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• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  content warning: mental health, academic stress, burnout tick The institute is always churning.  tick There’s a constant sound in the back of my head, a whirring that keeps my mind…

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  There exists a nontrivial subset of the MIT population for whom the intersection of their everyday language and mathematical jargon is non-empty. In other words, MIT is overrun with math…

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  The state that I have been reduced to For people who aren’t caught up with Gen Zalpha slang, or people who are reading this in the far future, or people…

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  I’ll cut to the chase: it’s November, which means that a lot of the people stumbling across the blogs are among the tens of thousands of anxious students and family…

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I tried* to run to the airport *thank you Noah and Sydney for saving my life

  

  I wrote in an earlier blog that I took up running. Since coming back to MIT, I am sad to report that the habit has ceased and I no longer…

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  Cross-posted from my blog, which is where I write these days. One If I stay, will you go? And if I go, will you stay? I don’t know If I…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  creds to Allison for the post title <3  welcome to today’s episode of m*thbusters!⁠23 censored bc idk if it's trademarked or not today, we’re clearing out some classic misconceptions that…

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  This summer, my friends in LA kept telling me I hadn’t changed at all since high school. I expected to feel annoyed: in an objective sense, I’m a lot better…

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  24 Pumpkins a journey through the streets of Boston

  

  As a person who hails from a land devoid of seasons, I consider it my utmost duty to take advantage of any fall-related activities that come my way. Amongst other…

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Ellie on the M.T.A. writing about the T, on the T

  

  I grew up without any public transportation. The closest thing we had in Arkansas was an old-fashioned tram system in Little Rock, and a single bus route that I don’t…

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  what i ate in a week* living the influencer life (clickbait included)

  

  note: i wrote this as a project for #BlogstonCommons, which was a mini-outing-blog-challenge that i did with a few other bloggers where we just tried to write a blog as…

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  This blog post was written by a winner my entry for #BlogstonCommons

  

  Author’s note: I wrote this for a challenge that I participated in with Janet ’27, Allison ’27, Ellie ’28, and Sara ’28! I won by hitting 500 words first, which was the…

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the notes i took in a week riveting stuff, i know

  

  Not too long ago, my desk was covered in every variety of stationary imaginable- brush pens, washi tape, wax stamps, glitter pens, you get the gist…  Today, my collection of…

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pictures of what Could Have Been drawings i made for blog posts that i didn't end up posting

  

  I’ve been cleaning up my collection of drawings in Procreate, and I keep coming across drawings for blog posts that I decided not to publish. I thought it’d be fun…

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  I watched the sunrise this morning

  

  one of the reasons I love dawn is it reminds me that the sun will always rise on my worst of days during my best of times no matter what…

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  Last week, Professor Han made an exciting announcement during 6.5940 (TinyML) lecture: the class was holding a competition, with AI development boards (worth $500+) as the top prizes! The competition…

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  One email. Over forty recipients. Scraped from search.mit.edu⁠60 a convenient place to find EVERY MIT PERSON EVER , I assembled a mailing list of faculty, grad students, undergraduates, and more.…

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  The Craziest 3 Days of Soccer Ever broken records, halloween practice, and senior day!

  

  Hey, everyone! It’s time for everyone’s favorite update… soccer season!! We just wrapped up our regular season, and I wanted to share the last three days that led up to…

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  in the past months, I have felt the impact of various people around me on the quality of my life with full force. MIT is so vast and there are…

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Photos of Freshman Spring 📸 My attempt to take a photo a day for an entire semester.

  

  The summer before college was my last summer of being 18, and thus my last year of eligibility for a ~special program~ my local library ran. They had little booklets…

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • October 31, 2024