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  Introducing MIT Illuminations at the Welcome Center

  

  In September 2021, when I posted about the new Welcome Center that is now home to the admissions office and plays host to our visitors, I included a list of…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  Have you ever wondered how different college mascots are evolutionarily related to each other? Of course not. If you said yes, then you’re lying. I’m the only person ever who’s…

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  It’s 6:30am. The natural lighting floods in past the courtyard, filling every square inch of this (albeit slightly smaller than the previous one) room. The camera once again pans around…

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  (the lighting was way better from this side) one of the hazards of constantly doing is that it’s often hard to put aside time for small things, like art or…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Untitled Pigeon Post 🐦💕

  

  Hi. I’m Andi. I’m twenty years old and already a pigeon addict. It all started seven years ago with that book by SASOL⁠03 South African Synthetic Oil . Oh, how…

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  Over IAP, I joined the ranks of bloggers who have fallen into the black hole of fiber arts. (It could happen to you! It could happen to anyone!) At the…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every Piece of Media I Consumed in My First Week of Class that was relevant to my studies, i guess

  

  This semester, I’m taking a wide array of classes, from music to media studies to English, and as a result, I’ve had to consume a lot of different media forms…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 13, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  I spent the last two weeks of IAP abroad. I had thought about applying for GTL,⁠11 global teaching labs, a MISTI program that places students in schools abroad to teach…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  On the morning of the second day of classes, I got a newsletter email from CAST with a video that featured past cross-disciplinary classes. It tanked my mood for the…

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  everyone i know goes away in the end why i've never done misti

  

  i’ve never done misti, which is mit’s international experience thing. i was given the chance, in april 2021, to spend the first half of 2022 in imperial college london. i…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity

  

  This IAP, I’ve gone to Brazil!  I’m taking WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity. It’s a class focused on Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous Brazilian culture, with tons of readings, movies, and museum…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  113 days. As of yesterday, I am officially a second semester senior. Every minute that passes by feels crucial, like not a second is even to be wasted. I feel…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  Yesterday was the first day of my senior spring, which is also the last first day of my undergraduate studies at MIT. It is the kind of milestone that keeps…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid

  

  It finally happened. I got Covid. Right at the last week of IAP⁠43 Independent Activities Period, which runs throughout most of January when I was just about to prep materials…

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  Two summers ago, I visited my friend Shruti ‘24 in their home state of New Jersey. We⁠46 to clarify Shruti did all the driving and my licenseless self was the…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  two years ago i watched the midnight gospel, a tv show where the dialogue for each episode is taken from a series of real-life podcast interviews. in the third episode,…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  IAP stands for Independent Activities Period. For the month of January, students are free to do whatever they want, whether that be staying at home or on campus relaxing, doing…

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  The briefest context for who I am: Hello, I am Jonathan, a sophomore probably majoring in 6-1 and 7 who lives in Next House – my wing is either 3W…

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  church gardens some paintings!

  

  I spent my IAP in northern Wales through Global Teaching Labs, a teaching abroad program! All of my weekdays were spent teaching at local schools and nights preparing last minute…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 3, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  So, What Exactly Happens? y'know, over IAP?

  

  I went home for about two weeks before IAP started. I went to all the food places, the aquarium, the coffee shop 5 billion times, and then I was back…

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2023