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• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  I was at the park near my grandparents’ place today, picking up graphic novels from a squat library. I gave a wide berth to a mom with her kids at…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  This blog post is an ode to whiteboards, which I love very, very dearly. My own history with whiteboards, how I use them in my life, and perhaps most importantly,…

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / Events

  MIT Mystery Hunt is happening! watch the kickoff at 12 PM EDT today, 1/15

  

  Hello! I’m writing this very, very smol post to tell you that the MIT Mystery Hunt is starting, today, January 15th, at 12 PM EDT. MIT Mystery Hunt is a…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  Today, I have a great idea. Recently I had a conversation with a friend where she admitted to me that she really screwed up academically this semester, and she seemed…

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  In cross country, you hear a lot about running through the pain, but at the same time, avoiding injury. I have deep scars on both knees, from times I’d scrape…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Blogger Pets some serotonin for your noggin

  

  Here are our scaled, feathered, and furred companions for your enjoyment. Name: Coffee Blogger Owner: Mel N. ’24 Nicknames: coffcoff, baby, sweetie, baobei/宝贝 (baby/treasure in chinese), stinky, bendan/笨蛋 (idiot/”stupid egg”),…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 13, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  Looking back, 2020 was a very chill year for me. Ridiculously so, if I’m being honest. To understand what I mean, you need context. For the last couple of years…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  Hi, Cami here. I’m so excited to bring to you this guest blog post by one of my best friends, Emma S. ’23. She is a huge part of rocket…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  what i’m doing this iap 2021 a busy busy house

  

  Hi everyone! Apologies for being gone. I have a lot of blogs backlogged right now and I’m trying to rush through them. Here’s what my house is doing this IAP…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iap: this year vs. last

  

  it’s IAP! I don’t have classes! I can end my day at 5 pm like I could during the summer!!   dance last IAP, I was dancing and choreographing 4-5…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  I’ve been breaking the monotony of quarantine and wearing pajamas all day by doing new things! I’ve wanted to try many of the things listed below for a while but…

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  My Favorite (Kitchen) Things cue julie andrews singing

  

  As I’ve sort of mentioned in previous blogs, I am a big fan of cooking. I was once on a meal plan for about two weeks at the start of…

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  I’ve potatoed so much over the past few weeks of break — lounging in bed for hours, playing games, watching sports, etc. But one not-quite-potato thing that I’ve been doing…

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Iron Mask what i learned from MF DOOM

  

  I knew what I was going to write about next. I was ready. I even had the draft saved in a folder outside of the vortex folder on my desktop…

  • by kellen manning
  • January 2, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  20 Things I Learned In 2020 from a course 20 who is in her 20s

  

  *full disclosure: this post was mainly written for the title* We are so freaking capable of adapting to drastic life changes. It might not feel like it all the time,…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 1, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  In my very first blog post, I laid out a list of the goals that I wanted to accomplish while at MIT. Some were silly, and some were very serious,…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  My dorm, East Campus, is a space made to be shaped by the people within it. Each floor’s walls are covered with murals painted by residents — and where there…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Talent Show ua innovation gets lit

  

  In mid-November, a UA Innovation⁠59 undergraduate committee planned, organized, and hosted an MIT-wide digital talent show. It was a huge success and a great means of bringing the community together…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  One time in Boston, my roommates and I were studying outside near Harvard, where there was a tire swing on a tree. We laid aside our physics psets and played…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  highlights of a hellish semester it's OVER. IT'S FINALLY OVER GOSDAIUOSDSOIJD

  

  okay, so, sophomore fall was brutal. it went from manageable to tedious to outright AWFUL and i’m still recovering from struggling through a class I initially thought was easy. it…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 28, 2020