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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  One of my favorite classes this year is CMS.100 -- Introduction to ... phenomenon--as Condry calls it, the "soul" of anime. This is one of my ... more about how targeted advertising is placed on my Facebook, or how

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  It was inevitable. My MIT prophecy has been fulfilled. There was no ... have something to stress over. And as much as I have kept my blog ... , and now we meet once a week while I show him all of my data and explains

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  lol). This blog post is about my journey into the art of glass ... !!!! So this video was one of my first times collecting glass, and not ... actually flattened the arms into wings, but like whatever I guess– he’s cute

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  ’s nighttime when my eyes open, and the middle of the day when I go to bed. In either case, I always have my Taylor Swift playlist close by so I’m always ... .m., making my way through the sixth season of Sons of Anarchy in the Destiny

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  and following my instincts, I feel like I haven't even tapped into what ... introduced to the possibilities that pursuing art could give me.  Before my ... taken were very much geared towards science.  But after my work in LA, I

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  = "one was for my friend Audrey"]hand.[/annotation] I felt like I'd landed ... go. It feels like a lot, the first few times. My hands were shaking ... my classmates needed to use the welding room, and the welder, with its

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  Thursdays (sheets). My roommates and I get groceries every Sunday. I had fun ... from 9 other roommates and mailing out the rent checks, making the switch ... existed in a constant state of "how should I be spending my time?". Working

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  simpler. I was in China visiting relatives all IAP. That would be my last ... from my shoulders. I left it in my dorm room while I was away. I figured I'll just borrow my parents' point-and-shoot for the weekend while I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  sleep/my mental health??? My roommates and I recently had a discussion ... 'll experience at MIT. This summer, a few of my upperclassmen friends warned me ... "]HASS[/annotation] ones, so my workload isn't as bad as it could be, but I'm struggling to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  crazy party weekend from 2019 to now

  

  when i attended cpw as a senior in high school, my favorite events ... weekend was my last ever cpw, so i decided to revisit some of the same ... my own? why does nothing ever sound as powerful as the songs in my

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  seagreen paint next to the X office" or "cute cat, call xxxx for more ... things before I go. Like my Arabic homework. And this blog, I guess. I ... tried to finish my 5.111 pset, and then I "woke up" and thought I woke up

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  As you may have picked up from my post about SOPA, I'm an unashamed ... hilarious), I try to end my days reading journal articles, policy books, and ... ever written on the subject of Facebook privacy. So you can imagine my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  August, Airplanes, and why not throw in Spring Break, too? My traveling styles. And, I don't even know, maybe a catch-up thing?

  

  there was a storm coming in from the west. Not cute. Luckily, I had my ... 3/22 Welcome to the unfiltered stream of my consciousness. Please pardon the incoherentness. Right now I'm at an airport, watching my

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  i [don’t] have covid?? in conclusion, i am the absolute worst at managing stress

  

  occasionally for a rare cup of tea or ~singular~ cherry tomato...my roommates ... back at home instead of my new place in Cambridge. I think it's ironic that my summer was so stress-free but that my life was so disrupted

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  ” [annotation note="note from said roommate"]- my roommate, making the best food I ... the culprit Example:  My roommate: “Late days exist for a reason” Me ... sound fancy. 5/10 subset Example: “This is just a subset of my thoughts

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Struggles Starring a broken scanner and the Urban Dictionary

  

  break with my parents and my favorite sister (she’s kind of my only sister, but that’s beside the point) I found myself sitting in front of my desk, the room empty, and my roommates still gone. The glare of my laptop

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 2, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  subset of my actual experience. I had pictured all the moments of triumph ... feel amazed by my life some days, and others I could be hit by a truck ... of my time which would feel like neither: unexciting and normal, not

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  queued for a later post (in an attempt to spread out my blogging and be ... seemed, in my head, like the school itself had a brain, and was doing the ... ! So, here is what I did after submitting my application: Pick up a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  from clinical weirdness when it comes to sleep habits. Most of my friends/roommate ... -warping influence of continued sleep deprivation, my initial 5 days at MIT were about ... Wikipedia articles that I don't really understand. Luckily, my first week was

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  A few months into living on my own, my roommates and I have learned ... when my roommates can't reach them... 12. Reaching the point where we ... lot of error. Here's a list of my very own freshman housing horror

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020