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• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  started using a stopwatch to time some of the walks I’ve made. Simmons to ... Club Lounge: 6 minutes I’ve only had to swallow my pride and actually run down most of Vassar St once. That was probably the most pure exercise I’ve

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  unfair mindset and not entirely true. I’ve done meaningful work throughout ... that I've been given an opportunity my parents were never afforded ... me academically—I’ve never coded more than ten lines in Python

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  . I don’t think I’ve driven more than 2 hours in my entire life without ... hated running, but I enjoy it now. I’ve created a [annotation note ... looked like that at MIT, or if I’ve just never cared enough to look.  I was

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Pirates and Pi and Rats and Pie and Rats (except there are no rats) 3.1415926535897932384626433832795… idk the rest.

  

  pirates and– It’s all fake. Pirates Shanties aren’t real. You’ve been lied ... this semester. Most Boston Pizza is floppy, and I’ve yet to find a place ... until recently that the phrase “Aw, Rats!” wasn’t a common one. I’ve been

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  cookie a ~Southern Illinois~ one, but upon asking my friend, I've learned ... -chasing-the-origins-of-the-original-pink-cookie/article_01ee1e10-d03b-5736-8f0d-83af8c435aba.html"]Who would've thought ... of my favorite places I've ever eaten. [caption id="attachment_97691

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  weeks ago, and we’ve arrived in Manaus – a Brazilian city in the middle of ... for live Boi-Bumbá music. Unfortunately, some wires must’ve crossed ... was when Fred tried to sneak off into the city alone. And he would’ve

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21M.712: Choreography — Making Dances theater arts classes >>>

  

  immediately thought of a song that could work—Hazey by Glass Animals—which I've ... feels unreal. I've heard similar things from my friends who take acting ... 'm finally exploring the parts of the course catalog I've always wanted to try

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  , but after finishing our plates, we’ve spent a lot of our time messing ... people realized I could draw, but I’ve started doing a lot of art since ... Radio Society. I’ve specifically been requested to include the beret, the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 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 ... History is, of course, a famous book, particularly in certain circles. I’ve ... origins of one of my favorite authors. I’ll also mention some books I’ve

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

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  lately i’ve been thinking about my relationship with art ... shows i never would’ve started otherwise - for instance, i do not have the ... still would’ve learned a lot and enjoyed his work. i am bothered by the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  than a string of personal failures. Most adults I've asked have told me ... take until I collapse? How do I know that I could've been better off ... vulnerable moments I've experienced on the team. I didn't have anything to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  ’s molten hot, but you’ve still got to strike true. The second day of classes ... take a while, so thus far I’ve forged, like, six, but the sixth is ... . Eventually, I’ll hear “Aha!” and the person I’ve saddled with this puzzle will

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  travel. i've had saturdays when i've spent four hours travelling, and only ... so i could read documents while commuting. i've given in and shared my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  one from meditations, which i’ve written about before:  “Start praying ... necessarily a bad thing; it just means you’ve agreed to increasing the variance ... you’ve decided the camaraderie or sense of community or whatever else

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  shower. Don't get me wrong. I stand by everything I've written publicly. I ... context of an educational institution, and I loved it.  I’ve also come to ... .S. National Institute on Aging. I’ve published a story in Discover Magazine

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  Quintanilla, Jen Yáñez-Alaniz, and Joyous Windrider. They've also released an ... Literary Landscape I’ve been thinking recently about the practice of ... shelved under ‘fiction’), though I dabble all over. I’ve been trying on

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  told you how much stardew valley i've been playing recently? a lot. i've been playing a lot of stardew valley. it's been two weeks and i've

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech version: slightly jaded

  

  ’s. [I’ve been planning for a while to have a midlife crisis and switch to ... ’ll be happy in the moments where I feel like I’ve learned something. If I ... had enough time. Professional writers do not feel that way. VE Schwab

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  this blogger does not exist join me in the uncanny valley

  

  . I should’ve filtered out the ‘out of style’ avatars from the dataset ... hours of the morning and only realized later that I could've done certain things better, and redoing things would take a good amount of time"] should've

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 28, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  later], I've already seen them like four times." Ha ha ha how I was wrong! It turns out that even a museum you've seen "like four times" can blow ... answers to, so a docent would've been nice; and in contrast to the glass

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022