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• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  in school, but not long enough that my body has totally disconnected ... deceptively bland name for what is in my opinion MIT's greatest invention. It is ... accessible in the liminal space between semesters. I remember starting every

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  never hit that kind of mileage before. In Chinese, we say "people beyond ... , but arbitrarily it was a women's sport in our school, while the men did ... folks like me in the middle distances freed up the shorter distances for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Welcome to CPW! 'twas the night before cpw...

  

  time as a prospective student. In light of it being the night before CPW ... :) Explore the different dorms!  I knew I wanted to live in Burton-Conner as ... from campus, etc. Each floor in Burton-Conner also has a different

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • April 10, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  reasons which i won't go into in this post but the overarching reason is ... (which i will talk about in a later post) which are all fun! i am cooking for myself because schools in the UK apparently often don't have dining

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  these doors to control where the cats go in the house. Like this little ... "] There must be so many cats in this house[/caption] Now just stick ten hundred hundred hundred hundred hundred of these doors in the house, and you

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  SIMMONS GOT A TRAMPOLINE!!! it's awesome, possum!

  

  There’s a trampoline in Simmons!!!! [caption id="attachment_94960 ... table that is now less cool in comparison[/caption] I live in Simmons Hall. For the last few weeks, large boxes have been sitting in the lobby

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking 3 math classes this semester as someone who isn't a fan of math

  

  people tell me that math is important in learning computer science (drawing ... something I could ever establish an interest in. The weird thing is that I really like topics that are based in math, or at least involve a good

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 3, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  rush wilg bunnies inside this blog post

  

  occurred at our house. I'm happy to announce that we did not, in fact, burn ... year and thus couldn't get on-campus housing anymore. I used to live in McCormick, and being in a community full of other marginalized genders

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  lives on Black Hole in Random during the year, where they have a tendency ... quite a bit of time in Ilani’s room. For the summer, though, PUF was living with me on 5w in EC, and got to freely wander around the Wood

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  got in trouble a few times for doodling on my desk. But during my time in college, I never took a visual arts class, despite looking through ... much else to learn. But in the last year or so, the old dream of doing a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  ="attachment_78721" align="alignnone" width="300"] The coaster we're in the process of ... it isn’t the sort of lecture-based history course you encounter in high ... out directly to alumni to gain an understanding of East Campus in days

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  [Guest Post] The Alleyway by Isabella Y. '24

  

  lightning snaps Boston in two. Most people had already run for their Back Bay ... sprint across the dark streets in soaked socks, rain tickling their tongues ... cool independent living group located in Back Bay Boston where Isabella

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 11, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  since 2019 due to the pandemic. DTYD is traditionally held in Burton ... place in Walker Memorial. Origins (taken from my 2020 post about Burton Third) DTYD started in 1969 when two Bombers (Classes of ’70 and ’71

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  who started the fire? (not clickbait) playing detective

  

  For the last few years, I've been living off-campus in a house full ... 't living in the house at the time, but there were about four WILG members living here. According to them, somebody had first smelled smoke in the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  strengths in conversations are listening and asking questions, but when people ... to theorize about what you would do in certain situations or how your ... behavior in a given setting is to experience that setting i liked that

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  making things a blog about being a meche major

  

  Maybe my favorite part of course 2A is sitting next to my friend in 2 ... note-taking. Midweek finds us gathering in a lounge and trudging through the psets, untangling each other’s equations when they get in snarls

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  it now. I’m living in it. That glow is strongest around EC. It’s in the way people gather in the courtyard to build a giant fort, three stories tall, which overlooked the REX events. It’s in the way we dress

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  world works in mysterious ways. Throughout this past year, I’ve blogged a ... while in a pandemic. Among all that, I feel like haven’t spent enough time ... difference being that in the spring I took an extra math class. This makes for

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  . Classes are done, grades are in, and I’m beginning a senior-year road trip ... today. (In fact, I’m starting this post on a plane from Boston to Las ... . This post is hard to write. Not in the emotional “I’m not ready to say

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Thirteen Theses on Wide Tim In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false.

  

  , sacredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion ... Society of the Spectacle.' (1967) Unless otherwise credited in-image, all ... .][/annotation] [caption id="attachment_65325" align="aligncenter" width="768"] 1. In

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2021