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• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  “What will you major in?” asked one of my senior year teachers. “I don’t think majors matter,” I responded, with the overconfidence of any seventeen-year-old. “I’ll just take classes I…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  After a year and a half on a forced meal plan, I have now been freed from the shackles and am finally cooking for myself again. The first thing I…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  Just like that, freshman year has come and gone. It’s weird to think that I’m already a quarter of the way through my time at MIT, but the world works…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tech is Hell we are happy, tech is hell

  

  The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 13, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  what the f*** am i doing this summer still don't know if i'm going abroad or not lol

  

  job-wise, this has been an absolute rollercoaster of a year so far. I’m EXHAUSTED. I was supposed to do MEET⁠26 a program where MIT students travel to Israel every year…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  well, well look who's inside again

  

  cw: suicide ment in lyrics if you’d had told me a year ago that i’d be locked inside of my home (aah) i would’ve told you a year ago ‘interesting…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 11, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You should get this bundle right now definitely clickbait

  

  I’m taking a break from playing all the video games in this video game bundle to tell you that you should buy it. Here’s a list of some of the…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT gave my pod free art supplies!! and despite being hosed, we used them

  

  In January, I heard about an Arts at MIT initiative that provides grants of between $50 and $250 to pods and virtual groups for art supplies. The intention was to…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 7, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  up. In the past month, there have been moments when hope and joy have surprised me; where, despite the odds, my heart is full to bursting, bringing a certain buoyancy…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  Welcome to the first of the many blogs I have meant to write but just not had the energy to do so this semester! Let’s get right into it… In…

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  The very first blog post I published on the blogs was a play on the inflight passenger announcement that precedes take off. That first blog post was a witty combination…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  remember me on family

  

  Know that I’m with you The only way that I can be Until you’re in my arms again Remember me I remember how hard I had sobbed when I finished…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 1, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  Whether I like it or not, my senior year at MIT is coming to a close. Classes are done, grades are in, and I’m beginning a senior-year road trip with…

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Listing It All Out you get a list and you get list and you get a list

  

  Places To Take A Nap On Campus, Ranked Barker Library – The pin drop silence of the reading room is honestly better suited for taking naps than studying in my…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  A few days ago, I was talking with Nisha and other friends, and the subject of what we learned at MIT came up. Now that this semester’s over, I’ve done…

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  *CW:  Death, Rejection, Anxiety* I have been wanting to write a reflection on the past year for a while now. A lot has happened in the past couple of months.…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Senior Week On The Blogs!!! oh no, we’re all so old

  

  Well would you look at that, it’s finals week at MIT.  Which means that for a few of your friendly neighborhood bloggers, it’s also our last week on the blogs.…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  9.00 with no context are you a cool rat?

  

  This past semester I took Intro Psychology at MIT with Professor Gabrieli. He’s an incredibly intelligent and engaging professor that has some of the most interesting and fun lectures I’ve…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Thirteen Theses on Wide Tim In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false.

  

  But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the appearance to the essence… illusion only is…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  secondhand stories an allegory

  

  here’s the thing about improv companies. the thing they do most often isn’t putting on shows, but rehearsing. a few years ago i found some improv companies online, and i…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 22, 2021