as part of MIT’s[annotation note="General Institute ... .000 discovery course,[/annotation]it’s a lot to keep up with.  I was also

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  hairdressers happily babbling about mundane (but riveting) gossip and some 2000’s ... ’m actually a little reckless with my hair, all things considered. It’s been ... catching a cold), and it’s usually in a state of disarray, since I often can

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  Kerry, Ireland. It’s the launching point to walk the Kerry Way, a nine-day hike around Kerry. This is also my only stop, as it’s the only hostel ... there’s a charity event for it. Folk come from all over the world. He

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  I think my suckiness at Smash is interesting because it’s probably not ... probably will be for a while. It’s easy to interpret that as lazy. And maybe it is - I’m not sure that it’s necessarily the most disciplined

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  , in classic MIT student tradition, I crammed a year’s worth of self ... , quieter day-to-day reasons I love living in New York. Mostly, it’s a city ... love hearing people’s conversations. Before you @ me for eavesdropping

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  from roads and sidewalks, and are about 5 feet wide, so there’s space for ... objects here, they just lock the back tire to the frame. It’s a little ... away from home. Sometimes it’s [annotation note = "well… warm anyway

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  that I talk to Wordle about. Today’s [as of writing this] was ... “distance” between two words. Word lists and data come from Google’s corpus of newspaper articles. There’s fun linear algebra and NLP and linguistics things

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  printed on semi-trucks, Fry’s and Coke and Target, coming in to the city ... , two of my sisters shared a room, and my other sister’s room could only ... like growing up in the old house, as we called it, but that’s a different

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  flower pressed between pages. Here’s a snapshot of a week: https ... plays, there’s always at least one free table, and most of the clientele ... a poisoner and an architect’s apprentice. I’m a little nervous about

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021