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• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  in school, but not long enough that my body has totally disconnected ... deceptively bland name for what is in my opinion MIT's greatest invention. It is ... pursuing my interests? Learning new things? I saw wallowing as my 'revealed

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2023 For all of the Blogger/Spotify Data Junkies

  

  among MIT Bloggers. I showed my brother and he said “Well now you have to ... .    Now it’s my turn to inspire you with our random music tastes ... Abby 2018 In 2021, my top song was The Monster Mash, and I listened to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 10, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art things #1 illustration, graphic design, ceramics, and photography

  

  might make it a series). One of my biggest goals this semester was to ... on Procreate on my iPad! I wish I had more time and energy to draw, but ... made this as a semi self portrait after dying my hair orange! the tram

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus #2 yayay

  

  ! UROP I'm continuing my Spring [annotation note="Undergraduate Research ... enjoy my project, but the people I've met there so far have been very ... ="aligncenter" width="500"] my project so far is just code, so i don't have any pretty

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  patterns, midterm season, is also upon us. But only one of my classes this semester has midterms or even just tests of any kind. My single midterm came and went, an insignificant blip in my days of apple cider and flannel

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  . sitting on my mcat books but specifically only the one I was currently using ... them to do it. PUF only sits if I’ve got a treat in my hand, and then ... against my arm specifically so I can’t type but most importantly, 5

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  expecting a lecture-based class, where I could sit with my friends and hear ... undergrads to judge. We met so many alumns. My interviewee was a total badass ... major or minor is not at all necessary to enjoy this class. I am to my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  i am in the tenth week of my summer job and i can remember how the ... presuming how my life will go and for giving me unactionable advice, i think ... grand adventure. The pieces of my life have, more or less, fallen into

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Everything Everywhere All At Once a free early screening from lsc and a q&a with the directors

  

  also went to the Bo Burnham-Jonny Sun event I blogged about my freshman ... why in particular, but for a while I've been questioning my place at MIT and my purpose in what I'm doing and where I want to go and where I see

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 29, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  i’ve known for a while that i’m a pretty awful conversationalist. my ... more, but i hope you can bear with me for a bit), as are many of my ... my internal headspace, but when i’m in a conversation the other person

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  logistics of crocheting at MIT. How will I pack all my yarn? What project ... 've successfully woven in my crocheting with my life at MIT. But why do I spend so ... [annotation note="At home, I crocheted bonnets for my cat"]functionally useless

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

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

  

  picture of my old room, with my key: and here is my room now. i am in a different room now, because my previous room was a double, and only frosh have doubles. (i was in my room last year because covid policy meant no one was

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

  just vibing tough times out here

  

  extracurriculars, get my homework done and still sleep at night. And it was true, but ... difficult coin. I spent my first two years learning that if you do too many ... grateful to my past self for making the Registration Day choices that led to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  glassblowing alongside my Intro to Python class. It is one of my biggest regrets ... bit. I'm hoping luck will be on my side and I'll be able to pursue the ... 'm tired of skirting around this. One of my biggest regrets at MIT is not

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Out of Context Quoteboard SFW for the blogs, unfortunately

  

  emails in my inbox that were sent to this mailing list and pick out some of ... straight?" "Being a girl is great. I'm going to braid my hair and wear ... fingers "what’s the term? sheep lesbian?" "I don't want my lesbians to age

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 25, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  what i’m doing this fall leadership tingz

  

  finances? Me?? It's more likely than you'd think... I'm the treasurer of my ... enough from my many posts about student life and my living community, cultural preservation is extremely important to me. Given that my dorm is now

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 2, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  warmth feelings i miss

  

  the railing against my chest, leaning towards the water. my headphones ... , when the river and the skyline would fill my vision, and i would forget my body was there, and it felt like i was falling, even if, rationally

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  ! Here are our experiences: Allan's IAP  My externship was in a VR ... ! My supervisor actually placed emphasis on this being a learning ... hot pot restaurant with the MIT alumni hosting my externship. And, in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  -long exam my room had to evacuate. Great news for me! I had just gotten back to Boston on a red-eye flight and was feeling quite removed from my ... understood that I learned how to answer them at some point in the past but my

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  . [caption id="attachment_38589" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Me and my ... the sun over the lakes that took my breath away. [caption id ... my favorite things to do after work was to walk down to Lake Washington

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018