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• Blog / How to MIT

  How I Made the MIT Orientation Trading Card Game The Insatiable Urge to Collect Continues...

  

  The year is 2021. It’s a Sunday night in early January. My mother comes into my room. My floor is strewn with cardboard, canvases, markers and felt, boxes and tiny…

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m still reading applications 5 years later...

  

  5 years ago on November 28, 2020, it felt like my entire world was 15 steps wide. In the throes of the pandemic, I spent every day inside my cozy…

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! 🦃 Yara has a peath sign on her head!

  

  Whenever someone wishes me a Happy Thanksgiving, I can’t help but respond “Yara has a peath sign on her head!” At around age 7, while playing games with my older…

  • by Hala K. '29
  • November 27, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  everything i think i’m not (rush, part 2) and what it would take for me to be it

  

  In the many days prior to Kresge Kickoff, I kept saying it, kept thinking it.  Passing conversations during Orientation training—What are you looking forward to this year? I’m gonna rush,…

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • November 25, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  I Made MIT-ish ASMR you're welcome (i'm so sorry)

  

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 24, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  at a distance staying in contact with friends from home

  

  A few days ago,⁠14 at the time of writing one of my best friends from home, Ariana, posted a picture with a balloon spelling “21.” Her birthday was about a…

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 20, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I Went To The Ballet! 💎 color me refined 💎

  

  This past weekend, I went to my first ballet! Unfortunately, my previous level of knowledge of ballet was at best mediocre. I know vaguely of tutus and the word pirouette,…

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 18, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  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 ⁠19 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