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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  In the middle of an already-packed IAP, I received an email: I’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing!  I was in a phase of trying to remember that I am…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  I’ve been thinking about different modes of transport through cities. In the past three years, I’ve visited over 10 cities and lived in three. Each of those three have their…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  A lot of my time this summer has been spent in transit. I take the subway to and from work. I spend most of my free time wandering around the…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  I’ve been taking the time to explore some classes and activities in Copenhagen that I haven’t tried in a while. I took a pole class, a week of krav maga,…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  Starting anything is hard. In fact, starting is often the hardest part, which is a lesson I feel like I am always learning. I haven’t been blogging very much recently,…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  I’m sitting on the floor of my dorm room.⁠15 I am actually sitting in a coffee shop in Arizona, finishing this blog many months later, because I got too hosed…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  the hours i’ve spent in bed recently have added up, pointing to one conclusion: actually, i only recently discovered that i’ve been diagnosed with clinical depression since late december. here’s…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  The MIT Monologues performed last weekend. MITMo is an offshoot of the Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, but all of our monologues are written by current or past MIT students,…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  knot again my spread for Infinite Magazine Issue 9

  

  Last summer, Kidist and I wrote about our experience with Infinite Magazine, MIT’s fashion and design publication. Since then, little has changed, but a lot has happened. Kidist is still…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  Last time I wrote a blog about my academic life, back in November, I was going through a major crisis – by which I mean a crisis about my major,…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  are connected on the third floor. 14:35. i arrive for my next class, 24

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech version: slightly jaded

  

  “I think I should have a midlife crisis a little earlier,” I said today, while my friends and I were walking down the river to Trader Joe’s. [I’ve been planning…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  this blogger does not exist join me in the uncanny valley

  

  A reader of the blogs emailed CJ the following, which CJ then forwarded to me:  i remember your posts (college apps, haiku) about robo-CJ, and I wondered if it might…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  Col·lege ma·jors (noun) A term that invokes pain and, as compensation, newfound freedom in class selection Last April, I declared my major. Not too long before that, I blogged about…

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  cw: talking abt chronic pain   Everyone derides the EC basement gym, but I kinda like it. The paint is peeling off the walls. Thick dust gathers in the corners.…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee

  

  Yesterday,⁠51 By yesterday I mean Thursday. I was hoping I could finish this by midnight, but, alas. It is now 12:53 AM. after turning in my last assignment for the…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 11, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] art and things zine making + what makes us, us + thank you cambridge + yomp

  

  Hello hello! I am Alina S. (‘24). Briefly: I am a course 2A (mechanical engineering) with a focus on learning machines. I live in Next House. I am Vietnamese and Filipino and a first-gen immigrant on both sides

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  of our '24s. that would make for a considerable number of people from

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  As a kid, I only moved once.⁠53 twice if you count going from Los Angeles to Tucson when I was three I was twelve. My big sisters were excited about…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  conversations with friends so many different ways to feel lost

  

  m: i’ve been having a lot of trouble blogging lately so i’m thinking of doing a blog that’s just like, conversations i’ve been having with friends that would just be…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 21, 2021