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• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  one. in mit, and undergrad in general i guess, you spend your time hanging out with your classmates. you go to classes with them, work on problem sets and projects…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  The day in question is Thursday, one day before the end of my internship.   7:00 This morning I woke up nervous as hell, mainly because I didn’t know where…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  As a child, I was a hugely voracious reader. I spent the majority of my free time reading, and also a significant part of my non-free time (i.e., in class…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  you ain’t gonna need it overthinking

  

  there are decisions that i worry about long after i know which choice i’m going to make, like whether to go to mit or choosing what to do this summer.…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  i am in the tenth week of my summer job and i can remember how the first three weeks each felt blissfully long, as if i’d found a way to…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  bumpers a revelation i had while bowling

  

  I’m in Washington, D.C. today for a work trip, so I write this blog post from a hotel room that has not one, but two queen-sized beds. (One is for sleeping and…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  Earlier this summer, sitting at a bar in Berlin, a friend and I made a bet. I had been telling him about my research interests and my desire to stay…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  in which i blog again four-ish blogs in one

  

  I’ve been putting off writing. I have half-baked blogs with lists like books I’ve read this year, events I organized, art I made, and even longer lists of the books…

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 29, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  This summer, I got a side gig to put up chalk art in the Welcome Center, which opened last year. I use these two blackboards that have wheels on them…

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  A lot of my time this summer has been spent in transit. I take the subway to and from work. I spend most of my free time wandering around the…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  I’ve spent most of this summer in Cambridge, Massachusetts, staying in Women’s Independent Living Group (WILG).  These past few days, the heat wave has made even walking outdoors feel like…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  Unknown unknowns As I’ve talked about several times, this summer, I’m doing an internship as a frontend developer. So far I’ve blogged about the adulting-oriented questions, because that’s what I…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Too Good To Go fighting food waste with good bargains

  

  I’m pretty sure that MIT dining hall food isn’t the reason why tens of thousands of people apply each year — mealplans are costly, dining hall hours can be restrictive,…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  i. recently i was thinking about my relationship with other people both in the context of writing a blog and in the context of being a friend. i was pretty…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  a day in my life as a MISTI student ft. research and friends

  

  As I’ve mentioned previously, I’m doing MISTI-Germany this summer and living in Berlin. MISTI is a really cool program that gives MIT students support to live and work abroad for…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling grown up walking in adult clothing

  

  one of the prompts i answered, when i applied to be a blogger (and this year’s apps are open) was “when was the first time you really felt like a…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  I’ve been taking the time to explore some classes and activities in Copenhagen that I haven’t tried in a while. I took a pole class, a week of krav maga,…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  to now and forever

  

  This past weekend, I had two high school friends, Kenneth and Ethan, come visit me. They’re probably the closest people I had to best friends in my senior year after…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 15, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  a night in hannover one of the most chaotic travel experiences of my life

  

  This summer, I’m doing MISTI-Germany and living in Berlin. I’ve been enjoying it a lot for a number of reasons: not least because in Europe, everything is close, which allows…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 13, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  welcome to new york went to nyc & all i got was this blog post

  

  When Taylor Swift’s 1989 album dropped, I read a review describing “Welcome to New York” as the musical version of a peppermint latte. It was Taylor’s first decisively pop album and I…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 12, 2022