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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  Back in my first semester, I wrote a lot. I had spare hours each day, and if I wanted to write, I would. If I wanted to spend an hour…

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  oh, the crash and the burn

  

  As evident from my last blogpost, I’m doing a lot and it’s taken a toll on me. So much so, in fact, that I’ve finally crashed. So I have COVID,…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  The Problem: A reviewer went “You guys did things while assuming that cells exchange their water in the matter of milliseconds. Proof?” The Science Problem: How fast does water get in/out…

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  tetacats the furry fish of tetazoo

  

  For context, Tetazoo is the name of the cat friendly hall that I live on, and we currently have four furry residents.⁠05 and an unspecified number of residents who identify…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  content warning: mentions of calorie counting, vague eating disorder related things, body image, body weight, physical appearance My relationship with food, health, and fitness has always been rocky. I don’t…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept by julia p. '24

  

  here’s a blogpost from my friend julia! Hey! My name is Julia Pockat and I am a physics major in the class of 2024. This week is eating disorder awareness…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 23, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  In this blog post, I’ll share the saga of the Class of 2022’s Ring Delivery, from its initial conception to its pandemic cancellation to its surprising revival. I’ll also share…

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  spoilers for the movie arrival (and by extension, the novella story of your life) i. people who haven’t been in relationships tend to think the hardest part is initiation. as…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  knot again my spread for Infinite Magazine Issue 9

  

  Last summer, Kidist and I wrote about our experience with Infinite Magazine, MIT’s fashion and design publication. Since then, little has changed, but a lot has happened. Kidist is still…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 20, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Caring for the body health, am i right?

  

  Content warning: overt sexual content, reference to suicide. Last night I watched the MIT Monologues, formerly known as the Vagina Monologues, a yearly production run by campus group The F-Word.…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  You know, lately, I’ve been hearing this sound. Everywhere I go, like a tick, tick, tick. — tick, tick…BOOM! (2021) Recently, I’ve had this overwhelming feeling creeping up on me,…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mocha Show ’22: Mo’Mixtape creating and performing a dance showcase, from start to finish

  

  i’m on the hip-hop dance team Mocha Moves. every February, we put on a show that’s composed of dances choreographed and performed solely by us. the show has 14 dances,…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 16, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  tired and busy and tired and busy and tired and busy and

  

  A couple updates: I quit two of my jobs I’m taking 4 classes and two of them are technicals and two of them are not, but one of the not-technical…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 15, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  My sophomore year of high school I ate too many donuts. When I woke up realising my stomach was twisting, I called out instinctively for my parents. They woke up…

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  the fox will make sense later I want to major in computer science. I have plenty of experience in other fields like biomedical engineering and robotics because I was also…

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Events

  2024 ring premiere! amogus??

  

  The 2024s got their first look at the class ring on Friday! Having a class ring, or Brass Rat, is an integral part of the MIT experience. It’s a tradition…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  Like many of you, I have been playing Wordle, a game where you try to guess a 5-letter word given information about letter locations, and I have been playing it…

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine

  

  Friday nights are great. Assuming you’re not in one of those classes that has assignments due Friday at midnight,⁠47 truly the worst Friday nights bring the freedom of having no…

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  This is just one in the onslaught of many posts to come about what the bloggers did during their IAP (aka Independent Activities Period, aka a January term but ~quirky~).…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  Last time I wrote a blog about my academic life, back in November, I was going through a major crisis – by which I mean a crisis about my major,…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022