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• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

  today, the taal volcano erupted. photo from https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/12/asia/gallery/taal-volcano-eruption/index.html volcanic eruptions bring to mind the old tales passed down from our elders. i’m from metro manila, you see, and in high…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what we’ve been up to recently a short list about winter break

  

  We haven’t been blogging as much as we’d like to. Senior fall and even this winter break have been so, so busy between the job hunt from September – November,…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Your college application motivational soundtrack for January patience, young grasshoppers

  

  College apps are done! You did it! You’ll probably never have to write another uncomfortably personal essay ever again⁠01 unless you become a blogger, of course ! But, now comes…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  In a very institvtional gesture of welcome, each incoming MIT student receives a stack of flyers and documents and charts and posters as soon as they set foot on campus.…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  With the influx of the 24s terrorizing (see: joining) various Discord servers I’m a part of, I’ve realized that there are certain things about MIT that I’ve picked up on…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Things That Made Me Happy (and Sick) It’s me and my infection’s TWO MONTH anniversary!! 🎉😍

  

   I survived my first semester at MIT, and it was hella dope. I can say that. I own that.  There’s a lot I could say here, but I’ve been living…

  • by Powers '23
  • January 4, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  I spent winter break in MIT. I thought I wouldn’t be alone. After all, it’s not as if everyone’s going to go home, right? I thought that maybe some of…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  Happy New Year! Even though I’m nearsighted, this is the year for looking towards the future and making moves while not bumping into furniture or people who resembled blobs because…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  Some Reflections It’s been a long decade. When the 2010s started, I was ten, and I was in fifth grade, and now I am twenty, and I am in roughly…

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 Resolutions posting so i can be held accountable

  

  Happy New Year! I usually make resolutions every year, but I forgot to make them for last year, so I decided to show you mine for this year and give…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  With a little less than an hour to go to 2020, I’m feeling some kind of way. I’m back home, surrounded by the interminable expanse of flat land that is…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  I’ll be gone from MIT forever (?) in five months AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA   And it seems like I’m going to be leaving the blogs with a lot of stuff left unblogged.…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  The hell of fall semester is finally over and I have resurfaced from my cave of despair to blog again! I’ve made this post two years in a row at…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  I’ve never really done a year-ender blog post, and I don’t really have plans to. I’m also not the kind of person to have new year’s resolutions. But I couldn’t…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  I flew back home on the eighteenth with hopes of having a productive break. I made plans to paint, work out, write, study, and a whole other slew of things.…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  Writing blog posts is hard, but writing lists is easy. So here’s a list of three things I learned this semester that I didn’t learn from my classes. How to use…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  Shuli Approved TM Playlist for this blog post: Taylor Swift’s Lover album, but you just alternate between playing “Lover” and “The Archer” over and over. If necessary to lighten the…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  In this past semester, the definition of “home” changed a lot for me. Today, I hung out with some friends from high school. We all noticed that we mellowed a…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  This past semester, I took 4.354, Intro to Video and Related Media, along with fellow blogger Abby. Throughout the course, we watched countless films of varying lengths,⁠30 as short as…

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  last minute application panic for the procrastinators

  

  Congratulations! If you’re reading this post, you should probably be working on your college applications instead. But since you’re already here, please watch this calming .gif of a cat: Take…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 22, 2019