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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [joint post] unsubscribe a post about fortune cookies

  

  Alan: Oh boy, here we go again.⁠01 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 / Uncategorized

  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 existed⁠44 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
• Blog / Summer

  bay area parties well, two of them

  

  in the last two weeks, i’ve been invited to two parties in the bay area. the first one was an invitation from a co-intern, who sent it in a group…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 15, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  Monday, June 13th. 9:33 pm, in the back of Öz Konya Kebab: brightly lit, with LED lights on the ceiling that ease through the rainbow. I am not raging against…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  I did not graduate on time. At first, I thought, I’m not one of those people. I was a good student. I defined myself by that quality more than I…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  Starting anything is hard. In fact, starting is often the hardest part, which is a lesson I feel like I am always learning. I haven’t been blogging very much recently,…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022