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• Blog / How to Human

  feeling grown up walking in adult clothing

  

  one of the prompts i answered, when i applied to be a blogger (and this year’s apps are open) was “when was the first time you really felt like a…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  When I’m sad, or there’s some conundrum in my life that I need to process, or I’m riding the high from hanging out with friends, or I’m so stressed that…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  in transit where do i go from here?

  

  I love traveling alone on public transportation. I like staring out the window watching the cold concrete walls zoom by as I just sit. I’ve always liked just sitting in…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 6, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  I am a huge reader. I love hearing stories and telling them. I love reformulating them, retelling them, carrying them alongside me. I love storytelling so much that it’s become…

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  A bit ago, the larger group my UROP lab is a part of had a free lunch event. I was initially hesitant about going since it seemed like the event…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  were some exceptional circumstances that put MIT on Pass ... final, which can happen at any time during your MIT undergrad ... MIT students and potential applicants. I think a much more valuable

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Iron Mask what i learned from MF DOOM

  

  I knew what I was going to write about next. I was ready. I even had the draft saved in a folder outside of the vortex folder on my desktop…

  • by kellen manning
  • January 2, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  asked for a better professor. I get so many questions asking if MIT

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taylor swift songs as applicants emergency evermore post

  

  24 hours ago, Taylor Swift came out with a new album and everyone lost their minds. If you haven’t listened to it yet, please go do that right now and…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  This semester I’ve lived in an apartment with three roommates: one omnivore, one vegetarian, and one vegan. I decided on the day we moved in that I would try out…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  I would not lose the important parts of myself to MIT, not all of them

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  I’ve been hesitant to write a blog — especially one that pertains to right now — because zoom is, ah, revolting. It’s no one’s fault perhaps but god, this semester…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  I expected junior fall as a course 6 to be a challenging semester even in normal times, from anecdotal accounts. In these ‘unprecedented times’,  I’m finding that it’s exponentially worse.…

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  similar to my experience here at MIT.

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  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 / 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 / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 2 recipes for people tryna Little Chef it up

  

  I enjoy productivity that’s tangible, so cooking is one of my favorite things to do. You get to put ingredients together…and then feed yourself…and feel satisfied that you’re being #healthy…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  a perfect long weekend in other words: i did no work and now am kind of a mess

  

  i had SUCH a nice President’s Day weekend. a lot of it was consumed by Mocha Show,⁠15 my urban dance team’s annual performance. we had two shows, both at 10…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  fun. the band, but also the form

  

  it would be like if I didn’t go to MIT, if I went to college back in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  means to be an MIT student. ‘My classes this past semester were brutal

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020