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• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  I took a test early last week for my Japanese language and culture class.⁠01 21G.S55: Japanese V I woke up early that morning to study for it, scrubbing the sleep…

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  As a resident of Simmons, one of the farthest dorms from Main Campus⁠05 east of Massachusetts Ave., where most of the academic buildings are , I spend a lot of…

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  Hey folks, it’s been a while. I’ve been very focused and not in a writing mood for the last couple months, but I’m back and I’m excited to start cooking.…

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  How do you raise hundreds of thousands of dollars, design the merch that defines half of campus fashion, build software that powers hackathons from around the world, and do everything…

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  In Milan I was constantly toeing the line between speaking solely in English, which I feared would make me seem like an entitled American who thought the whole world should…

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how the first midterms actually were xoxo gossip girl?

  

  Contrary to popular (and probably well-founded) belief, I once was psychic. Not only did I successfully predict the 2021 Pantone Color of the Year (with a Google Slideshow as evidence)…

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 15, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  MIT is a weird school. Seriously. If I asked you to picture a normal scene on this campus, you would probably be wrong (very, very, wrong). In the past month,…

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  I’m a crusty senior now, so I have no fun and sparkly adventures to write about like the first-year bloggers have been doing (at least not for this week). However,…

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  climbing the wall why so defeatist?

  

  There are a lot of phrases in the english language that can be used to describe me- “athletically inclined” is not one of them. I can appreciate and enjoy a…

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • October 7, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  Summer in Alaska, I learned this July, is an exuberant, unrestrained triumph of nature. For just a few months, the landscape alters dramatically: the snow folds into itself & the…

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Halls are Alive with the sound of mischief :)

  

  Let’s face it, MIT’s campus is not known for being the most gorgeous of all college campuses. I personally like the mix of ultra-modern glass and steel, traditional marble, and…

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  Last year when deciding which colleges I wanted to apply to, I had one priority over all else: living on a coast. I’m sorry all states from Utah to Virginia,…

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  I step off my plane, and immediately spot this amusing sign adorned with cowboy hats:   I step outside and breathe in the toasty evening air. Hot like Vegas (where…

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  turning back time now your clock can follow the right hand rule!

  

  I spent this past summer⁠75 and also the summer before that at Canada/USA Mathcamp, where I lived five weeks in Tacoma, Washington doing some math and a lot of camp.…

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  I don’t know where I’m going to be a year from now. That’s never really happened to me before. Preschool through college, it was kind of obvious that, duh, I’d…

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In the Music Cubes, no one can hear you scream…

  

  … which just goes to show what a great job the acoustics engineers did on soundproofing the building! I got to experience it first-hand last week, and it was pretty…

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 25, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  additional context: hello! the writing below was my first ever attempt at blogging—funnily enough, i only started this writing to apply to be a blogger. while i read it now…

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  SLP-F9FD20PWLMX0 I primarily use my iPad, SLP-F9FD20PWLMX0 to take notes during class. SLP is a tough, no nonsense master of productivity, with a work ethic I admire greatly. Offering me…

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pics from the WMBRBQ! Do You Like College Radio??

  

  Hello friends!! The semester has started, and I have been SWAMPED with work. I got all excited with the new semester and joined some new clubs, but didn’t drop any…

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  It was the morning of the second or third day of classes and I had brewed jasmine tea at the pika⁠99 My very cool independent living group! kitchen counter and…

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024