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• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  You know, lately, I’ve been hearing this sound. Everywhere I go, like a tick, tick, tick. — tick, tick…BOOM! (2021) Recently, I’ve had this overwhelming feeling creeping up on me,…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mocha Show ’22: Mo’Mixtape creating and performing a dance showcase, from start to finish

  

  i’m on the hip-hop dance team Mocha Moves. every February, we put on a show that’s composed of dances choreographed and performed solely by us. the show has 14 dances,…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 16, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  tired and busy and tired and busy and tired and busy and

  

  A couple updates: I quit two of my jobs I’m taking 4 classes and two of them are technicals and two of them are not, but one of the not-technical…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 15, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  My sophomore year of high school I ate too many donuts. When I woke up realising my stomach was twisting, I called out instinctively for my parents. They woke up…

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  the fox will make sense later I want to major in computer science. I have plenty of experience in other fields like biomedical engineering and robotics because I was also…

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Events

  2024 ring premiere! amogus??

  

  The 2024s got their first look at the class ring on Friday! Having a class ring, or Brass Rat, is an integral part of the MIT experience. It’s a tradition…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  Like many of you, I have been playing Wordle, a game where you try to guess a 5-letter word given information about letter locations, and I have been playing it…

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine

  

  Friday nights are great. Assuming you’re not in one of those classes that has assignments due Friday at midnight,⁠32 truly the worst Friday nights bring the freedom of having no…

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  This is just one in the onslaught of many posts to come about what the bloggers did during their IAP (aka Independent Activities Period, aka a January term but ~quirky~).…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  Last time I wrote a blog about my academic life, back in November, I was going through a major crisis – by which I mean a crisis about my major,…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  dear kuya i promise this post is mostly in english

  

  Dear kuya, kumusta ka na diyan? Anong balita, malamig ba diyan? Dito mainit, ngunit kung bumagyo Para bang lahat ng tubig sa mundo ay nandito [Dear kuya, how are things…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  my room an evolution

  

  I had a vision. Every year, my room would have a different aesthetic. Was this followed to a T? No,⁠52 thank you covid  but I present to you the brief…

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  Here’s a list of things that I consider love languages, because the standard ones–acts of service, quality time, gifts, words of affirmation, and physical touch–are fine, but love can be…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  some IAP adventures as told by my camera roll

  

  During the month of January,⁠53 well, this year the spring semester started on January 31st, but close enough MIT offers an “Independent Activities Period” where students do essentially whatever they…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 4, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  Hello dear reader! It’s been a long time since I last posted here. I returned from my gap year last September. I knew I’d changed a lot over my gap…

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2021 Reflections & 2022 Resolutions

  

  View my 2020 resolutions and 2021 resolutions. There were some 2020 resolutions I couldn’t accomplish due to the pandemic, but since the world has adapted since then, I was able…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  09:35. i hobble out of bed and pour myself some milk. there’s a ridiculous amount of snow outside. i pull out some leftover pizza and walk to the kitchen to…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  happy lunar new year the year of the tiger

  

  Happy Year of the Tiger! It is my birth year, which means that I have to wear red daily to ward off bad luck. Somebody else asked me today why…

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

  teaching web.lab aka what i spent all of january on

  

  some context: web.lab / 6.148 is a web development course offered every iap at mit. i took the class in 2020 and was an instructor in 2022; you can find…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  Sometimes I worry I have too many blog posts that are just paragraphs of my thoughts without any exciting MIT anecdotes or events. I feel like my thoughts can be…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022