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  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  Well, the moment is finally here. My last first day at (virtual) MIT.  And it feels just as surreal as it felt when I got to campus for the first…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  . I'm paying $20k a semester to grovel at my desk and stare at a screen

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  .H. White, Sandman by Neil Gaiman, SAGA by Fiona Staples & Brian K

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 9, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  , I am angered by J. K. Rowling’s [annotation note="ie, using her

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  $500k was eligible to turn into almost $4 million over 2 years. My point

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Reflecting on the great memories of my freshman year ☀️ When life gives you lemons, share them with others >:) ☀️

  

  ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH6LGsWeu1k&feature=youtu.be[/embed] I don’t have a photo of you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 21, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bloggers Wrapped 2019 aka i harvest everybodys data, my favorite pastime

  

  World Citizen: 52 Top genres: Alternative r&b, K-pop, pop rap, pop

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  assassins – a liveblog day 7: five remain

  

  last updated: october 22, 5:15 pm   my hall, 2E of Next House, has an annual fall tradition in which we play a hall-wide game of assassins. the premise is…

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  suspect is more widespread than admitted, that making ~$100k = success. That

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  Hassan, Sela, and the Niger Delta Hassan K. ‘17 is my friend and former classmate. He graduated last year (as the ‘17 suggests). When at MIT, Hassan (who is from the Ivory Coast) was always highly active in the Muslim

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  THURSDAY, April 12 Woke up to the smell of smoke coming from the East Campus courtyard grill. A traditional email to EC residents confirmed that rush-burger-making season had begun: “girlllz…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Lightning Round six eminent faculty on educational technology innovations

  

  The Festival of Learning is an annual event organized by the MIT Office of Digital Learning around the idea that we need to bring technology and pedagogy together for effective…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Events

  DATA FOR BLACK LIVES this weekend at the media lab

  

  woke up this morning, layered on two sweaters and a jacket, and went across the street to the media lab, where the DATA FOR BLACK LIVES conference is happening all…

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

  senior house / pilot 2021 / senior house facts, and a thought

  

  I’m definitely not going to be the only person to talk about this on the blogs, but the situation with senior haus has been on my mind and many others…

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Class Projects

  neutrality isn’t about objectivity—it’s about who has the power some words on facebook trending topics, and also net neutrality

  

  Two weeks ago, Gizmodo published an article describing an anonymous former Facebook employee’s claims that Facebook news curators routinely suppressed conservative news from the social network’s “Trending Topics” module. Facebook…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 20, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  pessimistic ponderings, that meant something. A year ago, running a 10K (6

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  Right now I am in Florida, at a campground just outside Miami, where my family has migrated every winter for more than a decade. It’s raining gently, so I am…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D

  

  Late August is upon us: the last of the graduating seniors have dissolved into the real world forever, the night air bites with a cold we haven’t felt since the…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 26, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  About two weeks ago, not too long after my 21st birthday, I climbed Mt. Fuji. I have to preface this story with a couple facts: 1) I am not a…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  th graders entered the year with pre-K level writing skills. By the end

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008