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• Blog / How to Human

  remember me on family

  

  Know that I’m with you The only way that I can be Until you’re in my arms again Remember me I remember how hard I had sobbed when I finished…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 1, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  Whether I like it or not, my senior year at MIT is coming to a close. Classes are done, grades are in, and I’m beginning a senior-year road trip with…

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Listing It All Out you get a list and you get list and you get a list

  

  Places To Take A Nap On Campus, Ranked Barker Library – The pin drop silence of the reading room is honestly better suited for taking naps than studying in my…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  A few days ago, I was talking with Nisha and other friends, and the subject of what we learned at MIT came up. Now that this semester’s over, I’ve done…

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  *CW:  Death, Rejection, Anxiety* I have been wanting to write a reflection on the past year for a while now. A lot has happened in the past couple of months.…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Senior Week On The Blogs!!! oh no, we’re all so old

  

  Well would you look at that, it’s finals week at MIT.  Which means that for a few of your friendly neighborhood bloggers, it’s also our last week on the blogs.…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  9.00 with no context are you a cool rat?

  

  This past semester I took Intro Psychology at MIT with Professor Gabrieli. He’s an incredibly intelligent and engaging professor that has some of the most interesting and fun lectures I’ve…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Thirteen Theses on Wide Tim In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false.

  

  But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the appearance to the essence… illusion only is…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  secondhand stories an allegory

  

  here’s the thing about improv companies. the thing they do most often isn’t putting on shows, but rehearsing. a few years ago i found some improv companies online, and i…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Very Important Announcement i promise this is not clickbait

  

   

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 21, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  A few months ago, I posted about how to clean old whiteboards. Of course, most MIT classrooms don’t have whiteboards — they have chalkboards. And there is one really, really…

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  Way back in September, I had the difficult, difficult task of writing my blogger bio. It includes the following paragraph: the silly: you may see me zooming around campus on…

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  CMS.621: Fans & Fan Culture the class that changed my career trajectory?

  

  I usually reserve these kinds of posts for life-changing classes, the kinds of classes that let me discover things about myself and about the world around me and see things…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  this is fine some thoughts at the end of the semester

  

  I’ll be honest, I lost track of time somewhere around the end of March; I feel like classes started really ramping up, everything started happening all at once, I started…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  You learn how to navigate MIT. It’s inevitable. After you stay here for a couple days, the bulletin boards begin to look familiar. You’ll start knowing where things are. There…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane

  

  When I started my freshman year at MIT four whole years ago, senior year and graduation and “the end” all felt so far out of reach. I wasn’t sure if…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 10, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  I’m turning nineteen today, without much fanfare; after all, nineteen is not a particularly interesting age, and the past year itself has also been a little barren, devoid of many…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  nothing really matters or does everything? a tale of epiphanies and a crisis

  

  A while back I gave a presentation at MIT called Three Epiphanies and an Existential Crisis. It was basically me walking through my career in digital communication⁠12 social media, email,…

  • by kellen manning
  • May 6, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Choosing Classes: Choice Paralysis [skye from valorant voice] help a girl out would ya!

  

  One of my favorite things about college is browsing all the classes I could hypothetically take and imagining my futures in them. Of course, the imagining bit is a lot…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 3, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  it’s a cloudy Tuesday morning and i’m walking to Caffe Nero to get a matcha latte. Caffe Nero is conveniently only a five minute walk away from my house in…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021