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• 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
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  I chose to stay on-campus this summer because I knew that if I went home, I’d just be playing Minecraft all day. So I set myself a basic summer plan:…

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova a selection of dishes, part 3

  

  Ciao. It is I, Jacky of the French Dormitory. My culinary journey, as faithfully published here on the blogs by CJ, started freshman fall, when I explored traditional dishes from…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 7, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  Last Sunday, one week ago, I moved out of East Campus. The hours right before were full — packing, friends, watching the sunrise, goodbyes, a nap, more goodbyes, more packing…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  Super Sketchy Background Activity the experiment, part 3

  

  Two years ago I posted about an experiment that lead to the creation of the Super Secret Student Marketing Team. At that time it was just Alison ’23, Emily ’22,…

  • by kellen manning
  • June 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  by the time you notice it’s too late anime, bloons, and piano

  

  i. i watched the anime attack on titan last year and liked it a lot. there’s one short scene i want to talk about in this post; it is probably…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 4, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  the awful thing about having three project classes is that the last two weeks⁠26 (realistically, one week) of the semester are spent in a sleep-deprived and over-caffeinated haze, probably at…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  “this guy is extremely shirtless,” jeff says, pulling up a messenger profile. i peer over at his phone, and indeed, the guy is quite shirtless. it’s tuesday the 24th and…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  I love cities, and I’ve lived in cities all my life. I grew up in Manila, lived three years in Boston, and am now spending the summer in San Francisco.…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2022 i3 videos megapost

  

  As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, rising first years typically consult MIT guide to residences while choosing where to live. This guide includes the Interactive Introduction to the Institute (I3)…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  alternate titles include: on taking too many damn classes; should we take less than 60 units? As of writing this, I’m finished with my sophomore year, halfway through MIT. I’m…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  I’m sitting on the floor of my dorm room.⁠42 I am actually sitting in a coffee shop in Arizona, finishing this blog many months later, because I got too hosed…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  one. it’s nice to have slack in your schedule. and by slack, i don’t mean laziness, or the messaging app. in business, before slack became ubiquitous as a professional chat…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  you & i will always be back then time is an illusion that helps things make sense

  

    [warning: contains spoilers for the cartoon show adventure time] lessons learned I recently finished watching Adventure Time, a fantasy cartoon written by Pendleton Ward that follows Finn the Human…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  The other day, I skivved off studying for thermodynamics and instead biked to D-Lab to weld. I’d started a new project two weeks before finals, and planned that it would…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  i’ve been thinking, recently: in times of need, who takes care of me? of course, growing up, the answer was my family. i woke up one morning craving the napa…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  In my junior year of high school, I had a phase of telling everyone about how I was going to make my dress for senior prom. I had never used…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  defense the other bloggers didn’t believe i could write a post about basketball

  

  i. basketball everything in this section is only approximately correct. basketball is a complicated sport and there are many exceptions to every principle i’ve been watching basketball on-and-off for a…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  In my dorm, East Campus, residents are allowed to paint the door to their room. Unlike murals on the walls, which generally have to be approved by the hall (or…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  My freshman year is almost over honest thoughts on it

  

  I have two finals left as I write this, 3.091⁠53 Introduction to Solid State Chemistry. Satisfies the Chemistry GIR. and 7.014.⁠54 Introductory Biology. Satisfies the Biology GIR. I should feel…

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 16, 2022