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Blog / MIT Life
this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom
Whenever I try to think about the last year, it doesn’t feel real. In fact, I usually actively stop myself when I get on that train of thought, because it’s… -
Blog / Challenges
The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)
dating someone who just got to MIT. I felt this with the '24s when they -
Blog / MIT Life
the last twenty days burning out before the semester even starts
One year ago, before sophomore year started, and before I became a blogger, I was REX08 REX stands for Residence EXploration, where we welcome first-years to the dorms around campus… -
Blog / MIT Life
making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester
Welcome to the first of the many blogs I have meant to write but just not had the energy to do so this semester! Let’s get right into it… In… -
Blog / Academics & Research
head down, marching on highlights of spring semester
From my journal the other night– It’s 2 am, and I should be asleep. I’m listening to SJ Tucker on my headphones that only play in the left ear. I… -
Blog / Academics & Research
creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap
In my last blog, I mentioned that since the spring semester hadn’t started yet, that blog wasn’t being posted too late. Unfortunately, now that the spring semester has begun, I… -
Blog / Residential Life
The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus
The river freezes over, but it isn’t frozen solid. My roommate and I gestured at it through the window of our Uber, wondering aloud if water flowed beneath the sparkling… -
Blog / IAP
As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park
I was at the park near my grandparents’ place today, picking up graphic novels from a squat library. I gave a wide berth to a mom with her kids at… -
Blog / How to Human
Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome
In cross country, you hear a lot about running through the pain, but at the same time, avoiding injury. I have deep scars on both knees, from times I’d scrape… -
Blog / Personal Projects
Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it
One time in Boston, my roommates and I were studying outside near Harvard, where there was a tire swing on a tree. We laid aside our physics psets and played… -
Blog / How to Human
things that went well reflections on my first semester
It’s almost the end of 2020, which is terrifying. And hopeful, of course, in all the things that we’d like to be able to leave behind. But at the same… -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
a compilation of creative projects creativity? at MY institute?
Among the many classes I took this semester, I ended up taking two and a half classes that fell under MIT’s broad category of HASS-A, or arts classes.33 MIT students… -
Blog / Announcements
We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays
December 24th-January 3rd so that our entire team can rest, recharge, and -
Blog / How to Human
socializing over zoom it's been rough
Last week, non-seniors who want to live on campus in the spring43 like me! submitted their dorm preferences. The actual lottery keeps getting delayed, but the actual process of ranking… -
Blog / Classes
Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics
Sixteen months ago, in April, I made a promise to myself: if you choose MIT, you get to take a gap year. You’ve been selling your soul to science for… -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness
never did during the academic year. a friend and i walked to a 24 hour -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Sentimental Objects (part four) senior trinkets
, and Edwin over IAP 24) Oculus stickers from a Facebook talk Danny went -
Blog / Classes
semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!
21L.004 (Reading Poetry, a CI-H), 24.904 (Language Acquisition), 21G -
Blog / MIT Life
[Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night
struggled with sleep – my sleep cycles aren’t a constant 24-hour cycle, but