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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  the awful thing about having three project classes is that the last two weeks⁠01 (realistically, one week) of the semester are spent in a sleep-deprived and over-caffeinated haze, probably at…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  “this guy is extremely shirtless,” jeff says, pulling up a messenger profile. i peer over at his phone, and indeed, the guy is quite shirtless. it’s tuesday the 24th and…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  I love cities, and I’ve lived in cities all my life. I grew up in Manila, lived three years in Boston, and am now spending the summer in San Francisco.…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2022 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 1, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  alternate titles include: on taking too many damn classes; should we take less than 60 units? As of writing this, I’m finished with my sophomore year, halfway through MIT. I’m…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  I’m sitting on the floor of my dorm room.⁠17 I am actually sitting in a coffee shop in Arizona, finishing this blog many months later, because I got too hosed…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  one. it’s nice to have slack in your schedule. and by slack, i don’t mean laziness, or the messaging app. in business, before slack became ubiquitous as a professional chat…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  you & i will always be back then time is an illusion that helps things make sense

  

    [warning: contains spoilers for the cartoon show adventure time] lessons learned I recently finished watching Adventure Time, a fantasy cartoon written by Pendleton Ward that follows Finn the Human…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  The other day, I skivved off studying for thermodynamics and instead biked to D-Lab to weld. I’d started a new project two weeks before finals, and planned that it would…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  i’ve been thinking, recently: in times of need, who takes care of me? of course, growing up, the answer was my family. i woke up one morning craving the napa…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  In my junior year of high school, I had a phase of telling everyone about how I was going to make my dress for senior prom. I had never used…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  defense the other bloggers didn’t believe i could write a post about basketball

  

  i. basketball everything in this section is only approximately correct. basketball is a complicated sport and there are many exceptions to every principle i’ve been watching basketball on-and-off for a…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  In my dorm, East Campus, residents are allowed to paint the door to their room. Unlike murals on the walls, which generally have to be approved by the hall (or…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  My freshman year is almost over honest thoughts on it

  

  I have two finals left as I write this, 3.091⁠28 Introduction to Solid State Chemistry. Satisfies the Chemistry GIR. and 7.014.⁠29 Introductory Biology. Satisfies the Biology GIR. I should feel…

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  one if i had to write a literary analysis on my blog posts, i’d talk about how the strongest ongoing theme is coping with contradictory convictions. how can we believe…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  over spring break i met a grad student. we were talking about why they feel the need to work on impactful research, and after a while they said something along…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  the hours i’ve spent in bed recently have added up, pointing to one conclusion: actually, i only recently discovered that i’ve been diagnosed with clinical depression since late december. here’s…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  A few weeks ago I did an interview with the Raising Problem Solvers podcast hosted by our friends at Art of Problem Solving (AoPS). The title/framing of the episode, which was just…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  until this year, I’d never really experienced loss or old age firsthand. my relatives who have passed away did so before I was born, or when I was too young…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  CW: Sexual Assault, Abusive Relationships, Suicidal Ideation, Non-Descriptive Mentions of Homophobia, and Discussion of Trauma ((Some Author’s Commentary.)) This has been one of the harder admissions posts for me to…

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022