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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  or perceived quality, because: 1) I don’t trust myself to make a ... on some aspect I don’t feel like I understood. 2) I think you only ... narrator doesn’t relay tell you about their psyche, the nature of their

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  that we weren’t smart enough for/didn’t have enough time to cover in 6 ... wouldn't expect to be able to not work, like ethernet cables."]things[/annotation] just don’t work even though Joe or [annotation note="It’s actually quite

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  post. Not exactly the best way to start the semester… But don’t worry ... doctor took one look at me and diagnosed me with [annotation note="This isn’t ... , he didn’t have a ton of information to work with… but I think it

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  , rearranged the two sets of closet/bed/desk, and halfheartedly unpacked t ... along—two is greater than one, right? What I didn’t realize was that, in ... hard I feel like before, I didn’t have to think as consciously about my

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  like. I didn’t visit many colleges outside of my local area in high school, and my parents also didn’t go to college, so I couldn’t ask them ... what to expect. While the information I learned was useful, it couldn’t

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  furniture, we eventually solved our first cube together. Yippee! It wasn’t as ... activities that has stuck with me, like an itch that I just can’t shake ... can’t help myself—they’re just so cute! And above all, it’s fun.  Over

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  the walls"]permanent murals.[/annotation] this isn't to say MIT no ... this year. after renewal, students won't be able to mural directly on the ... , Burton Conner didn't end up with this solution. instead, we got a handful

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  way. The whole experience was so incredible that I still can’t quite ... happened in 2020 if COVID hadn’t appeared and disrupted everything. Thanks to ... ) were superb, and the pineapples in MIT dining halls wouldn’t be as sweet

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  . Things aren't upsetting or exhausting, but exciting. I'm not sure what ... , "Wow, I didn't realize there were so many people here. It's kind of nice ... last year, but didn't really befriend Savoldy until this year. We often

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

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  campus, taking classes and doing research. How does it feel? I don’t know ... . And sometimes I walk by EC and can’t recognize any of the people sitting ... used to be. (Aren't we all :P) Everything is the same and different, all

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  hadn’t met before.  When I returned to campus on August 23rd, the cycle ... it,[/annotation] and I don’t even have that much of an emotional ... doesn’t sit quite right with me when I refer to my dorm room as “home

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

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  reflection into three months. I thought about a lot of things I won’t go into ... honestly didn’t expect to love New York as much as I did, even though the ... NYC, like its nightlife and its theater scene, weren’t things that

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  to now and forever

  

  's almost time. Almost time to see Kenneth. I hadn't seen Kenneth in a while ... texted. We didn't call. And it felt strange to see someone who I had valued ... wouldn't know) and stood up for each other when we needed to. He was the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 15, 2022
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  dear kuya i promise this post is mostly in english

  

  don't want to think about the answer. Oo nga pala, kung na sa'yo pa ang ... times, and here i've went… zero times? dambuhala. i don't actually know ... higante, halimaw, and balyena. certainly i haven't eaten any actual whales

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary an image a day keeps the psets away

  

  1/3/22 The sentences just didn't seem to flow as I attempted ... went. But for this term, it was kind of a blur. I couldn't really think ... sorts. I didn't look around physically, since I'm not on campus. Through

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  computer science degree. I don't like the computer science degree ... I don't like for the sake of getting it? I knew of 21E, but I had my ... several times about it and ultimately didn't really decide until this past

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to put together an ohms concert apparently we have a concert this weekend

  

  for those of you who don’t know, i’m part of the mit ohms, a south ... and harmonies that don’t exist in the original song to create a thicker ... recognize that much of our audience doesn’t listen to south asian music and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 17, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  i saw twenty one pilots at td garden in boston live music is very much alive and here to stay

  

  2020. Until it didn't happen. And then there was a pandemic. And then ... alone and probably couldn't fare very well in the pit. And that was that. the concert As I was taking the T to TD Garden, I felt a certain

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  or ignored my texts or told me he didn't want me anymore. And I am in ... with such excitement that I can't help but be excited, too. In high ... are we going to live?" or "What should we do after college?" I can't

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  twelve. My big sisters were excited about the new house, but I wasn’t. I ... be accessed by walking through my room. For all that, I didn’t want to ... ’s Tucson for you. # I grew up in the second house and didn’t move again

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021