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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  happened to pick up this book from a store shelf and leaf through it, I ... , and all the parallels between her and her father, set up as camera ... threads are set up when the chapter begins and interact through dialogue

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  me feel like I’m giving up on all those core aspects of my life. At the ... , my sinking fear of being unable to catch up returned. No, I didn’t take ... today won’t create a setback so strong that I’m unable to catch up. It

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28 by Andre H. ‘24

  

  he'd write up a version of it as a guest post for the blogs. And he did ... Student Center catching up with friends. The best advice I would give to ... up with my closest friends—and it’s something I will forever remember

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 21, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  things i miss and don’t miss who is this guy? 🤔

  

  wake up. It's a bit sad, but maybe I will carry this for life. I also ... old pretty quickly. It was a great place for children to grow up, but it ... trying to not forget to pick my kids up from their school, and what to make

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  market scene is just beginning to liven up. Crowds of people are shuffling ... most may take a quick glance, but soon after get caught back up in their ... different realm of possibilities open up when alone, things that you wouldn

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  . I had signed up because I was a silly little frosh who was signing up ... that MIT is easy, and this journey has been full of incredible ups and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  , these are it. First up—FPOPs! FPOPs: First-Year Pre-Orientation Programs ... part of the FPOP actually ended up being learning about rocket propulsion ... FPOPs, my focus on people during REX ended up being incredibly valuable

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  .000 discovery course,[/annotation]it’s a lot to keep up with.  I was also ... asleep for what was meant to be an hour-long nap before 8.01, but I woke up ... felt better to catch up on the content I missed with the help of friends

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  -campus dorms may have facilities workers to tidy up after filthy undergrads, but ... one of my work week tasks has been to patch up holes in the basement ... rusty Phillips head screws. Two hours later, I end up using four different

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  . This was the right decision -- the fellow who picked me up was from a ... sheep-lined roads than anyone I’ve ever seen. He recommended a hike up the ... , not looking up maps ahead of time, not planning the train route ahead

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  picked them up whenever a random urge would hit. Only this past spring did ... morning, the first thing I do right after I wake up is solve a Rubik’s cube ... eyes of someone who has just woken up, the combined ease of a cube being

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art in burton conner making do in a non-mural building

  

  , Burton Conner didn't end up with this solution. instead, we got a handful ... , but in a follow-up meeting, we discussed some of the underlying reasons ... underclassmen to pick up the torch. in the meantime, we're trying our best to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  roommate (Andy!) is still asleep, so I try my best to not wake him up. 06 ... some point looking up where exactly the South Station Bus Terminal is. As ... last stop for the bus, I considered setting an alarm to wake myself up in

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  equal. in multiple problem sets for 18.404, we messed up in just the right ... religiously and ended up learning so much from the class. [caption id ... sense to say that"][/annotation] I ended up enjoying it enough to also

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  consequently broke up and we all moved to different dorms and eventually stopped ... up in all of my stories of my college shenanigans. And as a result, I ... "[/annotation] with people I personally know. That I've built up this persona of who I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  *everything* else to make up for it, that this is my one chance to take a lot of ... classes. I’m learning about Celtic folklore and picking up a lot of writing ... to make projects and free food to gobble up. There are posters in the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Events

  LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue

  

  new things. I signed up for a training slot, and before I knew it, I was ... quickly. The film also contains audio data in the space not taken up by ... , bucko! Remember to wear cotton gloves to avoid scratching and gunking up

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  [/annotation] in something else I dunno — and preemptively held it up to anyone I ... neighborhood every afternoon waiting to pick up her child, which reminds me of ... body to get out of bed at my 8:30a.m. alarm"]I’d once wake up at 5

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

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  I. October 2021. It all started last year when Jonathan H. ’25 asked Nicole H. ’22 and I quote, “Do you have time to waste?” He pulled up the ... picks up a brownie from the floor like you pick up someone’s abandoned

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Lessons Learned from (Watching) D&D thank you brennan lee mulligan

  

  bunch of dice to make decisions in their made up world. As a kid, I ... of my novels growing up. I found that the character sheets really ... I think it really livens up a game and lets players really have full

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 15, 2022