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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Infinite Magazine [joint post with Kidist A.]

  

  detailing the ways in which I’d like to offer my help to spread leads but didn ... fashion. It was launched in print and online in early 2018, with new issues ... that are usually of similar content. in infinite, we expand this

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 27, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  days in [annotation note="Independent Activities Period"]IAP[/annotation], Bad Ideas Weekend takes hold in MIT like glitter: it’s everywhere, if you look hard enough, and it catches the light, even in the dark

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  string is everywhere, splayed out in front of me like...like...well, I was gonna say like guts in a murder scene, but maybe that's a tad bit too ... calendar. I like checking off tasks in my bullet journal. I like my string

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  . Let me explain. Malingap [annotation note="in which frats hold events to ... prefrosh temped on the same floor he was living in. Malingap is the feeling ... about our high schools. Malingap is someone offering to grill me a burger

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  summer has been really fun. I really wanted to stay in Cambridge this year ... with me in East Campus over the summer as well. But the first two weeks ... to it, and utilized the remaining 8 hours of my day in the best ways I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  had long stopped feeling hunger, but the void in my stomach seemed to ... deprived wasteland in my head. I checked my laptop again. 2 minutes. I ... dancing along my back in its high heels, stabbing my skin with its piercing

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  you can enjoy that!). No one can move from living in a house to on their own in one day and have no problems, so hopefully these tips and tricks ... honestly something I have not yet mastered hahaha. When I was in high school

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  will offer advice on how to succeed, unless you’re me, in which case they ... ’t notice, I’m a newborn in the blogging world, with this being my very first ... orientation, each MIT freshman has the option to take part in a freshman pre

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  latest battle in a war which began when the Internet began an age of ... should ally with Lessig or Valenti in the interminable copyfight. Nor is it ... many other in disrupting our service to protest SOPA and PIPA. Here

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Events

  So You Want to Make a BrassRat? A very very very long year in review.

  

  in the footsteps of another blogger, Jessica Z. ‘27, and serve as the ... class at their halfway point through the institute. In a nutshell, this ... the BrassRat/RingComm as shown in the non-exhaustive list below (partly

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 31, 2026
• Blog / Events

  [LIVEBLOG] 2 Girl 1 HackMIT this joke would work better if we had three people on our team

  

  , whether software or hardware based, in 24 hours. And if the judges like your ... convinced [annotation note="she's a cs and math major at the University of ... Rink, in order to actually get to order hardware. Unfortunately the

  • by Leya E. '30
  • September 19, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  in the Z-Center... I tried to orient myself to the layout of the ... offered the opportunity to go visit the iRobot HQ. Knowing that I might not ... it back from our 6 hour trip in one piece with the Roomba! This past

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  In my sophomore fall, I wrote the art of trying new things, where I ... this! Classes CMS.701 Current Debates in Media taught by Ed Schiappa Addresses important, current debates in media with in-depth discussion of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  these past few months, like Celeste or Night in the Woods. Well, the one I've been playing a lot of in the last two weeks is Slay the Spire, a ... of video game where you control a character and fight monsters in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  was in fifth grade, right before spring break. I was called into the ... . In a car ride to my dad's place, he asked me "Why would you say shit ... month after this. 2. The second time was in my freshman year of high

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  [Guest Post] All About the MIT Panhellenic Association how some MIT students found their "home under the dome"

  

  sorority recruitment (and I am not in a sorority). However, I think that ... provide great communities for students that complement those found in MIT ... , integrity, and growth. We encourage values-based recruitment, in that we hope

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  glass, and welded sculptures. One company was offering free test rides on ... pattern, one I still haven’t figured out a response to. In machine shops, I ... noticed, and appreciated, when a woman who worked in stained glass explained

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  side of the tracks." In fact, I'm from the wrong side of TWO tracks. In ... residents on the north side of Highways 36. Obviously not everyone in my ... family found ourselves in the following awkward situation while in the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  food in a pan Almost exactly twelve months ago, I had never cooked a full meal in my life, if you don't count boiling a hot dog, pouring ... assigned. My parents (who met at a university with a mandatory 20-meal

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  --it was the farthest I’d been from the MIT bubble in months. When the plane ... first semester in MIT was over. Since then, I’ve been with my aunt and her family in North Carolina. We’ve been visiting relatives, eating

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013