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  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  If you are an international student who is coming to MIT this fall, congratulations! You have a lot to be proud about. From experience, I can say that right now,…

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  here’s everything i thought about in 25 minutes an uncurated and somewhat meta discussion on anything and everything

  

  i’ve been in a perpetual state of writer’s block recently (i.e. the whole entire school year), so i’m going to set a timer for 25 minutes because that’s when my…

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • July 16, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  Every day, a cube awaits. one decade ago Summer boredom loomed, then curiosity got the best of us. On one sweltering day, my oldest brother and I scootered over to…

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  We Really Aren’t Kids Anymore avoiding the part where it all has to end

  

  Song: We Aren’t Kids Anymore by Drew Gasparini Almost two years ago, I was feeling angsty and wrote this blogpost about being a sophomore but not really feeling “older”. I…

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 9, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  while planning a semester, I have some general sense of what I want out of the semester or a weak ideology with which I choose classes and activities. before sophomore…

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  in remembrance of my sticker collections for stickers are vessels for stories

  

  Many months ago, I broke my water bottle cap. I tried to find a replacement cap or even a replacement bottle of the exact model so that I could harvest…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 5, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  I hate Bevi. It’s frustratingly slow, the user interface makes me want to pound my head against a wall, and it costs hundreds of dollars per month to operate on…

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023
• Blog / Mailings & Comms

  Be a Blogger 2023!

  

  It is summer in Cambridge, which means that: every morning I wake up and check AirNow to see if more smoke is floating down through the Great Concavity and I need…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  I recently downloaded a chess app on my phone. Now, I know people who have been reading chess books since grade school and have numerous opening plays memorized, but to…

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  I found one of my old sketchbooks the other day. I’m ashamed that this “old” sketchbook, which I had started in 2019 (that’s four years ago!!), is also my most…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus #2 yayay

  

  (Check out what I did last summer!) I’m staying on-campus again! UROP I’m continuing my Spring UROP⁠37 Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to participate in real research with professors.…

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Somatic My spread for MIT's Infinite Magazine Issue XI

  

  This year, I made a spread for MIT’s Infinite Magazine. The magazine was released in May, but I was hosed, and now that I am hosed but in a different way,…

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 17, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  I can’t wait to write one of those class tier list blogs before I graduate, and I know for sure that 6.115⁠38 or 6.2060 according to the new numbering system,…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  I was a high achiever since a young age just because I thought school by itself was really boring. The challenge of winning a bunch of stuff made the whole…

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how i feel about ai-generated art from an artist's perspective

  

  why is ai so bad at making hands? Recently, I read something by a fiction writer that went something like, it’s so upsetting how people can just enter these trivial prompts…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 11, 2023
• Blog / Best from staff

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  As we conclude our work with the Class of 2027, and turn our attention to the class of 2028 and beyond, I want to take a moment —  alongside President…

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  memorial for a dorm goodbye east campus (for now)

  

  i felt the need to have some sort of memorial service to commemorate the death of east campus and the death of this room in particular 62h306 today i remember…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  drawing class Every Tuesday evening, right as the sun was setting in the horizon, I’d embark on a long bike ride over to the complete opposite side of campus. At…

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2023 i3 videos megapost

  

  As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, rising first years typically consult MIT guide to residences while choosing where to live. This guide includes the Interactive Introduction to the Institute (I3)…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Bookends and every time / i leave this place / i'm terrified, terrified

  

  Five years ago I wore a barong and sablay. In my high school graduation rites, there was a defined moment when we graduated. It was when the principal confirmed the…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 2, 2023