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• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  away, helping out around the house. We were doing a lot of renovations in hopes of selling it later this year, which included repainting the doors ... dark oak paneling with each stroke of my paintbrush and becoming

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  eternal dissatisfaction wish i could write more, care less

  

  one here is one of my tiny struggles over the past few weeks, and it ... day, where i deconstruct a little the notion of being productive. it is, of course, one thing to know and another to believe. it is the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  with a group of friends and acquaintance from MIT instead of moving back ... school and high school– I liked to think of things in term of absolutes ... always feel like this, you get the idea. One of my favorites of the blanket

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  A little while ago, I was just heading out of the bathroom on my ... room, shut the door, and stood behind it for a couple of seconds. A moment later, I heard the sound of approaching footsteps. The door swung

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  Have you ever had your car pulled out of a parking lot muddy field by ... 's kind of fun to sit in your car while it wags around, a tractor's tail ... along I-81S past a flurry of state forests. We made a quick stop in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  Random Hall has six types of rooms, discernible by the last digit of their room numbers. Each of the four floors is concentric with the shaft, a rectangular hole through the center of the building. The dorm

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  to many of you. But it's true) Being a nerd, I did nerd things. I read a lot of Star Wars books. I wore a fanny pack in the front with extra ... Physics of Baseball. Also, I went to nerd camp. In 1998, when I was about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  semester - and also, I've mastered the art of changing out of a suit in a ... much to say in this entry other than to give a brief update of how my ... of my life. It has been a time of epic failures - but also epic

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! (2010 Edition!) yay pictures!

  

  Dear Internet, No, I am not dead yet. I had a lot of great food in ... pictures and stories of groupwork: From Louis, '14, New York City A photo from Peru after 4 days working to clear the yard of bricks, hills, and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 2) The dog days of summer.

  

  Continuing my last entry with even more tales of what my friends and fraternity brothers are doing this summer. Lawrence Barriner '11 (Course 6, of Skullhouse, formerly of Senior Haus): "This summer I will be an intern at the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  , October 14th at our Heads of House’s cabin in Concord, MA. As we drove, I ... unpack and set up our beds. We got a tour of the cabin, and then three of ... way, we saw the shell of a blue car, and we chained together clover

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  prepare for my 4-year journey that will probably include a lot of late ... preparedness for this next stage of my life. More specifically, the independence ... yourself - at least it did for me.    Probably like most of my peers

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  memorial for a dorm goodbye east campus (for now)

  

  need to have some sort of memorial service to commemorate the death of east campus and the death of this room in particular 62h306 today i remember the people who lived in this room before me of the several dozen

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 6, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I went to TwitchCon and met so many people!!

  

  Back in October of 2022, I flew from Boston to LA and drove two hours ... 'm a huge fan of streamed content and consume a lot of it! Games, IRL ... the streamer world because I find the notion of livestreaming

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  forbidden gatorade cell media looks tasty...

  

  media is, in fact, drinkable. It comes in a whole range of pink colors! It ... anecdotal evidence. I haven’t tried many of these, and you should try none of ... significant ingestion hazard under anticipated conditions of normal use.” Our

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  this is fine some thoughts at the end of the semester

  

  I'll be honest, I lost track of time somewhere around the end of ... surprised at it being April, now, it's the middle of May, and it seems like no time has passed. At the same time, all my energy from the beginning of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things in My MIT Household that just make sense

  

  've got a shit ton of other stuff and I figured they were worth sharing, so here are some highlights. Our MIT Wall This is one of the first things you see upon entering our apartment. For those of you who have read my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  I have long been a fan of the corner of the internet known as ‘productivity youtube.’ For those of you unfamiliar, this largely consists of ... that’s kind of the appeal, if I’m honest – I can have other people read

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  fun. the band, but also the form

  

  This is a short appreciation post for fun., one of my favorite bands ... right now. It feels as if my schedule this semester doesn’t have a lot of ... happens between 11 AM and 3 PM. I guess part of it is just because my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Room (formerly, THE Sal Khan’s Room) is Being Converted into WiFi! we made this post just for the title

  

  email got sent out to the both of us and to two others who live in a double on the third floor of Next House, specifically in Safety Third (the counterpart to our wing, Danger Third Rail). One of the two in the Safety Third

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 29, 2018