culture within culture
as a former Burton Conner resident, i had a two options in dealing with my dorm being offline due to renovation: find another dorm on campus, or move off campus. moving off campus didn’t appeal to me...
View Articlebreaching discomfort
Lately I’ve been occupying space. Many spaces, in fact, especially ones I didn’t previously used to occupy. I’ve found myself laughing and crying and sitting in silence and really experiencing these...
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on mit’s mailing list culture
i think i have achieved a state where i feel like i should be blogging more and yet don’t want to spend my free time blogging more. like, i’ve already squeezed out so much free time out of my week. i...
View Articleperception
Over the summer, I’ve centered on a fear that I have in graduate school — the idea that people will judge me solely based on my research, and nothing else. It seems almost inevitable that this is going...
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A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall
Classes 21G.704 – Spanish IV; Estamos de vuelta en la Spanish Grind, bebe!!! Estoy muy emocionada por esta clase, especialmente porque tengo amigos en esta clase y mi profesora es muy atenta!! (We are...
View ArticleThe November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo
The November Rule is the unspoken rule we have on campus that freshman-upperclassman relationships are strictly forbidden until November 1st. three years ago, my sister wrote the November Rule blog. a...
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Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table
I have worked at MIT since 2009, and lived less than a mile away, in Central Square, since 2013. I love living here in a way that I never thought I would. I grew up in small towns in Vermont and New...
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Meet the baby bloggers!
Hi everyone! It is that time again, the time of my annual01 okay, so, this is only the second time. but it's been a year okay excitement: I get to introduce you to this year’s crop of baby bloggers....
View ArticleDear My Old Friend,
(Some Notes, because I’m myself: Title is loosely based off of the Agust D song 어땠을까 here; I’m not usually one for lyrics, but these ones are quite fitting. I recommend, though, listening to...
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It’s cool to care
One. In October 2017, I left home and lived on my own for several months. It was my first time living alone, actually alone, without anyone else. I rented out a small room in some building, I learned...
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Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center
For many years I have written these blog posts from a cubicle in room 3-108, which was part of the complex of rooms along the Infinite Corridor01 Now that we're no longer there, ask me in the comments...
View ArticleThings I Know to Be True
A few years back, I began keeping a tab of life’s certainties. Admittedly, it feels as though there are few. Worse, certainties become uncertain when you hold them too close. Still, I add to the list....
View Articleregrets
(I’ll introduce myself properly later, but I think this post gives a good crash course into what kinds of topics I usually think about anyway) one of my favorite quotes does not have a discernible...
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Froshmore
Hi I’m Audrey, a new face in this bloggerverse! As the illustration above suggests, I’m starting my second year here at MIT. And that feels weird. Drawing has been a lifelong passion for me. It’s a...
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[joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT”
Shuli: The new MIT Welcome Center opened in Kendall Square in September. You may have already seen Petey’s post Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center. The new center is going to be the starting...
View Article[joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT”
[joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT”
View Articleborn again freshman
i’m in the class of 2023. this means that i spent only six full months on campus before getting kicked off due to the pandemic. now i’m back on campus, but more than a year has elapsed, and i’m a...
View ArticleAsking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic)
In recent weeks, we have been fielding many questions over phone and email about letters of recommendation. A composite of these questions might read something like:11 Variables listed in brackets,...
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On Genshin Impact
A couple of months ago, I started playing a video game for the first time in my life. I never had gaming consoles when I was younger, so this was a new experience which led to a lot of frustration and...
View Articleyou can’t be everything to everyone
you just can’t. you actually can’t. you can try but you can’t. last friday night was the beginning of teammate hunt, a puzzlehunt written with some excellent puzzles. it’s written by teammate, and i...
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