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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  . There's something primal about dancing with fire that demands my full ... teach fire techniques as they are to learn them together. One of my ... ! All of my fire-related videos live here. Below is a reel of some skills

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  something silly, something weightless, i want my laugh to echo and ... asking children but they are far too happy to entertain my pleas and i ask the adults but they are far too miserable to interpret my dreams and i

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  Now that I’ve survived enough midterms to know I won’t change my ... returning to my roots. Instead of the traditional bi/triweekly lecture + (bi ... weekly readings and labs. The labs are typically my biggest assignment on

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• 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 ... when midterms roll around.  While I’ve fallen far from my fifteen

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

  Bookends and every time / i leave this place / i'm terrified, terrified

  

  Five years ago I wore a barong and sablay. In my high school ... the Department of Education. At the end of my gap year between high ... , but my friends had moved on and the places had changed. When I searched

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  —we’ve known each other forever, and he is my best friend, and when we talk, I don’t feel out of my depth. Chris is starting his PhD in the fall, making him the latest among my exes to pursue a STEM doctorate degree. My

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  Paper notes I hate taking notes with my iPad, so I went back to good ... sets on my iPad though because that makes it easier to submit the pset on ... . Without giving details, my project is to program two robots to move

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  everyone i know goes away in the end why i've never done misti

  

  doing mystery hunt with galactic, missed my first in-person cpw, missed going to tech squares weekend, maybe missed doing my internship. if i went ... , and i enjoyed my summer camps. but part of me yearns for relationships

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  I DON’T NEED YOU ANYMORE. the making of my final video project

  

  shit at MIT. Seeing as I didn't end up as a pure engineering major, my ... video in her blog, where she shows off MacGregor desk. I personally did my video on my friend Jovita L. '23, but she didn't want the video blasted on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

  with great cost — not only do I feel my quads deteriorating, my journey ... not sure if my thin blood can withstand this level of sustained exposure to the ever bittering elements, but I shall adapt. My first venture

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  , which is the kind of writing that always makes me want to write my own ... going wrong—I try my best to sit down, contemplate, and then write until I have arrived upon the actions I need to take to put my life back together

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  a night in hannover one of the most chaotic travel experiences of my life

  

  flew to Greece for a couple of days to spend time with my parents (who were there for my dad's work) and chill on the beaches of Chalkidiki. I ... my way back to Berlin. I had booked a flight for Thursday night, since

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  friends, refreshing some of my math knowledge, incredibly weird technology problems (my laptop's motherboard has a burn mark??) and vegetating, so ... involved in at MIT How I've spent my summer Hobbies that I have / used to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I (don’t) want the summer to end me writing poetry? what a concept

  

  and carry my laptop through campus; don't want to fold my sheets all neat and cram them in my suitcase. I don't want to leave MacGregor and spend days in my room, sitting alone in nice weather; don't want to have

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  girls just wanna have fun when u gonna live ur life right?

  

  My father yells "What you gonna do with your life?" Oh daddy dear ... less than 48 hours to my next 6.006 midterm, I sit here contemplating the ... . After a hard week of advocating for myself and my class and begging the 6

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 24, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  ’ve forged plenty of fantastic memories of the Friendly Toast. It was my go-to brunch place to catch up with friends. My significant other and I have ... ’all. It made such an impact on me, I even set a scene there for my novel

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  on being seen ...and why that might be important

  

  .  My absence is easy to explain though, having left the Institute to work ... provided sound counsel to my young charges along the way. There are a number of lessons and takeaways from my time on “the other side of the desk

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  about staying in touch with my friends than I was when I was while I was at MIT...and surrounded by my friends. I attribute this to general ... doesn't cut it for my social battery anymore, so I make an active effort

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  going on, but I really want to write up at least some of my scraps. To ... have been floating around in my head for several months while I stressed ... only way I can experience catharsis is by putting my whole self out there

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  I'm currently on a six hour flight back to my sunny, warm, and ... heading home, seeing as I haven't seen my family since August and my flight home is actually my mom's secret surprise to my grandparents. Over the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019