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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  this is fine some thoughts at the end of the semester

  

  it. All I want to do is lie in the sun and read a book, but... finals ... being on campus, and my freshman year in general. I don't really have any coherent thoughts, yet. But in this moment, I feel a lot of resentment for

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  —how have I changed in the last year? I suppose that I'm more confident in my ... calling myself a writer, and that I've become much more interested in ... , though, I find glimpses of my past, and it brings me some clarity. In 2018

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  happened in Atlanta recently. I’m heartbroken as an American citizen, but also as an Asian woman. It feels like a brutal knife to the heart in a year full of blades. If you are interested in supporting the victims

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  pathways where do i go from here?

  

  since I was last in that room."  "it's been a year since..." in the past ... restored even when we're back in-person. i'm at peace with it—i've had a year ... the rest of my years at MIT. right now, i'm living in a house with six

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 23, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Talent Show ua innovation gets lit

  

  In mid-November, a [annotation note=undergraduate association ... possibilities digital events offer compared to in-person ones. First years Favour ... . It was originally intended to be an in-person event, but the committee

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  even in normal times, from anecdotal accounts. In these 'unprecedented ... artiste in the first week of class (Jorja Smith😍), where we watch Shakira ... in line. I honestly didn’t think I would get through those two days. I

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

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

  

  without planning it in advance"]happened to be on the same flight as a friend who had also fled campus for SD in March,[/annotation]so we shared ... -campus living in the fall that there would be a lot of restrictions. Things will

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds like home Quarantine songs, from my home to yours

  

  hoped to meet you in, but since I’m already stuck in a staring contest ... blotted by some cruel impressionist painter, my days in quarantine seem to blur together in a clumsy mess. Lately, I've been feeling a sort of

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  ’ve written about, there’s one feeling that I can’t quite capture in words. I grew up in Valenzuela City. Its longest and busiest road is Mac ... the most part, two lanes wide in both directions, devoid of trees, lined

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving Self-Quarantine 101 tldr; memes (haha jk...unless)

  

  so...for the sake of social distancing, everyone's trapped in their ... have a lot of time that we don't know what to do with. in fact, in the ... surviving this lull in academics, but i've developed a few coping mechanisms

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  , I've been able to fall back into the routine of life at home. In ... through. So here's what this past year has looked like in a snapshot: 1) Started the year off in India, surrounded by family. 2) Did my very first

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  So, hey. I'm Jude - I was hired as a blogger in fall 2017, fell off ... a year, and I've been living in comfortable silence for almost all of ... majoring in anthropology and computer science (spicy combination, I know! ask

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  Andrea Orji, '21 There is a common phrase in Hindi: ठीके (“teek-hey”) meaning “all is well”. Many times in my discussions with people at work, at the market or anywhere else I found myself at some point in the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  i've been drafting and drafting this blog post over and over again in ... old, i live in random hall, and i. am. exhausted. these past two weeks ... 'd probably be under "it's complicated." i first visited mit back in my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  A fire alarm went off in the middle of the first 20.110 exam. It was ... , except in a good way. Half of the class was taking it in one room and the other half was taking it in another room and thirty minutes into the hour

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  Hey International Kids! Press 'Submit' already!

  

  special kind of courage. I know some of y'all may be in my shoes in this ... certifiably socially awkward at home, it’s going to be unbearably bad in a new ... important as well. After rush, I settled in my dorm pretty quickly and got to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  college is how many opportunities you get to live in a new place for a month or a few at a time. I specifically sought out a summer internship in ... . Drive any direction out of downtown Seattle, and in 3 hours or less you

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  really big blog post but it'll take some more time, and in the interim I ... year? Hm. Academically, it was rough, for sure. I'll get more into it in ... that year in Next House, and in Sigma Phi Epsilon, and with Toons, and a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  returned to Next House last week in time for UPOP's week-long training ... it in another post, but for now, I wanted to give a small room tour! I live in room 251, which means I live on the second floor. More

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  Roast, somewhere down in Somerville, because even when it’s not in our ... home, whether it lives on one day in sub-communities in other dorms, or large houses full of displaced friends, or in the hearts of everyone who

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017