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• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  struggled with writing blogposts in the past few months. It’s not for a lack of things to write about—there’s always something going on in my life, but that’s the problem. I feel like I’m on a rollercoaster, or some

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  's that** In the TV show Avatar: The Last Airbender, Zuko, the show’s main villain for the first two seasons, falls very ill after freeing avatar Aang’s ... prince of the Fire Nation. This has been his life’s goal on the order of

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  . Situations change. If you don’t have the energy for it, that’s fine. You ... mind don’t matter. It’s a cliche because it’s true, and we tend to ignore cliches, so take extra effort to remind yourself it’s true. In practice, it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  10,968 hours. That’s 457 days, which is 1 year and 3 months since I ... rare observation because I think it’s often hard to notice change in ... what else has changed. D E S K  S P A C E As a student, I spend an

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Lilly Chin The Spiciest Memelord

  

  tacos and a reliably lively crowd at 2 A.M. on the weekends. It’s a place ... ” with “Who is the Spiciest Memelord?” Since her win, she’s been featured on multiple news outlets, and also appeared on a podcast run by MIT’s

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 27, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lego Heroines interview with the amazing Maia Weinstock!

  

  Ideas competition, let me fill you in. MIT’s very own Maia Weinstock ... the deputy editor for MIT news and also helps manage MIT’s social media ... thank her. She has been busy interviewing around the U.S. and even in

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  Emab Plaza is a busy shopping mall located in the heart of Nigeria’s ... or buy new paper sheets, to upgrade my iPad’s internet plan and most ... its own life. There’s always a crawl of congested traffic at its

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking Shape

  

  It’s hard to believe the first month of sophomore year is already ... inform and stimulate conversation relevant to the day’s assigned reading ... software package called A la rencontre de Philippe. It’s an interactive

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Please, Mr. Postman A fair and balanced look at the inbox of a typical MIT student.

  

  's no better way to do that than to look at my webmail inbox--to see ... 's go through the past week or so: Monday, 7/11/05: 4 Tuesday, 7 ... barley soup in the cafeteria at her place of employment --Sam's Mom

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 21, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  . Namely:  It’s my very last semester (still trying to wrap my head around ... it was going to go versus how it actually went when it’s all said and ... think it’s achievable because I have a lot more I still want to share with

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA decisions to be posted Saturday, 12/18/21, 3:14 PM ET i guess the title kind of says it all, huh?

  

  So, on Slack I asked Ella '25 and Jenny '25 to help me with this...and...well...here’s ... early action, and because you are the closest in age to the 2026s and I am ... : Minecraft roleplay? Like…how? jenny: so there’s this thing called dream smp

  • by kellen manning
  • December 13, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  nothing really matters or does everything? a tale of epiphanies and a crisis

  

  everything I do. It’s kind of connected to the question that everyone seems to ... to make sure that no one ever forgets that fact. So, in actuality, it’s not so much that nothing matters, it’s that everything matters. It could

  • by kellen manning
  • May 6, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  i’m catching up a blog about all the things i wanted to blog about but couldn't find the…

  

  free time I did whatever I could to step away from it. Now that it’s all ... couldn’t get myself to blog about because staring at screens hurts. So here’s ... carpet, but it’s been incredibly therapeutic to be physically producing

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  made sure to use the color of the corresponding vector. Here’s a somewhat ... , then there’s exactly one tile that has those vectors as sides: And this ... zonotope, we already know how many tiles there will be; it’s the same as the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  hell if I know what’s actually in any of them. While I finish packing the ... completely. There’s enough space to leave me trying to figure out the things ... feel so familiar, there’s a feeling I can’t really describe. As if I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for transgender students in light of the military ban and our ROTC program(s)

  

  order. I excerpt from it below: MIT’s tradition of national service is broad, deep, and very much in the present tense. Examples range from MIT’s pivotal role in developing radar during World War II, to today’s pioneering

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Flies And I lose track of it

  

  It’s nearly the end of October, and autumn has finally begun coloring the city of Boston. Baker’s annual piano drop (this time, filled with candy) happened yesterday afternoon, people flocked to Save TFP’s Spooky

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 26, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Unlike any other. [by Nathan Kipniss '14] "Welcome to the Gardner"

  

  Museum of Fine Arts). On the outside it seems like it’s a normal ... the empty frames of artwork that was stolen in a heist during the 1990s ... walking through someone’s home rather than walking inside of a museum

  • by ARTalk
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Science, Technology, and Elephants. In which I take the best field trip ever.

  

  ’t really something that’s mentioned as an MIT selling point. Like, “come to ... clarify: it’s not really the circus hosting that we look forward to. It’s ... !!!!!!!” I wish I had had a legit camera on me, because Alex’s face looked like

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where I’ve Been All this time ...

  

  hostage; not completely involuntary I would say. It’s so easy to go into ... long it’s been. If you’ve ever visited MIT, you’ll know this entrance at 77 Mass. Ave. See the red circle? That’s where my studio is

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 30, 2010