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• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  The summer before you come to MIT, there’s a bunch of forms to fill ... hobbies, what you do for fun outside of class, what your advisor should know ... culture never really became a significant part of my identity. So am I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  books, from a tiny copy of The Rubaiyat bound in leather, to a weathered e e cummings collection, to W. S. Merwin’s Shadows of Sirius found in a ... there, and I read a few of Masha’s from 21W.762: Poetry Workshop. Then

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  their own style of taking notes and keeping organized. But if you ... [/caption] Historically, I’ve only ever finished three notebooks out of the dozens I’ve had ... scrapbooking. Obviously, it’s impractical to take a picture of each and every

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  against the cold. Two of the group had work or meetings so it was just three of us this misty Monday. We started across the bridge, seeking a ... for a Green Line train, and were spat out in the middle of Allston. A

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  COVID-19 ensued. A lot of people have been saying this, but this week has ... stripped of our work, activities, friends, and most of the things that keep ... "] accurate[/caption] Like most of MIT, I've found myself with an abundance of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Me: A Video Tour of Campus in which you get to hang out with my friends and walk around MIT through…

  

  I made a video-thing! During the second snow day of the semester, I ... of MIT's campus for people who want to know what it's like to be at MIT ... they were at the time. It's not meant to be a professional tour of MIT

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 23, 2017
• Blog / Events

  The Secret Life Of Marilee Jones Sam is the funniest, though... BOTB and CPW Feedback.

  

  (She's a rockstar by night) So Thursday night we got a preview of ... birthdays over Campus Preview Weekend, but the real show was during Battle of ... . Raffle of Guitar Hero An aside, if you will: Guitar Hero is one of the

  • by Bryan
  • April 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  HI EVERYONE~ It’s the FIRST DAY OF CLASSES and I haven’t blagged ... different. I normally spend a lot of time editing and crafting admissions ... of June, I went to China for the Masters of China Studies Visiting

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  's such an abundance of amazing things to do, both on campus and around the entire Boston area, I sort of feel guilty having fun if I've got a whole bunch of work backed up and waiting for me. (Yes, I highlight some cool

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Photos of Freshman Spring 📸 My attempt to take a photo a day for an entire semester.

  

  The summer before college was my last summer of being 18, and thus my last year of eligibility for a ~special program~ my local library ran. They had little booklets at the front of the library for children to log

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • October 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to a Package of Dial Soap Substantial entries will come soon!

  

  digress, you must pardon me - see I came here to talk not of life and dreams But of soap, and its importance to me There's much more to soap than it really seems So there's a store called Target where they sell All kinds of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 6, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2012 Night at the Movies '21,' the MIT Blackjack Team movie, opens this weekend... who's in?

  

  As you probably know, the movie 21, based on the true story of the ... MIT Class of 2012 Weekend at the Movies So how's it work? Well, the most ... take a picture of you (and any MIT '12s with you) and send it in to me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  coming so quickly. we've been planning for rush since the spring, of course ... administrative things and stuff. and there's a decent amount of that, like writing ... having lots of meetings recently and we already have a schedule and stuff

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  (sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year) How I Learned to Stop ... , in my months of deliberation, I fell in love. With my life at MIT. I loved the niche I found here, and stayed because of my friends, my hall

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  After about **checks watch** 47 days of not blogging, returning to ... multiply. With due time, I managed to bully myself into writing, and one of the topics that seemed to be the easiest to write about was a recap of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “The Flying Luxury Hotel of Tomorrow” The luxury cruise of tomorrow is sweet!

  

  /index.html The flying luxury hotel of tomorrow: Cruise ship will sail through the ... Sci.comexternal link) -- This is not a Blimp. It's a sort of flying Queen Mary 2 that ... Aeroscraft is not lighter than air. Its 14 million cubic feet of helium hoist

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The return of photos to my blog!

  

  everyone from the back of their heads, but the girl at the right is Ruth '08, a resident of 4th East and a Senator from East Campus, and I think the ... Bryan '07 (Chair of the Committee on Housing and Orientation). Here we

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  Remember the plot of The Matrix trilogy? Neither do I, which is why I ... -warping influence of continued sleep deprivation, my initial 5 days at MIT were about ... , hazy sort of fondness that I usually reserve for Dali paintings and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  It was the dead of winter in the smoggy capital city of Chile ... and plagued nightly by the severe lack of central heating, about thirty ... monotonous routine of a 9 to 6 (or sometimes 8 to 7) work schedule, almost

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunes of the All-Night Tool Just a little night music from me.

  

  a few of the top hits on my playlist right now. Some of these are old ... pretty good for helping me stay up. :) Enjoy! REM: King of Birds Stars

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 29, 2008