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• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  what a strange feeling it is to be in your last semester at MIT ... strange things that i have collected in the last couple of years. now that i ... , there was solace in having this one place where everyone could return to

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to participate in real research with ... an exoplanet orbits a star and passes in front, it causes the light ... there could be an exoplanet in that area. [caption id="attachment_102062

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  have so much to do. In the last few months, my writing career got pushed ... . Right now, I'm sitting in Hayden Library, watching the sun sink over the Charles River, and even after so many years here, the beauty of Cambridge in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  course in the MIT Glass Lab, where I spent eight weeks learning about the ... five things that you can’t (or at least shouldn’t) eat in the Glass Lab ... forgot to bring food in a green take-out box from Maseeh lunch, and

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  sunscreen physical health and stuff

  

  and crumble in ways that were not previously noticeable. for instance ... teenager i could walk in shorts in 40 degree (fahrenheit) weather without any issue, whereas currently the weather in boston is around 50 degrees and i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 4, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  (Guest Post) esolangs oh man

  

  lived in Jenny’s current room during orientation week before the Next House Housing Lottery switched up everyone’s rooms. In the class ... renumbering classes relatively soon so this might become obsolete in a few

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  . for instance, i remember when i was in elementary school, my parents ... vast majority of people are safe to be around in the vast majority of ... in the desert, and it was really difficult to tell beforehand whether

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  classes I'm interested in, rather than just trying to fulfill random ... critically about the games I'm playing. I learned to view games not in a vacuum ... me realize that the idea of pursuing an PhD or Master's in media is not

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  ’ve tried regularly working out at many points in my life, and this summer was ... for shirataki noodles! I snuck in vegies in my dinners! And I actually ... . My parents, in all their fear and love, were always there for me in

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  It's no secret that I am a) living in New Vassar and b) despise it. I ... in NV has given me a newfound appreciation for the silly, donut ... questionably tinted couches of Loop and lolling about until someone joined me in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  A few weeks ago, in a true callback to our high school days, Paolo ... bowlers in high school, Protobowl is the website that trivia nerds use to ... on this website apropos of nothing, we were in fact practicing for a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  One time in Boston, my roommates and I were studying outside near ... psets and played around in it, demonstrating in a general sense the ... aerial trapeze, in that they are both solid objects hanging from ropes. It

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  How I Write My Data Analysis Blogs just in case you were wondering

  

  myself in the past: What do my work patterns look like? Confusion, by ... straightforward or quite tedious. The data might exist already, neatly compiled in a ... something in my life, either automatically (like with a step-counting watch

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunnel66 bringing the borderline tunnels online for CP*

  

  Borderline is a club at MIT that started in Spring of 2017 (our ... of projects, and is now a community of people interested in the ... '22, President I remember being interested in Borderline ever since

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  earlier this week is how obsessed the US is with capitalizing things. In ... countries – in Canada, or the UK, or France, the signs you see would read: Red ... . Maybe this is why internet culture in the US cares so much about random

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Downtown if you could see it then you’d understand

  

  central park in the middle of the city. We talk. He just came from debate at ... suggest we walk in a direction neither of us know. Alan knows downtown ... different. It’s out of place. Like a round peg trying to fit in the square

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2019
• Blog / Best from staff

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  10th will always hold a [annotation note='Beyond the matter in Lisbon ... wanted to put in this blog post for some time. The problem is that talking ... Rosenberg, had gone to MIT. I went in to talk with him and told him and he

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  what I need. It’s the first time in the last two years that I’ve stopped to think, to really process things, to take a breather and, in the ... company I’m interning at put us up at a very posh apartment-style hotel in

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  TO SET THE MOOD: Eyes SHut - nocturne in c minor - Ólafur Arnalds ... more holidays in the fall than we do in the spring: a 4-day Indigenous Peoples Day weekend in mid-October, and this month, a 3-day Veterans Day

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  holding in common the highest caliber of character, conscientiousness, and ... community in my career, and I remember how scary and surreal it was for ... next spring to the Class of 2015:   i wrote this to the students in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018