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  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  I’ve sort of been implying this on the blogs for a while now, but I’ve been having a crisis over whether to go to grad school or not. And as…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Virtual Fall, Real Performances coming soon to a zoom very near you!

  

  I’ve mentioned briefly on this blog before that I’m part of a cappella group, the Asymptones (tagline: “we sing fun and nerdy music!”). We had some really, really awesome repertoire…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  One It’s weird how we do so much that we don’t stop and think about. On Floor Pi, one of our traditions is this event called tea time. It’s a…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  Before we begin, a word of warning. This blog post is not representative of the schedule of a typical MIT student, nor should it be. It is, however, my current…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a walk down memory lane in the form of albums

  

  Recently, I’ve stopped listening to new music releases in favor of listening to old music for the sake of ~ nostalgia ~ and oh boy, these nostalgia trips have been…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  Guys, in spite of everything that’s happened, I’m having a college experience and it’s absolutely wild. Me and six other friends from my living community are living in near MIT…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• 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…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  I’m writing this sitting at my aunt’s kitchen table, at midnight, waiting for my next class, and then an info session, and my tutoring job after. From her balcony window,…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  In August I celebrated my four year workiversary⁠26 🍰 as the in-house designer on the communications team at MIT Admissions and Student Financial Services. Essentially, in the months when I’m…

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  **mild/moderate Avatar: The Last Airbender spoilers, but also this show’s been around for like over a decade soooooooooo, y’know, there’s that** In the TV show Avatar: The Last Airbender, Zuko,…

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  in an effort to be whole again recovery

  

  This past semester, I haven’t been taking much care of myself. Lately, I’ve been feeling very unwhole. Stuck, almost. Every week seems to run the same, where my Friday through…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  in swim class, our instructor emphasizes the importance of relaxing. “you’re in the water and your body tenses up. why? it’s because of the fear. it’s natural, it’s instinctive, it’s…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  A couple of weeks before the school year started, I spent countless hours perfecting my email’s filters, labels, and everything in between. I signed up for forwarding all my MIT…

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  I spent this summer in a relatively “chill” state. My UROP that I did for the first half of the summer had only one real “deadline”, and that was towards…

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  One of my goals for my sophomore year was to do all the things I was afraid to do in my freshman year. One of the bigger things I wanted…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  There are some things that only make sense to you once you’re living it, that you can’t understand until they happen to you. And then there are some things that,…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  i [don’t] have covid?? in conclusion, i am the absolute worst at managing stress

  

  So. I had a COVID false alarm this week, which is why I’m currently back at home instead of my new place in Cambridge. I think it’s ironic that my…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  No one marks you five minutes late⁠56 in MIT time, classes start five minutes past the hour. anymore, and I know it’s a college thing but part of me feels…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Portraits of a Campus on Lockdown

  

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 14, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  thing that have changed not my class year...pls god i want to be a freshman forever

  

  last year, things were so different. i was an ordinary freshman who lived in a dorm, participated in lots of student activites, and went to physical classes. now, i’m living…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 12, 2020