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  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  **mild/moderate Avatar: The Last Airbender spoilers, but also this show’s been around for like over a decade soooooooooo, y’know, there’s that** In the TV show Avatar: The Last Airbender, Zuko,…

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  in an effort to be whole again recovery

  

  This past semester, I haven’t been taking much care of myself. Lately, I’ve been feeling very unwhole. Stuck, almost. Every week seems to run the same, where my Friday through…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  in swim class, our instructor emphasizes the importance of relaxing. “you’re in the water and your body tenses up. why? it’s because of the fear. it’s natural, it’s instinctive, it’s…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  A couple of weeks before the school year started, I spent countless hours perfecting my email’s filters, labels, and everything in between. I signed up for forwarding all my MIT…

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  I spent this summer in a relatively “chill” state. My UROP that I did for the first half of the summer had only one real “deadline”, and that was towards…

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  One of my goals for my sophomore year was to do all the things I was afraid to do in my freshman year. One of the bigger things I wanted…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  There are some things that only make sense to you once you’re living it, that you can’t understand until they happen to you. And then there are some things that,…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  i [don’t] have covid?? in conclusion, i am the absolute worst at managing stress

  

  So. I had a COVID false alarm this week, which is why I’m currently back at home instead of my new place in Cambridge. I think it’s ironic that my…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  No one marks you five minutes late⁠25 in MIT time, classes start five minutes past the hour. anymore, and I know it’s a college thing but part of me feels…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Portraits of a Campus on Lockdown

  

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 14, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  thing that have changed not my class year...pls god i want to be a freshman forever

  

  last year, things were so different. i was an ordinary freshman who lived in a dorm, participated in lots of student activites, and went to physical classes. now, i’m living…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  I wasn’t actually planning on writing a start of semester post this time around, mostly because I feel like there are metaphysically bigger things to blog about. But, since it’s…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  The theme of my (very short) MIT experience so far has been that everything is so cool. SO COOL. And interesting, and exciting, and !!! (unintelligible excited noises). Imagine this…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about pandemics and plagues in history 21H.000: History of Now: Plagues and Pandemics

  

  Last week, I blogged about 7.00: COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2 and the Pandemic, a biology lecture series on the coronavirus that anyone in the world can freely attend. One of my colleagues…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  I like to think that people are defined by two things — the values that they hold and the choices that they make. So I figured that a half-decent way…

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  September 1st may have been one of the most simultaneously exhilarating and utterly terrifying days I’ve had in a long time. Especially since I’ve become a real-life potato since quarantine…

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  in remembrance of the body affirming the mind–body connection

  

  there was this time three weeks ago, when i was still living in baker, that the internet went out for a while. it was around 7:45 pm, and i went…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  In the past few weeks, I’ve been pretty busy with SCUFFY,⁠54 Support Communities For First-Years ESC,⁠55 Exploring Support Communities and other general freshman orientation/recruitment events. It’s been a lot of…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  I landed in Boston on a cloudy day about a week ago, and…it sure has been A Week™. Freshmen aren’t invited back to campus this semester, but I’m renting an…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  I got back to campus a few days ago. The journey here from South Dakota was, for the most part, uneventful. I happened to be on the same flight as…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020