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  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  (I wrote this entry after spending three months working in Tokyo for use by MISTI - MIT Science and Technology Initiative, an amazing program ... MIT (except for eating noodles, but that would've required a lot more

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  When you let her blog about it, she’ll probably give you this: As with all great blog posts, we begin this one with a screencap: via -screencaps If you think…

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  I’ve been too hosed to write a post that requires beyond-brainstem activity, so instead, enjoy my weekend foray into lifestyle blogging. Saturday 9:00 a.m. For breakfast I eat cereal and…

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  I step off my plane, and immediately spot this amusing sign adorned with cowboy hats:   I step outside and breathe in the toasty evening air. Hot like Vegas (where…

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  've worked on is this Harvard x MIT fanfic my friends and I made in freshman

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  Featuring my sister’s drawings cuz she’s awesome.   I went to China for the first time in 6 years this summer. Although 9th grade of high school didn’t feel all…

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  djent is not a djenre or is it?

  

  Sometime in high school, I was trying to break the ice at a group meeting. I asked everyone, “what kind of music do you listen to?”  Someone laughed nervously, “woahhh…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 22, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  presentations into posters. since i attended the mit microbiome symposium last ... are wearing the mit biology sweatshirt (the front of which can partially ... security at MIT. then i go to the other end of campus again to inoculate an

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  my favorite part of ancient greek literature is its treatment of self-fulfilling prophecies. oedipus’s parents learn that he will kill his father and marry his mother, so they abandon him,…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  Over IAP, I joined the ranks of bloggers who have fallen into the black hole of fiber arts. (It could happen to you! It could happen to anyone!) At the…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every Piece of Media I Consumed in My First Week of Class that was relevant to my studies, i guess

  

  like MIT. Despite being one of the best schools in the country, a lot of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 13, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  In my last blog post, I mentioned that one nice benefit of becoming a Master’s student instead of an undergrad is that I have a bit more free time to…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  This is my favorite poem. Ladies and Gentlemen in Outer Space By Ron Padget   Here is my philosophy: Everything changes (the word “everything” has just changed as the word…

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  every class i went to during the first week of fall all *checks notes* twelve of them

  

  took place in the MIT Nano building and we got n&n's, which I found

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  bumpers a revelation i had while bowling

  

  I’m in Washington, D.C. today for a work trip, so I write this blog post from a hotel room that has not one, but two queen-sized beds. (One is for sleeping and…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  (Guest Post) esolangs oh man

  

  Hello world! I’m Song, I’m currently a freshman here at MIT, and I lived in Jenny’s current room during orientation week before the Next House Housing Lottery switched up everyone’s rooms. In the class

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  This is just one in the onslaught of many posts to come about what the bloggers did during their IAP (aka Independent Activities Period, aka a January term but ~quirky~).…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  Here’s a list of things that I consider love languages, because the standard ones–acts of service, quality time, gifts, words of affirmation, and physical touch–are fine, but love can be…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  you just can’t. you actually can’t. you can try but you can’t. last friday night was the beginning of teammate hunt, a puzzlehunt written with some excellent puzzles. it’s written…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  secondhand stories an allegory

  

  here’s the thing about improv companies. the thing they do most often isn’t putting on shows, but rehearsing. a few years ago i found some improv companies online, and i…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 22, 2021