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  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  When I started senior fall, I was taking a course load of 6 classes.⁠01 I am writing this down in class-equivalents; MIT has a horrifically cursed system of units, where…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  For the second year in a row, I am teaching a class at MIT. A real, for-credit, in-the-catalog-of-classes class, at MIT. That I teach. On math. Let’s back up a…

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  This fall, I took 21W.762 Poetry Workshop with Ed Barrett, a popular class amongst bloggers. 21W.762 was by far the most easygoing class I’ve taken at MIT: every week we’d…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

    “It’s just a few more weeks,” my mom told me, on the phone, as I hurried down the Infinite and out into the cold. “Junior year is your hardest…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  Have you ever wanted to feel happier and thought, hey, maybe if I eat a few lasers for dinner today, things will be better? No? Because you should.⁠12 please do…

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  call to adventure Gandalf’s mark on Bilbo’s door also known as the inciting incident Some friends and I were sitting on the floor of MG’s room. I was browsing email…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  Many a night and moon ago, I was climbing, and my phone slipped from my pocket. Both my hands were occupied holding the rest of me aloft, so I could…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  midnight on Wednesdays so every other week, I had 4 problem sets due in a 24

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  Alan and I have been taking a class together this semester: 21W.740: Writing Autobiography and Biography. I really thought I would enjoy the class. This is due to a few…

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Events

  LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue

  

  projector at a constant 24 frames per second. That gives you one reel of film

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  The way we interact in our three-dimensional world is frankly kind of confusing, especially considering how many different visualizations there are possible.⁠32 It's important to note how I am defining…

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  特别的爱给特别的你 我的寂寞逃不过你的眼睛 This summer, during my three-month internship in Seattle,⁠41 which I will describe to you in painful detail in a later post. a group of intern friends and I…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  Last fall, I went from my summer internship directly into running REX events for first-year students, followed by acapella auditions and the first week of classes. It was a fun…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• 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.⁠72 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