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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Infinite Magazine [joint post with Kidist A.]

  

  What is Infinite Magazine? Infinite is a student-run magazine seeking to reframe art, politics, culture, and aesthetics through the lens of fashion. It was launched in print and online in…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 27, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  In the spring, I bought a polaroid, walked around campus, and took pictures of the places that were memorable to me in some way. Eighteen months between me and the…

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  how can i keep from singing? a midpoint check-in

  

  one. For the past two weeks, I’ve been spending my evenings singing in a choir. The Boston Conservatory is running a program for high-school students interested in pursuing singing in…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  i’ve joined a sorority and what that means to me

  

  You’ll recall in this blogpost I talk about joining Greek life and dorm life and all of that. TLDR: I did continuous open recruitment for two different sororities, ended up…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 21, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  just gonna talk about things i’ve been up to lately. fall is already coming so quickly. we’ve been planning for rush since the spring, of course, but right now it…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  Part I August 2020: I read a stray comment in the blogger slack that sets off a chain of thoughts in my head. Pulled by some force I can’t name,…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  eternal dissatisfaction wish i could write more, care less

  

  one here is one of my tiny struggles over the past few weeks, and it mostly centers on feeling good about my output. i’ve talked about my attitude with work…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  I’ve had my fair share of time with roommates and friends in the past year and I’ve learned a lot. I lived for the first time with friends in a…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  I decided this summer was the summer I’d get my life together, once and for all. For the last several summers, I’ve floundered in a soup of confusion and unease…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  “I’m going to UROP this summer!” I told my mom over the phone. Later, I was telling my sister about hunting for a place in Boston, and she said, “Aren’t…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goal setting and organization how i organize my life!

  

  I often get asked how I organize my life, my time, and whatnot and while I’m not the most organized person in the world, I thought it’d be nice to…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  .nano pixels developing a love for pictures, reverb

  

  Main Street, near Kendall (I think) While snapping this picture, a thought pulsed through my head. Remember how it all came back with an email? You should write something about…

  • by Waly N. '24
  • July 2, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2021!

  

  For the last six years now, I have started this post with a jaunty list of summer activities. Like last year, things are still a bit pandemic disrupted, but here…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2021 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  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…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  Last week, I wrote all about the classes I took this past year. It was originally meant to be a one-off post, but in writing it, I found myself having…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, per se a selection of fantastic dishes, part 2

  

  Bonjour. It’s me, Jacky, again. More than a year ago, I wrote a somewhat arrogant and definitely premature blog post⁠58 Link to previous blog post. on my freshman fall cooking…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 24, 2021
• 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