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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  [Guest Post] The Alleyway by Isabella Y. '24

  

  During the storms of May, the Charles rages toward the ocean while lightning snaps Boston in two. Most people had already run for their Back Bay brownstones to tea and…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 11, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  here i go again i have watched Mamma Mia! seven times this year

  

  I: Just One Look and I Can Hear a Bell Ring I live on a fairly musical wing of Next House, and every semester, we put up an extensive list…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 9, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Questions from Beyond one last blog

  

  Wait. Why am I here?  For those of you who don’t know, I actually don’t work at MIT anymore. I actually haven’t worked at MIT for a whole week. So,…

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [joint post] unsubscribe see alan's post

  

  [joint post] unsubscribe

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 7, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [joint post] unsubscribe a post about fortune cookies

  

  Alan: Oh boy, here we go again.⁠16 CJ: I find this appropriate given you watched Mamma Mia five times this summer. (Alan: For the record, it’s been seven times in…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 7, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  one There’s this thing called a “cruft house”, when a group of MIT graduates live together after graduation. And the cruft houses I’ve seen have such interesting names, like Castle…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  i. I took thermodynamics last fall, where I realized that a bomb calorimeter was actually a pretty good analogy for my life, and then I decided I had a problem.…

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  I wrote a blog at the end of last summer subtitled “so many different ways to feel lost:” I feel lost on a much deeper level than ever before, and…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / Mailings & Comms

  Be a Blogger 2022!

  

  It is summer in Cambridge, which means that: I am growing an alarming amount of tropical fruit plants on my apartment front stoop there’s a million fun things happening in…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das

  

  Co-written by Rima Das and Amber Velez Amber: One unique characteristic about MIT is its plethora of makerspaces. There are big basement machine shops for meche classes, little makerspaces with…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  solace in the self it's me! cami!

  

  Hi! Hello! Long time no see. It’s weird to be typing again. I feel kind of embarrassed for disappearing for a month from the blogs, especially when the blogs have…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  The first time I ever stepped on a skateboard was in 2015, which was also the year that Marty McFly time-traveled to from 1985 in Back to the Future Part…

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  cw: harassment (noted before the section where it’s mentioned, skip to the next pictures from there if needed!) “What’s your favorite type of metal?” asked a volunteer after Copenhell. We’d…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  Janice: Hey! Thanks for making time for this. CJ: No problem. Janice: I know it’s been months since we’ve last talked, but now that you’ve been here for more than…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  City Strangers a comic

  

  text in the art for accessibility (and because my handwriting is very mediocre): I’m living in New York City this summer. Oh stranger, it’s … a lot.  Brown puddles of…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  A couple weeks back, Winnie reminded me that the Dragon Boat Festival existed⁠59 At some point in my childhood my mom definitely made me read up on traditional holidays, but…

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  i. my first extended stay in the san francisco (henceforth abbreviated as sf) bay area was last spring, when i lived in the city, specifically in the nob hill district…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  Back in September, I wrote my first blog. I called it Things I Know to Be True. It was meant to be a simple introductory post, and I suppose it was, but…

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"

  

  When I applied to be a blogger last summer, “what happened yesterday?” was one of the prompts I responded to. I wrote about finishing my internship work early and spending…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  tea shirt the tea and stories behind the merch in my closet

  

  After a short burst of productivity in January, I proceeded to not write a mere sentence for months on the blogs. This makes the 6-month hiatus my longest dry streak…

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 19, 2022