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• Blog / Athletics

  Exploring MIT’s sports facilities there's so much to see!

  

  -your-rain-jacket-everywhere weather). What better way to enjoy this good weather than by going on a little adventure? I’ve been wanting to do a blog showcasing MIT’s many athletics facilities for a while now, so I think this is the perfect time to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Ebony Affair as a Pre-Frosh A Recap of my Experience from the 49th year of the Program

  

  As a pre-frosh, one thing I really appreciated before coming to MIT was how many programs there were to help students become accustomed to ... that I continue to interact with and get support from on a daily basis

  • by Richard O. '28
  • March 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  I’ve been too hosed to write a post that requires beyond ... drive with Mira, another pika resident, to a nearby lake. I’ve been ... to be calmed by a swim in cold water. Mira tells me about her past

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  The school year has begun again. I’m glad to report that some things ... ,[/annotation] the massive flurry of dormspams as clubs begin to campaign for ... can pretend to be friends with each other in a 30 person class.  The

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  “get to know you” forms for roommates and advisors and whatever other MIT ... beginning!! We were going to college!! I obsessed over my answers to every ... was kind of sad to think about for a while. Really, Allison? You have no

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  djent is not a djenre or is it?

  

  Sometime in high school, I was trying to break the ice at a group meeting. I asked everyone, “what kind of music do you listen to?”  Someone ... was confused as to why that would be the case. I considered myself

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 22, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  When I was applying to be a blogger in September, one of the first questions was about why I wanted to be a blogger in the first place. Amidst ... ."]blogging would be an excuse[/annotation] to continue pursuing art while attending

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  yo-yos, comics, and other adventures my junior spring schedule!

  

  have all semester to CAD our designs, CNC molds for them, injection mold ... iteration. I met with my team this weekend to finalize our design: the moon fish Tui and La from Avatar. Shout-out to Audrey for designing the fish

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  In middle school, I repeatedly listened to Lupe Fiasco's hit singles ... MIT this spring, I had to take his class. My friend Wenjun H. '25 had ... various ridiculous schemes to get in, since we were sure it would be

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  one. it's nice to have slack in your schedule. and by slack, i don ... referring to free space in a schedule, like a buffer period. but there's a ... wanted to do a big task XYZ. they split it into three tasks, X, Y, and Z

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  conner floor went to some random town in Maine for three days. our Airbnb ... concerts firefly — four friends and i went to Dover, Delaware for three ... . the music slapped though dance kinematix — i biked to Northeastern

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  started to get shin splints, which, scientifically speaking, is when your ... then I moved to Boston, where it wasn't 100 degrees from 8 am til dusk, and I began to run long distances again. I kept ignoring the pain, not

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  to find who had killed this man, and how they were going to be punished ... routine. I knew what to do. #runwithmaud spread across the internet like ... may still be at home toasting a couple of cold beers to the fact that

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)

  

  that at MIT, unlike some other schools, you're required to meet with your ... (where you and your advisor meet one-on-one occasionally to chat) or an "advising seminar." (There also used to be RBA/residence-based advising, where

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: What do those ROTC kids do during summer…? guest post by Karen C. '20

  

  on our plates as well - training to become officers in the United ... do we do? While I’m sure you’re dying to know all about of our ... , I’m here to introduce you to a few of our MIT and Crosstown cadets

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  far, been the most exciting year of my life to say the least. Last year ... page changed from the normal message to one that read something along the ... that I was in! 2. Arriving at CPW and getting escorted to the second

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  barely enough room to walk in the hallways, let alone room for much ... learned to shove facts into my head, regurgitate it on a test a week later ... learned that even GIR classes want you to do more than use the equations

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  If you haven’t heard of xkcd, stop reading. Instead, go over to xkcd ...  called “What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions,” in which he uses legitimate, scientific tools and data to guess at impossible

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  I started MIT as a bubble of idealism. MIT was going to be AWESOME. Everything was going to be AWESOME. I was going to double major in biological ... going to UROP and I was going to be a Medlink and an MIT blogger and then

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Events

  I graduated My brass rat is upside-down and my dorm room is bare

  

  This is what Websis has to say: Wow. *     *     * I'm on the train with my family, and Boston is now out of sight. I haven't managed to ... based on major (Course 8 was Station 19) and asked to report to Johnson

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 8, 2014