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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  is 21M.601, Drawing for Designers, our first assignment was to do ... . But I was running out of ideas to draw. I’m not sure if I’ve ever mentioned this here before, but I’m a rather big Avatar the last Airbender fan

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid

  

  Covid, but because I'm still feeling weak, I'm gonna just write this post ... crummy because the semester's about to start, and it looks like I'm going

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  doing some things. I'm taking a class on prosody, which can be transcribed ... going insane. I'm going to minor in it anyways. I am also cooking loads ... graduate and I've only taken one. I'm taking Yoga and Meditation, which meets

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  this is all cope. Like, maybe I got a B in that one class because I’m just not that smart, not because I’m unique, but also, I don’t think the underlying reasons really matter—my point is that I’m starting to believe that

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  writing gary wang’s wikipedia page why did I fill out the wikipedia page for the ftx cto?

  

  it out. Then I got banned from Wikipedia for vandalism. I’m not ... the MIT alumni directory, although I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t count as ... progresses, I’m sure more information pertaining to Gary will surface publicly

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  ” — where I’m stuck in my current location and Dylan stares at me menacingly ... meditating nearby, so now I’m working to a soundtrack of sad instrumental music ... of “working with people,” but it is one I enjoy, and I'm okay with that.

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  . No way, I said. I'm not trying to do anything extraordinary, I just want to live a calm life and do a little science while I'm at it. We had ... fully separate myself from my science. I am happiest when I'm excited

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  welcome to new york went to nyc & all i got was this blog post

  

  . Perhaps what I'm truly afraid of is that I'm no longer full of the bright ... that electricity into something magnificent, and now I'm too tired to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 12, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  ends with me and i’m not going to try to continue it”? maybe people not ... i’m letting down the avatar and i should be able to do difficult things for other people without feeling like i’m ignoring my own needs. i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

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

  

  during the spring term of their freshman year. I'm a fairly decisive person ... note="I'm not considering being a double major at the moment, but that ... that forever?" And if that happens, then that's okay, too. But I'm glad

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 21, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  myself from saying that because i'm normal, haha A: in a sense aren't we ... A: i'm like, learning things A: and i'm doing exciting stuff sometimes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  forbidden gatorade cell media looks tasty...

  

  thing to drink if you’re going to drink lab liquids, but I’m ... I’m not 21, and the people I polled varied in how much they like the ... they’re liquids that nobody has admitted to drinking yet, so I’m going to

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  ? Now that I'm here, and I have an entire set of shelves dedicated to ... much time crocheting? I'm surely not crocheting out of boredom. I'm also

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  It’s cool to care but maybe care a little less

  

  reminder I tell people I'm concerned about, because I care about them. Care ... to care about communities. Right now, I'm the Grandmaster of the ... what happens when I'm gone, the community I'm most worried about is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

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

  

  I'm turning nineteen today, without much fanfare; after all, nineteen ... —how have I changed in the last year? I suppose that I'm more confident in my ... to do on top of the internship I'm doing, although I don't plan on

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

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  , sexual harassment. Like many, I’m heartbroken over the shootings that happened in Atlanta recently. I’m heartbroken as an American citizen, but ... attitude may hurt me or someone who looks like me. I’ve been told that I’m

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  intentional change, those of which I’m currently facing in my own life.  I ... project of my existence. Kinda like Zuko, I’m “fighting an infection”, the ... one of those fundamental truths about being human that I’m only just

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  i [don’t] have covid?? in conclusion, i am the absolute worst at managing stress

  

  So. I had a COVID false alarm this week, which is why I'm currently ... rest, I was completely back to normal. The issue is that I'm behind in ... utter hell. I'm going to have to work the entire weekend so I don't go

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  living, and from communal living during a pandemic. (i'm very happy to be ... the fall: a cambridge housemate bubble and a stack of online classes. i'm ... in my feelings all the time (like i'm sure lots of us have been for the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  senior appreciation post in which i rant about my idol

  

  reality halfway around the world, but I’m sure a lot of you have heard all ... -time, even when I’m too proud to ask. And it was in these moments that she

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 15, 2020