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  Tour de Frat house tours of pbe, dke, and sig chi!

  

  Welcome back to another tour – and I hope you’re excited, because this one is gonna be fun. Today we will be going on a tour of three different MIT…

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colors of Campus and other random things on my camera.

  

  A few snippets of life .   Inspired by Kai’s Parallel Universe Post      

  • by Richard O. '28
  • February 28, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  Despite being a brief and shallow fan of Hamilton in middle school, I didn’t fully grasp the concept of musical theater until college. Hamilton, to me, existed as a series…

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  parallels or juxtapositions in one sitting at flour cafe

  

  a year and a half ago i got offered a position as a blogger and i said no. half a year ago i got offered a position as a blogger…

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 26, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  today it is warmer than it has been in a while, and i’m back in the lab doing bench work again after almost a year. i can taste spring on…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  if you’ve hung around the blogs these past few weeks, chances are you’ve heard of IAP, or Independent Activities Period, MIT’s January term in which students can do, well, whatever…

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  sticker stories adorned on my water bottles

  

  One year ago, I lost my first stickered bottle. 😔 Pretty sure it slipped out of my backpack on the plane…silly me. I checked my location tracker (because I am…

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  During the first MIT Wind Ensemble (MITWE) rehearsal this semester, Fred Harris (the director of MITWE) was going through the semester’s important dates and logistics. It was all the typical…

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SONIC JUBILANCE A day at the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building at MIT

  

  Banjos & Basements: A Brief History of Music at MIT Music has been part of MIT since the Institute’s earliest chapters. By 1884, 23 years after MIT was founded, the…

  • by Jeremy W.
  • February 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  Classes (12 units) 6.200 [Circuits] – I LOVE this class. Adam Hartz should legally adopt me. /hj I thought circuit theory was the coolest thing ever⁠16 until AC came in…

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  a house tour of mit sororities! meet aphi, axo, and theta

  

  Welcome to a tour of three MIT sorority houses! Believe it or not, sorority life is a thriving community here at MIT, with about ⅓ of undergraduate women being affiliated…

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  small changes feeling big my winter in Armenia

  

  Every IAP, I travel. I can’t help it. There’s this wanderlust gremlin in me that’s always eager to experience new places. Access to global experiences is one of the reasons…

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 17, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  The college recruiting process can be a confusing world to maneuver for athletes and their families. The soccer recruiting process, while definitely intimidating and tiring at times, ended up being…

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  Yesterday, my mom had some “silk” scarves shipped to me so I could bring them back home after graduation. She was very excited about them, telling me how happy all…

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  New month, new classes, new semester, yet still my cramping hand sitting across MIT’s campus struggling to write for more than 30 minutes during lecture. I’m taking three technicals this…

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Electrical Engineering V-Day Doodles are you feeling the spark?

  

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 14, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  This is a guest post by one of my friends, Heidi Z. ’27, one of the first friends I made here at MIT and my favorite “homegrown massachusettsian”. (shoutout DEAPS…

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  It was inevitable. My MIT prophecy has been fulfilled. There was no path to nor desire for avoidance. I’ve started doing research.⁠50 At apparently one of the worst times in…

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  The Summer Science Program (SSP), which is co-sponsored by MIT, is a 39 day summer program in astrophysics, biochemistry, genomics, or synthetic chemistry. At each campus, 24 to 36 rising…

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  This IAP, I took pottery classes! Between class time, open studio, and one-time workshops, I threw on the wheel for an average of eight hours a week. Every weekend, I…

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025