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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  Until very recently,⁠01 read, they still haven't kicked me out of the group chat yet. I was the president of Next House, the dormitory where I live. The role of…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  yo-yos, comics, and other adventures my junior spring schedule!

  

  I signed up for a healthy and sane schedule of 48 units and a UROP, but then I realized I could also sneak into a comic book class with the…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity

  

  This IAP, I’ve gone to Brazil!  I’m taking WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity. It’s a class focused on Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous Brazilian culture, with tons of readings, movies, and museum…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 10, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  This entire blog has this playlist. Enjoy. This semester was rough. This sort of sentence has been one I’ve had trouble saying throughout my time at MIT. Some semesters go…

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  Song: Ramblings of a Lunatic by Bears In Trees Two months ago, I wrote about four-dimensional worms.  Specifically, the philosophical notion that people exist through time in the same way we do…

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  I failed an 18.600⁠13 probability and random variables exam last week. At risk of sounding dramatic, I don’t even need to wait for scores to come back to know I…

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  I’m taking CMS.586⁠17 Introduction to Education this semester, and part of the class involves observing at local middle or high schools. For me, this means appearing at Cambridge Community Charter…

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  Among my defining personality traits are playing 2048 in the year of our lord 2022 — many people have made fun of me for this, but it’s like a fidget…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  As they said in the old, more hardkore days of MIT, you all might have heard of a liberal arts school down the road. It’s got buildings of red brick…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  Hi all! You may have encountered Arcturus, the robo-boat team, at the Activities Midway or on Instagram. Arcturus is revving up recruitment this fall, and to spread the word (and…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  Don’t tell, but I’ve never written much poetry before. I read poem books, from a tiny copy of The Rubaiyat bound in leather, to a weathered e e cummings collection,…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good

  

  I’m not a particularly good cook. I once managed to set spaghetti on fire while trying to boil it.⁠30 it was in the pot with water and everything... don't ask…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Too Good To Go fighting food waste with good bargains

  

  I’m pretty sure that MIT dining hall food isn’t the reason why tens of thousands of people apply each year — mealplans are costly, dining hall hours can be restrictive,…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"

  

  When I applied to be a blogger last summer, “what happened yesterday?” was one of the prompts I responded to. I wrote about finishing my internship work early and spending…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  The other day, I skivved off studying for thermodynamics and instead biked to D-Lab to weld. I’d started a new project two weeks before finals, and planned that it would…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  I am going to put this together haphazardly, work on it in drips and drabs.   This is for people on the fence, for those who aren’t sure what MIT…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  The media portrays spring break in college is super-fun, adventure-filled time, a time to relax, hang out with your friends, and have the experiences of a lifetime. Last year, MIT…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  , ADT performs. It ends. I run to the sixth floor of Building 24, where

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  I’m taking three classes this semester. That’s 36 units — two technicals and a CI-H, a writing intensive humanities class. It’s a perfectly legal and okay amount of classes to…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  Here’s a list of things that I consider love languages, because the standard ones–acts of service, quality time, gifts, words of affirmation, and physical touch–are fine, but love can be…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022