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• Blog / Announcements

  Welcome our new bloggers! Huzzah!

  

  hometown, and has much to tell you about the virtues of serif fonts in this ... from campus to beaches and shipyards, and liveblogged from the depths of ... cherishes the identities built into the squares and streets of Boston, and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  honest review of MIT dining hall food, sponsored by my lovely [annotation note="i live in Burton-Conner and thus am free from the shackles of a meal plan YIPPEE unlike the majority of my friends. but also lowkey MIT

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dress your wounds and stay in bed self care!

  

  cw: I discuss some injuries with varying amounts of needles and blood ... of the other skills I practiced was self-care. I learned to let myself ... after I ran myself and select members of the engineering department into

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  Saturday and bouncing out of bed. I love wearing headphones in a hipster ... squeezing past thousands - THOUSANDS - of middle- and high-school kids and ... holding signs. I love slipping out of the human river and into the Bush

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.

  

  five hours of sleep last night, but for some reason I'm awake and feeling ... this before, but my summer is very routine and kind of boring. I have ... ?), and kind of interesting. Here we go! 1) Before Wall-E there were

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In the Music Cubes, no one can hear you scream…

  

  of you unfamiliar with the Music Cubes, they consist of three cube ... rehearsal? Or maybe they're giant versions of Minecraft note blocks?) Like much of MIT’s brutalist architecture, the exterior doesn’t exactly scream

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 25, 2024
• Blog / CPW

  an orange tour 🍊🍊🍊

  

  lag and low video quality"]livestream[/annotation]showing the Class of ... with the intention of ever posting it later on (i.e. publishing this blog ... 's easy to lose track of time with pretty murals. I promise I end up walking

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • April 29, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  B1ner Cribs come see 10+ rooms on Burton 1

  

  It's been 16 years since the last installment of Burton 1 Cribs, an extensive tour of rooms on [annotation note="For those who don't know us, we're Burton 1, the first floor of Burton Connor! We love the color blue, bones

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 24, 2024
• Blog / Events

  life, with the brass rat we're halfway there????????????

  

  dancing—which are, of course, fun but it’s really just that. Overwhelming ... where a whole class is together, and this was one of them. It’s fun seeing ... . Everyone wanted a bite out of everyone for photos, which panned out

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 26, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taste ai has no taste.

  

  [judgment] is in brackets, meaning it isn’t part of the original quote. From ... actually went. Me: “A good rule of thumb [in choosing jobs that will not ... mechanical, less human than taste—but of course this often happens in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 20, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2023 i3 videos megapost

  

  As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, rising ... and culture of their residence halls. In the ’90s and early ’00s, these ... with the advent of YouTube/Vimeo/etc they are now posted online

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  most of all, we want it beautiful. VC-talk is speckled with grandiose ... to the linearity of time, hence this preoccupation with the future: the only chunk of our existence that has not yet been determined for us. I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Non-Blinding my junior year(s)

  

  upcoming fall. And this is true: most of the classes I am taking are just ... Laboratory in Mathematics 18.966: Geometry of Manifolds II 24 ... 's kind of tiring. But when I look at the list above, I can't imagine

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Above Ground now breathe

  

  -- that next big thing that'll finally get me out of this slump of emo ... rather boring. I've been feeling like I'm on the brink of something bigger ... my hands dirty. Thankfully, I have a few of those projects happening

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] GetSimmons! Writing is hard, so here's a video game instead

  

  the same dorm touch, they merge into one! Note: The order of dorms ... link here. (Very) rough counts of windows by dorm (all counted by hand by the wonderful creators of this game 🥲): Random Hall: 96 windows

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  Near the start of the pandemic, I decided not to come back to MIT full-time during fall 2020, since I knew I wouldn't get that much out of ... until, at the end, one of the founders asked me how much compensation I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  of us speculated back and forth -- would we know the person already ... thought taking a picture of the snack table would make me look like a rube ... passed -- and then the door opened again and a group of people walked in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an open forum ... comments below civilly and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of our process.

  • by Decisions
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  uk, for the first half of 2022. wouldn't that be exciting? except ... to study somewhere else, but this isn't it. in a stroke of overcommitment i am now a build lead. this means i'm one of the people in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  whiteout conditions forget your mission, just get out alive

  

  stage of grief so demanding" and "maybe you riot for nothing—it's just a ... classes because i genuinely enjoy them, or because of the inertia. what's the point? why am i doing all of this?   https

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 26, 2021