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17,707 words
This (mostly) isn’t a post about application essay advice. But, if you’re feeling like you need that, scroll below the bullet points for some essay advice from the bloggers of yore and a few words from...
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Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less
My last post was on my gap year, which was wild, full of writing, and very far from school. Now I’m in the midst of a lot of school and am looking back fondly on those days, so I want to share how I...
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i am overwhelmed.
I expected junior fall as a course 6 to be a challenging semester even in normal times, from anecdotal accounts. In these ‘unprecedented times’, I’m finding that it’s exponentially worse. It gets more...
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if only I cad more time…
A quick note before I start: VOTE (if you can)! Find your polling place here or drop off ur absentee ballot at a drop-off location: https://www.vote.org/polling-place-locator/ ———— In the past couple...
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[Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program!
Hiii, Audrey C. ‘24 here! I’m briefly infiltrating the blogs to talk about the MIT THINK Scholars Program, which I had the privilege of taking part of during my junior year of high school. Now as a...
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snowfall
It snowed for the first time this school year yesterday! Originally, in the forecast, there was very little actual snow expected, but when I got up in the morning, a decent amount had fallen:01 over...
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finding meaning at the end of the world
one. when i was applying to be a blogger i wrote this in my blogger application, under the question “why do you want to be a blogger”: i want to be a blogger to write for tenth grade me. i want to show...
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first snow
Happy November! Two days ago, it snowed for the first time this fall in Cambridge, MA. Wherever you are in the world, please take a moment to enjoy these various snow photos taken by MIT students:...
View Articleself care
as i’ve previously mentioned on the blogs, sophomore fall is wrecking me. every day is a grind, and keeping up with academics is about the only thing i can do right now. i’m getting enough sleep, but i...
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hazy mid-semester days
It’s that point in the semester when days and weeks blur together in a haze of pset after pset, lecture after lecture, and a midterm always just on the horizon. I wanted to share what my daily life...
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On election day
Today, November 3rd, 2020, is Election Day in the United States. Many millions of Americans have already voted by mail or in-person; more will cast their ballots today. Here at MIT, employees are...
View ArticleThe Marks of a Student
Hi, long time no see. Well, for me it’s been a while. I’ve been silent on the blogs for about three weeks, far longer than I ever want to be away from the blogs, since I’m so accustomed to posting...
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kitchen nightmares
A few months into living on my own, my roommates and I have learned many important life lessons about food, mostly through trial and error. A lot of error. Here’s a list of my very own freshman housing...
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incremental game support group
Given how depressing and sad the last few days were, I’ve resorted to distracting myself with incremental games. You know, games like Cookie Clicker or something, where you unlock progressively more...
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Global Languages Freshman Learning Community
I’m the undergraduate assistant for a Freshman Learning Community (FLC) hosted by the Global Languages department and MISTI (MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives). The FLC, which began...
View Articlefake it ’til you make it
I’ve been hesitant to write a blog — especially one that pertains to right now — because zoom is, ah, revolting. It’s no one’s fault perhaps but god, this semester is not what we all wanted it to be....
View Articlerethinking perfectionism
I have long been a fan of the corner of the internet known as ‘productivity youtube.’ For those of you unfamiliar, this largely consists of video creators sharing various approaches to being more...
View Articlewho cares about poetry?
Hello! I have some new pandemic-flavored poems published as part of an exhibit for the Singapore Writers Festival. So I wanted to write about my relationship with poetry over the years. Here’s the...
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Things in My MIT Household
This fall, I moved from my Season 306 There's a running joke that my friends and I are in a sitcom. We refer to every school term as its own season, where freshman year was seasons 1 and 2, hence...
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how to become a morning person
Let me just start by saying that, historically, my sleep habits suck. For the past couple of years, I’ve used an app called Sleep Cycle to track my sleep. It calculates my sleep quality by recording me...
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