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• 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
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  I wasn’t actually planning on writing a start of semester post this time around, mostly because I feel like there are metaphysically bigger things to blog about. But, since it’s…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  MIT told us that we need to quarantine ourselves, and interact only with ... , the real reason it feels so good, is that MIT is about the people, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  There are two meals I’ve had consistently this quarantine: for breakfast, I have an egg sandwich with tea, and for dinner, I have the juiciest, most delicious chicken and quinoa.…

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 16, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  Diving In transforming myself into a cs bro

  

  I’ve always been very open and honest with my struggles with computer science in an effort to document my journey through this twisty and windy field. For so long, I…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  the one where i talk to ameer what is real again?

  

  So, let me set the scene for the garden-level Admissions office.⁠13 Some would call it the basement There’s me, in front of me is the Jeremy, behind me is Ariel,…

  • by kellen manning
  • April 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious

  

  Last semester was pretty rough, and I vowed to make this semester different. I tried to get into a fifth class and didn’t (it was too oversubscribed), so instead I’m…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 10, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  I had a plan for this blog post: I was going to build a loft⁠15 Quick loft backstory: East Campus gives us a lot of furniture freedom, and many people…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  I wake up a minute before my alarm goes off, at 8.59 am. This has been happening for the last two weeks, and I don’t know why. I bitterly get…

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  ): I actually tried to ASE Biology when I entered MIT, but I got a D on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Events

  media we’ve been into recently musicals, food videos, memes, and misc.

  

  In our last post, we mentioned that we were next going to blog about our urops. We recently found out, from one of our supervisors, that we actually cannot blog…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 9, 2018