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• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  I’ve been reading a lot of slow, contemplative writing recently, which is the kind of writing that always makes me want to write my own blog post of that nature.…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  The day in question is Thursday, one day before the end of my internship.   7:00 This morning I woke up nervous as hell, mainly because I didn’t know where…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  cw: harassment (noted before the section where it’s mentioned, skip to the next pictures from there if needed!) “What’s your favorite type of metal?” asked a volunteer after Copenhell. We’d…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  Monday, June 13th. 9:33 pm, in the back of Öz Konya Kebab: brightly lit, with LED lights on the ceiling that ease through the rainbow. I am not raging against…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  alternate titles include: on taking too many damn classes; should we take less than 60 units? As of writing this, I’m finished with my sophomore year, halfway through MIT. I’m…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  i’ve been thinking, recently: in times of need, who takes care of me? of course, growing up, the answer was my family. i woke up one morning craving the napa…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  Hi everybody! I was busy this IAP,⁠34 IAP, for y'all readers who haven't memorized all the acronyms at this unholy institvte, stands for Independent Activities Period, and takes place for…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  You know, lately, I’ve been hearing this sound. Everywhere I go, like a tick, tick, tick. — tick, tick…BOOM! (2021) Recently, I’ve had this overwhelming feeling creeping up on me,…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  teaching web.lab aka what i spent all of january on

  

  being somewhat more intense than i expected. over the ~24 days of iap

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 1, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  act I: prologue When I was a kid, I used to dread going to sleep. I would lay there in bed, words and thoughts spinning around my head without pause.…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  team, so i love this class too. 24.917: ConLangs: Construct a Language

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  Growing up, Thanksgiving was an extremely important holiday for my family. Every year, my mom and dad would invite all the Chinese faculty and graduate students from the local university…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  one. The last time I posted was over two months ago. I wrote then that I was “so, so tired,” even though classes had just started. And then I disappeared…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  It’s September, school has started, and I know that before long I’ll get sucked into the ridiculous whirlwind that is this school. I’ll get busy with classes, and clubs, and…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  “I’m going to UROP this summer!” I told my mom over the phone. Later, I was telling my sister about hunting for a place in Boston, and she said, “Aren’t…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  .nano pixels developing a love for pictures, reverb

  

  Main Street, near Kendall (I think) While snapping this picture, a thought pulsed through my head. Remember how it all came back with an email? You should write something about…

  • by Waly N. '24
  • July 2, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  up. In the past month, there have been moments when hope and joy have surprised me; where, despite the odds, my heart is full to bursting, bringing a certain buoyancy…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  a state of moving ny --> ma, macg adventures

  

  It’s been roughly a little under 2 months since I moved onto campus. Instead of having an actual intro, I’ll cut to the exciting stuff. So, here, much later than…

  • by Waly N. '24
  • April 5, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  Hello everyone! I thought up this title as a metaphor for how the week a few weeks ago hit me, but apparently said week hit too hard for me to…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  Some numbers from this semester: Academic week: 5 Age: 19.0 Times I’ve cried over classes: 2 (surprisingly) Smoothies made: 12 COVID tests taken: 11 Times I’ve been locked out: 3 (Unique) cats…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021