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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint liveblog] finding the BALANCE with 2.009 watching the 2.009 annual showcase (with Kayode D. '27)

  

  Z. '27, and I wish I could include a very very very cute picture of

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  practice competitive speedwalking down the street and into the Z Center. On

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  additional context: hello! the writing below was my first ever attempt at blogging—funnily enough, i only started this writing to apply to be a blogger. while i read it now…

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  Today was my first full day back on campus! This summer was a whirlwind of finishing finals, flying to DC, driving home to Pennsylvania, visiting family in Delaware and New…

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28 by Andre H. ‘24

  

  [annotation note="MIT Recreation - Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center"]Z

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 21, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  Last weekend, I took a short solo trip up to New York to see the Whitney Biennial! I’ve wanted to go to the Whitney Museum of American Art for years,…

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Pirates and Pi and Rats and Pie and Rats (except there are no rats) 3.1415926535897932384626433832795… idk the rest.

  

  getting a piece. Even Alan Z., who got pied in the face at Next House

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  I live in Burton-Conner, which is a cook-for-yourself dorms, but I purchased a meal plan last semester for convenience. I didn’t cook often and pretty much lived off of avocado…

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  In the rush of finals and the end of the semester, I’ve been losing track of time. I flew back home to Pennsylvania for the first time on December 22…

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  This post started as a voice memo, taken during a walk home. Its unpolished, initial form, complete with pauses and rephrasings, is here: https://mitadmissions.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/thanksgiving-first-draft.mp3 I had a very difficult time…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  On time and noise I've been meaning to write a post recently about time and what I want this semester to be like. And then Gloria Z. '26 wrote this post that I really enjoyed, and related to a lot. Notably: I

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  I first stepped onto MIT’s campus in the summer of my junior year, and it was my first impression of what college life could truly look like. I didn’t visit…

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  This past Sunday, at 4 AM on the side of U.S. Highway 1 on Badger’s Island in Maine, along with Nathan S. ’25 and Jonathan H. ’25, I took my…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  Heathers, doing [annotation note="Alan Z. '23 is running a winter poetry

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  When I started senior fall, I was taking a course load of 6 classes.⁠59 I am writing this down in class-equivalents; MIT has a horrifically cursed system of units, where…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  summer poetry workshop Alan Z. ’23 organized so it has been very fun seeing

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  down on a whiteboard trying to remember any cities I could and Alan Z

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  特别的爱给特别的你 我的寂寞逃不过你的眼睛 This summer, during my three-month internship in Seattle,⁠63 which I will describe to you in painful detail in a later post. a group of intern friends and I…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  Last fall, I went from my summer internship directly into running REX events for first-year students, followed by acapella auditions and the first week of classes. It was a fun…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Caring for the body health, am i right?

  

  live longer. Part of it is in that morbid, gen Z way of treating

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2022