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• Blog / MIT Life

  College students do eat real food! ...sometimes. I now present: the culinary adventures of Laura and April.

  

  I may not have alluded to this before, but my roommate, April, is ... she got back, she showed off the things she bought. "Look, I finally found a table cloth! And salt and pepper shakers!" Meanwhile, I was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We are the people in your neighborhood… On MIT's diversity

  

  First off, sorry I haven't posted in a while, it's been an intense yet fun week, and I'll probably blog about that this weekend. But on a ... , I embarked on the adventure of producing a documentary about the

  • by Bryan
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore accumulations because i miss show and tell

  

  This week, as classes began to die down, I told a friend: "the only thing I gained this year was academic hardship." Sophomore year tends to be the year when things 'get real', at least as a Mech-e, and I found

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  Finals season is well and officially upon us, but I couldn’t help but feel the itch to blog. So, I turned to the world’s best enabler- a coin ... ![/caption] Recently, I had a person ask me: “you know it’s bad luck to be superstitious

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 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 ... high school didn’t feel all that long ago, I could only remember a few blurry memories of restaurants, relatives, and a zoo. I flew over to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  sunscreen physical health and stuff

  

  at the ripe age of twenty-one i am beginning to feel my body weaken ... : i notice myself feeling cold much more easily now. as a kid and teenager i could walk in shorts in 40 degree (fahrenheit) weather without any

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 4, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  This summer, I got a side gig to put up chalk art in the Welcome Center, which opened last year. I use these two blackboards that have ... . Every week, I've been putting chalk art up on one of the boards, as well

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  City Strangers a comic

  

  mediocre): I’m living in New York City this summer. Oh stranger, it’s … a lot ... . Narrow scaffolds under which I’m barely squeezing past crowds. Seeing so ... and I hold onto the same pole as the C express train zooms halfway

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  we do some memeing around these parts memes i've made so far on campus

  

  I love memes. I can't help it—I'm a Gen Z'er, so I grew up on the ... vital part in my communication toolbox. I also draw and [annotation note="i don't actually use adobe photoshop. i taught myself how to edit images

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  applying to MIT, I knew I really, really had to write some damn good essays because I didn't feel like I had the stats and awards to bolster me up to acceptance level material. I wanted to give a short rundown of what my essay

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  When I brought up at a blogger meeting that I was thinking about ... course I had to say, "Now I'm definitely writing a blog post about ... own Canadian format, called Reach for the Top, so I didn't (and still

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  I checked my Timehop today and saw a tweet about how I was stressed ... , college applications were at the forefront of my mind. I scrapped essays relentlessly and questioned everything about myself, whether the things I liked

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Beacon St. and Marlborough St. Rooftops and flowers on two streets in Boston.

  

  during my MEng, I’ve fallen hard in love with this city—Cambridge, then ... gardens. I love our long, long, daylong and nighttime walks. I love feeling thoroughly exhausted. When I close my eyes at night I see castles, green

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A White Christmas Escaping Boston to go to more snow

  

  snowy mountains. (I always find it funny that I look forward to going home ... holiday is cluttered with things I said I'd do during the semester and didn't have time to do. But with things lining up now, I can finally take the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 25, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Snowsical The blizzard of February 13th

  

  When I woke up this morning, I checked my Facebook (as any good ... ; ♫Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh this is the street I cross everyday. The cars slush and turn all the ... .♪ ♫Close up of the red thing in front of a building that's orange, Oh how I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Night Vision Funny how "photo"graphy throws you into the dark

  

  This semester I’m taking Intro to Photography. For the first half of ... time-consuming. I spent countless hours over the last many weeks pouring ... long I’ve been doing each aforementioned action. It’s brainpower

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  sign with black letters: 'Having Abandoned My Search For Truth…I Am Now Looking For A Good Fantasy." I stood in that entrance hall for a solid ... ambiance and the kinds of people I saw wandering around (you can recognize

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  GTL the secret to a successful summer

  

  a recipe for my amazing summer, I could only tell you what I ... Daiso Japan in Berkeley sells these for 1.50. I imagine they work ... choice 10 more excursions to cheap and delicious Korean places than I

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  9000 Words This post doesn't have 'em.

  

   (or rather, Papa Matt!) a congratulatory card. B) On Wednesdays and Fridays, I have class from noon to 4, so I usually eat lunch during my documentary class. This day I was feeling particularly preschooler-like when I packed

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Maseeh! A look into MIT's newest dorm

  

  As you may or may not know, I'm a Maseehdonian (aka I live in the new castle, Maseeh). Since it's the newest dorm on campus, I don't really think the world knows much about Maseeh, so I'm going to give an e

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 30, 2011