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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Read Some Science Fiction You'll see why in a bit

  

  program, I spend a lot of time there. It's a research facility that ... science fiction books and then create a final project based off an idea from ... . Good enough view? Not for me either. So I got a closer one. Its a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 16, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  I recently bought a pair of rollerblades for $8 from the Garment District - Cambridge's "alternative department store", featuring a giant heap of clothes in a pile being sold at a dollar fifty a pound - and I think

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  I'm on a 13-hour flight from San Francisco to Tokyo, connecting ... 'm sitting in the emergency exit row directly behind a bathroom - but rather to ... hallucinogens out of the US, or that I have a small plant in my pocket that needs

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Moving Out oooh, I am, moving out, mmhmm..

  

  while rooming in Burton-Conner is done on in a complex floor-by-floor system based upon class rank and whether you've lived in a double or single the previous term, I moved in last and thereby got put into a pretty

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] Your Guide to Boston Cafes a letter from chomps

  

  Jess: This is a guest post by my friend Grace Z. '25! I met her through a summer program last year and we've since bonded over concerts, good food, and all MIT assorted things. I invited her to write a post

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  , along the Charles River in a place called Cambridge, a bright-eyed, eighteen-year-old baby boy was born. In his future lies a childhood, with all its requisite promises and challenges; in his past lies a strong

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  towards the advancement of underserved communities. Alia Whitney-Johnson, a ... teaching the art of jewelry making to eighteen Sri Lankan young mothers in a ... assist the shelter, called Ma-Sevana, by a writing fundraising letter. But

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  : Igor Belakovskiy ’02. Hi! I’m a rising senior studying Mechanical ... with you because I think a lot of you might be like me and would feel the ... : Growing up, I never thought I’d become a college rower. I was a swimmer in

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015
• Blog / Events

  A not-so-typical day in the post-FYRE life Reporting live from ESP's Firestorm

  

  I wrote the majority of this post a week ago, then slept, and lost my ... Saturday August 31. - I'm sitting in 4-237 (a classroom with nice tiered ... ! -Common Failures of Class Scheduling -Make a Website! -GIRs: How They Work

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  up a heaping dose of pain in the form of academic expectations. If you ever want to know the surface area of a golf ball with radius 3cm covered ... you yearn for a simpler time, a quieter time. A time when the internet

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  , all old things returning.) We walked to a boulangerie and ate the best pastries I’d ever had: croissants, a baguette, a squishy thing, a glazed ... really, for how quickly it was dredged up again, like the structure of a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  on my butt) around the ice rink a couple of times, sans costume. But that was as close to a celebration as I had come in quite a few years. A ... phone when I discovered a picture of 6 or 7 year old me dressed up as a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITWE Goes Digital We stan Fred in this household 😤

  

  website outages, it’s easy to forget nowadays that MIT is a tech school ... " align="aligncenter" width="225"] Spot the clarinet. (I'm using a drawstring bag here, but I had to use a literal trash bag with an elastic band

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Macarrones con Queso, Tocino y Jalapeño para los Indigentes haciendo algo más grande que yo

  

  secundaria y universitaria que comparten historias similares a la mía, me ayudó a darme cuenta de lo que todos estamos luchando. Pero lo más ... muchas otras personas estaban dispuestas a hacer lo mismo. Hace

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 10, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Finals Week at MIT Free food, procrastination, cats, free food...

  

  .  The cats are taking the hit from it the most - we've spent a lot of time ... finals week.  My hall has a lot of really awesome traditions, and the seniors started a new tradition this year. They made a "senior gift" for the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 19, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  -blocking girth and...er, sleeping habits, I suppose. (Yes, I happen to be a less ... amazed, out of my suite kitchen one night, the sound of a cadre of people ... company.)   And I bet you thought I couldn’t find a Pok

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  Leaders (NCCWSL).   I had gone the whole weekend without a picture until a few minutes before I left. Quick! Stand next to the official ... family supported my interests, whether I said I wanted to be a teacher, a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  on my way to biology recitation, I was stabbed by a deep, instinctive ... foot through many a congested intersection to the Cambridgeside Galleria in order to obtain a pair of shoes on a tax holiday (Columbus would

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Simply Brothers Finding brothers and brotherhood in MIT's fraternities.

  

  I grew up in a house composed almost entirely of girls. Genetic odds ... always wanted to have a brother. Last Saturday, that dream came true ... of you already know, since early September I have been a member of Phi

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedules are up!

  

  schedule for the next term, but this takes place several months before a term ... taking 7.31 (Current Topics in Mammalian Biology), a seminar-style upper ... 's a requirement for biology majors to graduate, and I'm a senior this

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 18, 2005