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• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  , full of promise and mystery and challenges that I'm not prepared for but ... deceptively bland name for what is in my opinion MIT's greatest invention. It is ... guilty for not constantly tooling. To my amazement, the wallowing never

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  “The muscles of my soul, longing for the opportunity to feel and fear ... report that I got exactly what I was looking for. Amongst adjacent ... . For every bridge burned, there were some incredible, genuine connections

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  this post is a little delayed, for which I plead CPW Like millions ... digression: through a stroke of luck, my car rental reservation for a sedan was ... collect temperature and cloud data for NASA with the Globe Observer citizen

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  semester), but now I have a brand new batch of internship origami for your ... . Luckily, MIT was the perfect place for that. Not only is there a class about ... for getting to the final product. Learning to interpret and work from

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  exciting and terrifying since I'll be so far from everyone I know. for most ... final projects, or cram for finals in classes I haven't attended in weeks ... my best friends, one of whom will be in Italy/Denmark/Taiwan for the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Beantown. sketchbook showcase!

  

  "Make Way for Ducklings" statue[/caption] The "MIT Bubble" is definitely ... a tourist visiting Boston for the first time. BTW that's supposed to ... if I had pictures of skulls engraved onto tombstones. This was for her

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  what your favorite study spot says about you badly stereotyping places to work on campus

  

  hearing about it. regardless, everyone admires you for being super ... the worst sleep schedule known to man...it's definitely time for you to ... time for you to drop some commitments and take some time to chill and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  you’re on your own, kid

  

  relationship; in fact, I think it was incredibly good for me to be in it. I ... , about who I can be. But I'm grateful that for the indefinite future I ... on for the past four years? How does one even go about [annotation note

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  labs where you make spectrometers, quantum dots, leds, and sensors. for ... most mind-blowing moment from the course was, for me it was when we drew the energy diagrams for the components of solar cells and LEDs and saw

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  value our relationship so much for that, but to paint it all as simply ... good or what one should automatically strive for, but that’s for a post ... all of its miracles, but that was backpropagation: searching for the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  22 to 28 will pass in the blink of an eye, and so on. thank you for presuming how my life will go and for giving me unactionable advice, i think ... came across the following paragraph: Lately, though, I’ve searched for

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  [Guest Post] The Alleyway by Isabella Y. '24

  

  lightning snaps Boston in two. Most people had already run for their Back Bay ... like nightingales. Content with staying dry but wistful for adventure, I ... problems fill me with doubt; I think, I’m not built for this. I’m not built

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 11, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  was a little room for sadness to creep in around the edges: as my room ... for 45 minutes and then go back to packing, before we knew it we'd been dancing for two hours. At midnight, the band said goodnight, but the crowd

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Declared My Major :D aw yeah i'm a College Student™ now

  

  need for students to understand both the science and engineering of ... -9 would be ✨perfect✨ for what I wanted. When my student advisor suggested ... science, so I registered for it as my [annotation note="Humanities, Arts

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  ’s family home in New Jersey. It was just the two of us. We’d been dating for ... was going to last for, and the economy was steadily nosediving, and I ... good, because back in high school, I had tutored kids for $15/hour and I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  actual conversations i definitely had last night happy new year i guess

  

  like it's right there B: well for me it's more like B: a maze of switches ... A: i think i just have so much hate and resentment for myself A: that i've like, built up over the years A: for no good reason B: same B

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  gratification isn't the single thing to strive for, but it sure is exciting. I ... [/annotation], where I have to debug every program and circuit I make for two ... aren't mandatory, but for a lot of struggling students, they were

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  struggled with writing blogposts in the past few months. It’s not for a lack ... … And I will, eventually. Hopefully. But for now, I’m going to tell you ... things for god knows how long—someone more well-versed in EC history could

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  Content warning for hate crimes, anti-Asian racism, gun violence ... communities, but this time, I didn’t know what words to reach for. I asked him ... friends with, said that he “had a thing for Asians.” When I ignored him, he

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now

  

  resolutions for this semester is to blog more so I figure it’s as good an ... this post, I was sitting in my room in New Vassar, waiting for the sushi ... "]serotonin[/annotation] is absolutely unmatched. I went outside for a walk today, which was

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021