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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  pinned to a corkboard after only two hours of professional stalking. I ... long ethernet cables for the lights from the loading docks), but I did fill the whiteboard with various drawings. I wanted something truly

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  gel thickening agent. I’ve been at MIT for a while: this is my sixth REX, and this time, I am on assignment with MIT Technology Review. Together with photographer PJ I’m covering Residence EXploration, a multiple

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  , I’ve written about this before (here , here, and here), but I thought I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular ... conversation starter. I’m surprised that the song, "It sucks to be me," isn

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  and, well -- I read this before I came to MIT and thought it was one of the funniest things ever. I lol'd and lol'd, and then Melis wrote a ... , would register up to four votes per second for MIT. I smell another poll

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  bad – "GOOD MORNING SUNSHINE," The Narcissist Cookbook I know I usually ... left me more keenly aware of situations where I may feel trapped and have ... rolling waves of panic I had on the flight back to Boston). Thinking about

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  Before You Graduate" for her graduating class. That was right when I entered MIT. Now, four years later, I get to post my own version - courtesy of Grace '11, since I have long since lost my own copy due to the chaos

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  Some Notes, because I’m myself:  Title is loosely based off of the Agust D song 어땠을까 here; I’m not usually one for lyrics, but these ones are quite fitting. I recommend, though, listening to Sorry-Grateful here

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  a tree. in my freshman year, i aimed to get my [annotation note="general institute requirements, classes we have to take to graduate. in this case, i ... my amazing first year advisor, adam albright. i was disappointed about

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  "Why did you come back?" "Well, I'm—I'm a queer Asian...person, so..." "You felt seen." "Yeah." Imagine a fish out of water. When I was growing up, I was always the odd one out. Growing up in South Dakota, I was

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  Some people may remember the sporadic posts that I made in this ... "]viral[/annotation] and some remained fairly unread, but I *think* that most of them ended ... it is. A map of all the places that I loved at MIT, color coded and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  top.  Since Reddit tends to cycle through content pretty routinely, I'll reproduce the post here: I'm a senior in high school this year, and will be graduating come June. I have had all A's throughout high school except for last

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  I am starting this post on Thursday, April 8, 2021, and today, it could be a little bit warmer. I’ve been sitting outside the Stud for about half an hour, eating my lunch, and the wind is getting to me. I could

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  things other than science, technology, or engineering”, and I would like ... alone here :) ) Before I had friends, I had books. For those of you who ... of you who were will know what I’m talking about. The universes within

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  last year, i got an email from sandy, the head of house at east ... , and i've unfortunately since [annotation note="this is a tangent, but i ... naievete and fomo until i met chris, who deletes almost every email she

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  So I was looking through some old notes that I was working on for this blog- topics to cover, questions to answer, stuff like that, and I came across a collection of things that I had written which can most

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  part of that process, I polled the bloggers on blogging features and ... they want to write but can’t have the blog be associated with them. I ... has. The earliest post I can find that was centrally "about" LGBTQ+ life

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  i. I visited my high school over the winter break. I came back to my hometown in Alabama during the second week. I was staying in Georgia with my ... that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  A few weeks ago, I stumbled across a Twitter thread describing the ... adversities she has experienced as well as her awards. I’ve read articles that ... of a permanent house[annotation note="To be very clear, I do not want

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  questions, but I'm trying to catch up now that I'm home, so please bear with me if I haven't written back to you in the past few weeks. This ... portray a certain pessimism that I've been encountering a lot lately being

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  For those of you curious about life after MIT, I recently wrote this blog to share some of my thoughts. I've gotten lots of love and feedback ... graduation). --------- A couple weeks ago, my friend pointed out that I had

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016