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• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  spend a lot of time reading articles and opinion editorials about a lot of our frightening modern day issues, and I spent a lot of time thinking ... beautiful posts about the current feelings of black people throughout the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  This is a guest post by one of my friends, Heidi Z. '27, one of the ... massachusettsian". (shoutout DEAPS '23!) As stated in this post, IAP is one of the most unique, liminal pockets of time at MIT, showing that a month can

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The After

  

  In a couple months, I’ll be back in Cambridge after 10 years of ... amount of time spent in CAD. I’m still hacking it out here in the world of ... world, and the feeling of making something that gets used around the world

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  feeling useful. Productive. Only after six years of losing and almost ... ’t let go of. Things I cannot live without. Only now, have I started to live as a human being and not a human doing. Here are some of the

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  in 2024 and wrote most of it then; but then i had to work on a bunch of ... day"] the end of every year. [/annotation] I write one to my future self ... photo of us being shopping-carted to our 5.111 final. [caption id

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  LOL"]FIRST(ish)[/annotation] SNOW OF THE YEAR!! (several days late) We ... :D Even more ironically, the snow chose to arrive during the middle of ... displayed on the TV, a large quantity of fake lei, and half the attendees

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the notes i took in a week riveting stuff, i know

  

  Not too long ago, my desk was covered in every variety of stationary ... …  Today, my collection of school supplies consists of my ipad, my apple pencil, and a few loose pens and pencils that only see the light of day

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  's status as one of the oldest colonies, definitely more than could fit in a single blog post. I won't dive into the history and implications of U ... respectful"]San Juan, Puerto Rico[/annotation] with 11 out of 13 of my living

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  things that make noises for those lost

  

  march is a rough month. you are lost, not only in a pile of things to see and things to do, but probably also in a pile of emotions you can ... AAAAAAAAAAAAA. it's the constant screeching noise in the back of your head you can

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 15, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Questions from Beyond one last blog

  

  Wait. Why am I here?  For those of you who don’t know, I actually don ... new job, and I’m kind of nervous. Well, kind of is KIND OF an ... moment of my life since I was probably 12-years-old being [annotation note

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  i'm in the class of 2023. this means that i spent only six full ... comfortable with the big/little dynamics in some of my social groups, enjoying ... semblance of authority? why do people think i have my shit together more than

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  A few months ago, I posted about how to clean old whiteboards. Of ... ="attachment_65379" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] from the ancient days of hs ... chalkboards on one of his walls. (I talk about this more in the whiteboard post

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  . On Floor Pi, one of our traditions is this event called tea time. It ... communities do you most value being a part of?" But often, discussion strays ... into math, but we have a hard rule of "no math during tea time".) I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  I Finally Finished Intro Programming ...it took 2.5 years

  

  ahead of my peers, so this came as a disappointment. I resolved to take 6 ... of which were 6.0002. One of the four was 6.009, the second class in ... also switched majors to aerospace engineering. I had a long list of

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT launches AI Education website I worked on this cool thing for my UROP!

  

  some frequent readers of the blogs might know, I have a UROP at the Media Lab that I adore and pour a lot of my time and energy into. Recently, a ... recommend checking out this website. There's all sorts of resources, curricula

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 6, 2020
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Boston’s Climate Strike youthful activism

  

  's Fall Career Fair, but also the day of the Global Climate Strike. All ... speakers at the event (which could get hard to hear with all of the noise of the crowd), including Gina McCarthy, former Secretary of the EPA under

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 20, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  , often compared to a baby duck. Here I am on my first day of school some day in middle school. Most of the time, my mom would take me to ... (especially because I never bothered to comb it). But it felt sort of goofy and

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  8,726,400 SOS: The Conscious Subconscious guest post by a fellow '21

  

  *written by a '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest ... path of UROPing on campus this summer. I lived at home (about 35 minutes ... survivor I am today. My UROP was in one of the biotech labs and this

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  MIT was our dream school. The blogs were one of the main reasons for ... the tails of the bloggers, laughed at their jokes (or in the case of ... up to only a small sample of MIT experiences, painted a beautifully

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT IS … reflections of a bright sunday afternoon

  

  As I look outside the long windows of McCormick Hall’s penthouse, soaking in the last few glimpses of blue sky (oh no, winter is coming), it hits me: I’ve almost made it through two months of MIT! 60 long days

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 22, 2017