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  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  I failed an 18.600⁠01 probability and random variables exam last week. At risk of sounding dramatic, I don’t even need to wait for scores to come back to know I…

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  Among my defining personality traits are playing 2048 in the year of our lord 2022 — many people have made fun of me for this, but it’s like a fidget…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  Amicus briefs and the ABCs of a diverse MIT A SCOTUS filing with Stanford et al, and a strategic action plan for an inclusive…

  

  A few weeks ago, MIT —  in conjunction with Stanford, IBM, and Aeris Communications —  filed an amicus brief⁠08 For those less familiar with American litigation practices, an amicus brief…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 27, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  Don’t tell, but I’ve never written much poetry before. I read poem books, from a tiny copy of The Rubaiyat bound in leather, to a weathered e e cummings collection,…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good

  

  I’m not a particularly good cook. I once managed to set spaghetti on fire while trying to boil it.⁠16 it was in the pot with water and everything... don't ask…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  bay area parties well, two of them

  

  in the last two weeks, i’ve been invited to two parties in the bay area. the first one was an invitation from a co-intern, who sent it in a group…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 15, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  feel different from how I felt when I left, as if I'd seen something life

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  mechanisms and work/life balance"]unless you physically leave campus

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  gleefully puts upon themselves. IHTFP: An acronym for MIT life. Either "I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Visiting the Museum of Science science is cool

  

  My roommates and I haven’t had an outing for a while, so we went to the Museum of Science in Boston this past Sunday. I love museums, and since the…

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  tired and busy and tired and busy and tired and busy and

  

  friends and hear all their life updates. I'd take trips to Salem or

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  my life to keep the sadness at bay. I started keeping track of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  a salmonella saga weekend outing tingz

  

  I didn’t leave the MIT bubble much my freshman year. hell, I barely left my dorm. there was so much going on all the time that I didn’t bother trying…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day with AISES + NASA

  

  The second Monday in October has long been an MIT holiday, but today is the second year that MIT has observed it as Indigenous Peoples’ Day, and the first that…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  you just can’t. you actually can’t. you can try but you can’t. last friday night was the beginning of teammate hunt, a puzzlehunt written with some excellent puzzles. it’s written…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  the last twenty days burning out before the semester even starts

  

  One year ago, before sophomore year started, and before I became a blogger, I was REX⁠29 REX stands for Residence EXploration, where we welcome first-years to the dorms around campus…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  In high school, the boys didn’t like me. A friend suggested that perhaps it was because our school was 80% Caucasian and in the heart of Portland, Oregon, the whitest…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Infinite Magazine [joint post with Kidist A.]

  

  note="I couldn't for the life of me remember what this stands for, but I ... across the globe). I really liked bringing my artistic vision to life, so

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 27, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  Welcome to the first of the many blogs I have meant to write but just not had the energy to do so this semester! Let’s get right into it… In…

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  secondhand stories an allegory

  

  here’s the thing about improv companies. the thing they do most often isn’t putting on shows, but rehearsing. a few years ago i found some improv companies online, and i…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 22, 2021