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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  long time, with my writing, with my fiction, with this blog. Life is less ... —eternal gratitude to those who have believed in me and supported me even when life was

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  A credit card is something I, in theory, knew I needed eventually. Apparently a credit score is a thing that people care about here. The thing is, for the longest…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  what your favorite study spot says about you badly stereotyping places to work on campus

  

  figure your life out.         Rotch Library ... "]UA.[/annotation] you're great at separating your academics from your personal life, but

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  : 18.966: Geometry of Manifolds II. Why does every life changing moment ... used to how quickly life can change, even if the anticipation for the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  On the morning of the second day of classes, I got a newsletter email from CAST with a video that featured past cross-disciplinary classes. It tanked my mood for the…

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  twice a week for an hour in Dupont. If you know me in real life, you know

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  i haven't written about what's been happening in my life at all in the past month, not here nor in my personal notes. i want to say that i ... once my life is on pause again, all these postponed feelings will catch

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  that's dedicated to student life. in the end, mit has no obligation to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The seniors are tired but the frosh are fine

  

  International student orientation started last week, and the first-years, or technically prefrosh as they aren’t first-years yet, because they aren’t officially frosh until convocation, the international prefrosh are here, so…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  people in my life who have offered me referrals and to edit my stuff and to ... content with the way my life is right now. i’m less lost than i was, which

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  want to live a calm life and do a little science while I'm at it. We had ... emotionally easy life path. He laughed at that, and we made a bet: [annotation ... variety of things I could do with my life, without tying myself to the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  last me the rest of my life; where I became an adult. These things will

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  over spring break i met a grad student. we were talking about why they feel the need to work on impactful research, and after a while they said something along…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  who started the fire? (not clickbait) playing detective

  

  , readers would hate it. But most of real life happens by chance, just like a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  By Fatima ’25, one of my roommates!   i have been away from home for weeks before and never felt homesick. looking back, that was probably because the excitement of…

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  my room an evolution

  

  I had a vision. Every year, my room would have a different aesthetic. Was this followed to a T? No,⁠10 thank you covid  but I present to you the brief…

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  It’s Sunday. I’ve had a particularly draining week. For the sake of journaling, here are some of the lowlights. I dropped 6.0002. Actually, dropped isn’t the correct word. I neglected…

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  A few years back, I began keeping a tab of life's certainties. Admittedly, it feels as though there are few. Worse, certainties become ... my experiences, however feeble they may be. When life feels uncertain

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  back in east campus, the sequel jiggity jig (again)

  

  these past two years have been wild. here’s all the times i’ve moved: august 2019: → ec march 2020: ec → baker august 2020: baker → ec november 2020: ec…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 18, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  how can i keep from singing? a midpoint check-in

  

  buildings. Life is looking up. The best part about summer is, of course, that ... the problem which is the source of the pain, and then move on with life ... starts: “my life goes on in endless song, above Earth’s lamentation

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 22, 2021