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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  Hi, Cami here. I’m so excited to bring to you this guest blog post by one of my best friends, Emma S. ’23. She is a huge part of rocket…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  what i’m doing this iap 2021 a busy busy house

  

  Hi everyone! Apologies for being gone. I have a lot of blogs backlogged right now and I’m trying to rush through them. Here’s what my house is doing this IAP…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iap: this year vs. last

  

  it’s IAP! I don’t have classes! I can end my day at 5 pm like I could during the summer!!   dance last IAP, I was dancing and choreographing 4-5…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  I’ve been breaking the monotony of quarantine and wearing pajamas all day by doing new things! I’ve wanted to try many of the things listed below for a while but…

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  My Favorite (Kitchen) Things cue julie andrews singing

  

  As I’ve sort of mentioned in previous blogs, I am a big fan of cooking. I was once on a meal plan for about two weeks at the start of…

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  I’ve potatoed so much over the past few weeks of break — lounging in bed for hours, playing games, watching sports, etc. But one not-quite-potato thing that I’ve been doing…

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Iron Mask what i learned from MF DOOM

  

  I knew what I was going to write about next. I was ready. I even had the draft saved in a folder outside of the vortex folder on my desktop…

  • by kellen manning
  • January 2, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  20 Things I Learned In 2020 from a course 20 who is in her 20s

  

  *full disclosure: this post was mainly written for the title* We are so freaking capable of adapting to drastic life changes. It might not feel like it all the time,…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 1, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  In my very first blog post, I laid out a list of the goals that I wanted to accomplish while at MIT. Some were silly, and some were very serious,…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  My dorm, East Campus, is a space made to be shaped by the people within it. Each floor’s walls are covered with murals painted by residents — and where there…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Talent Show ua innovation gets lit

  

  In mid-November, a UA Innovation⁠37 undergraduate committee planned, organized, and hosted an MIT-wide digital talent show. It was a huge success and a great means of bringing the community together…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  One time in Boston, my roommates and I were studying outside near Harvard, where there was a tire swing on a tree. We laid aside our physics psets and played…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  highlights of a hellish semester it's OVER. IT'S FINALLY OVER GOSDAIUOSDSOIJD

  

  okay, so, sophomore fall was brutal. it went from manageable to tedious to outright AWFUL and i’m still recovering from struggling through a class I initially thought was easy. it…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  one Living alone is easy It’s keeping someone that’s impossible in the last month, it simultaneously feels that so much happened, and that nothing at all happened, as it has…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  In high school I always wanted to know what you learned in college: not personal growth and the importance of self-care, or how long one can survive on ramen and…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  It’s almost the end of 2020, which is terrifying. And hopeful, of course, in all the things that we’d like to be able to leave behind. But at the same…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  It’s never easy to turn people down from MIT. But sometimes, around decision day, I unexpectedly hear from students to whom we did not offer undergraduate admission in the past,…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  I was going to name this post “Things I enjoyed reading this year: the sequel”, as a callback to last year’s post.⁠47 At the time of writing it was named…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• FAQ / First-year application

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