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• 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

  

  of the content and a deeper appreciation for the creators. But even if ... introduced the Blahaj that we know today in early 2014. Between now and then ... , Tumblr and to some extent, Reddit have provided safe spaces for LGBTQ

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

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  for the first time afterwards and getting a little key tag with a ... actually recognize and have a context for; the weird joy of being a poetry ... gratitude towards your roommate for managing the whole process and the shame

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Procrastination For Finals 2 T minus 53 hours...

  

  on my side and takes me for a ride I smile at the TA, I pray I'll be ... I've got a pocket, got a pocketful of orgo I've got a pain and I know ... of orgo I've got a pain and I know that it's all mine, oh, oh oh oh Do

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 17, 2009
• 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…

  

  – it’s 8 pm, and you’ve been blowing glass for four hours straight. You ... [/caption] Do you dare to reach forth and scoop a spoonful for yourself? If you ... feel confident in my abilities to distinguish between edible and inedible

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

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  pavilion for our lesson, and rigged up a boat with my partner Webb H. ’14 ... I’d be jumping from somewhere relatively dry, bit my lip, and went for ... , really really fast. And it is scary. And I’d never been skipper for a jibe

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Free-For-All Week! Movies, Music, and Baby Names.

  

  think and I'll post my favorites in a few days. Be prepared for vigorous ... to my neck in applications (I just want to save my wrist watch!) For ... into holiday mode and I believe that you need to do the same. As I read

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  extracurriculars in the last semester, and I was slightly annoyed at myself for ... disregard for myself and my time. I wanted to do all of it, though, so I kept ... ! And I don’t write enough for! Feel free to shame me. I swear I’m trying

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home is Where the Heart is In which I speak only in trite cliches.

  

  considering a jar of peanut butter a meal. Yes, it's time for final exams. And ... . (Thanks Sylvia '14 for the cake!) and a surprising number of uses for ... later. Lotteries to move between dorms occur every semester, and there's a

  • by Tom R. '14
  • December 13, 2011
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  . Between REX events and orientation meals and generous upperclassmen, your ... also plenty of buttons (see above), magnets, and little pockets for your ... completely new place full of strangers and challenges and legends and horror

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  language, and to a larger extent culture. For many of my friends, language is the key to their culture; there was a big difference between my General Tso's chicken and my friends' 麻婆豆腐 ("ma po dou fu”) or my birthday party

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back Home No Strings Attached

  

  and ready for a tough summer of hard (but enjoyable) work. I start ... with airplanes in the last 2 years have involved delays, cold, snow, and angry angry passengers. Now, there was no cold, no snow, and slightly

  • by Snively '11
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Flavor of Love As a wise woman once said, "Free is my favorite flavor."

  

  student center, and both times involved me being kicked out for loudness by ... at 10:30? Then quit your studying and come on over to Conner 2 for $15 ... . You know, Ben Jones, there's no category for "FREE FOOD!" in this vast

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-related whatsits Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow!

  

  . Accuweather says it's supposed to be 40s-50s and mostly sunny for the rest of ... shuttle if you're coming tomorrow between 8 AM and 9 PM. Otherwise, you ... ! Anonymous asked, "Hi, Mollie! How did you and Adam get matched up with your

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  weather for New England weather, and leaving behind a great experience ... means?"), I am really and truly fluent. One check mark for the "things to ... a huge difference between a cookie and a cracker! Then I came to Spain

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  from Zendaya for two months) and then takes me away from it. This is just ... everything I frantically jumped around between doing: Monsters: The Lyle and ... artists, and for some reason this time it meant me watching Chappell Roan

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  't realize that a power dynamic exists between you and upperclassmen. in your ... for me to make new friends and maintain my friendships, I would ... things had to fully unfold for me to learn my lesson. I could go on and on

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  Picower Center for Learning and Memory, my PI, Professor Sheng, presented ... do for getting into mit?i am from turkey and 15 , want to study ... straggling onto campus, and I could not be more psyched. Rush/orientation is my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  boyfriend #1) for a couple of years and told myself that, despite getting gas ... would count the minutes between every text we exchanged and analyze what ... something to strive for) wanted to release this into the world, as it has been

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Brass Rat The Brass Rat is not a subtle thing.

  

  Brief note: I am currently in Ohio, shopping for wedding dresses. And ... 2007 Brass Rat, and Matt has written briefly about the Brass Rats for the ... benevolent than the rough and tough beaver chosen for the 2005 ring. He

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  . I signed up for two twelve-hour shifts deconstructing the stages, and ... swallowed me, and I was thrown between bodies, singing along although no one ... tinny android speakers, and not the most optimal soundtrack for studying

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022