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• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  Somedays, I check to make sure my diploma is real and I didn’t just dream the whole thing. I get a little bit jumpscared when I get an alumni newsletter.…

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  STEP 1: FAIL TO LEARN HOW TO DRIVE IN HIGH SCHOOL. This requires some luck based on your circumstances. It’s going to be a bit harder if you live in…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  I’ve been living on campus, working on finishing my MEng thesis this summer. It’s been an interesting summer; I’ve really enjoyed being able to put my head down and sort…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  For my last blog as an undergraduate, there would be nothing more suitable than submitting it at 11:59 pm as I do with my assignments. So here is MIT by…

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  hitting two major cities of the East Coast.  Day 1 (3/24, Friday): Drive to

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  by Kanokwan T. ‘25 ★ 2024 ring premiere! by Mel N. ‘24 ★ Ring

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  I’ve never considered myself a very natural leader. I’m usually pretty reserved, and, although I think I’ve become a lot less shy over the past few years, I have been…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  After three and a half years of being at this school, I’ve taken quite a few classes. What have I even learned from them? I’m bad at remembering numbers (sometimes…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  disclaimer in case the title doesn’t show this, I am writing this blog to show that there *isn’t* a ‘best way’ to choose where to apply, and that even after…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  Last Sunday, some friends and I walked across the state of Rhode Island! This idea originated last year, when my friend Xavier and some of his mates realized that states…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  A few months ago, May.  When I’m away from you, I’m happier than ever Wish I could explain it better — Happier than Ever by Billie Eilish It’s final projects…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  worked out. break started on Friday the 24th, but we flew out at—no, I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dress your wounds and stay in bed self care!

  

  cw: I discuss some injuries with varying amounts of needles and blood   I learned some valuable life skills in Denmark, from how to turn on an induction stove to…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  The MIT Monologues (MITMo) is a spinoff of the play The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, talking about the intersections of sex, gender, relationships, disability, sexuality, etc. written by people with…

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  a joint post with Admissions Officer Jeremy, we stan Song: burnt espresso, by Sidney Amos Paige: Nearly three years ago, I was writing my college application essays over cups and…

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  This fall, I enrolled in EM.S21: Design and Make a Lamp. It’s a 3-unit, half-semester class under IDM⁠51 Integrated Design and Management and the Infinite, as in, it’s in the…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  (taps mic) is this thing working? hello? okay, great. that’s cool. it’s been a while since i wrote a sad post here. well, not sad exactly, but like, a deep…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  I do not know if I have mentioned this on the blogs or in public, ever, but I am actually majoring in mechanical engineering. I went on a quest my…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2,024 liked songs spotify is my favorite social media

  

  A few weeks ago, I visited a friend at Harvard. She snuck me into the observatory. There were murals on the walls in a manner that distinctly reminded me of…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  Warning: this blog features spoilers for the video game Celeste regarding the plot. I highly encourage you to play the game if you haven’t, it’s one of my favorite platformers.…

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022