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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  mit is as a prefrosh, to a rising sophomore whose gone through all the ... grade like back in high school? for example, were you a straight a student ... it. I guess now is as good a time as any to ponder the intricacies of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  opportunity to spend a day or two in foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy ... needed to do were to buy a map, enlist the help of a local, and marry Amber Brkich. A friendly janitor directed us to the subway station and we took an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  Despite being a brief and shallow fan of Hamilton in middle school, I ... , to me, existed as a series of songs someone had compiled in a YouTube playlist. Somehow everyone in the comments was stringing together a coherent

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  a Sunday afternoon just being chronically online, and so i have ... is still wild to me that i'm a grad student at MIT, that i've been ... i will never be a student again, that there is a world in which in 2

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I love musicals! Wicked just dropped and I am LOSING MY MIND

  

  -progress for more than a century ever since L. Frank Baum published The Wonderful ... !!![/annotation]   Here's some fun Kano-lore: Wicked was my gateway musical. A decade ... . Anyways. Having seen Wicked, I’ve been inspired to finally get to a blog

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 29, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  been ups and downs, I think it has been, on the whole, a pretty good ... piano a satisfaction in being able to play decently well, surprisingly, after years of not having practiced; a continuous panic to try and reduce

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  . “Will you go back?” This moment is a snapshot of many conversations I ... , to get some things off everyone’s chest and provide a safe space to ... office. Earlier that month, a slew of Ethiopian political prisoners

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  choose two between school, a social life, and sleep. I tend to think that there’s a way to balance the three as long as you're organized and realize that there are only so many hours in the day. I just didn’t do a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  At the end of January (our Independent Activities Period) I made a promise to the rational, logic-based region of my brain: a promise that I would never, ever, perform in a musical during the semester. Rational Part

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  't remember me, I'm a '10 graduate who once spent three months working in Tokyo ... would be hard-pressed to find a piece of technology as varied in usability ... a little spout at the top for washing your hands when your business is

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

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  Hey everybody. I must confess that if I were not a college admissions officer, I think that I would have had fun trying to be a journalist. I like ... fun people that I have ever met. Andrea Campos is a senior Course 15

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  corridor” has taken on new meanings for me. at mit it refers to a long ... i’m still a little anxious, but i’ve also realized things are not as ... a new lease, changed my hair and speaking style and health routines

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  at are gone (RIP Shinkansen, Steam Cafe, Cafe 4…are food trucks still a ... got a modern makeover; there are multiple brand new buildings changing ... there are just a whole lot of stories to reminisce about and tell over and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Halls are Alive with the sound of mischief :)

  

  less aesthetically appealing–I think MIT has a vendetta against ceilings ... favorites from the past year: Impromptu Concerts There’s a piano sitting in ... .), but my favorite instance was a particular rendition of “All of Me,” by

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  This is a guest blog post by my dear friend (and first person I ever ... euphoria as a southbound train. There ain’t nothing like slowing down to ride ... passenger train receives woefully little love in the US of A, but it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  Hello dear reader! It’s been a long time since I last posted here. I returned from my gap year last September. I knew I’d changed a lot over my ... sharing a story that I felt was still being written. I can’t just pick up

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  secret numerical language everyone seemed to speak and I barely knew a handful of people from CPW. Four years felt like such a long time back then ... still remember getting a whopping 34 on my first midterm at MIT. I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / Events

  2022 Ring Premiere! ring alert: it SHINY

  

  is a Brass Rat? Well, it's a ring that comes in gold, silver, or stainless steel. It has a beaver on it. And a dog. And an owl. So... there are ... Rats for ninety years, and they're a hugely important part of MIT

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  places around and at mit godless and holy

  

  this post is just a filler post so i meet my self-set goal of a blog a week as i'm currently working on a semester recap video blogpost ... yes. if my blogpost were a series, this is a filler episode. One of the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Chasing Success idk what that means anymore.

  

  --------------- I vividly remember the day I received my SAT scores. The sky was a ... ' heads. That girl over on the right had a hovering 1200. And the kid in the back, head laid down on desk seemed to have a 1430. Each turn down the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 5, 2019