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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  rushed on, I found myself enjoying poetry. I signed up for Advanced Poetry ... two months of summer soaking up new experiences.  [caption id ... would begin with typing up the poem I’d handwritten the previous day

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  on thursday morning, i woke up at 9 am, after only six hours of sleep ... . i'm bad at asking for help from others when i need it, so i end up not ... after half an hour. that was out. i decided to catch up on watching anime

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  , two recitation sections for one class, and I signed up for like four ... like sorry dude, I'm not showing up anymore. And it just makes me wonder ... ability to keep up will grow along with them. What really makes me feel

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  . Flour Bakery's got little Valentine decorations strung up around their ... living there last spring. Rui and I have a tradition where I go up to her ... similar music tastes, we ended up talking about Taylor Swift. I'm a newer

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  semester has officially ended and I can happily say I've wrapped up the most successful MIT semester I've had to date. I've gone through a series of ups and ... semester and take three HASS classes and only one technical. This ended up

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  excerpts

  

  has things from 2018 I still haven’t followed up on. Oops. So instead of setting myself up for failure by promising myself full blogs about ... , then… 2 days in Los Angeles, then spend a day driving up to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  and women long dead. A few weeks ago, I was up late reading a debate via ... catch up on sleep over this break but I traded it for social time ... heroes who tear up cities as they secretly fight crime will not stay secret

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  I clam up whenever I'm asked to talk about them. They're too important ... life. If you made it past everything up there, congratulations--now I ... been into any Chinese entertainment or media, and growing up in white

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  I was at the park near my grandparents’ place today, picking up ... up. We walked around the park that evening -- in Tucson summer ... university. Now we can tear up the town in my orange minivan, but we still

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  move out). In the days leading up to our unprecedentedly luxurious break ... housemates and I frantically started final projects, caught up on recorded ... , which is a real classic MIT experience). Here's what we got up to: I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  Square. I went to Chameleon back in January 2019, bundled up in a coat ... ended up taking an Uber. Before coming to MIT, I already had standard ... let me save up some money. By January, it was go time! Priscilla and I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  chicken with the same ingredients and spices, it always ended up being more ... have to do is chop up the meat and/or vegetables, put it in the rice ... that ⅓ tablespoon of paprika is too much, then by all means switch it up

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 16, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  hope you all are safe and well! Here’s what I’ve been up to in ... ="it takes up to two years for a book to actually be published after it sells ... recovering from a bad freshman spring, and my skin would not clear up. I don

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 1 ...adulting?

  

  beef instead of pork to switch up my meat usage, and DAMN. It slapped. I ... up and throw it in a pot with some soy sauce, oyster sauce, honey/brown sugar, and spices. I made a hugeeee amount and switch it up by using

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 2, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  WMBR: College Radio at MIT will anyone watch the entire 36 minute video? probably not

  

  broadcasting. I showed up at WMBR orientation in early September 2016, became a ... that a large portion of its membership is made up of "community members ... something that you can't really flake on. Thus, the people who end up sticking

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  at fact that if the internet hadn’t picked up this video, these two men ... . For every death that blows up on the internet there is someone being ... too many questions.” These people will never blow up on the internet

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  next to normal on mental health

  

  opening up your problems to a friend, say. sometimes that difference is ... , i don’t notice any pattern in when the thoughts come. when i wake up ... , when i’m lining up to get food from the dining hall, no, i don’t feel

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  be productive, but more often than not, i end up, uh, not committing to ... class, which used to motivate me to wake up at 9 am, now inspires only ... bed at 10:03, i can't believe that i used to get up, eat breakfast, and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  since i’ve been home

  

  ), but of course i never ended up finishing a single one. now that i have ... emotional knot in my chest that wells up, then floats up and consumes my ... keys and a book, and drive 18 minutes to west neck beach (had to look up

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  finish up a website that would be super useful to kids stuck at home right ... an ENTIRE DAY getting my Jibo robot set up. Yes, that's right ... decent bit growing up - I was in some combination of cross country and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020