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• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  People change, and that includes you. You don’t have to live up to the person you were, or who you think you were. You can admire things that your past…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  This is a (long) post detailing the week in which both MIT and Harvard announced that they were evicting the vast majority of their undergraduates. Since it’s so long, I’ve…

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  yesterday was a really shitty day.  a lot of annoying and stressful things happened, and just as i thought things were looking up, i spilled water on my laptop. it…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  This blog post unfolds in three parts: (1) a story about how I got into embroidery, (2) a magnificent social discovery, and (3) a gallery of adorable and beautiful things…

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  Note to anyone who is confused: Cruel Summer is a Taylor Swift song. I’ve been listening to a lot of Lover lately 😛 There is also a Bananarama song called…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  It’s been one hundred twenty-five days since my dad pulled up outside my dorm in a rented Penske truck. We piled all of my boxes and bags into the way-too-big…

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 2 recipes for people tryna Little Chef it up

  

  I enjoy productivity that’s tangible, so cooking is one of my favorite things to do. You get to put ingredients together…and then feed yourself…and feel satisfied that you’re being #healthy…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 19, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My Blogger App, five years later i've finally dyed my hair blue

  

  As you’ve probably already read in Chris’ post, the blogger application is now live and ready for all your submissions. At some point in the past, all of the bloggers…

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  after experiencing this tumultuous year, it’s strange to be having a blissful summer. here are a couple of things that are making me very happy atm. exploring the Cambridge/Boston area…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2020–2021 application cycle

  

  I am writing to announce that, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, our office will be suspending our usual SAT/ACT testing requirement for the coming application cycle.⁠32 This means both…

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 13, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  For those of you who know me well, you’ll know that I did not cook at all my first year of MIT. I had made promises to earlier, but never…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT files lawsuit on behalf of international students alleges ICE policy “arbitrary and capricious and an abuse of discretion”

  

  Update 7/14/2020: we won.  On Monday, July 6th, as MIT was finalizing its plans for the fall semester, the U.S. agency of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that it will…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 9, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Experiment… featuring Emily '22, Felix '23, and Alison '23

  

  All right, story time.⁠36 You’re telling me we don’t even deserve a once upon a time?? -Alison I was hired to work in admissions last July, and by mid-July I…

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  This is, for the most part, a post about Seattle. I’ve been a resident of Green Lake, Seattle for a little over a month now. There’s very little about Seattle…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  This is a blogpost from my friend that is a boy, Raymond Tran ’23. I wanted to preface this post real quick by jumping in and giving a little more…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2020!

  

  For the last five years, I have started this post with a jaunty list of summer Cambridge activities. Now, like everything else, these have been interrupted by the pandemic. However,…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  What will life be like next week? The week after that? 6 months from now? Does anyone pretend to know? One of the few things that I know with certainty…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  Context: I wrote a post in March called “I Moved to Maine” . You can read it if you want, but tl;dr: when COVID hit I went to live in…

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  I’ve kept an extensive weekly journal since early February as part of my new year’s resolutions. Since I didn’t blog that much during the spring, I went through my journal…

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  For most of my adolescence, my bedroom was painted as close as I could get to black without my parents becoming upset with me, and an accent wall in a…

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020