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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  audience mustn't know whether I am spoofing or being serious; and likewise I mustn't know either. Where does the deep and philosophically valid Dali ... stupidness and seriousness coexist in a way that doesn't diminish the other

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  Michener. I didn’t finish it. It’s 55 hours long. I tried really hard because it was actually really interesting, but I think I just don’t have the stamina for 55 hours of one book LOL. 34 hours isn’t terrible though

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  immediately and almost every option disappeared. So I don’t live in a grad dorm ... socializing is much less spontaneous. Since I don’t live in a dorm, I can’t ... friends from MIT don’t live in Boston/Cambridge anymore, as they’re in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  mother, so they abandon him, enabling a future where he doesn’t recognize ... doing so become powerless) and career decisions (we often assume we can’t ... doing so ensure that we don’t make progress on said problems). or, for a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  ’s house. I underpainted it pink. It looks bad, and I don’t have the time to ... beautiful, but I know I probably won’t be finishing it anytime soon. As much ... integral part of my life. I didn’t own many pairs of jeans that weren’t

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  lives complaining about things they don't like. So, you're adding power to ... we're wanting to move towards instead of away from. You don't have to ... , ‘Are you sick?’ that doesn't mean say, ‘No.’ It means say, ‘I'm getting

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  his office hours, Lupe asked us what kind of person shouldn't take his class. "People who don't like to rap," I said. "Why not?" "Because . . . there's rapping in this class." Being flip wasn't going to help me get in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  sunscreen physical health and stuff

  

  begun twitching when i don’t get enough sleep. this definitely wasn’t the ... that i simply hadn’t felt until june. (i hope i’m not worrying anyone who ... redirect large amounts of weight to parts of the foot which aren’t used to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 4, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good

  

  everything... don't ask"]boil it.[/annotation] I'm not confident that I knew ... type of russian sausage, sardelki, which I loved as a child but wasn't ... note="if you couldn't tell yet..."]big fan[/annotation] of eggs, in all

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  isn't great, but it's serviceable. Among the trains, jeeps, buses, and ... traffic, so owning a car doesn't make it any faster. In Boston, anywhere I ... destination isn't in downtown someplace, you'd probably have to walk for half an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  look for the true source, or at least i wasn’t able to get anywhere ... god why didn’t i do the thing i should’ve done god i wish i did that ... months of quarantine, especially because i didn’t have much to do at home

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  shouldn't do when laser cutting. Each featured some videos, text, and a quiz. It wasn't too tricky, and a lot of it was based on common sense, like ... knew that I would never do it ultimately if I didn't do it immediately

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  you truly want; that way you can’t be disappointed. Fifteen years from ... , and I began to worry I’d be so exhausted from the semester that I wouldn’t have the wherewithal to jump back in to writing. I don’t know if people

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  play dough

  

  things, get upset when things don't go my way, or when things or people ... and expect promptness. I don't like sudden changes and I don't like when ... feel like." I couldn't at all...fathom that. Going into something without

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  practicing. Studios aren't really an option right now, so I had to wait til I ... slipped could be dangerous, because I couldn't grab the bar at the corner. I wasn't, so it was just annoying, but still. I stripped off the velvet

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  ,[/annotation]and I was t i r e d. I was ready to sleep in! To relax! To have fun! Well ... classes is actually, uh, not a break, even if you don't have any class. My ... promised myself that no matter what, I wouldn't do any work until the Monday

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

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  isn’t to say that I haven’t made friends, not at all. I’ve made a couple ... constant source of stress, and I don't think I'm alone in this experience ... like to pset together over zoom, but it hasn’t really worked for me

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  ) that fall.  That didn’t happen. Life got in the way. I joined the cheer ... more feedback in December, she also told me that we probably wouldn’t go ... : publishing gets pretty quiet in December, and editors don’t acquire many new

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

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  bed at 10:03, i can't believe that i used to get up, eat breakfast, and ... part about this is that Chinese class hasn't changed much at all. unlike ... encourages a listlessness that i can't banish, no matter how [annotation note

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

  on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious

  

  different. I tried to get into a fifth class and didn't (it was too ... is good, and fun, and right. I thought I believed this before. I didn't ... , and that doesn't make them better or worse as a person -- but of course

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 10, 2020