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  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  Two years ago, I wrote a blog post saying Web development probably isn’t for me. I’m not entirely excluding the possibility. […] But JavaScript really doesn’t vibe with me, and…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden a zine

  

  Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief,…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 25, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  we are trying something new! if you’d like to consume this blog in video format watch the video down below. this video does have subtitles! if you prefer reading your…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  “Going up in flames” “Trial by fire” “Burning out” “Burn it all down” “Pants on fire” There are so many figures of speech involving fire that accurately describe the MIT…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  Roll carts around campus. Marvel at the wonder that is the wheel. Learn where all the ramps and elevators are. Grumble when there’s no elevator near the stairwell you always…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  Camille was very nervous when she applied for EA to MIT in 2018. “What if I don’t get in?” “Am I good enough?” (That is a question we all ask…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  I got an email this morning from someone working for MIT News. Someone at the OME⁠27 Office of Minority Education —likely my freshman year advisor⁠28 My senior year of high…

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the west parallel⁠49 EC has two buildings; one is to the west of the other of East…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  Some Notes, because I’m myself:  Title is loosely based off of the Agust D song 어땠을까 here; I’m not usually one for lyrics, but these ones are quite fitting. I…

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  I have worked at MIT since 2009, and lived less than a mile away, in Central Square, since 2013. I love living here in a way that I never thought…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  The fall semester has just started, and the 2025s have poured onto campus, eager to experience MIT and everything it has to offer. Many of them are still bubbling with…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  lagi na lang umuulan (it’s always raining) Ambon. The Philippine languages have a rich vocabulary for rain. The lightest is probably ambon, a shower, a drizzle. Ambon is the kind…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  Content warning: depression, emotional abuse, suicide. In the late 1800s Galton described aphantasia, the inability to create mental images in one’s mind. It turns out the majority of people, when…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  for my grandmother, who loved to hear, and tell others, about my mediocre furniture Part I After I built my loft in sophomore fall, I was left with some extra…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  One. Time is not real, because the other day I woke up at ten in the morning and slept at midnight and yet I felt like I didn’t do anything.…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a few days. I have spent many stressful, agonizing hours discovering that film making is one of the hardest…

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  Note: Writing here is joint between Rona and Paolo, except when explicitly marked otherwise. Any opinions expressed are our own, and are not meant to represent the opinion of the…

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  I’ve been busy recently because of CPW. Like last year, CPW is being held virtually this year, and there’s a large CPW Discord server where people sent lots of messages.…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  I am starting this post on Thursday, April 8, 2021, and today, it could be a little bit warmer. I’ve been sitting outside the Stud for about half an hour,…

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  does anyone else remember when the internet looked like this? sorry can’t come out tonight i gotta sit alone in front of a muted tv opening and closing the same…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021