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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  – it’s 8 pm, and you’ve been blowing glass for four hours straight. You ... not because it’s the forbidden food of the gods but because it’s heated ... then proceeded to lecture me about “lab safety” and “that’s not how human

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  From my journal the other night-- It’s 2 am, and I should be asleep ... never find my way back. Life is so much easier when there’s nothing that ... . It’s beautiful outside now. I keep thinking I’ll blog, about work or

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  things i’ve made and/or consumed art, movies, shows, and more

  

  worth it, especially as it’s my first embroidery project. My initial goal ... again. The tulle was so thin and flimsy. It’s width was smaller than the ... small and detailed painting is kinda challenging. There’s a lot of room

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  It’s almost the end of 2020, which is terrifying. And hopeful, of ... the same time, in some ways it’s too easy to for me to feel like the ... gotten this, though, to spend so much time in Russia in general. It’s

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  Hello! I’m Theo, one of CJ’s unfortunate friends from our dorm (I’m kidding, mostly). Let’s answer the top five questions people ask me when I ... since they’re like, two out of the top three declared courses"]Course 6s

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  family friends gushed over their favorite actors or this year’s Oscar ... Germany, Italy, France, and China thrown in. It’s really fascinating to ... Danny and Allan, Natasha, and Anna in the blogs before, and it’s just as

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  , accented by sightseeing of seven of the city’s “secrets” from an Argentinian ... semester’s upcoming schedule). It was one flaw of my packed technical ... the U.S. I talked to several students, who told me that they would

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  ! First, we headed over to the U.S.S. Constitution. The U.S.S ... the 1790s in Boston’s North End, and to this day is still an active ... monument has been on my bucket list for a while. It’s 294 stairs to the top

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  Cookie to top it off. Yum. College is when they stuff you in a chef’s apron and tell you it’s time you learn to make your own lunch. You’ll always have someone to advise you, because let’s be real, if they just left

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  : An informative diagram that I doodled Here’s a list of all the books I ... !! should!!! read!!! this book!!! Everyone!! Check it out now!!!!!! iT’s ... Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (nf) (this is ridiculous as it’s very short and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  Examkrackers MCAT books and various online practice exams. There’s not really ... , the concept of IAP is pretty amazing. It’s an entire month of freedom ... books and movies. 98% of Krystal’s who were polled would recommend this

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  people would probably say that it’s unhealthy because you end up depriving ... that I am entirely sure what that does to your body other than that it’s ... other people’s idea of it, or I guess with some inevitable influence, but

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  bloggers.addAll( newBloggers); System.out.println("Hello, World!");

  

  This summer we (Matt, Kris, Chris, the ‘15s, and I), after a rigorous ... . ‘18’s mind palace is his living room floor. He plays by his own rules ... 6’s mandatory soft-skills class. I’m still growing (which has come

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  to decide and no one can tell you otherwise.  Anyways, it’s great to ... accepted to MIT.  It’s more than just motivation.  It’s conviction.  My mom ... Anioke) to make a Lego robot.  Behold Wall-E’s ancestor!! After FPOP

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  an affiliated office here. Here's a glimpse of what we've been ... included the Center for Children's Happiness (an orphanage and school for ... affectionate), Geres (Groupe Energies Renouvelables, Environnement et Solidarités

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  line for McDonald’s at 7 AM somewhere in the middle of New York state; I ... , forms are hard to perfect, but nerves are even harder to conquer. It’s ... Cornell’s point advantage. But we are still behind with one tournament to go

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Music and Mayhem by Jess ‘12 Minus the mayhem. Also features running commentary by Yan. p.s.: Jess, your italics didn't show…

  

  unwittingly snapped a picture of me in Diff Eq. around Valentine’s Day http ... , though. For one, I have a UROP (a research job) that’s in a field totally outside my major and so non-technical that it’s slightly blasphemous—it’s in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  It’s official: my blogging hiatus has ended. It has been a crazy ... college, it’s time to do all the things that I should have done more often ... Celtic’s game. It means inviting my professors to lunch and getting to know

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  that are already a part of the game, he’s come up with his own challenges ... ? Something That’s Actually Reasonable Sounding? - to subliminally imprint the ... muscles can’t complete a chin-up.  Silly as that may sound, it’s the reason

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Announcement] The MIT Bloggers are hosting an AMA! Ask us anything this Friday and Saturday!

  

  people’s questions if you really want to see them answered. Seriously ... ’re a high schooler, MIT student, someone’s parent, or if you just ... anonymously, but use this power responsibly! You can address your question(s

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 15, 2025