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• 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 UROP⁠01 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 6.115⁠02 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 / 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. '26
  • 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
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gala a premiere event celebrating fashion, arts, and culture

  

  Infinite is a student-run magazine and group dedicated to the creation, discussion, and appreciation of fashion. Since its launch in 2018, it has released an issue once per semester with…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  I was probably one of the youngest people ever to read the blogs. I have no idea how I stumbled across them as an elementary schooler with very limited unsupervised…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  ways of saying goodbye joint post with CJ '23!

  

  this post is just a collection of goodbye-related passages from some of our favorite media. goodbye mit :’) for a fun challenge, try to figure out which of these came…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  For my (maybe?) last blog post, I felt that it was only fitting to write some notes for the people that have made my MIT experience, especially this last semester,…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  After four years here at MIT, I am finally graduating. I have a lot of mixed feelings on graduating. On one hand, I’m nervous. I’m terrified to leave MIT. How…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  i’ve⁠11 cj: speaking is lumia n. '24 known cj for 3.5 years now. though the first 6 months it was very much not closely. of course, that was back when…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  Recently, one of my friends relayed that she grew up in an environment filled with vicious, competitive peers. When I got into MIT, they might be nice to my face, but…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  dance dance revolution lessons from ddr

  

  there is a ddr (dance dance revolution) machine in the basement of walker memorial. i have known this fact for at least a year, but didn’t bother actually checking out…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 30, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  The Oreo Post i tried them all* !

  

  In July 2018, in my application to be a blogger, I left a note at the very end: One last thing: in Canada, we have approximately three oreo flavors. In…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 29, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Paradiso A selection of dishes that define my MIT dining experience, part 4

  

  Why do I cook? It’s a question that many of my friends have asked me, and one that I often ask myself. Usually, I default to my “origin story” of…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  “So, Andi, let’s talk about your accomplishments from this semester. Was your research output impactful enough to lead to a start-up?” I just sat there and shook my head in…

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023