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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  assassins – a liveblog day 7: five remain

  

  last updated: october 22, 5:15 pm   my hall, 2E of Next House, has an annual fall tradition in which we play a hall-wide game of assassins. the premise is…

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  something truly to be said about the masochism of MIT students, and as I was ... cliched metaphor! Kids, climbing Fuji is like going through MIT in a lot of ... the 7th station I used my expertly honed-at-MIT abilities of being able

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  My hometown is a real-world manifestation of the phrase “the wrong side of the tracks.” In fact, I’m from the wrong side of TWO tracks. In Middletown, NJ, the residents…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  for the previous semester, but in standard MIT fashion, I ran out of

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 2)

  

  also places to buy food around MIT and some useful non-food things to ... adventurous you should also try some of the other options around MIT, organized ... ever by Maggie L. ‘12 How to get around MIT hunger pangs by Sadie

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  to MIT 3 years ago, I made a choice. And then I kept making choices

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  14/01/2025 20:00 this IAP, i am in Tenerife for 12.411 (astronomy field camp), which is an observational astronomy lab intensive class that satisfies the thesis requirement for astronomy minors and…

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  This year I read 20 books. Here they are in a tier list, ranked based on personal enjoyment/emotional impact and not at all on literary merit or perceived quality, because:…

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  and information - 6.7800 This is MIT's grad inference and information

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  Last weekend, I took a short solo trip up to New York to see the Whitney Biennial! I’ve wanted to go to the Whitney Museum of American Art for years,…

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  ‎ The water is painted with soft teal waves and tinged with an amber glow. I’m sitting on a cold concrete slab, where the tides would normally spill over. I…

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  . Analysis - 18.100B This is one of MIT's intro analysis course. It was

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  I thought about this post while laying in a fetal position under an oppressively large comforter. A few days ago, my period cramps were as bad as they had ever…

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  flowers of fire and light making art with printed circuit boards!

  

  My favorite poi spinning pattern is the four-petaled antispin flower. If you do it neatly, it traces out the path parameterized by these equations: x = cos(t) + 3/4 cos(-3t)…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 16, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  It’s cold down here, and dark, so I’ll keep this one brief. I’m in the common room, where the radiator is off. The German woman rooming with me tonight voices…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  “Where have you been?” Dear Reader, I’m not sure if I can begin to even explain where I’ve been. At the risk of sounding edgy, I’ve spent the past month…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  *the footnotes are my current self doing commentary* :p   “hey, I’m stealing free food from florey again. do you guys want anything? KN6OQK” “i wann chimken” “what do they…

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  Reading is one of the few real hobbies I've managed to hold onto throughout my time at MIT, not that I have much time to read during the semesters. Still, it's nice to look back at the past year, which has been a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  (fun challenge: drink water every time you read the word Missouri.) At CPW this April, every time I met someone new, I had to be prepared to answer and ask…

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  It’s been—checks watch—two weeks since I last posted, which is a week’s gap longer than usual. Oops! As part of 21W.765 Interactive Narrative, we were assigned to read Raymond Queneau’s…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022