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• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  Summer in Alaska, I learned this July, is an exuberant, unrestrained triumph of nature. For just a few months, the landscape alters dramatically: the snow folds into itself & the…

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  STEP 1: FAIL TO LEARN HOW TO DRIVE IN HIGH SCHOOL. This requires some luck based on your circumstances. It’s going to be a bit harder if you live in…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  For my last blog as an undergraduate, there would be nothing more suitable than submitting it at 11:59 pm as I do with my assignments. So here is MIT by…

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  ) took too many naps on the building N52 couch sold things at the MIT

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  here’s everything i thought about in 25 minutes an uncurated and somewhat meta discussion on anything and everything

  

  things are “trivially true” or casually dropping “o(n) time” into a

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • July 16, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  folklore is better girl and Prajna N. ‘25 told me I had bad takes and that I

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  A/N: This post is coming out weeks after I intended for it to; please forgive me! If it makes it any better, this is a very long and fairly thorough post and also writing it required grappling with my existential

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  and Space."]4.500[/annotation] lecture to N52 with a store-bought box of

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  What I made in my documentary class three videos and many, many lessons

  

  encouragement to pursue this other topic. And so I did.  https://youtu.be/N8s

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  (taps mic) is this thing working? hello? okay, great. that’s cool. it’s been a while since i wrote a sad post here. well, not sad exactly, but like, a deep…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2,024 liked songs spotify is my favorite social media

  

  A few weeks ago, I visited a friend at Harvard. She snuck me into the observatory. There were murals on the walls in a manner that distinctly reminded me of…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  ="aligncenter" width="372"] Franklin N. '25 (Left) and Rafael "Rafa" C. '25 (Right

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  “this guy is extremely shirtless,” jeff says, pulling up a messenger profile. i peer over at his phone, and indeed, the guy is quite shirtless. it’s tuesday the 24th and…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  i’ve been thinking, recently: in times of need, who takes care of me? of course, growing up, the answer was my family. i woke up one morning craving the napa…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  a Guns'n'Roses shirt with cut off sleeves, lightning-bolt earrings

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

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  Last Thursday night, I was walking back from Simmons after making dinner at Pika for the first time. It was kind of cold, and I was tired, and I’d had…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  .nano pixels developing a love for pictures, reverb

  

  Main Street, near Kendall (I think) While snapping this picture, a thought pulsed through my head. Remember how it all came back with an email? You should write something about…

  • by Waly N. '24
  • July 2, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  a state of moving ny --> ma, macg adventures

  

  It’s been roughly a little under 2 months since I moved onto campus. Instead of having an actual intro, I’ll cut to the exciting stuff. So, here, much later than…

  • by Waly N. '24
  • April 5, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  N. Functional groups are more reactive than C, usually, hence they are

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  Some numbers from this semester: Academic week: 5 Age: 19.0 Times I’ve cried over classes: 2 (surprisingly) Smoothies made: 12 COVID tests taken: 11 Times I’ve been locked out: 3 (Unique) cats…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021