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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  Last weekend, I took a short solo trip up to New York to see the Whitney Biennial! I’ve wanted to go to the Whitney Museum of American Art for years,…

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  ‎ The water is painted with soft teal waves and tinged with an amber glow. I’m sitting on a cold concrete slab, where the tides would normally spill over. I…

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  . Analysis - 18.100B This is one of MIT's intro analysis course. It was

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  I thought about this post while laying in a fetal position under an oppressively large comforter. A few days ago, my period cramps were as bad as they had ever…

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 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 / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  “Where have you been?” Dear Reader, I’m not sure if I can begin to even explain where I’ve been. At the risk of sounding edgy, I’ve spent the past month…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  *the footnotes are my current self doing commentary* :p   “hey, I’m stealing free food from florey again. do you guys want anything? KN6OQK” “i wann chimken” “what do they…

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 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, it's nice to look back at the past year, which has been a

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

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  (fun challenge: drink water every time you read the word Missouri.) At CPW this April, every time I met someone new, I had to be prepared to answer and ask…

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  It’s been—checks watch—two weeks since I last posted, which is a week’s gap longer than usual. Oops! As part of 21W.765 Interactive Narrative, we were assigned to read Raymond Queneau’s…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Atomic Friends a comic

  

  I’m taking 21W.744, The Art of Comic Book Writing, taught by Marjorie Liu. Note that it says comic book writing, meaning that we are writing the descriptions that will then…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  defense the other bloggers didn’t believe i could write a post about basketball

  

  i. basketball everything in this section is only approximately correct. basketball is a complicated sport and there are many exceptions to every principle i’ve been watching basketball on-and-off for a…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  weak. But then came January 2020 where I had a check up with MIT Medical

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech version: slightly jaded

  

  ’s not the norm at MIT, but then again the norm is being a 6-3, and not all

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  this blogger does not exist join me in the uncanny valley

  

  A reader of the blogs emailed CJ the following, which CJ then forwarded to me:  i remember your posts (college apps, haiku) about robo-CJ, and I wondered if it might…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 28, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  i saw twenty one pilots at td garden in boston live music is very much alive and here to stay

  

  introduction I’ll just word vomit here and say that I started writing this blog as soon as I got home from the concert. I am so overwhelmed, I am so…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  just gonna talk about things i’ve been up to lately. fall is already coming so quickly. we’ve been planning for rush since the spring, of course, but right now it…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  eternal dissatisfaction wish i could write more, care less

  

  one here is one of my tiny struggles over the past few weeks, and it mostly centers on feeling good about my output. i’ve talked about my attitude with work…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 12, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  I decided this summer was the summer I’d get my life together, once and for all. For the last several summers, I’ve floundered in a soup of confusion and unease…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021