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• 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
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  “His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy. There’s vomit on his sweater already, mom’s spaghetti. He’s nervous about opening the MIT decisions portal already.”  Eminem About 2 separate…

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  I landed in Boston on a cloudy day about a week ago, and…it sure has been A Week™. Freshmen aren’t invited back to campus this semester, but I’m renting an…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  What will life be like next week? The week after that? 6 months from now? Does anyone pretend to know? One of the few things that I know with certainty…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  't feel the same. Blogger cruft Laura N. recently did me the gracious and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Media That Makes Me Feel Okay School's out! Time to get distracted :D

  

  ’s got this sort of anxious off-kilter rock n’ roll feel. I can’t really

  • by Powers '23
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  shopbot in N52. The design is from our seal, which is painted outside B3rd

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  up with Bothabo N. University of Pretoria ‘19. He was a Zimbabwean

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  debating ketchup’s place in mac ‘n cheese. We finally had friends. We got out

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  "] photo: Sv7n, from wikipedia commons, cc by 3[/caption] Using toilet paper

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  very v e r y l o n g d a y s. And while leaving my dorm at 8:30 every

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  I really like learning languages. And MIT has been a really good place for that. I took a lot of language classes in high school, but it wasn’t really something…

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  My old computer and I had a complicated relationship. We spent three years together, and they were three of the most formative years of my life. I bought my computer…

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  Bonjour de la France! Photo credit: Rebecca Grekin. I’ve spent the last two weeks in Paris with an MIT program called JSF—January Scholars in France. The students of JSF 2018…

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018