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What I Learned This Week notes and lessons from new classes

🦖 RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! 🦖 And we’re back, coming in blazing with a fire and a vengeance! And a whopping three (3) weeks into the semester, everyone is ~already a little burnt…

by Aiden H. '28
February 15, 2026

Blog / MIT Life

A Love Letter to Tetazoo a valentine's day post

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I sit upon this couch in stasis, with many better things to do, beholding the warmth that surrounds me. Your voices would sound like a cacophony to any other, yet…

by Anika H. '26
February 15, 2026

Blog / Miscellaneous

I designed a marching band drill for MIT and I didn't even need experience

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Marching Mapper is an application for designing marching band drills, and it came out just a few months ago. My raging school spirit inspired me to choreograph a piece for…

by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
February 15, 2026

Blog / How to Food

[GUEST POST] Cooked Cooking by Joy X. '29

It’s (well, it was, at the time of writing) IAP, and all the dining halls except one are closed. Fortunately, we can cook! … Unfortunately, we can cook. Every…

by Ellie F. '28
February 14, 2026

Blog / Classes

between now and departure stands a few classes

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My final semester once felt like it was at such a distance. I remember wrapping up my freshman fall and thinking it took so much life out of me. How…

by Kanokwan T. '26
February 14, 2026

Blog / Academics & Research

Day in the Life But make it four

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This blog was inspired by those day-in-the-life (DITL) videos people make on TikTok/Instagram where they film hour-by-hour snippets and then put them side by side with their friends’ clips! The…

by Gloria Z. '26
February 10, 2026

Blog / Academics & Research

what i am taking in spring 26 because i'm stuck at the airport right now. NOT ranked in terms of edibility (sorry)

From 2022-2023, I travelled a lot. ⁠13 a quick count suggests that i took ~15 flights, most of them crossing the Pacific ocean, with the worst one being 19 hours…

by Janet G. '27
February 8, 2026

Blog / Classes

The Classes I’m Taking This Semester [in order from least-to-most edible] 🪀🚑🔥📚♟️

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hello this is a blog. right now. rrahhhhhhhhhh i wrote this blog using the most dangerous writing app, where you are forced to write in five-minute chunks, and if you…

by Kayode D. '27
February 8, 2026

Blog / Miscellaneous

Are you ready for some FOOBAW? the one and only time I talk about football

The Prudential Tower put on a special display for the New England Patriots tonight, before they face off against the Seattle Seahawks at the Super Bowl tomorrow. I’ve been born…

by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
February 7, 2026

Blog / IAP

vienna & prague, in 194 photos iap '26 #1

Have you ever dreamed of visiting Europe? Ever checked your financial options and noticed that Central Europe is more realistic than the beaches of Spain and France? Ever heard of…

by Aiden H. '28
February 6, 2026

Blog / Uncategorized

i have fridays off this semester here's what i did with my first one

Dear blog, Sometimes things just work out beautifully, like making your schedule for the semester and noticing that, for the first time, you have absolutely zero reason to be on…

by Veronica P. '27
February 6, 2026

Blog / IAP

IAP in BRASIL! my summer in january

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While most of my friends were freezing and building igloos on MIT campus in Cambridge, I was enjoying lying on the beach in summer weather in the Southern Hemisphere as…

by Victor D. '27
February 5, 2026

Blog / MIT Life

chronicle of a snowstorm foretold only a week late ;-;

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It has been four years since Boston’s last snowfall greater than 6 inches. — “major winter storm to deliver 1-2 feet of snow across new england”, the tech from Sunday 06z…

by Boheng C. '28
February 4, 2026

Blog / Uncategorized

[Joint Blog] What It’s Like Studying Design at MIT Recounted by two seniors

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see the full post on Gloria’s page! aight imma bounce

by Teresa J. '26
February 4, 2026

Blog / Academics & Research

[Joint Blog] What It’s Like Studying Design at MIT Recounted by two seniors

[This is a joint blog with Teresa!] Gloria: Have you ever wondered what it’s like to study design at MIT? Did you know that there are only four design majors in…

by Gloria Z. '26
February 4, 2026

Blog / How to Human

An (overdue) blogger update! I'm trying to come out of writer's block lol

Ah, how I’ve missed blogging. I fell off of blogging in the last two years of being an undergrad. I just couldn’t get myself to write as much as I…

by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
February 4, 2026

Blog / Challenges

Embracing the Penguin Snowboarding Trip ft. Jayden

Living in the northeast sadly comes with two caveats: 1. A winter season that’s on par with the winter they were stressing about in Game of Thrones and 2. somehow…

by Richard O. '28
January 31, 2026

Blog / IAP

WE BUILT AN IGLOO! ❄️☃️ a long-lost McCormick Tradition

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This past weekend, the US underwent one of the biggest snowstorms of the decade (at least that’s what Yahoo news told me) impacting more than half the country. Most people…

by Hala K. '29
January 30, 2026

Blog / MIT Life

East Campus (Part 1) despite everything, it's still you.

I told myself that I wouldn’t make a part two but this is taking so ridiculously long that I think I have no choice. Hopefully it will not be…

by Anika H. '26
January 29, 2026

Blog / Extracurriculars

Building a Robot in 3 Days FIRST X MIT Edition

If you are unfamiliar with the FIRST Robotics program: FIRST is a global nonprofit organization that runs after-school STEM programs and robotics competitions for K-12 students. It has three major…

by Hala K. '29
January 25, 2026