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  scuba do or scuba don’t? under the sea

  

  Every Thursday at 6:45pm for about two months, I trudged fifteen minutes across campus to the Alumni Wang Fitness Center ⁠01 the lesser-known younger brother of the Zesiger Fitness Center…

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • November 17, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  our perpetual battle with the mit weather machine spinning arts needs a shaman

  

  It’s raining today, so we’re punting Novemburn fireshow to our rain date tomorrow. But it also rained last time during REX, and the last time before that during Hadestown fireside…

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 15, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Northern Lights in the Not-So-North! aka GO OUTSIDE TONIGHT

  

  HEAR YE HEAR YE THIS IS YOUR TOWN CRIER SPEAKING! It is my solemn duty to inform you that NORTHERN LIGHTS ARE AGAIN PREDICTED FOR TONIGHT! Get thee outside! My…

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 12, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  cute date ideas or like. hang out ideas

  

  It’s Veteran’s Day, which means it’s been one year since my For Real Official Actual First Date here at MIT. Because I’m sentimental, here’s a list of fun Ellie-tried-and-tested things…

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In a 15-author guest blog, featuring the small town/rural students that visited us this october!

  

  From October 16-19, MIT hosted twenty juniors in high school for our second-ever Small Town and Rural Students (STARS) @ MIT Fly-In program. Students spent the weekend exploring the city,…

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  one hour of musings we're so back

  

  Hey, it’s been awhile since I’ve written here. Activation energy is a funny little thing. As the days go on, it becomes harder to return. Subsequently, in effort to break…

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 10, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  did you miss the EA deadline? why i applied and admissions anxiety

  

  For all of you that missed the Early Action deadline (November 1st), that’s fine! I didn’t apply EA either, mostly because of 1) procrastination 2) I was already feeling stressed…

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 5, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  I have never been trick-or-treating, (until now) and how trick-or-treating relates to geography...???

  

  Confession: I had never been trick-or-treating.  Not once. Not as a kid, not as a teenager, not even ironically in college.When I tell people that, they look at me shocked,…

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  just one more gnome game it will fix me

  

  About a week ago, I was ensnared Google Gnome, courtesy of my quasi-roommate Cyan (it’s complicated but actually not. but I won’t elaborate though). She’s been playing for about a…

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  time travel is overrated conversing with my past self

  

  on the last day of freshman orientation, just a few days before i arrived at MIT, we all gathered in kresge auditorium for one final event. our assignment — the…

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • November 2, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Small Things I Like About Autumn A short reflection on a colorful season

  

  Autumn is arguably one of the best seasons there is, especially here in Cambridge. As someone who loves scenic views to take pictures, the colors of fall leaves mixed in…

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 31, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  happy halloween! 🎃👻 here's something to argue over

  

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 31, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Lost in other people’s stories My brand of escapism

  

  I listen to a lot of audiobooks. In 2023, I listened to 28.6 days worth of audiobooks–while doing chores, while falling asleep, and sometimes even while doing psets. It’s something…

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 28, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  another day of fall when canvas went down and made me think about internet and people and the seasons

  

  This Monday, as many Mondays go, felt like a terrible start to my week. For starters, it was raining when I woke up. Also, I was running on like 5…

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 25, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh no the future obligatory “i am old” post with pretentious morbing

  

  As I start writing this, I have a midterm in exactly 24 hours. I holed myself up in Radio Society to avoid getting distracted, and yet here I am writing,…

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 23, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Boston, through the lens of my children Visiting Boston at 37 years of age was ...

  

  Yesterday (October 14, 2025) I returned home from Boston after 28 hours of driving, four nights in hotels (the cost of hotels in Cambridge is outrageous and is borderline criminal),…

  • by Snively '11
  • October 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summiting Mount Monadnock camping trip!

  

  Last weekend,  I went camping with my living community (Putz)!⁠24 2nd West, one of East Campus' 10 living communities Overall, it was a really fun but chaotic experience, largely because…

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 18, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  gently down the stream whitewater rafting might be easier than driving on mass ave

  

  Last Friday in my Concourse seminar⁠29 my first-year humanities learning community! , our topic of discussion was an excerpt from chemist Primo Levi’s memoir, The Periodic Table. I’ll provide an…

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • October 16, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  The Periodic Table of MIT It's Interactive! (desktop only)

  

  The Periodic Table of MIT Close

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  I applied to MIT three years ago (shudders). I was originally thinking about writing a blog post about advice for high school seniors but I find it difficult to put…

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025