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• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  experiences to straight-up spilling tea for an hour. it's great.   as i ... the time is nigh for a “what is ankita doing this semester?!?!” post ... [/annotation] and maybe having an incredible experience here and there, but it's being

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  intended to "tap into the demand for an elite American education from the ... 's online format will provide an elite electronic education for those huddled ... as a reasonably meritocratic mission, at least for an online university

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  fun in the fall and I’m grateful for the stress relief you provided. The ... there for me**. Like a rock. Or that piece of paper I accidentally ... come to an end. But let’s not dwell on the past. I’m with spring semester

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  DATA FOR BLACK LIVES this weekend at the media lab

  

  accountability in data science, and a "bill of rights for data" so that everyday ... legal in Florida to kill a Black child. For the silenced, the internet is ... in an era of the unhread. The police dogs and fire hoses of our

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 18, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  traveling to different planets, perhaps living in a ship for years until ... healthcare reform, government in China and the U.S., the 18.022 pset that's due ... part in countless research projects, and win grants for service projects

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a penny for your thoughts? and what it is, and could be, worth

  

  sodainly say to them ‘a penny for your thought.’" Sir More was an English ... that from 1522 to now the change in value for the the pound (and, thus ... -Decimal Penny, which was 1/240th of a pound, had an equivalent purchasing power in

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • February 20, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi, I’m Lulu ...a different kind of blogger; I take pictures.

  

  basic things you need to know about me and this blog you can read about in my biography, but here's a little more! I was born in China, grew up there in a valley between the mountains, moved to the outskirts of DC when

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  hurting the author’s feelings; in contrast, this atmosphere allows us to ... her plans to study animal husbandry in Ireland for her gap year before ... different for me, and so welcome. My classmates in the writing workshop had

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  end of semester reflections in conclusion, online school Ain't It

  

  paper for my [annotation note="21G.038(China in the News)"]CI-H class ... actually a lot of fun since, for one, I was interested in my thesis, and also ... semester, the past few months in particular, have all been a blur, but we

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

  was in Texas and Audrey in California. As for the other “interesting ... in October, I was scrolling through the @mitadmissions feed when I came across an animated short of a lady making bread. I probably watched the

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  fragments instead of blogging (for a whole damn month), I...

  

  [/annotation] and because they can help offer an unfiltered view of what I’ve been doing for ... personal and interpersonal. wholly submerged in the myriad of things going on ... attempt to pick these fragments out of the haze for you—because each of them

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 16, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  for me to get in. it's clean, nice, and has great communities, but i ... my living community in the same dorm as me, which i was very down for ... as a former Burton Conner resident, i had a two options in dealing

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  approximation for your optimal hook and yarn sizes before you're in too deep. It ... appealing pieces and a better life. You'll know how to gauge for success in ... store in Cambridge?[/annotation] To whom will I bestow crocheted gifts

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante

  

  . The narrator's high-status father engages in an affair with her best ... facade of order in a chaotic world." Every novel was a vehicle for the ... bearable for these people to live in a socially stratified city, with all the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s FPOPpin’ Whatchu know 'bout me?

  

  FPOPs, chances for freshmen to dabble in a huge variety of subject and ... awesomeness, in fact, that I decided to experience it the next year as an ... first set foot on MIT's campus as an innocent, doe-eyed freshman over a

  • by Tom R. '14
  • September 6, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day with AISES + NASA

  

  The second Monday in October has long been an MIT holiday, but today ... Initiative program where she received an M.S. in Linguistics (‘21). She is the ... Nina served as an Interfaith Chaplain in Clinical Pastoral Education at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  Center) in building 16 for an interview. I worked at the LLARC 8 hours a ... bucks. I started blogging in July, which earns me $10 an hour for four ... for it... if this is what you really want." My mom was glaring at me in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  coming out on things like being a black person in China, language learning, my changes in perception of various aspects of life, living in an ... cancer binder (now with an s, it's a little family of binders now ^_^). In

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  't developed an intuition for technology in undergrad. So graduation finally ... white-coated future-self in me. It wasn't much of an identity crisis ... gave me some very good (and probably debatable) advice: an adeptness in

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  for the few days following the wedding, I lived with my grandma in her ... for; he lives in Maine, and invited friends to go visit at the end of ... (turns out I'm That Person Who Cries For The Entire Ceremony), eight of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012