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• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  you just can’t. you actually can’t. you can try but you can’t. last friday night was the beginning of teammate hunt, a puzzlehunt written with some excellent puzzles. it’s written…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  the last twenty days burning out before the semester even starts

  

  One year ago, before sophomore year started, and before I became a blogger, I was REX⁠01 REX stands for Residence EXploration, where we welcome first-years to the dorms around campus…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  In high school, the boys didn’t like me. A friend suggested that perhaps it was because our school was 80% Caucasian and in the heart of Portland, Oregon, the whitest…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Infinite Magazine [joint post with Kidist A.]

  

  note="I couldn't for the life of me remember what this stands for, but I ... across the globe). I really liked bringing my artistic vision to life, so

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 27, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  Welcome to the first of the many blogs I have meant to write but just not had the energy to do so this semester! Let’s get right into it… In…

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  secondhand stories an allegory

  

  here’s the thing about improv companies. the thing they do most often isn’t putting on shows, but rehearsing. a few years ago i found some improv companies online, and i…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  never find my way back. Life is so much easier when there’s nothing that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  It’s April. I’ve been on campus for close to two months now. It’s halfway through the semester, and I’m in this weird mood lately where I really don’t want to…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  things i’ve made and/or consumed art, movies, shows, and more

  

  complicated areas of life and leaves it at that without trying to draw a line ... characters and narrator make about life, love, and death. The characters are ... , life, etc."]Matt D'Avella[/annotation], and I wanted to support his work

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 28, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a compilation of creative projects creativity? at MY institute?

  

  Among the many classes I took this semester, I ended up taking two and a half classes that fell under MIT’s broad category of HASS-A, or arts classes.⁠15 MIT students…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  Thanksgiving at MIT has always been just a paltry two days off, Thursday and Friday, to make a four-day long weekend. This year, breaking tradition, we got the full week…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  hindering my social life, as opposed to something much worse

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  Today, November 3rd, 2020, is Election Day in the United States. Many millions of Americans have already voted by mail or in-person; more will cast their ballots today. Here at…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  i’ve got four piercings on my right ear, and two on my left This past fall, just days after arriving on campus, a bunch of freshman girls in my dorm…

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  after experiencing this tumultuous year, it’s strange to be having a blissful summer. here are a couple of things that are making me very happy atm. exploring the Cambridge/Boston area…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest post] Eating Your Way Through MIT The story behind Chop Stir Hack, an MIT student food magazine

  

  life-like sushi models, we want you. If you have the perfect meatball

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 1 ...adulting?

  

  bringing them to life is infinitely fulfilling and I feel like such an adult

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 2, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  Final Project Demo Roll if only they were more helpful to the world at large

  

  For those of you who have been following my blog posts this semester, you might remember that this was supposed to be the semester where I really came into my…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 1, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  Every day, I realize more and more that I live in a privileged bubble, being physically, mentally and financially protected from the realities of what a lot of black people…

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  made a difference in our process – who you are, your approach to life and

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020