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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  I’ve gotten into the habit of keeping graveyards for my writing—little, dedicated spaces for my sentences and paragraphs that don’t make the final cut—where I can lay them to rest…

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  I’m gonna be honest: I’ve written and deleted and re-written and deleted this post at least three times now. It’s literally not even that deep of a topic. “Just write…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  I’ve been blogblocked a lot and I’ve been really trying to find something to write about, but every time I start, it feels like I’m not being eloquent or interesting…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  If indeed I post this on time, as of February 9th, 2021, I’ll be twenty years old. Wow. So weathered, so wise.  I’m heading back to Boston in a couple…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 9, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  I loved living in Macgregor. Every weekday, I woke up at 6, brushed my teeth, and stumbled across Memorial Drive to the boathouse. At 6:30 sharp, clad in sunglasses and…

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  hope springs eternal a warm feeling

  

  It’s a beautiful day today in Boston, and looking out the window at the Charles River, recently covered in snow, I can’t help but feel anything but a kind of…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  i’m studying abroad this semester hello europe

  

  Yes, you read that title right. I’m going to be studying abroad this semester! For real! Okay, sadly, it’s a remote program, because *gestures wildly at the state of the world*.…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 7, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  This post contains spoilers for the theme and structure of MIT Mystery Hunt 2021, which are unmarked. This post will contain spoilers for some puzzles, which will be marked. Organizing…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  seven. in magic the gathering, a player’s hand size is seven cards. this is the starting hand size, subject to mulligans, and the maximum hand size. you can have more…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  I was taking a look at my calendar for next week, and I thought that it looked utterly barren. (Thanks, quarantine.) So I thought of something fun to do —…

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  Hello and happy new year (kind of)! I was really bummed out to make this post since I feel like I didn’t accomplish many of the resolutions I planned for…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  After about **checks watch** 47 days of not blogging, returning to writing feels quite odd. There have been many swirling thoughts through my head, so many things I want to…

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  [Guest Post] Things to do while waiting for decisions by emily '22, alison '23, felix '23

  

  Make a 100 layer crepe cake Buy some semi-temporary tattoo ink and make some bad decisions Bike down the steepest hill in your town without dying Peel a strawberry Bake…

  • by kellen manning
  • February 1, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  Walking alone ’cause the night is dead. Crossed my mind when I crossed the bridge. fun.,⁠94 yes, another blog post that includes lyrics by fun. “Walking the Dog” Yet whenever…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult

  

  Ok so I am very late jumping on the Trader Joe’s bandwagon, but I’m finally here to enjoy all of the great things it has to offer! For all of…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 30, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  Well, here we are. By the time you’re reading this – January 29th, 2021 at 5 pm EST, if I actually post this on time – I will no longer…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  A few weeks ago, in a true callback to our high school days, Paolo and I were Protobowling feverishly. For those of you who weren’t quiz bowlers in high school,…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here

  

  At MIT, one inevitably collects a lot of shirts. Like…a lot. There are shirts from random events, from REX/Rush, athletics, internships, and of course, Career Fair. These shirts pile up…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 27, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Out of Context Quoteboard SFW for the blogs, unfortunately

  

  Some of you may recall Shuli’s whiteboard post, and upon this whiteboard were a number of (SFW) out of context quotes. Well, as it happens, most living communities have some…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 25, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  Like most bloggers, as a starry-eyed freshman, I wrote a bio that has not stood up terribly well against the test of time. This isn’t a criticism on how cringy…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021