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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Legacy of a Media Storyteller [by Leila Kinney, Comparative Media Studies] Recently, Leila Kinney attended a Symposium at the Media…

  

  's Media Fabrics group. "I am a media junkie," Glorianna announced in her own ... "participatory culture" can be realized? For this, former students again and again ... , 2009, she will teach a new undergraduate course for Comparative Media

  • by ARTalk
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  chunk of this, solely because I can. Three people from my school applied ... neurotic college applicant waiting for a decision. (Come on, who can blame ... In true "everybody else is doing it, so why can't we?"* fashion, I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Signs of Life communication in a covid world

  

  occasion, I’ve used Zoom or FaceTime to get a sense of realness in my ... them know how we’re doing now that the semester is over, a text message sent to a relative wishing them a happy birthday! or a congrats on

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  starlight. Lately I've been tracing a trajectory through the last week of ... . There's eight courses spread over a 120-hour canvas; I'll probably drop ... should desire a GPA of 0.2/5.0 or so. Conventional wisdom for the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  .  Here's the main lessons I took away from his talk: How to know when to ... forces you to build for a real customer; when you have deadlines every few ... right off the bat.  For example, take Tesla and its goal of creating a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Name in Flashing Lights Or maybe just mitadmissions.org

  

  from you soon! See you in 9 days! CPW is a blast -- tips for conquering ... Did you ever try to call in for radio shows? Ever want your five minutes of fame? Well here's your chance to be a blogger. Last year, I

  • by Bryan
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  . The post-8.286 reaction: For every particle I see, a precursor existed ... This post is about the classes I'm taking - and is a case in xkcd ... shattered with a bang. *In contrast to "ood", an alien species from Doctor

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  from NYC to Providence, I started reading Stone Butch Blues as a pdf on ... A lot of my time this summer has been spent in transit. I take the subway to and from work. I spend most of my free time wandering around the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you have class? A view of my classes for the fall semester, with some photos from their first…

  

  (with some photos, too.) 1.A24: You CAN Get There From Here! This is a ... approach to introductory chemistry for those who aren't planning to go into a ... the class or a 100 in the class. I'm not terribly crazy about chemistry

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2013! this is how i do this

  

  upperclassmen spots that are open for the fall, and if you feel you can make a ... remember that I need to hire new bloggers 2) I frantically Google for the ... this is how I hire bloggers   Be a blogger! As usual, we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2006 announced

  

  ultimate goal of finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. For a more in ... much. Roger Ford for [email protected] Let me show you some pictures from ... gathered not only for a kickoff speech (announcing the theme: "Normalville

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Crusty White Dogs Appreciation Post 💕 🐕 💕 🐕💕

  

  The other day, I was in a meeting for Cru Worship team, and the ... as a pet. I thought for like ten seconds and decided: Crusty White Dog ... something fantastical, like I can have ANYTHING as a pet, and I chose

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 18, 2026
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  Longtime readers may recall that I am a big fan of the His Dark ... graduates might consider their obligations to their fellow humans. In a way, I ... inspired by a line from the Amber Spyglass, as the ghost of an old woman

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  I'm going to have to make this quick today, since I have to study for ... 's probably not all that terribly different from the SAT II in biology, but I'm having to study quite a bit because I haven't learned anything about plants

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Coin Has Been Found! Mystery Hunt 2007 is quasi-over.

  

  and I'll get back to you when I get home from church. Ciao! ... Hunt is quasi-over. At 5:30 PM today, there will be a wrap up session where they go over some hunt statistics etc. If you're still interested in

  • by Bryan
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  New York Trips that we went on with Arts Scholars!

  

  difficult to describe, but essentially it was a very moving, for lack of a ... everyone is sitting in a small booth, inches away from the rotating cylinder ... for it because, when else do you get to take a day trip to see a famous

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 5, 2020
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  My ML model finished training right after I finished this post technically i *am* doing work right now

  

  Junior year was a milestone for me because it was the first time where I actually got to work with machine learning models. I just got some code to run on my computer for my UROP project this summer, which is

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the Scenes of MIT Gala liveblog - how a fashion show is made!

  

  Over the past three years, I’ve been on the organizing board for MIT ... will be walking the runway today. I stop by to say hi and snap a couple ... , so I can start testing my projections, which will be on the walls in

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • April 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Astrophotography Courtesy of 12.409

  

  . One evening, I had my head in the sky for SEVEN HOURS straight: one hour ... clothing + a hat + gloves, peering through the telescope I set up. I managed to find the Beehive Cluster using a map (that I read in red lamplight

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  MITWE, I can play music from around the world in a large ensemble ... for the first time in a week, I also thought about how lucky I was to be ... felt like a celebrity when I saw this poster outside the Teatro Amazonas

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023