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• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  “There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby *** I have come to the profound realization recently that I…

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  IAP is one of my favorite times of the year, because it’s the best time to do stupid things at the canonical school of smart people with minimal consequences. And…

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  This semester, I’m taking a class called 21.01, “Love, Death, and Taxes”. It’s a [annotation note="Communication Intensive in the Humanities, Arts"]CI-H[/annotation] philosophy class, and it’s a grand old time! The

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  I’m sitting on the floor of my living room in Ithaca, New York. It’s snowing outside and the windows are cloudy with condensation. A couple of days ago I got…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  This IAP⁠03 Independent Activities Period, aka the month of January where students can take a long winter break, take unique, accelerated classes, just do research, or participate in a MISTI…

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  I’ve always been a little bit of a hypochondriac, and while that is probably connected to a lot of deeper things than this blog can go into, there is one…

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  Last year when deciding which colleges I wanted to apply to, I had one priority over all else: living on a coast. I’m sorry all states from Utah to Virginia,…

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  Featuring my sister’s drawings cuz she’s awesome.   I went to China for the first time in 6 years this summer. Although 9th grade of high school didn’t feel all…

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology (fatima's version)

  

  2023!"]8.223[/annotation] "milnor on h cobordism" The Long Line

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  Last Friday afternoon, I finished my last final. I’ve never been so relieved to finally be done with anything. It was both distressing and comforting that time would not slow…

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  my favorite part of ancient greek literature is its treatment of self-fulfilling prophecies. oedipus’s parents learn that he will kill his father and marry his mother, so they abandon him,…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  crazy party weekend from 2019 to now

  

  when i attended cpw as a senior in high school, my favorite events were cpwacc, firehose, next sing karaoke, and handwhistling. this past weekend was my last ever cpw, so…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every Piece of Media I Consumed in My First Week of Class that was relevant to my studies, i guess

  

  d4ZoZi?si=6cd714b4f1484cd3[/embed] 21H.S05 Encoding Culture For my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 13, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  two years ago i watched the midnight gospel, a tv show where the dialogue for each episode is taken from a series of real-life podcast interviews. in the third episode,…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  In middle school, I repeatedly listened to Lupe Fiasco's hit singles "The Show Goes On" and "Battle Scars", so when I heard he was teaching at MIT this spring, I had to take his class. My friend Wenjun H. '25 had

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i don’t know where you’re going but do you got room for one more troubled soul?

  

  [embed]https://open.spotify.com/track/5MsZIaCYY6Tsdph0LiB0hE?si=a10ec471462f4073[/embed] I've been contemplating the future as of late. With just a semester of my undergraduate career left, it's hard not to. Every

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21M.285: The Beatles the most enjoyable class i've taken at MIT

  

  ]https://open.spotify.com/track/0hKRSZhUGEhKU6aNSPBACZ?si=573069255af049b1[/embed] Inspired by

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  there are two popular approaches to moving a cart. the first one is to stand behind the cart and push it in the direction you want to go: the second…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  sunscreen physical health and stuff

  

  at the ripe age of twenty-one i am beginning to feel my body weaken and crumble in ways that were not previously noticeable. for instance: i notice myself feeling cold…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 4, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  !) https://open.spotify.com/playlist/16KJ1uEAFOXhQoUFSc4H8P?si=d1fba96503474

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022