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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  glassblowing classes at MIT are about ten times cheaper than similar classes ... [/annotation] pumpkins at a time. And we usually only need to start making pumpkins a few ... the second! And I guess white and purple glass expand at different rates

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Events

  life, with the brass rat we're halfway there????????????

  

  glance down at the ring and am reminded of some wonderful memories I’ve had at these places.   two Right after school ended this past ... and professors at airports, restaurants, and other public spaces. The

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 26, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  So, What Exactly Happens? y'know, over IAP?

  

  to at the beginning of IAP, but there were far smaller mini activities that went on at the same time. Here's a compilation of the ones I can ... grab food around campus, and I spent way too much of that funding at

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  This past month has been my first IAP spent entirely at MIT. IAP is ... amalgamation of everything and nothing all at once. It is also worth nothing ... called Praat. I look at things that look like this: Once the class is

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  hiring at the time. After throwing my resume at company after company, I ... until, at the end, one of the founders asked me how much compensation I ... qualifications, but I was scared I wouldn't be able to get a job at all. So despite

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  existed on a scale of ‘competence at bodypainting’ it seemed like the skills ... outcomes of the model at all. If you asked me to imitate the work of any of ... came up with an answer: some people are very good at reassuring others

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  TV while at MIT was unheard of... when i went home, everything changed ... up at 9 to sleeping at 4 am and waking up after 12 pm. and i'm not ... feel the need to...i'm basically a weeb hermit at this point. the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  -related insights and expectations I had collected during my first few days at MIT. I did not know much at the time. I was absolutely terrified of what the ... ’t know if I was going to make it. Today, I’m at the other end of the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  Steven T. ‘20, whose mother works at a salon. In the past, we’ve spoken at ... our own safety when someone could storm into our lives and open fire at ... workers at spas he frequented--leans into the hypersexualization of Asian

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Tier Listing My Classes i may have got this idea from tiktok

  

  I mentioned this in my last post, but I'm graduating soon! At the end ... memeing. On the brink of graduation, I'm able to look back at all the ... 's approximately what the tiers mean in my mind: S: My absolute favorite classes at

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 23, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  year, and all my competitions got cancelled, and I’m quarantining at home ... to August, and I’m about to start at the Zoom Institute of Technology ... an effort. At a particularly low moment, I caught myself on the thought

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  highlights of a hellish semester it's OVER. IT'S FINALLY OVER GOSDAIUOSDSOIJD

  

  interactions at any hour, and my house this year, which we dubbed "soft house ... playing games at pretty much every waking hour of the day. shoutout to Wii ... only went on one. it was incredible; we walked along the beach at night

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 28, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  At some point during the semester, when walking to quarantine lunch ... Infinite technically has 5 levels. Here at MIT, we index from 0, so the ... there's normally nobody there at night and you can go as fast as you want

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  . Of course, I usually open youtube at times of great procrastination ... laundry at 1 am the other day (as one does, living between [annotation note ... at a reasonable time and not stay up until 4 am every day

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  . [annotation note="in sOuTh dAkOtA"]At home,[/annotation]the snow starts in ... which is normal for the season. Each storm brings at least[annotation note ... "]cold, wet rain,[/annotation]but no snow. At the same time, I was feeling a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  interesting to look at. I tried to pick things that are all relatively short ... mathematicians often embrace ideas that at first glance (and later glances!) seem nonsensical, or the way mathematicians often hold obvious truths at arm’s length

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  food diaries pt. 3 amazing restaurants around MIT

  

  Central for two months during the pandemic than I did during my ~6 months at ... of my time at MIT nearly enough. During the school year, the only ... corner of the Porter Exchange building. It's very unassuming at first

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Reflecting on the great memories of my freshman year ☀️ When life gives you lemons, share them with others >:) ☀️

  

  at your application and make a decision regardless of your household ... amazing and smart people. However, my experience at MIT has been more ... international student at MIT and tell you about some of the most cherished

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  .A.V.O.R.I.T.E. In a busy week, I’m there at least once a day: The prices are ... at a restaurant here in Cambridge! This might not be a big deal for some people, but it means a lot to me. Back home, I was a "regular" at a

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  ="aligncenter" width="300"] a screenshot of HEAVEN[/caption] look at all that white space! look at all that unstructured time! granted, [annotation note="when i'm feeling motivated, i go in to lab at around noon, leave at 4

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020