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  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  At some point in the pandemic I began to collect tropical fruiting plants. I’m not exactly sure when; it might have been after my former housemate Kevin brought home a…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  dun dun dUNNNN EA decisions are tomorrow :O, as y’all probably know too well. If you get in, here’s a virtual mug of my favorite tea⁠01 I just discovered this…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  I’m writing this blog sitting on an Amtrak train speeding from Boston back home to New York. I took my last final exam, for 18.600,⁠08 probability and random variables just…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week in My Life of My Final Week of My Junior Fall i have no finals

  

  This last week has been super, super hectic for me, hence my silence on the blogs. This semester I took 3 HASS⁠18 Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences classes this semester:…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 15, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA decisions to be posted Saturday, 12/18/21, 3:14 PM ET i guess the title kind of says it all, huh?

  

  So, on Slack I asked Ella ’25 and Jenny ’25 to help me with this…and…well…here’s the announcement blog you’ve been waiting for? kellen: Ella! Jenny! I’ve brought you both here…

  • by kellen manning
  • December 13, 2021
• Blog / How to Money

  ew taxes the new zealand government owes me money

  

  Today I finally filed the tax returns I’d been putting off since March 2018. From September 2017 to August 2018, I lived in Auckland, New Zealand, where I held a…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  a season of secondhand joy on mudita and vicarious delight

  

  hey. it’s christmas season in mit. i was never a big fan of christmas myself, nor do i really get the whole christmas spirit thing. but it just so happens…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  apparently i haven’t made any blog posts about classes yet so here’s one i had the misfortune and privilege of taking three classes with final projects this semester. misfortune because…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee

  

  Yesterday,⁠29 By yesterday I mean Thursday. I was hoping I could finish this by midnight, but, alas. It is now 12:53 AM. after turning in my last assignment for the…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 11, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  suggestions for MIT merch but they're bad

  

  How is it already December? It feels like it was just a few days ago that I arrived on campus, and now there’s holiday decorations everywhere. And I have finals…

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 10, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  blogger wrapped 2021 taking on the legacy

  

  the grip Spotify Wrapped has on society is truly astounding. time to contribute to the buzz with another year of blogger wrapped! minutes spent listening: there’s casual listeners, there’s mid-tier…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 9, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  four months ago i made a post about being back in east campus saying: thinking about this room makes me kinda sad. east campus is scheduled to get renovated next…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  In the near future, MIT Admissions will release the EA decisions. To kickoff the season, I thought I’d share a little bit about my acceptance to MIT. (With some logistical nightmares…

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 6, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  a disclaimer some events are slightly out of order I was not really looking at the stars til later   mid-September. honor me, honor me, honor me.   Do you…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  content warning: mention of suicide. one I’m sick of all this, “How’d you get your band name?” “Is that your real first name?” “Can you text and can you follow…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  Growing up, Thanksgiving was an extremely important holiday for my family. Every year, my mom and dad would invite all the Chinese faculty and graduate students from the local university…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  I live on the top floor of a small pile of donuts named Random Hall, and it looks something like this⁠37 to prevent bonfire erasure, they're the other half of…

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  I had a post planned last Thursday, but then it was like everything got switched to hard mode for me after November started (and no, this has nothing to do…

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  Lord knows that I’ve beat this dead horse and milked this subject for all its worth, but I still gets lots and lots of questions about being a humanities major…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  zero. once again you can determine how busy i am by the rate of my blog posts. blogging right now feels to me like a sponge—it soaks up whatever time…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021