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  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 this⁠06 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
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  As the summer turned to fall, my housemates and I prepared to move out of our cozy apartment where we’d spent the year, back to MIT’s campus. The passage of…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] art and things zine making + what makes us, us + thank you cambridge + yomp

  

  Hello hello! I am Alina S. (‘24). Briefly: I am a course 2A (mechanical engineering) with a focus on learning machines. I live in Next House. I am Vietnamese and…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  I am a huge reader. I love hearing stories and telling them. I love reformulating them, retelling them, carrying them alongside me. I love storytelling so much that it’s become…

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to put together an ohms concert apparently we have a concert this weekend

  

  for those of you who don’t know, i’m part of the mit ohms, a south asian a cappella group. this post is a look at the different components of an…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 17, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  nearly two years ago, I co-wrote this blog discussing my experiences within the dance community at MIT. since then, a lot has changed! this semester, i started dancing on Kinematix,…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  one. The last time I posted was over two months ago. I wrote then that I was “so, so tired,” even though classes had just started. And then I disappeared…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  The class average on the first 6.006⁠65 Intro to Algorithms midterm was a 71. I scored well below that, which wasn’t entirely unexpected, and I don’t feel that bad about…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  this blogpost was meant to be something else since i’ve been frankly living in my thoughts a lot and i’m not sure how to write about it in a refined…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  the things i hate and what they say about me

  

  i hate when people ghost me, especially over text or email. not when it happens once or twice, or when they have good reasons for doing it, like if they’re…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 9, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  It’s Sunday. I’ve had a particularly draining week. For the sake of journaling, here are some of the lowlights. I dropped 6.0002. Actually, dropped isn’t the correct word. I neglected…

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  If you can’t tell from the title, I love scrolling through Wikipedia. Yes, the website that your middle school English teacher probably rained hellfire on about how you should never…

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  i recently reread sandra cisneros’ short story “eleven”. “what they don’t understand about birthdays and what they never tell you is that when you’re eleven, you’re also ten, and nine,…

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  Last Thursday night, I was walking back from Simmons after making dinner at Pika for the first time. It was kind of cold, and I was tired, and I’d had…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / Events

  [Joint Post] Avoiding Sunstroke Solar Cars, Solar Stories, Solar Blogs

  

  So. It’s been a while since I last was on the blogs, speed writing about a new experience. During my writing hiatus, over this past summer, I did a thing.…

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2021