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  transitions memories of first snow

  

  This post started as a voice memo, taken during a walk home. Its unpolished, initial form, complete with pauses and rephrasings, is here: https://mitadmissions.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/thanksgiving-first-draft.mp3 I had a very difficult time…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  As if someone flipped a switch, this year’s unnaturally warm autumn has abruptly given way to winter. It’s the cold air stinging my airway, how it’s always dark out after…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ★★★★☆ Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023

  

  of blue tape, and I’ve kept this stuff in my backpack 24/7 for years

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  EC REX party before its 2023-24 renovation)[/caption] MIT was a great

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  This past Sunday, at 4 AM on the side of U.S. Highway 1 on Badger’s Island in Maine, along with Nathan S. ’25 and Jonathan H. ’25, I took my…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  It’s work week at tΞp!⁠17 pronounced 'Xi' like the Greek letter, tΞp is the co-ed fraternity formerly known as tEp. While work week in Greek life systems outside the MIT…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  flowers of fire and light making art with printed circuit boards!

  

  My favorite poi spinning pattern is the four-petaled antispin flower. If you do it neatly, it traces out the path parameterized by these equations: x = cos(t) + 3/4 cos(-3t)…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 16, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  It’s cold down here, and dark, so I’ll keep this one brief. I’m in the common room, where the radiator is off. The German woman rooming with me tonight voices…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  Magically eduroam⁠26 university wifi, typically found at universities, not hostels 20 km from the nearest grocery store is giving me one bar. It actually loads search results and sends email,…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  I found one of my old sketchbooks the other day. I’m ashamed that this “old” sketchbook, which I had started in 2019 (that’s four years ago!!), is also my most…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  I spent the last two weeks of IAP abroad. I had thought about applying for GTL,⁠30 global teaching labs, a MISTI program that places students in schools abroad to teach…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  Reading is one of the few real hobbies I’ve managed to hold onto throughout my time at MIT, not that I have much time to read during the semesters. Still,…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  I took two classes at Harvard! I wrote down my first impressions, and now, upon leaving, I have a few more reflections — mainly that exposing myself to different perspectives…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  When I started senior fall, I was taking a course load of 6 classes.⁠42 I am writing this down in class-equivalents; MIT has a horrifically cursed system of units, where…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  For the second year in a row, I am teaching a class at MIT. A real, for-credit, in-the-catalog-of-classes class, at MIT. That I teach. On math. Let’s back up a…

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  This fall, I took 21W.762 Poetry Workshop with Ed Barrett, a popular class amongst bloggers. 21W.762 was by far the most easygoing class I’ve taken at MIT: every week we’d…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

    “It’s just a few more weeks,” my mom told me, on the phone, as I hurried down the Infinite and out into the cold. “Junior year is your hardest…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  Have you ever wanted to feel happier and thought, hey, maybe if I eat a few lasers for dinner today, things will be better? No? Because you should.⁠53 please do…

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  call to adventure Gandalf’s mark on Bilbo’s door also known as the inciting incident Some friends and I were sitting on the floor of MG’s room. I was browsing email…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  Many a night and moon ago, I was climbing, and my phone slipped from my pocket. Both my hands were occupied holding the rest of me aloft, so I could…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022