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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Always Rooting for the Anti-Hero it's me! hi! i'm [the problem?], it's me

  

  even be living it, to feel life feel lighter and more full for the first

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  (fun challenge: drink water every time you read the word Missouri.) At CPW this April, every time I met someone new, I had to be prepared to answer and ask…

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  college? what?? Like many I’ve talked to, I’m still stuck a couple years before me. In my case, that’s 10th grade, right before COVID hit. Senior year was a blur,…

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  It’s been—checks watch—two weeks since I last posted, which is a week’s gap longer than usual. Oops! As part of 21W.765 Interactive Narrative, we were assigned to read Raymond Queneau’s…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Atomic Friends a comic

  

  I’m taking 21W.744, The Art of Comic Book Writing, taught by Marjorie Liu. Note that it says comic book writing, meaning that we are writing the descriptions that will then…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  have goals in life. I never really got around to making any before I came

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  I’ve been taking the time to explore some classes and activities in Copenhagen that I haven’t tried in a while. I took a pole class, a week of krav maga,…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  I’m sitting on the floor of my dorm room.⁠10 I am actually sitting in a coffee shop in Arizona, finishing this blog many months later, because I got too hosed…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  you & i will always be back then time is an illusion that helps things make sense

  

  season 6, due to just life happening. School was starting up back in person

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  Back in January 2021, my boyfriend Raymond realized he was bored during MIT’s IAP⁠15 IAP is Independent Activities Period. Essentially, MIT students get the month of January off to do…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  Like many of you, I have been playing Wordle, a game where you try to guess a 5-letter word given information about letter locations, and I have been playing it…

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  Last time I wrote a blog about my academic life, back in November, I was going through a major crisis – by which I mean a crisis about my major, not a major crisis necessarily, though it certainly is a question

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  dear kuya i promise this post is mostly in english

  

  Dear kuya, kumusta ka na diyan? Anong balita, malamig ba diyan? Dito mainit, ngunit kung bumagyo Para bang lahat ng tubig sa mundo ay nandito [Dear kuya, how are things…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  09:35. i hobble out of bed and pour myself some milk. there’s a ridiculous amount of snow outside. i pull out some leftover pizza and walk to the kitchen to…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  how to make a minecraft bot reflections on my microsoft internship

  

  internship was offering me a snapshot of what my life could look like, a year

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  this blogger does not exist join me in the uncanny valley

  

  A reader of the blogs emailed CJ the following, which CJ then forwarded to me:  i remember your posts (college apps, haiku) about robo-CJ, and I wondered if it might…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 28, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  cw: talking abt chronic pain   Everyone derides the EC basement gym, but I kinda like it. The paint is peeling off the walls. Thick dust gathers in the corners.…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  saliently connected to the blooming of new life, a cycle of renewal and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee

  

  can we base our stories on real-life experiences, and how does this

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  quality of life once I declared 21E. This semester I've been really

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021