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• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  I had a plan for this blog post: I was going to build a loft⁠01 Quick loft backstory: East Campus gives us a lot of furniture freedom, and many people…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  I have so many things and so little space, but I’ll try my best to communicate it. I just walked out of an event called “Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Downtown if you could see it then you’d understand

  

  Saturday, 11 AM. Alan Z. ’23 sends me a message. Alan: what do you have to do today/do you want to meet at like Downtown Crossing between like 12:30-1 and…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  “futility island” socially conscious hacking? in MY institution?

  

  It’s more likely than you think! To understand this hack, you need some background on recent happenings at MIT, so please bear with me: An art installation went up recently…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 25, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  My brain’s been on overdrive from the moment I stepped foot onto MIT, hopping from one event to the next, pset to pset, club to club. Every summer, I’m usually…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No one: Absolutely no one:

  

  Us, hesitantly: “Do you want to see every Naruto-themed art project we made when we were 13?”  Because this summer, we reorganized our closet at home, and found some ….…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 22, 2019
• Blog / Events

  freshman blogger, sophomore student a reflection on some new and old things

  

  Coming back to campus has been unsettling for many reasons. My identity as a clueless freshman has been stripped though I have inadvertently introduced myself as a freshman one too…

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 21, 2019
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Boston’s Climate Strike youthful activism

  

  Today has been a hectic day, to say the least. It’s only around 9pm, and I’ve already had about three outfit changes. Not only was today MIT’s Fall Career Fair,…

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  There is a bench it’s a nice bench

  

  The rhythm sets in. It’s a steady rhythm. Roll out of bed at ten in the morning. Quickly assemble breakfast. Head to lecture. Cook lunch, or buy lunch, and work…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 19, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  a brief respite finds me on the second floor of Lobby 7.⁠16 MIT's main entrance, located on 77 Mass Ave i let my shoulders sag against the railing behind me…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  During my hiatus, I spent a lot of time working and soul searching.⁠20 going to therapy I ate toast with peanut butter and banana slices for breakfast every day, packed…

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  Things pick up pace real quick once the semester starts. At times, it feels like you’re in a hamster ball, surrounded by due dates, responsibilities, meetings, applications. The grind never…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

  Power tools East Campus brings to mind rollercoasters and huge construction projects. Fanciful monsters built up from wood and screws. Less so the things that are built, but more the…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  1) Start a major Somebody once warned me joining the military would break you down and slowly build you back up again. MIT is not the military, but MIT will…

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  way back when, i wrote about the mistake of a courseload that i took second semester of freshman year. it was a terrible semester and i don’t have much to…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  Picture this: me, three water balloons in hand, running across Killian court with my East Campus compatriots by my side. I’m smiling, I’m laughing, I’m relishing a new, intoxicating sense…

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  summer side projects a nonzero amount of them are final fantasy related

  

  this summer, i found myself with *free time*. it wasn’t quite as much free time as you might expect with a 9-6 job schedule since i was always super tired…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  i recently experienced my first weekend at mit with classes finally in session and i have…an assortment of feelings. i guess my last post was a lot of feelings, but…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Notes on Cancer rate my handwriting

  

  I’m taking 7.45 Hallmarks of Cancer this semester with Tyler Jacks⁠77 director of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, one of those buildings that course 7s and 20s spend…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  happy palindrome week! conventions, patterns, palindromes

  

  Here in America, our vaunted exceptionalism takes many forms, including how we write our dates. The convention of MM-DD-YY⁠82 and, of course, dropping the leading 0, so it's currently 9/…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2019