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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

  

  trends reveal an uptick in searches for Blahaj starting from early 2020 ... shaped or for sharks??? )? Come to Blahaj FAC tomorrow at 5 pm in Talbot ... + people to explore their identities, especially for those living in homes or

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  I moved to Michigan for an internship, but I swear it feels like it ... much more work maintaining friendships in the real world. I take for ... that leads to three nights in a row of cereal for dinner. Don’t do it

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  working really hard for an MIT degree. MIT kids are really good at delayed ... depends on where you live. In MacGregor, it's fairly rare for a student to ... (including the friends for whom I did homework), so Latin IV was an independent

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  Laura '09 had an interesting bit a while back in her blog about East ... plans for residents of those dorms. In my experience, West Campus students ... the Cold War to mind in entertaining ways. Here's the difference: West

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  !) Applying for an internship is a challenge- actually, applying to anything in ... -and-tank-top-wearing days to finally be upon us again, I have also been in an application ... waiting to go in for my recitation one morning when I overheard a tour guide

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  could have a contest, how much cultural enrichment can you get for free in ... What was I looking forward to most when I arrived on campus for ... HUGE envelope full of colorful stuff for you to drool over.” of course

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  for an extension. I did what I could of the problemset, I sent off that ... I hadn't been sick in years. I mean sure, I've had the occasional ... Vaporub type of sick? Not once in the past ~seven years. Then a few weeks

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Itinerary: IAP 2017 4 weeks in a suitcase and carry on

  

  . "Normal," meaning not going to bed at 3am and waking up just in time for ... the 8th, I flew into NYC and settled down in an apartment in Manhattan with three of my friends from MIT also externing in the city for the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cognitive Processes or: i take a personality test again

  

  'll wholeheartedly admit that I took a lot of pride in being an INFJ just for the sake ... For those who know me well, you'll know that I'm an absolute sucker ... interested in seeing what it would say about me. Would it say I'm an ENFP still

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 2, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay

  

  for the T in Technology, it also has a super vibrant and scholarly ... /W department and the MIT Press In this book talk, Juul gave an overview of, in ... photos/videos so uhh… have an Instagram link instead :D. Homes for Living

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 18, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  meaningful? One of my readings for 8.225 (Physics in the 20th Century) was an ... in the sense of rushing to try and get an answer. yes, the answers to ... songs, sad songs But the story doesn’t end there — in an ironic twist of

  • by Phi A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The HackMIT 2016 Puzzle Just Launched and it'll (probably) take you all across the Internet

  

  undergraduate hackathons in the nation, is opening up its internet doors for ... Allan's post Have you ever wanted to copy-paste the text in an image file ... . Although, that would be an interesting idea for next year...

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT salutes Harry Potter ...the best way we know how, with hacks!

  

  in Boston, the two biggest movie theaters, the Boston Common 19 and Fenway 13 multiplexes, have sold out more than 20 midnight showings.  For many, this is the end of an era that started with the release of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Shall We Dance? having two left feet is a thing of the past.

  

  Slow, Quick, Quick, Slow, Quick, Quick, Slow That count resounded in ... . Initially, I was actually a little confused when I looked online for ... , the Ballroom Dance Club offered lessons in Mambo. My friend Jackie and I

  • by Bryan
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  around in bed for what felt like an hour trying to fall asleep. I saw ... people in my pod were okay with it, but for some reason or another, we didn ... this half-sleep for half an hour, and I was tired the whole day, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  My first Fourth of July in Boston was spent on an inflatable 61-inch-long mattress in the middle of the Charles River, drifting underneath the hulls of ... oil, unlikely to be mistaken for water." Might I provide an

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  the self, in an autonomic sense, and how we might begin to attempt to ... these little rubber things from Blick, an art store in Central Square ... into an exam, sometimes. Most of these were for 9.35 (Perception) and 6

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  who lived in burton-conner only lived there for a semester and a half ... coming in with the knowledge that they'd stay in ec for a year before ... not have. i can now say that i've stayed in ec for all four years of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  ways in my life that I've used task management, especially for goal ... other things that make it in there as well. This summer, for example, I ... 100 list' did a lot more for my motivation to read. In the end, though

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  the former second-best Goldeneye player in the world if it weren't for a ... 's it. It's rare for any freshman to live in Burton-Conner for more than ... go off for three minutes before the dorm alarm kicks in and everyone

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007