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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  holidays in boston a photodump for you to procrastinate with

  

  this upcoming week, and just remember that giving up on life and binge

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 16, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  in the past months, I have felt the impact of various people around me on the quality of my life with full force. MIT is so vast and there are so many different people who make sure it continues the way it does

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In the Music Cubes, no one can hear you scream…

  

  … which just goes to show what a great job the acoustics engineers did on soundproofing the building! I got to experience it first-hand last week, and it was pretty…

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 25, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  It was the morning of the second or third day of classes and I had brewed jasmine tea at the pika⁠05 My very cool independent living group! kitchen counter and…

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  cleats on feet, smile on face thoughts on injuries and spring season

  

  naturally my whole life. Instead of walking, I was dragging, hopping, or

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Semester of poetry

  

  ears For just the life of a breeze – then extinguishes itself into

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  After two long years, it’s time. It’s dark and raining slightly, the only light on the Harvard Bridge coming from the streetlights and the Boston skyline. The Charles River drops…

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  — where i would be right now in my life/my career/my education would be

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / Events

  dogg number there is no one better to be than myself!

  

  In 2022, Snoop Dogg changed the course of human history by releasing his song “Affirmations”. Today, we honor him by calculating every Spotify artist’s “Dogg Number”. That’s the header for…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taste ai has no taste.

  

  never really wanted the life they’re now living. If you’re not certain

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  About a year ago, I wrote about the origami I’d made at my internship in a “draft” blog post when I applied to be a blogger. That draft never saw…

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus #2 yayay

  

  (Check out what I did last summer!) I’m staying on-campus again! UROP I’m continuing my Spring UROP⁠16 Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to participate in real research with professors.…

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  life doing stem, but it’s not so different from the realization i had a ... to optimize my social life so i would just not actively choose anything

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Non-Blinding my junior year(s)

  

  sitting here thinking "Welp, this is my life." And I realize, that four ... on an essay, and I realize that this could be my life. I start to see

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  happy singles awareness day

  

  within these relationships. So much of life feels like estrangement ... obstacles in my life are not so insurmountable that I can’t defeat them alone

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid

  

  It finally happened. I got Covid. Right at the last week of IAP⁠17 Independent Activities Period, which runs throughout most of January when I was just about to prep materials…

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  So, What Exactly Happens? y'know, over IAP?

  

  Life Editor. Instead, it will be Vivian '25 who has been writing for

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  -paying jobs with good work-life balance . . . Even though I was categorized as

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Diarios de Madrid: Semana 1 Cosas de Mi Primera Semana

  

  Hola! Estoy en España porque estoy tomando una clase que se llama “The Spanish Incubator”. Para esta clase, vamos a Madrid por tres semanas y estudiamos sobre la literatura de…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  part 1: My B. Song: Bright by Echosmith. part 1a: early action A week before I got into MIT early action, I was rejected as a QuestBridge finalist. My friend, was…

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023