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  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  Even as a kid, school never fit right for me. I recall my third-grade teacher told us all to “divide your page in half.” The other students made horizontal or…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i don’t know where you’re going but do you got room for one more troubled soul?

  

  I’ve been contemplating the future as of late. With just a semester of my undergraduate career left, it’s hard not to. Every second of my time seemingly is spent thinking…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dress your wounds and stay in bed self care!

  

  cw: I discuss some injuries with varying amounts of needles and blood   I learned some valuable life skills in Denmark, from how to turn on an induction stove to…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  a few weeks ago i had a job interview. we had some extra time at the end so i took the chance to ask my interviewer (let’s call them p)…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Diarios de Madrid: Semana 1 Cosas de Mi Primera Semana

  

  Hola! Estoy en España porque estoy tomando una clase que se llama “The Spanish Incubator”. Para esta clase, vamos a Madrid por tres semanas y estudiamos sobre la literatura de…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  I had expected to adopt MIT terminology into my own vocabulary. Before I knew it, I was “pset-ing” or “UROP⁠08 Undergraduate Research Opportunity. -ing” instead of “studying,” and going to…

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  part 1: My B. Song: Bright by Echosmith. part 1a: early action A week before I got into MIT early action, I was rejected as a QuestBridge finalist. My friend, was…

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  This is the fourth and last part of a series, consisting of a lightly-edited compilation of notes from my cross-country train trip from Boston to San Francisco. If you haven’t…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  This is part three of a series, consisting of a lightly-edited compilation of notes from my cross-country train trip from Boston to San Francisco. If you haven’t yet, you should…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  This is part two of a series, consisting of a lightly-edited compilation of notes from my cross-country train trip from Boston to San Francisco. If you haven’t yet, you should…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  i haven’t written about what’s been happening in my life at all in the past month, not here nor in my personal notes. i want to say that i’ve been…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  Last week, I took Amtrak across the country, from Boston to San Francisco. Along the eighty-hour journey, I took some notes about what I was up to, what was happening…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  writing gary wang’s wikipedia page why did I fill out the wikipedia page for the ftx cto?

  

  Cross-posted on my Substack here. A few weeks ago, I stumbled upon Gary Wang’s newly-created Wikipedia page. Gary Wang, for the uninitiated, is the former CTO of FTX. He’s quite reclusive,…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Above Ground now breathe

  

  This entire blog has this playlist. Enjoy. Also this is the second and final part to my previous blog. I spent last semester trying to catch my breath. Now that I…

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 10, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  Reading is one of the few real hobbies I’ve managed to hold onto throughout my time at MIT, not that I have much time to read during the semesters. Still,…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  tl;dr it’s cool to explore interests completely different from what your high school self would’ve expected! After five semesters at MIT, two change of majors forms, and many advisor meetings…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  What I made in my documentary class three videos and many, many lessons

  

  This semester I took 21W.790[J] Short Attention Span Documentary, taught by Professor Vivek Bald. Learning to make videos was a goal of mine for 2022. I love photography and writing,…

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  “This is it,” I thought as I submitted my last college essay. “I’ve written everything there is to write. I am never writing another word of English – especially not…

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  I took two classes at Harvard! I wrote down my first impressions, and now, upon leaving, I have a few more reflections — mainly that exposing myself to different perspectives…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  MIT’s signs and posters carry diverse fonts.⁠78 You might be thinking: technically, I should be calling them typefaces. First off, I sometimes do refer to specific fonts, not just typefaces.…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023