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  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.⁠18 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
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an album a day the only new year's resolution i've ever completed

  

  in 2022, I challenged myself to listen to an album every day. I thought this would be a good idea because I enjoy the entire process of listening to music:…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  Sadly, I did not come up with the title pun myself, I saw it on Twitter. Since my blogs do a decent job of encompassing how 2022 went for me,…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  Every year, I try to set aside a chunk of time to reflecting on the year. This is usually done in the form of setting New Year’s resolutions, but I…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  recently i looked through a list of all my friends who graduated from college recently, and i realized that all of them seem less interesting to me now than they…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  This entire blog has this playlist. Enjoy. This semester was rough. This sort of sentence has been one I’ve had trouble saying throughout my time at MIT. Some semesters go…

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  This semester I took seven classes — 72 units,⁠36 typically classes are 12 units each, so an average semester is 48-60 units, or 4-5 classes since one class was a…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  things I did:  quogs in a ‘metastable state’ spent more time with my wing  at next house, each floor is divided into two wings, and each wing has multiple lounges,…

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  When I started senior fall, I was taking a course load of 6 classes.⁠52 I am writing this down in class-equivalents; MIT has a horrifically cursed system of units, where…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  As I mentioned in my last blog,⁠56 which was uhhh a while ago oops sorry , this semester was my second semester learning with the MIT Glass Lab, and I…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  For the second year in a row, I am teaching a class at MIT. A real, for-credit, in-the-catalog-of-classes class, at MIT. That I teach. On math. Let’s back up a…

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  The semester is over and I didn’t go home for winter break because I have so much to do. In the last few months, my writing career got pushed to…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  This fall, I took 21W.762 Poetry Workshop with Ed Barrett, a popular class amongst bloggers. 21W.762 was by far the most easygoing class I’ve taken at MIT: every week we’d…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Links Sent to My Group Chat from the past month

  

  I’m a group chat kind of person — I really am bad at individual messaging and anything I find vaguely interesting, funny, entertaining, or controversial, I send to my group…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  I Feel *a* Last or at least, I'm trying to

  

  Song: Dancing in the Moonlight by Olive Klug It’s 9:05 am. The sunlight subtly and softly trickles into the room just like it did all those episodes ago in the season…

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  final exam distributions "mit does not curve"

  

  MIT technically “does not curve”, ⁠66 but many classes will define cutoffs relative to class performance, which is more or less a curve; hence, increased happiness when everyone scores poorly…

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2022