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• Blog / MIT Life

  All the 2026 i3 videos megapost see the dorms!

  

  MIT likes to be unique in many ways: majors are called courses, everything from classes to buildings are numbered, and maybe more unexpectedly ... ="Though, admittedly, some dorms are nicer due to having more recent renovations

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 5, 2026
• Blog / CPW

  cpw 2026 camera roll dump three mysteries and two tributes

  

  At Meet the Bloggers this year, a prefrosh came up to me and saw my ... owe the readers some blog posts. But I'm not going to worry about that right now. I'm just going to give you some vignettes into stuff I took

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2026
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Guest Post] A Day in the Life of a Clown College Student by Joy X. Clown College ‘29

  

  I wake up at 6:07am to my alarm clock, which squirts water at me ... application to a “Clown College” on CommonApp. Perhaps those car insurance scammers are getting more clever? It did seem too good to be true. This was

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2026
• Blog / Uncategorized

  wednesday at wai & aina (liveblog) and leaving the mit bubble

  

  - 7:34 AM - Good morning everyone! Caleb here, reporting live to ... semesters in which students are encouraged to explore, take a break, do as ... actually pretty moving message about how he wanted to spend more time with

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • January 21, 2026
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i got a cat he is so small

  

  important of an update to not post imminently. I went back to visit my ... friends was fostering kittens. I went to visit because I could not resist the lure of getting to pet small kitten (you could probably kidnap me if

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • January 14, 2026
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  admission process?" While I know the ideal answer to the question above is ... . Answering that question without more information can be reductive to your ... shapes your access to resources, your perspective, and your resilience, and

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

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

  

  /IAmA subreddit."]AMA ("Ask Me Anything")[/annotation] on April 18 (9 AM EST) to ... AM, I'm going to make a post (on the MIT Blogs) called "ASK US (the MIT ... people’s questions if you really want to see them answered. Seriously

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 15, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Thoughts from the Dungeon One night only

  

  every time I turn the game on, it’s a new enemy that sends me to my ... don’t even need to beat this dungeon to finish the game. I could skip ... going to skip this blogging challenge. It’s been forever since I

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  2024 in Review the things and stuff of 2024

  

  confident to face the world, knowing my strengths and weaknesses a bit better ... of thing much more now! I tried to do research really hard. I grinded, and developed, but I struggled. I am trying to finish the projects I

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  -edited compilation of notes from my cross-country train trip from Boston to San ... , currently one minute early! currently listening to: a baby crying (nothing ... Bureau as part of the Midwest, seems much more suited to the moniker

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  remember walking up to the front desk, stomach full of butterflies and a little dread, and awkwardly asking to check-in. After [annotation note ... of the gigantic moving carts and, somewhat clumsily, maneuvered it to

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  happy lunar new year the year of the tiger

  

  have to wear red daily to ward off bad luck. Somebody else asked me today why birth years are unlucky. I do not know why, although according to a ... , Gossip Girl was on television, I went to a nerd school where people were

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  this blogger does not exist join me in the uncanny valley

  

  forwarded to me:  i remember your posts (college apps, haiku) about robo-CJ, and I wondered if it might make sense to try using a Cycle-GAN to ... art styles across the blogger generations so it might be cool to try the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  blogpost in an attempt to talk about it. What is 21E? I am not the first blogger to major in 21E, nor will I be the last. I actually decided to switch to a 21E major because I talked to the twins, Danny and Allan, about

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  As the summer turned to fall, my housemates and I prepared to move out of our cozy apartment where we'd spent the year, back to MIT ... we possibly be about to be seniors? How could it be our[annotation note

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  orientation[/annotation] was to write a letter to our future selves with FutureMe, to be delivered at the start of the fall semester. That reminded me of ... middle school self had sent a letter to their senior year self, making some

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  For most of my life before coming to MIT, I had been really into ... to use Photoshop and Paint.NET and GIMP and Paint Tool SAI beginning in ... , so you’d have to watch your monitor as you made the strokes, which took

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation ... weekend. My parents and my [annotation note="She's now about to be a first ... Long Island while I took the train to Boston with a friend from my high

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Poetry from 5 AM This Morning Don't worry, I drank an entire MUG of espresso

  

  what I wanted to post this weekend. A month into my time at MIT I can ... week has been a wild ride. To quantify it: Five hours of sleep per ... my hall’s kitchen at five AM this morning, trying to study for a test I

  • by Powers '23
  • September 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine

  

  To set the mood: Feeling Blue   "When I'm in New York I listen to Palestinian hip hop, but when I'm in Palestine, I listen to the ... embarked on a site visit to a small village next to Ramallah, Palestine, with

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019