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• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  In review — it’s been a good year. In reverse-chronological order, I… full sent a project, which was cool No one in my life has heard about this at all,…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  This post started as a voice memo, taken during a walk home. Its unpolished, initial form, complete with pauses and rephrasings, is here: https://mitadmissions.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/thanksgiving-first-draft.mp3 I had a very difficult time…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ★★★★☆ Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023

  

  of blue tape, and I’ve kept this stuff in my backpack 24/7 for years

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  EC REX party before its 2023-24 renovation)[/caption] MIT was a great

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  This past Sunday, at 4 AM on the side of U.S. Highway 1 on Badger’s Island in Maine, along with Nathan S. ’25 and Jonathan H. ’25, I took my…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  It’s work week at tΞp!⁠13 pronounced 'Xi' like the Greek letter, tΞp is the co-ed fraternity formerly known as tEp. While work week in Greek life systems outside the MIT…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 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

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  Magically eduroam⁠21 university wifi, typically found at universities, not hostels 20 km from the nearest grocery store is giving me one bar. It actually loads search results and sends email,…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  I found one of my old sketchbooks the other day. I’m ashamed that this “old” sketchbook, which I had started in 2019 (that’s four years ago!!), is also my most…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  I spent the last two weeks of IAP abroad. I had thought about applying for GTL,⁠25 global teaching labs, a MISTI program that places students in schools abroad to teach…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 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,…

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

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  I took two classes at Harvard! I wrote down my first impressions, and now, upon leaving, I have a few more reflections — mainly that exposing myself to different perspectives…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  When I started senior fall, I was taking a course load of 6 classes.⁠37 I am writing this down in class-equivalents; MIT has a horrifically cursed system of units, where…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  For the second year in a row, I am teaching a class at MIT. A real, for-credit, in-the-catalog-of-classes class, at MIT. That I teach. On math. Let’s back up a…

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  This fall, I took 21W.762 Poetry Workshop with Ed Barrett, a popular class amongst bloggers. 21W.762 was by far the most easygoing class I’ve taken at MIT: every week we’d…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

    “It’s just a few more weeks,” my mom told me, on the phone, as I hurried down the Infinite and out into the cold. “Junior year is your hardest…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  Have you ever wanted to feel happier and thought, hey, maybe if I eat a few lasers for dinner today, things will be better? No? Because you should.⁠48 please do…

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  call to adventure Gandalf’s mark on Bilbo’s door also known as the inciting incident Some friends and I were sitting on the floor of MG’s room. I was browsing email…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  midnight on Wednesdays so every other week, I had 4 problem sets due in a 24

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  Alan and I have been taking a class together this semester: 21W.740: Writing Autobiography and Biography. I really thought I would enjoy the class. This is due to a few…

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022