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• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  I’ve had my fair share of time with roommates and friends in the past year and I’ve learned a lot. I lived for the first time with friends in a…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  I decided this summer was the summer I’d get my life together, once and for all. For the last several summers, I’ve floundered in a soup of confusion and unease…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  “I’m going to UROP this summer!” I told my mom over the phone. Later, I was telling my sister about hunting for a place in Boston, and she said, “Aren’t…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goal setting and organization how i organize my life!

  

  I often get asked how I organize my life, my time, and whatnot and while I’m not the most organized person in the world, I thought it’d be nice to…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  .nano pixels developing a love for pictures, reverb

  

  Main Street, near Kendall (I think) While snapping this picture, a thought pulsed through my head. Remember how it all came back with an email? You should write something about…

  • by Waly N. '24
  • July 2, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2021!

  

  For the last six years now, I have started this post with a jaunty list of summer activities. Like last year, things are still a bit pandemic disrupted, but here…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2021 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  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…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  Last week, I wrote all about the classes I took this past year. It was originally meant to be a one-off post, but in writing it, I found myself having…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, per se a selection of fantastic dishes, part 2

  

  Bonjour. It’s me, Jacky, again. More than a year ago, I wrote a somewhat arrogant and definitely premature blog post⁠23 Link to previous blog post. on my freshman fall cooking…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 24, 2021
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  “What will you major in?” asked one of my senior year teachers. “I don’t think majors matter,” I responded, with the overconfidence of any seventeen-year-old. “I’ll just take classes I…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  After a year and a half on a forced meal plan, I have now been freed from the shackles and am finally cooking for myself again. The first thing I…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  Just like that, freshman year has come and gone. It’s weird to think that I’m already a quarter of the way through my time at MIT, but the world works…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tech is Hell we are happy, tech is hell

  

  The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 13, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  what the f*** am i doing this summer still don't know if i'm going abroad or not lol

  

  job-wise, this has been an absolute rollercoaster of a year so far. I’m EXHAUSTED. I was supposed to do MEET⁠53 a program where MIT students travel to Israel every year…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  well, well look who's inside again

  

  cw: suicide ment in lyrics if you’d had told me a year ago that i’d be locked inside of my home (aah) i would’ve told you a year ago ‘interesting…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 11, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You should get this bundle right now definitely clickbait

  

  I’m taking a break from playing all the video games in this video game bundle to tell you that you should buy it. Here’s a list of some of the…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT gave my pod free art supplies!! and despite being hosed, we used them

  

  In January, I heard about an Arts at MIT initiative that provides grants of between $50 and $250 to pods and virtual groups for art supplies. The intention was to…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 7, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  up. In the past month, there have been moments when hope and joy have surprised me; where, despite the odds, my heart is full to bursting, bringing a certain buoyancy…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  Welcome to the first of the many blogs I have meant to write but just not had the energy to do so this semester! Let’s get right into it… In…

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  The very first blog post I published on the blogs was a play on the inflight passenger announcement that precedes take off. That first blog post was a witty combination…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021