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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  Marvel knowledge v.s. only 1 semester of MIT GIRs under my belt. I ... Special Projects at MIT Admissions + Student Financial Services. It’s funny ... projects can be driven by a student’s passion and energy to explore their

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  that I never would have considered. 21H.S05 - Encoding Culture. This ... lamp class ended up conflicting with CMS.S60 so I get to now take this ... . CMS.S60 - Rap Theory and Practice. So I ended up getting into the class

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  also my first time on Yale’s campus which was very exciting. the campus ... production of a musical  I went with Silu S. ’24 to watch Six at the Emerson ... watch MIT Shakespeare Ensemble’s fall show ‘As You Like It’ with Prajna N

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

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

  

  beautiful descriptions of tennis. Of course, in men’s sports no one ever talks ... understood, war’s codes are safer for most of us than love’s. Conway's Game of

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

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

  

  do, it’s almost too mortifying to admit. All those months of taking it ... . And I hate him for it.” It’s been years since I’ve read the Hunger ... . It’s everything else that is hard. In this blog post, I haven’t made

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

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  nervous. I stared at the clock above everyone’s heads as I hit certain lines ... angrily, then sad. I kept laughing at other people’s lines — they were ... night, I watched the first. I loved everyone’s monologues. Thank you to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  meeting stem people. i don’t have an opinion on how correct my friend’s ... ’t interest me or are a bad influence on me, but there’s no sense in holding the ... every person’s life, because it is much easier to follow routines that

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  student community made up of some of the world’s most intelligent and ... needing to complete a portfolio. (That’s one of the main reasons we love ... Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E minor!"]entirety of your cello concerto

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  growth, of nostalgia. but there’s also the faint weight of knowing that ... that they don’t really end once you complete them. i mean, that’s the ... my life to begin, my childhood had to end. [...] and maybe that’s why

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  eternal dissatisfaction wish i could write more, care less

  

  couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  . Ambrose Bierce published The Devil’s Dictionary in 1906, a book filled with ... they are a Benedict Arnold. Coach K’s last name is pronounced “shih ... Andrews). Like … half of the appeal of a ventriloquist is that the person’s

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  :1s, and I talk to many other people - interns, the University program ... try to schedule 1:1s starting at this block because I am not very social or functional in the morning. 2-3 PM: Usually more 1:1s and spamming

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  "]simple![/annotation] So, here’s a quick step by step guide on how I managed to finish my ... ="for those of you with Celsius mind- that’s about -1 degrees, so freezing"]30 ... ., Dominik M., Hansa S., and of course, my lead actress, Kendra C. [embed

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  I am vaguely familiar with? s t r e s s. I don’t know where to place

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  We spent our last three summers at home. That’s not super common for ... cousin’s Bar Mitzvah, traveled to Moscow with our family, drew a lot ... adulthood, and it’s okay to take advantage of that. Junior Summer We are doing

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!

  

  **The idea for this post was originally Abby’s, but she is very hosed ... technically over. Also per my previous post, this doesn’t mean that it’s okay ... family's U.S. based insurance plans, it can be unnecessary to have to pay

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  (including me, Karen S., Kris, Stu, Elizabeth, Matt, Mikey), current and former ... and gradient(s) that has long characterized our homepage (and MIT ... .           Mimi S. '22, from Maine, is a

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

  Semester Reflections

  

  .163 Strobe Project Lab CMS.S60 Crafting Comics DTB2 Digital Toolbox 2 (taken at ... eat dinner by ourselves. And it’s actually not at all scary as freshman ... childhood pictures? or maybe both! Hhhmmmmmm That’s about all the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  graph’s title—in this case, a single word—can affect how people report its ... , memorability refers to the brain’s process of retrieving something from memory ... refers to where people focus when viewing an object; Zoya’s work in this

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  enough that’s where I found myself. It was one of the only factors I felt I ... get me a biology textbook and Feynman’s lectures on Physics because they ... hadn’t gone to two different high schools, and that’s why I hope to be

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016