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  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  This is, for the most part, a post about Seattle. I’ve been a resident of Green Lake, Seattle for a little over a month now. There’s very little about Seattle…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  This is a blogpost from my friend that is a boy, Raymond Tran ’23. I wanted to preface this post real quick by jumping in and giving a little more…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2020!

  

  For the last five years, I have started this post with a jaunty list of summer Cambridge activities. Now, like everything else, these have been interrupted by the pandemic. However,…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  What will life be like next week? The week after that? 6 months from now? Does anyone pretend to know? One of the few things that I know with certainty…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  Context: I wrote a post in March called “I Moved to Maine” . You can read it if you want, but tl;dr: when COVID hit I went to live in…

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  I’ve kept an extensive weekly journal since early February as part of my new year’s resolutions. Since I didn’t blog that much during the spring, I went through my journal…

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  For most of my adolescence, my bedroom was painted as close as I could get to black without my parents becoming upset with me, and an accent wall in a…

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest post] Eating Your Way Through MIT The story behind Chop Stir Hack, an MIT student food magazine

  

  What follows is a guest post from the Chop Stir Hack team. CSH is a new MIT ASA group that publishes a semesterly food magazine. It grew out of MindHandHeart-funded…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  i visit Cape Cod and discover the most beautiful beach on Earth

  

  i had a magical long weekend. a fellow rising sophomore friend, her boyfriend, my boyfriend, and I all rented a Zipcar and drove down to Cape Cod to spend the…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 24, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  Diving In transforming myself into a cs bro

  

  I’ve always been very open and honest with my struggles with computer science in an effort to document my journey through this twisty and windy field. For so long, I…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 23, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Crab Cave or: i moved to dc with friends

  

  A brief happy post amidst the chaos and confusion of existence: Hi everyone, I just wanted to come in with some quick updates about what’s been going on with me…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  sourdough start & restart & starter this is and is not a metaphor

  

  I have a sourdough starter! His name is Aulus.⁠23 a Roman first name of disputed etymology, like most Roman first names, but thought perhaps to come from the verb alo,…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 19, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  another day of summer ♬ ba-ba-da-ba da-ba-da-ba ♬

  

  It’s an ordinary Thursday! I’m living at an apartment in Cambridge and working two jobs⁠25 one UROP and one job, technically remotely. Here’s what my day looked like. 8:57 AM…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  COVID-19 really took a toll on student summer plans this year. Internships were cancelled, in-person opportunities can no longer happen, and study/work abroad programs are definitively cancelled. I want to…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  senior appreciation post in which i rant about my idol

  

  Today I want to talk about mentorship and role models, and specifically my relationship with one mentor who has grown into more of a sister and a friend as years…

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 15, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  one So I left, that is it That’s my life, nothing is sacred I don’t keep friends, I keep acquainted I’m not a prophet, but I’m here to profit people…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Write an Original Song (ex?)-emo kid gone rogue

  

  *Please excuse the shoddy audio quality/audio balance throughout the post. I just had a laptop, phone, and the microphone on some earbuds to work with :) **video snippets are dramatizations…

  • by Powers '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  A few days ago, I called two of my dearest friends, Asia and Daymé, to talk about their experiences as a WISE student, host, and admissions ambassador. WISE stands for…

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  During quarantine, I enrolled in The Science of Well-Being, a free course hosted by Yale on the online learning platform Coursera. A friend from my living community suggested that a…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  As a quick sidenote, I want to say my heart goes out to everyone going through these particularly tough times. I know this blog may seem out of place with…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020