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• 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…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 4, 2022
• 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.…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  excerpts

  

  Fugue Bus,[/annotation] and the art (by Selena L. '24!) was so good. You

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 27, 2021
• 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…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• 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

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• 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…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• 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…

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• 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…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• 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…

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• 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…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• 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…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• 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…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• 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 / 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 / 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…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 16, 2020
• 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

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020
• 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…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  Sixteen months ago, in April, I made a promise to myself: if you choose MIT, you get to take a gap year. You’ve been selling your soul to science for…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  never did during the academic year. a friend and i walked to a 24 hour

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part four) senior trinkets

  

  , and Edwin over IAP 24) Oculus stickers from a Facebook talk Danny went

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 24, 2020