Search

Search Results

• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  over a crowded audience. Then, moments later, for the first time in three ... September, I had auditioned for seven or eight [annotation note="this seems to ... first concert. I auditioned for a solo in [annotation note='"Sucker", by

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  or sipb? i used to care about them more. i wanted to fight for their existence, to make sure they kept going another year, and for more years after ... up for games. i've been getting burnt out by many things, these days

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  rush wilg bunnies inside this blog post

  

  ="attachment_79209" align="alignnone" width="239"] the theme for this dinner was ... in the house. (For any potential employers reading this, I personally ... for a year and a half spent elsewhere due to the pandemic. For a long

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  . [annotation note="short for Public Universal Feline"]PUF[/annotation] usually ... quite a bit of time in Ilani’s room. For the summer, though, PUF was ... cat. PUF also has impressively large lungs for a relatively small cat

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  after I'd started dating my ex, Chris, who I was also together with for ... status for a truth is” and videos of ourselves upending a bucket of ice ... for me to do than befriending older people), but then taking time away

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

  sharp and soft featuring: my favorite naruto moment

  

  as a surprise that all my favorite battles are mental ones. for ... problems with inventing new meanings for words: you end up with associations ... . be careful about the language you create for yourself). i assumed that

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 21, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  not crocheting for practicality, because a lot of what I crochet is [annotation note="At home, I crocheted bonnets for my cat"]functionally useless ... the functionality of the piece itself. For example, appealing

  • by Ella T. '25
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  When I tried practicing for the swim test, I realized how long it had ... being suspended in this void for a few seconds, my legs swaying back and ... onto a lane divider, gasping for breath as chlorine stung the back of my

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  tiny living when life gives you lemons...

  

  in for the month of August, but wasn't sure if it was worth the move ... . Raymond, being the optimist that he is, came up with some solutions for our ... for the day, we took a quick run to Target and bought all our kitchen

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 1, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  for my dorm room walls well before I actually got accepted to college ... the set as some sort of bucket list for places to visit. I bought the ... NYC bookstores, a couple of days before leaving to Russia for the fall

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taylor swift songs as applicants emergency evermore post

  

  , "Well, it's made for me" The kid who’s ready to figure out who they are ... -guessing their decision to go far away from home for college.   tolerate it I wait by the door like I'm just a kid Use my best colors for your

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  It snowed for the first time this school year yesterday! Originally ... ) has Boston had more than 1.1” of snow in an October storm or for that ... are almost always tied to the[annotation note="MIT has a reputation for

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

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  my classes are on Zoom (or Whoosh for 6.031). Content-wise, all my ... to make life for international students even more difficult. Great. My ... for a black woman- me- to say that she mattered- that I mattered

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  watching Harry Potter for the nth time. On a normal day, there are at least ... workouts for us. The first night I tried, we did it outside at 11 pm, and it ... house. Since I knew my dorm, Burton Conner, would be closed for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  Dakota was, for the most part, uneventful. I[annotation note ... friend who had also fled campus for SD in March,[/annotation]so we shared ... on campus, so we headed straight for our dorm, Next House. I'd been

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  so i guess fall is happening kinda hard to believe, huh?

  

  decided that was fine; i liked cooking for myself too much to risk being ... 't worth taking an LOA; i had too many plans for the year that couldn't be ... living with people as cautious and careful as i am.) so that's my plan for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  . losing the files on my laptop and having to pay a good amount of money for ... stickers. i'd been saving space for stickers from all four years at MIT, so ... behind for other residents. this was the first sticker i put on my laptop

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  when I slept for 14 hours a day and came out a mostly different person ... for this, and an MIT committee for that. I have a work standup, a sync ... to hop on a call? Most of my meetings are for a purpose and manage to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  bad for making my parents worry. I would start going to therapy about a ... little moments where I would crack. Where I would think about it for too ... vacation in Vancouver for Veteran's Day Weekend with my mom. Simply put

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  i love this f*cking place "say this to my face when you're a junior." ~an upperclassman

  

  okay, it’s a bit early to proclaim my love for this place, especially ... ) and chilled for four months taking various online courses, studying ... latte with almond milk, being vaguely productive for a couple of hours

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2019