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• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  recall that I joined a cooperative living group in January. As it happens ... table in the basement, but I interpreted it as a boat, which is what my ... . Because pika is vegetarian-and-vegan-friendly like that. In three hours of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / People & Identities

  BLÅHAJ: the Internet meme, the trans icon, the world’s favorite plush media analysis on the Swedish shark’s rise to prominence

  

  Blahaj have in common is that they all disrupt the norm of how sharks are ... the discussion is on media that I don’t personally consume (ex. family ... camaraderie. In a world that villainizes LGBTQ+ people through rhetoric

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Images of Rush preparation

  

  , Deirdre '08, that I took a while back for an entry that never happened. One stereotype that has always bothered me is that MIT girls are unattractive. I ... it up, as in this message left by Phife '04 when I was a freshman

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  after 11:18. That is a LIFETIME in late person time. I could have made my ... friends cars or something like that. So I wrote a blog entry. The truth is ... "Ladies Dream." I don't know if it's trying to imply that this bus is the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  My Entirely Unexciting IAP see title

  

  reason for doing so, you see. In a little bit more than 48 hours, I will be ... backpack across Europe in 4 weeks, which is what one of my friends is doing ... Anywhoo, I'm writing right now from a Starbucks on O'Farrell St. in downtown

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to PNR First semester in review

  

  semester of MIT. Ode to PNR Pretty please Pass/No Record, how I wish you ... , scheduling was tight. Along those lines, in class, in clubs, in rooms, I often felt like the dunce. I got rejected from a club or two or three

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a college student’s life My life consists of library visits and pizza delivery, because I'm totally original and stuff.

  

  residence in Massachusetts. All I had to do was bring a credit card statement ... Dominos has brought the concept to a whole new level. I just think this is ... America, or something. In other news, this is what I see when I log in to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  people but not much to do.    Now that I’ve been living in Cambridge ... 'm enveloped in an impalpable childlike innocence that convinces me that I spent only my younger years in Nashua, that I’ve actually been at MIT for most

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  what does the end of high school mean, for you? the days pass so slow; the months pass so fast

  

  in a fence that led to a parking lot. you stumble a bit stepping down ... -submerged in a pool. that would be the last time you saw most of your classmates ... open a metal gate in a fence. once you’re done tying your shoes, you

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • June 10, 2026
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Tale of 8 Instagrams Low resolution, high flavor

  

  can change from pleasant to ominous in a matter of minutes. And that ... Once upon a time, I developed an Instagramming problem and started to ... retreated, and I woke up to sunshine and a gentle old man painting the Boston

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  September Equinox Appreciation A Cambridge Autumn

  

  to a place radically different from home. In these first few months, I ... Greater Boston. I don’t think much has changed about how amazing fall is to ... Cambridge’s autumn comes from a bike ride in early October when I visited

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part Two Interior photos of vacant East Campus dormitory rooms. (Photos of occupied/"lived-in" rooms are to come.)

  

  didn't mean that I don't like it here! It's just that MIT is located in a ... second post of a three-part series, I will showcase some vacant rooms in ... move in, and the way things could look a month or a year later. I was

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Eating Studio Ghibli Foods 🌾 At a mini-restaurant pop-up by MINCE <3

  

  ! I'd never eaten an egg like that in my life. The pork belly was also a ... I usually do, and found that there was one, long cylinder of ice left ... a delicate, ornate design. I had no idea how it was made, but I really

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 11, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Song Remains The Same But sometimes my blog entry is a little different.

  

  ready for a while. The best I can do is to direct you to this clip from a Fall 2003 concert I was in with the MIT Chamber Chorus... it's a movment ... productions. IAP production -- that means doing a whole show in one month

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  You Are LUSCIOUS I lusciously answer some of your questions

  

  Ayush wrote: "How about a Clown Parade around the MIT campus? That ... always struck me as a tad odd that I should be "getting to know" a college ... you do, we'll never meet so it's no big loss. Anywho... Actually I'm not

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

   projects. After the first class, I was sold. I even passed up an offer to skate in a ... use all that to better inform how I approach my work within Course 6 ... technical, I ended up focusing on a project that involves sensors and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  dorms, at MIT. There is a narrative, I think, of fitting in to one dorm ... captured, that was never real, or only was a long time in the past. I wonder ... able to return, but in the way that I return to Tucson: as a traveller

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy! REALLY don't even think about bringing a car to MIT - sans elephants.

  

  are wondering, the admissions blogger of whom I speak is me. In the ... about keeping a car in the city and commuting to work this summer :) I ... This post is sans elephants. Elephant Sans, however, would make for a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  getting maybe one card a month? How does that change anything? Yes, this ... Championships next weekend. The thing is, no matter how many times I told myself ... So, as I mentioned in my previous entry, my GEL classes don't have p

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Hosed Exams=Cars, I'll show you how!

  

  the same time? That's how exams are here. Most of the time they're all in different weeks so that you have one or two exams to take every two weeks or so. But then there is this one week that just happens to fulfill

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 6, 2009