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• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  pause. and because this was a spare tire, it couldn't go above 50 miles an ... is doing it, so why can't we? by the cranberries, pisces iscariot by ... a free gift from the front of the store. actually, we didn't even

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  for the 20th anniversary of the blogs, I originally hadn’t planned on ... months ago. But I don’t think it’ll feel real until May, when, by some ... farewell post?  Let’s start with the easy things, the stuff that hasn’t

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  friends objected. “Don’t people drive on the left side of the street in South Africa?” “Andi, this is Boston traffic we’re talking about. Aren’t ... in English. “Yeah, but what about the states that don’t?” To my

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  my high-speed data for canada, there wasn't much to do on my phone so i ... didn’t want to spoil it for anyone. in my last group therapy session ... to them to believe them. i trust that they wouldn’t lie to me, so i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  I couldn’t have prepared myself for the stir of emotions that suddenly ... : DON’T DO IT it is dangerous… You can’t see anything interesting at all ... disk of the Eclipse. […] If I […] wasn’t aware an Eclipse was happening

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gala a premiere event celebrating fashion, arts, and culture

  

  with the fashion world, I didn't realize how much work goes into walking ... detail. After several run-throughs, I felt like I wouldn't embarrass myself ... of Boston Fashion Week, so I didn't know how I'd be styled. I knew I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  . The workload was high, but it wasn't something I'd never seen before ... same mistakes as before, plus new ones which I hadn't made since high ... that I hadn't completely lost my touch, and frustrating, because I feel

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  these classes. 6.006 was my droppable class. I was skeptical because I don’t ... motivations was that I didn’t think I knew too many people taking that class and I didn’t like the way the office hours were structured either. The

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  ; everything you need, and lots of things you don’t know how to use. The place ... stems from being a visual learner, such that names people tell me don’t ... ’re taught safety basics — don’t grab things that might be hot, etc — we

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  kid, and one thing that would piss me off was when people just couldn't ... just go at it. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M675KoOZOhA&t ... character or even the player wouldn't have otherwise noticed. If these rolls

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  defense the other bloggers didn’t believe i could write a post about basketball

  

  this post, so i won’t try to. instead i’ll just say that the most common ... usually score (eg. one defender can’t easily guard two players both near the ... don’t care enough about defense to pull this off or have coaches that

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  was a lot going on, because there's always a lot going on. So I didn't ... coming through them. But I don't have a lot of artistic talent experience ... super finicky process, though, and I didn't want to repeat it ten more

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  this blogger does not exist join me in the uncanny valley

  

  GAN reported evaluation metrics on had >500 images, so I wasn’t confident that ... ,[/annotation] so we wouldn’t be able to generate avatars for specific people. Let ... omitted skin tone. The quality wasn't too shabby though.  A cool and

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  . It didn’t hurt until I poked it or stood on it. But I got my rough ... surgically removed or treated with radiation. (Spoiler alert: it wasn't plantar ... like I had from last week. Tuesday: Dropped 6.0002. It wasn’t a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  this post since I feel like I didn't accomplish many of the resolutions I ... Spanish) so my GPA doesn't really mean much. Get a summer internship ... other books (I reread the Percy Jackson series every year), but that wasn't

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  . "I'm afraid of failure," I say. Well, yes, they reply, we know. "I can't ... class, but I didn't. So it's okay. "How are you feeling about it?" What do ... forked by the opponent's knight. I didn't see it; I was too busy paying

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far

  

  's really revitalized my excitement about the world. 18.02 I'll admit I haven't ... . I tried really hard in the beginning of the class, but didn't quite ... , I don't really have many thoughts on 18.02 The class has recitation

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  dearly, I didn’t want to repeat this over the summer.  So, I made ... he knows what will happen. The show doesn’t have a really fast pace, so ... ; A: I’m keeping the initials for consistency, but if you haven’t read

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  Where have I been? I haven't blogged since February 3. A lot has happened since; I'm sure I could write pages of excuses about why I haven't ... some more substantial posts, and hopefully I won't be too precious about

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  THE FINAL FANTASY 7 REMAKE IS OUT since 6/15/15, i have literally lived for this moment

  

  have stayed with me through rougher periods in my life. I can't really ... note="and watched youtube videos of the ones i couldn't"]I could get my ... SKDJFKSLJLKWJWLEK For those of you who don't: basically, the company that made Final

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 16, 2020