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• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  ’ve gone on since starting at MIT. I am nervous, but I am also very, very, excited. True to form, I’ve arrived at South Station perhaps a little ... Limited will take me to Chicago, arriving at 10:12 AM CST on January 4th

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Events

  LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue

  

  following semester, thanks to the brilliant LSC chair at the time, who resolved to do at least one film screening before graduation. I was lucky ... projector at a constant 24 frames per second. That gives you one reel of film

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  completed two years at MIT, and I plan to graduate after I finish four years ... my podmates; other times I feel frustrated at how few new things I ... . We marveled at the cheap, fresh produce we had gotten, and at how much

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  I suck at finishing text novels, but it turns out that I just haven ... gripping Last Night at the Telegraph Club, I devoured the story of the ... myself take whatever train of thought arrived at my mind’s platform.  I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  to now and forever

  

  been my friend for the past thirteen years, came and spent the weekend at ... that felt so blatantly grown, adultish. Hosting an old friend at my one ... the blogs. He was, in fact, my best friend at MIT. But due to some

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 15, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  be the exact colors of my room in East Campus. At 11 pm we get another ... very, very carefully. I can't stay in my room, but at least, just the ... brain telling me I'm not good at anything. Several sad things happen at

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  's something that my family members would poke fun at and point out and I think ... middle school. I hated running. I was not good at it. I am asthmatic and ... the weaker side, how at the age of 7 I couldn't do a proper pushup or

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  's. More on that later."]last year[/annotation]at MIT? Packing up and leaving ... what's best for me. I know I'm not the best at everything. That ... respect to undergraduate life at MIT only; I'm not saying I've got this

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  first panic! at the disco fanfiction, if not the first serious fanfic i ... protagonists i've ever encountered, but also horror at the fact that i could ... throam now to save myself some embarrassment with the fact that panic! at

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  until a month later. Look at this image! This just looks so generic. Lots ... intend at all to do the scavenger hunt (which you should, it’s fun!) then ... weird curve that you couldn’t see around, the whole nine yards. CJ: At

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  originally wanted to do during IAP: A micro-internship at a civil ... choice on a pass/no record grading scale at any point after our first semester"]P/NR later.[/annotation] And given that I was quarantining at home

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  - Accomplished! This past summer I had the great opportunity to work at Microsoft and I'll be working there next summer as well! Read at least 5 books ... Gloria Chao, a story focused on a freshman at MIT. I also reread a bunch of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  actually find me in a photo in this post!']micro-internship[/annotation] at a ... do essentially whatever I wanted, which is sometimes hard to find at ... sunshine and roses would be lying. I've never been very good at identifying

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  directly to experiences that I've had at MIT, or people that I've met here ... nisha sort of had the right idea here"]foaming at the mouth, “OMIGOD ... saying here i have never literally foamed at the mouth. that would be

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  that. Hell, I did last IAP with my two classes. At the same time, I ... during this IAP started on January 4th. When do my friends at other schools ... at a school that already has a perfectionist, workaholic culture, an

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Events

  MIT Mystery Hunt is happening! watch the kickoff at 12 PM EDT today, 1/15

  

  Hello! I'm writing this very, very smol post to tell you that the MIT Mystery Hunt is starting, today, January 15th, at 12 PM EDT. MIT Mystery ... ."]kickoff stream will go live at 11:40 AM,[/annotation] and, when the time comes, you

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2020 blogger wrapped, wrapped

  

  At this point, Blogger Wrapped posts are sort of becoming a tradition, so I'm honored to be able to take up the mantle for what will be my ... ...wrapped. Unfortunately I'm no Kathleen at data viz, but honestly, some of these turned out

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 12, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a walk down memory lane in the form of albums

  

  and soon afterwards Panic! at the Disco. This then started a three year Panic! at the Disco phase where I made an Instagram account for it (~7k ... : We have the emos and the very typical bandom beats Panic! at the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 1, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  meet the baby bloggers! (some of whom are older than me)

  

  ="this basically means it is my job to be enthusiastic and helpful at everyone and ... , will break out into a song from a musical at the slightest provocation

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 6, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  extracurricular activities also strive to have vibrant social lives, but...at what ... sophomore, since I only got to do that at MIT, but damn. She has to be bitten ... in order to get a chance at kissing him? What??? I'm mad, y'all. Also

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020