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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lonely but exciting road and choosing to traverse it

  

  Pattinson that became the subject of much hate, negativity, and racism by ... . Why was I listening to such a sad song? Because, of course, it’s great ... —I think part of it is because of how much acoustic and folk music I listen

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • April 14, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  passionless had a crisis, got a tattoo

  

  friends instead of a day of radical change and contemplation. I mostly ... was a year of deduction. This is a pretty normal time in most people ... . Nonetheless, I want a year of assertiveness, eagerness. It's much easier to know

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Eating Studio Ghibli Foods 🌾 At a mini-restaurant pop-up by MINCE <3

  

  At the start of this month, I had the chance to eat at a Studio ... Ghibli fan with an ever-growing collection of Totoro themed objects, I was ... , one of the club's new members. I'd only been to one MINCE pop-up before

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 11, 2025
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  incident Some friends and I were sitting on the floor of MG’s room. I was browsing email in search of free food when I came across Splash, a program ... , however, know a bit about writing, and came up with the novel idea of “How

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  to answer and ask the same set of questions: what’s your name? where are you from? what are you thinking of majoring in? It got to the point ... now I've learned to say “I'm thinking 4B and 15-1” so I kind of sound

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  remember walking up to the front desk, stomach full of butterflies and a ... of the gigantic moving carts and, somewhat clumsily, maneuvered it to ... ="In retrospect, this description makes the decisions I make in the body of this

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  away, helping out around the house. We were doing a lot of renovations in hopes of selling it later this year, which included repainting the doors ... dark oak paneling with each stroke of my paintbrush and becoming

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  eternal dissatisfaction wish i could write more, care less

  

  one here is one of my tiny struggles over the past few weeks, and it ... day, where i deconstruct a little the notion of being productive. it is, of course, one thing to know and another to believe. it is the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  with a group of friends and acquaintance from MIT instead of moving back ... school and high school– I liked to think of things in term of absolutes ... always feel like this, you get the idea. One of my favorites of the blanket

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  song from Bowling for Soup. This, of course, made me think lmao, remember Bowling for Soup? This, of course of course, made me get sad about growing ... between good and bad music. In keeping with the theme of nostalgia and high

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  soldiers, barroom regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening ... danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives ... walk freely at night.” from The Journals of Sylvia Plath I am in New

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  A little while ago, I was just heading out of the bathroom on my ... room, shut the door, and stood behind it for a couple of seconds. A moment later, I heard the sound of approaching footsteps. The door swung

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  Have you ever had your car pulled out of a parking lot muddy field by ... 's kind of fun to sit in your car while it wags around, a tractor's tail ... along I-81S past a flurry of state forests. We made a quick stop in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  Random Hall has six types of rooms, discernible by the last digit of their room numbers. Each of the four floors is concentric with the shaft, a rectangular hole through the center of the building. The dorm

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  to many of you. But it's true) Being a nerd, I did nerd things. I read a lot of Star Wars books. I wore a fanny pack in the front with extra ... Physics of Baseball. Also, I went to nerd camp. In 1998, when I was about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  semester - and also, I've mastered the art of changing out of a suit in a ... much to say in this entry other than to give a brief update of how my ... of my life. It has been a time of epic failures - but also epic

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! (2010 Edition!) yay pictures!

  

  Dear Internet, No, I am not dead yet. I had a lot of great food in ... pictures and stories of groupwork: From Louis, '14, New York City A photo from Peru after 4 days working to clear the yard of bricks, hills, and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 2) The dog days of summer.

  

  Continuing my last entry with even more tales of what my friends and fraternity brothers are doing this summer. Lawrence Barriner '11 (Course 6, of Skullhouse, formerly of Senior Haus): "This summer I will be an intern at the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  scuba do or scuba don’t? under the sea

  

  brother of the Zesiger Fitness Center"] Alumni Wang Fitness Center ... of Wang are like the backrooms, and after taking a few turns, you end ... closet.  As part of our graduation requirements, we have to earn eight “PE

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • November 17, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  , October 14th at our Heads of House’s cabin in Concord, MA. As we drove, I ... unpack and set up our beds. We got a tour of the cabin, and then three of ... way, we saw the shell of a blue car, and we chained together clover

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024