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  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  Once a year, a different US city hosts the annual National Poetry ... Boston and Cambridge invited 76 teams of spoken word artists to engage the stage and compete to be the year's top poets. MIT was even lucky to host

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  Yesterday marked the beginning of classes, but today marked my first ... anticipated it being difficult to get back into the swing of things but was ... , but the professor seems to know what he's doing and the material so far

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Love Letter to Tetazoo a valentine's day post

  

  , beholding the warmth that surrounds me. Your voices would sound like a cacophony to any other, yet to me they are the song that tells me I am home ... you, the stars who reside in it, are the microcosm of joy I stumbled

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 15, 2026
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  parts. I loved the camaraderie of people all grinding to finish their part of the project — there were vital sections of the project that I never ... . Seeing everything come together was so rewarding. I love the feeling of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden, part 2 a zine carved out of pink erasers

  

  ="aligncenter" width="507"] specifically from the tree in front of Walker Memorial[/caption] [caption id="attachment_90797" align="aligncenter" width="507"] the commuter ... ="aligncenter" width="507"] imagery borrowed from Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  I've talked a lot about Tagalog, and Tagalog songs, on the blogs, so ... / naubos na, about Oh Flamingo's "Naubos Na". The post Rain by any other name is about [annotation note="The difference between Tagalog and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  residential exploration, but without a residence on burton conner culture continuing to thrive

  

  until Fall 2022. i am currently living in East Campus, but i spent the ... "]REX[/annotation] as a representative of my Burton Conner community, the Burton Third ... the period where freshmen get to meet and join living groups they

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  surprises the people I meet, because I am constantly busy, and people expect there to be a method to the madness: maybe [annotation note ... the oft-quoted line of Gatsby: "So we beat on, boats against the current

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2020 blogger wrapped, wrapped

  

  , so I'm honored to be able to take up the mantle for what will be my final (?) time blogging about Spotify related content. @ the younger bloggers, y'all better keep this going next year so I can f e e d on the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 12, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  At long last...the [annotation note="anime/manga/general Japanese culture fan"]weeb[/annotation] representation that the Admissions blogs ... episode by myself—the few series I consumed here and there were with other

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  I’m Graduating Early??? [NOT CLICKBAIT] also: the unification of course 7

  

  MIT is going through changes right now in addition to the new phase of the CUP first-year experiment. Here are two that actually affect me ... most of the people who got here in September 2015 will be graduating. The

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 1, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  road trip here in my car I feel safest of all I can lock all my doors…

  

  plenty of free parking (oh the naivete). One of the "cons" on my pro ... I got kind of used to walking places and taking the T. Eventually I got lazy and started using Lyft more, for the convenience and also

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 21, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2022 are now ... ; You can log in using the same username and password that you use to log ... hail from more than 519 high schools scattered across the globe, from New

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Vending Machines at MIT Because it needed to be done.

  

  On Wednesday evening, right before the first 8.01 midterm, I had an ... naturally, I set out for the nearest and most convenient source of soda available to student-kind: the friendly neighborhood vending machine. But

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  data justice for senior house

  

  sabrina, joon, and abby posted recently about the circumstances surrounding the conversion of senior house to graduate housing. joon included full transcripts of emails sent from the chancellor's office to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  This post was written for the final project for 24.03 Good Food: The Ethics and Politics of Food. The assignment was to engage with the topics of the class further by "introducing a moral question concerning food

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  semester wrap-up snaps and snippets

  

  from mit. the apartment looked like this:   this past semester i ... lot. i helped design an airplane in 16.82, one of the capstone options for the aero/astro degree. here is a part of that airplane (i worked on

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 29, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline Tomorrow Questions? I've got answers.

  

  you aren't alone! Lots of students have the same questions you do, so I'm listing the most common questions we're getting below. I will be monitoring the blog through the deadline, so you can ask here as

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 31, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  .06 - Principles of Automatic Control this is a required class for the course 16 (aero/astro) major at MIT. we spent the first day of class watching videos ... -pitch quadcopters flipping upside-down (developed in the MIT Aerospace Controls Lab

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  during the school year with Spanish House, in a big cooking rotation. I cook every other week. I enjoy competing in the unofficial game of try-to-one-up-the-last-person's-dinner that occasionally happens in the house. Cooking with Spanish house is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016