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• Blog / Uncategorized

  i have fridays off this semester here's what i did with my first one

  

  best cafe in boston. Lo and behold, it is in fact the best coffee you've had in Boston. And you were planning on getting some work done, but ... away. Just in case you needed another dose of serendipity. And

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 6, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus (Part 1) despite everything, it's still you.

  

  me in the comments, I will fix them.

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 29, 2026
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Answer these 13 questions and we’ll reveal the perfect dorm for you! What does your favorite dorm animal say about where you should live?

  

  each of our dorms has its own traditions, in-jokes, and lifestyles. I ... to find interesting patterns and learn more about the people in dorms ... prefrosh (sorry that this quiz is so late lol). I dormspammed the survey in

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  “we have the winter olympics at home” the winter olympics at home:

  

  When I say that snow was a statistically significant factor in my ... left campus in… an interesting state, but more importantly, it left Briggs field covered in a thick layer of pure ice. Sections of it were

  • by Allison E. '27
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  days in [annotation note="Independent Activities Period"]IAP[/annotation], Bad Ideas Weekend takes hold in MIT like glitter: it’s everywhere, if you look hard enough, and it catches the light, even in the dark

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  sticker stories adorned on my water bottles

  

  still in the luggage area, submitted item retrieval paperwork to the ... did manage to find the bottle in the corners of old photos! Pardon the ... cover other things, like fridges or laptops, but I like them all in one

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Minesweeper Monday Episode One: Quantum of Solace Emulator

  

  Hello everyone and welcome to episode one of Minesweeper Monday, a bit that I might never do again! In this episode I talk about Coffee and Radio and Movies and try for far too long to get an emulator of a game to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint liveblog] finding the BALANCE with 2.009 watching the 2.009 annual showcase (with Kayode D. '27)

  

  audience POV. In some lucky turn of events, Kayode D. '27 and I managed to ... up on my typical habits of putting in way too many photos, but in the ... , then the photos we take are in a format that can't be uploaded easily

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  My highest achievement at MIT.

  

  Edit: Okay, it wasn't split as neatly as that scene in Brave, but that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  realize that at least for me, I won’t know what I am interested in for at least a few years after college graduation. And that’s okay. In fact, I ... like though! At MIT, I have explored areas that I never have before in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  : stove-cook your oatmeal and never look back. If you want to talk to us in

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  GUYS IT SNOWED!! yayayayyaayy

  

  now: 30% chance of <0.05 in. of snow for 20 minutes] has popped up. A ... % chance of <0.05 in. of snow” popped up a couple times for yesterday (Wednesday, 12/6), but in the last fiveish days leading up to Wednesday it

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  'd do it again. in my preparation for this class, i read one of the problems in the first chapter, and i thought to myself "i can't solve that ... is in your problem set, that topic you tried to independent study but

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  flowers of fire and light making art with printed circuit boards!

  

  oblong "petals" are created by spinning the poi head in the opposite ... "antispin." In other words, if your arm is moving clockwise, your wrist would ... to lay out all of the components in a schematic. My main components

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 16, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  . The other day, I called Allen, one of the underclassmen in my wing, and ... videogames. I sometimes play my friend Satya in Smash, and I don’t think I ... , and I’ll probably try to continue playing chess once in a while, too

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gala a premiere event celebrating fashion, arts, and culture

  

  creation, discussion, and appreciation of fashion. Since its launch in 2018 ... out here, range from explorations of South Asian identity to studies in ... looks come to life in the runway show, and additional designers had the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  . I became interested in songwriting after listening to Olivia Rodrigo ... distance between souls in crisply-produced three-minute bundles. [caption id ... among dark churning waves. In tenth grade, I entered a writing contest

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  's been a decade, and only brief snippets of that MIT still remain in my ... honestly, does the distinction even matter? When I was in my late teens, people would ask, Rona, why did you choose MIT if you're interested in the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  history book in the form of blogposts). And when I first started out ... insane degree. Coffee was a part of my identity in,,, perhaps an almost ... I haven't! Yay! Insert digression here:   When I was in my

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Untitled Pigeon Post 🐦💕

  

  tried holding out, but I was young and wanted to fit in, so peer pressure eventually made me cave in. “Okay, fine! … but just one page.” I closed my ... [annotation note="Not to mention all the in-between cookies-and-cream patterns

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2023