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Hold your breath my first CPW
, ADT performs.
It ends. I run to the sixth floor of Building 24, where
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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… -
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… -
Blog / IAP
some IAP adventures as told by my camera roll
During the month of January,01 well, this year the spring semester started on January 31st, but close enough MIT offers an “Independent Activities Period” where students do essentially whatever they… -
Blog / Challenges
processing in which I visit home and take time to think
MIT is overwhelming. Though this sounds painfully obvious, I don’t think I actually fully realized just how much it all is until the first time I went home this fall.… -
Blog / Extracurriculars
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Fugue Bus,[/annotation] and the art (by Selena L. '24!) was so good. You -
Blog / MIT Life
this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom
Whenever I try to think about the last year, it doesn’t feel real. In fact, I usually actively stop myself when I get on that train of thought, because it’s… -
Blog / Challenges
The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)
dating someone who just got to MIT. I felt this with the '24s when they -
Blog / MIT Life
the last twenty days burning out before the semester even starts
One year ago, before sophomore year started, and before I became a blogger, I was REX18 REX stands for Residence EXploration, where we welcome first-years to the dorms around campus… -
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… -
Blog / Academics & Research
head down, marching on highlights of spring semester
From my journal the other night– It’s 2 am, and I should be asleep. I’m listening to SJ Tucker on my headphones that only play in the left ear. I… -
Blog / Academics & Research
creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap
In my last blog, I mentioned that since the spring semester hadn’t started yet, that blog wasn’t being posted too late. Unfortunately, now that the spring semester has begun, I… -
Blog / Residential Life
The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus
The river freezes over, but it isn’t frozen solid. My roommate and I gestured at it through the window of our Uber, wondering aloud if water flowed beneath the sparkling… -
Blog / IAP
As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park
I was at the park near my grandparents’ place today, picking up graphic novels from a squat library. I gave a wide berth to a mom with her kids at… -
Blog / How to Human
Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome
In cross country, you hear a lot about running through the pain, but at the same time, avoiding injury. I have deep scars on both knees, from times I’d scrape… -
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… -
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… -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
a compilation of creative projects creativity? at MY institute?
Among the many classes I took this semester, I ended up taking two and a half classes that fell under MIT’s broad category of HASS-A, or arts classes.43 MIT students… -
Blog / Announcements
We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays
December 24th-January 3rd so that our entire team can rest, recharge, and -
Blog / How to Human
socializing over zoom it's been rough
Last week, non-seniors who want to live on campus in the spring53 like me! submitted their dorm preferences. The actual lottery keeps getting delayed, but the actual process of ranking…