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• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  Here are ten important things that happened in the past week. 1. I ... conversation. I discovered that spinach, which I previously considered to be the most healthful food in the world, is actually bad for you, because it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dig if you will a picture. My name appeared in The Tech; now I am immortal.

  

  serves me correctly, the things you're supposed to do are along the lines ... published in The Tech," and that's one that I just never thought would happen ... school newspaper is in the sports section. And hey, you saw it here first

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  "] Map of restaurants I visited over the week.[/caption] Day 1 (Saturday ... officially started...) Maseeh was the only dining hall open that morning, and ... Colombian restaurant near the Boston Logan Airport. Punto Rojo is quite far

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  along with me to the drying apparatus, so while my hair was gently warmed, I inspected the snips of mint green hair that had settled on my black ... track playing quietly in the background, periodically interrupted by the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  subtle ways, the city sends you a message: you could do more; you should try harder. The surprising thing is how different these messages can ... better looking. But the clearest message is that you should be richer

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  of junior fall, I lied to my advisor for the first time. He looked at ... you've handled this many classes in the past, so I'm going to approve ... dropped none of them. The next semester, this semester, I learned to hedge

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  dear kuya i promise this post is mostly in english

  

  here, but when it rains It's as if all the world's water is here] kuya is the tagalog word for "older brother". tagalog does not have a lot of gendered language, but this is an exception; the counterpart of kuya is ate

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  It’s Nice to Meet You Finding my confidence through inline skating.

  

  the inline skate community, one of my first images of a “rollerblader ... living near hills made it too intimidating to learn. The area around MIT ... me moving 5 ft forward in the East Campus courtyard, scared out of my

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • March 29, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  It's that time of the year where everything winds down and you might ... towards the end of high school, my friends and I would religiously check the ... likes our Facebook profile pictures were getting. At the end of it all, we

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  drew a mail carrier. I only know this because the crayon drawing still exists, in some scrapbook in the back of the kitchen closet. I don ... job at the time. During primary school, I remember wanting to be a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Robots, Space, and the Stories In-Between Using Sci-Fi to Procrastinate

  

  -fi is part of where I get my inspiration for wanting to be a part of the ... the school year in between my work hours this summer and decided to ... : If Star Wars and Dune had a baby, Foundation would be the child. This show

  • by Richard O. '28
  • July 30, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  welcoming our new bloggers! baby bloggers? baby bloggers!!

  

  campus, settling into their new dorm rooms for the year; classes are starting, with so many cool things to be learned; and as of today, the world ... 's like to take Thermo, or all the cool traditions in their dorm, or their

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  who represented the United States at the International Chemistry Olympiad the summer after ninth grade. It’s easy to forget how smart he is ... don’t feel out of my depth. Chris is starting his PhD in the fall

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  you're doing. CJ: It's been great! I like the company so far. Janice ... … Xian: I used to worry about being the oldest intern in our cohort, since I'm two years into my master's program. The first few weeks, I was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  bored in iap maybe i should've signed up for something

  

  bored. so i'm writing this blog post. (how does it feel to be the friend ... , because god is it cold outside. my how fast the seasons change [carousel ... them, but things i've done so far include bacon and rice, the ground beef

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 13, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA decisions to be posted Saturday, 12/18/21, 3:14 PM ET i guess the title kind of says it all, huh?

  

  ...and...well...here’s the announcement blog you’ve been waiting for? kellen: Ella! Jenny! I ... early action, and because you are the closest in age to the 2026s and I am the furtherest from them, I want your help. Sooo, what I should say to

  • by kellen manning
  • December 13, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  day one welcome back

  

  Day one, again. Campus is different than before. The doors don ... adventures in far-flung cities. Most who are still around are the ones who stepped away from MIT during the pandemic, like me. I'm taking mostly

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  i. The days wheeled past like a flock of starlings, and suddenly 2021 is two-thirds over. To celebrate the newly abandoned month, I play ... , blinking into the mid-afternoon sunshine, trying to recall how I got here

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  well, well look who's inside again

  

  'interesting now leave me alone' I don't think I've given myself the proper time to process the fact that I'm living through a pandemic. I've expressed ... " and the responses I get are usually somewhat bland. "Everyone wasted a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 11, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You should get this bundle right now definitely clickbait

  

  I'm taking a break from playing all the video games in this video ... the games I've enjoyed from it that'll hopefully convince you to get it ... a Landlord is a deckbuilding roguelike, much like Slay the Spire

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2021