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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  overwhelming sense that I need to talk about all the difficulties of spring semester in order to present you an honest picture of life at MIT. There is ... personal life, and I can't really do that for a whole host of reasons. So, I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  being bad at ice skating and learning to try anyway

  

  blinked, and suddenly the trees have shed their leaves, flecks of snow have ... and sororities. famlines are generally small groups of mentorship structures, where older people 'match' with younger / fresher members of the

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 15, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking this spring study abroad edition

  

  examiners, i registered for what i hope will be the equivalent of 48 units at ... for each class in the entire term. this is because a lot of your grade is the final exam at the end of the term (in the summer term

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 22, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  ate a breakfast of cheese & crackers. I walked to my first class of ... out to my third class of the day. After classes, I took the elevator up ... a sweater. I walked out of BC towards Baker’s dining hall. And I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  a week of high school, I felt strange pangs of loneliness more often than ever. I wrestled with this sense of isolation and alienation a lot, particularly during first semester; part of it stemmed from trying to find the

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  curiosity got the best of us. On one sweltering day, my oldest brother and I ... puzzles / a morning tendency Solving puzzles like these is one of the few ... different. There’s so many types of puzzles, ranging in shape, color, and

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art in burton conner making do in a non-mural building

  

  at the Institute. art completely covers the walls of East Campus, for ... murals. of the existing dorms, there used to be four buildings where murals ... of self expression. East Campus and Random Hall are the only mural

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  usually amount to advertisements of events and programs and people trying to ... group of students to bike across the country, from DC to San Francisco ... idea of a long-distance bike trip caught my attention. I had never

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  it out aloud during class for a round of feedback. And that was it! I ... ,”  my coworker coos, recounting his afterwork escapades between sips of ... the whirr of the office microwave drown out the thought that he

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  hit me that I’m now a college student. Not only do I have a bunch of ... drink water. (Speaking of which, here’s a friendly reminder to go get water.) I’m stuck in a bit of a situation where I’m weirdly better at the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  defense the other bloggers didn’t believe i could write a post about basketball

  

  and my favorite part of the game is seeing very effective defense. there are way too many kinds of defense for me to be able to cover them all in ... kind of defense is man-to-man defense, where each player on the defending

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  The MIT Monologues performed last weekend. MITMo is an offshoot of the Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, but all of our monologues are ... ’d just hung. Most of us were in the black-and-red we’d wear onstage, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  , here, and here, as proof of what I usually say on Pi Day: If you are ... latest in this series, from Nishanth, who wrote me last night with one of the most successful instances of blog-based manifesting I've ever seen

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  I flew back home on the eighteenth with hopes of having a productive ... slew of things. Unfortunately, my break didn't exactly go according to ... . Five of the eight people in crabmeats are from southern California so we

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  Some of you may wonder: how do people eat food without a meal plan? Well, dear mortals, I have perfected the art of photosynthesis and ... winter, rapidly decaying window of daylight, and my delayed sleep schedule

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video

  

  , and a bunch of other people (mentioned below) put too much work into it ... ’m excited to give you the full story of the complete mess that we made. Here ... through a bunch of ideas, like a Buzzfeed/Tasty-style video of a pie recipe

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  Some of my blogger friends and non-blogger friends have asked me to ... instead of trying to find time to meet irl. Illustrator is basically MS Paint but better- I mainly use it to make diagrams of my projects, label

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  become a mosaic of all that life gives you. Your high points lay the ... every step forward with humility. And while all of those moments and ... full of finals studying to do. I’ve been one of those 1800 kids for the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  Canada! My friend Yida, showing off the giant ramp of the snowboarding ... I wanted to see more of the francophone part of Canada. :D We flew ... center of Quebec’s old town, but really it was more like a small apartment

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  data justice for senior house

  

  surrounding the conversion of senior house to graduate housing. joon included full transcripts of emails sent from the chancellor's office to ... first semester at MIT had the lowest graduation rate out of all the other

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 17, 2017