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  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  a joint post with Admissions Officer Jeremy, we stan Song: burnt espresso, by Sidney Amos Paige: Nearly three years ago, I was writing my college application essays over cups and…

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  This fall, I enrolled in EM.S21: Design and Make a Lamp. It’s a 3-unit, half-semester class under IDM⁠07 Integrated Design and Management and the Infinite, as in, it’s in the…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• 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 / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  I do not know if I have mentioned this on the blogs or in public, ever, but I am actually majoring in mechanical engineering. I went on a quest my…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 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 / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  Warning: this blog features spoilers for the video game Celeste regarding the plot. I highly encourage you to play the game if you haven’t, it’s one of my favorite platformers.…

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  It’s 7:59am. The natural lighting fills the room– every square inch of a pink shag rug, and every piece of laundry that I still need to do– but none of…

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  ="alignnone" width="918"] after the Mitski concert with Selena '24, Laura '23, Caitlin

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  I’ve been reading a lot of slow, contemplative writing recently, which is the kind of writing that always makes me want to write my own blog post of that nature.…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  The day in question is Thursday, one day before the end of my internship.   7:00 This morning I woke up nervous as hell, mainly because I didn’t know where…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  a night in hannover one of the most chaotic travel experiences of my life

  

  This summer, I’m doing MISTI-Germany and living in Berlin. I’ve been enjoying it a lot for a number of reasons: not least because in Europe, everything is close, which allows…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 13, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  cw: harassment (noted before the section where it’s mentioned, skip to the next pictures from there if needed!) “What’s your favorite type of metal?” asked a volunteer after Copenhell. We’d…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  Monday, June 13th. 9:33 pm, in the back of Öz Konya Kebab: brightly lit, with LED lights on the ceiling that ease through the rainbow. I am not raging against…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  alternate titles include: on taking too many damn classes; should we take less than 60 units? As of writing this, I’m finished with my sophomore year, halfway through MIT. I’m…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 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

  

  Hi everybody! I was busy this IAP,⁠85 IAP, for y'all readers who haven't memorized all the acronyms at this unholy institvte, stands for Independent Activities Period, and takes place for…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  You know, lately, I’ve been hearing this sound. Everywhere I go, like a tick, tick, tick. — tick, tick…BOOM! (2021) Recently, I’ve had this overwhelming feeling creeping up on me,…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  teaching web.lab aka what i spent all of january on

  

  being somewhat more intense than i expected. over the ~24 days of iap

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 1, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  act I: prologue When I was a kid, I used to dread going to sleep. I would lay there in bed, words and thoughts spinning around my head without pause.…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  dun dun dUNNNN EA decisions are tomorrow :O, as y’all probably know too well. If you get in, here’s a virtual mug of my favorite tea⁠95 I just discovered this…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021