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• Blog / Personal Travel

  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  This is a guest blog post by my dear friend (and first person I ever met in person at MIT post-CPW) Kylee C. ’23. Few things on God’s green earth…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  Until very recently,⁠01 read, they still haven't kicked me out of the group chat yet. I was the president of Next House, the dormitory where I live. The role of…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  SnowDays while you're waiting for decisions

  

  SnowDays is a snowflake maker, and I think by far the best one. I hate snow, but I like snowflakes. You have this triangle that you draw cuts in, and…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT-vangelion (Pi Day 2023) 3/14/23 at 6:28 PM ET

  

   MIT Regular Action decisions will be available online on Tuesday, March 14, at 6:28 PM ET. To check your decision, visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page.…

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  After **quite** the hiatus,⁠06 *Checks watch* wow I was a sophomore last time I posted... yikes it would probably make sense to say what I have been doing and what…

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  Paper notes I hate taking notes with my iPad, so I went back to good old pen and paper notes this semester. I’m still writing up problem sets on my…

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  what your favorite study spot says about you badly stereotyping places to work on campus

  

  a cursed follow up to this post. note that these are based off general vibes and probably hold no truth to them whatsoever !   Plant Room (Building 46)  …

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  you’re on your own, kid

  

  92 days. Lately everyone seems to be asking me how I am. Are you doing okay? How are you feeling? What’s your emotional state? I find the doting quite flattering,…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I went to TwitchCon and met so many people!!

  

  Back in October of 2022, I flew from Boston to LA and drove two hours to San Diego to attend TwitchCon 2022. Perhaps to no one’s surprise, I’m a huge…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  faith in the future

  

  I don’t even know myself at all I thought I would be happy but now The more I try to push it I realize gonna let go of control In…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  Growing up, I loved to mock tourists. Precisely, of those who would take about a hundred pictures of the most random things you can imagine: palm trees, iguanas, piña coladas.…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  parkinson’s law asserts that work expands to fill the time allotted to it, like a gas does. so i’m telling myself that i need to get this post up by…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  self-destruction my entirely self-inflicted problems

  

  warning: mentions of anxiety, panic attacks, heart attacks. please skip this post if you’re not feeling well   ted chiang’s short story understand explores the consequences of superintelligence. in the…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 27, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  *the footnotes are my current self doing commentary* :p   “hey, I’m stealing free food from florey again. do you guys want anything? KN6OQK” “i wann chimken” “what do they…

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting

  

  I live with three other people. We have a relatively small kitchen, but it’s got a pretty good cabinet setup, with plenty of space for all our communal items like…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  yo-yos, comics, and other adventures my junior spring schedule!

  

  I signed up for a healthy and sane schedule of 48 units and a UROP, but then I realized I could also sneak into a comic book class with the…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  What a wonderful word: anew. Google defines it as “in a new or different and typically more positive way,” which I think perfectly captures my return to MIT after taking…

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  at the South Asian Youth Initiative a New Haven adventure

  

  This weekend, some people from MIT SAAS went to Yale for the South Asian Youth Initiative conference. The purpose of this conference is to create community for South Asians and…

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 22, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  happy singles awareness day

  

  Last week, one of my friends, “Mike”, asked me if I had any Valentine’s Day plans. I didn’t, so he asked me if I wanted to go out to a…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  There is currently a painting staring at me.  It’s perched on top of my bookshelf, at the perfect vantage point to scornfully watch me. It’s a green house, inspired by…

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 21, 2023