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• Blog / MIT Life

  Summiting Mount Monadnock camping trip!

  

  Last weekend,  I went camping with my living community [annotation ... with my living community :D. Saturday We left in the afternoon, driving ... reach. But my [annotation note="Physics"]Course 8[/annotation] friend

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 18, 2025
• Blog / Travel

  Rejection Therapy and my insatiable urge to collect trading cards

  

  my eyes, you are done being prefrosh by definition on the first day of ... [/annotation] impending arrival. I was in the airport for my 8AM flight from Louisville to Boston ... , I can talk to MORE PILOTS and collect PILOT TRADING CARDS???? My nerd

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  I am lethally bored in the airport boooooo

  

  move out by noon. Not realizing this until after I booked my flight ... -out and needing to be at the airport. I could push my 4 bags around the ... to the bit. (p.s. this is also what I want my signature French fries to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  concord market is finally here!!!!! feasting at MIT's on-campus grocery store

  

  the winter of my sophomore year, LaVerde's permanently closed its doors ... Concord Market. I thought my on-campus grocery store dreams were over: no ... on test day, no more yummy snacks to gift my soccer teammates. I had

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  disproven it. And that my smartphone – its tens of billions of transistors ... mechanical). And I suppose every chemical reaction in my body keeping me alive ... way possible for me to take a quantum engineering class and get over my

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  phylogenetics. Put that down on my Wikipedia page [annotation note="jk please don ... )[/caption] The initial idea I got the inspiration for this from one of my favorite ... to make a weight chart at first, and then I changed my mind to a height

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  ’s overused, I think, to the point of meaninglessness. I don’t want my friendships to be beautiful, I don’t even know what that means. I want my friendships to thrive on mutual compassion, trust, honesty; my best friend from

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  actual conversations i definitely had last night happy new year i guess

  

  don't A: ok cool A: oh god B: what A: my life is just so insignificant A: like, i've been spending so much of my life just A: doing nothing ... think my contacts fell into my eyes B: so why do you hate yourself so

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  been one of my favorite Christmas songs. You can read the lyrics here ... 's worth doing, no matter how good or bad you are at it. And that's my ... critiquing my own Italic somewhat harshly. My earliest experiences with

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  reciting my spiel for insert-club-here and i'm running the aquarium ... 's a pattern. there should be one, right? i feel like if i took one of my friends, put them in my life for a day, and get them to think about it, they

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  intentional change, those of which I’m currently facing in my own life.  I ... that conflicted with everything I’d ever believed about me and my ... project of my existence. Kinda like Zuko, I’m “fighting an infection”, the

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving Self-Quarantine 101 tldr; memes (haha jk...unless)

  

  bookstagram where i posted aesthetic and heavily-filtered pictures of my ... wonderfully woven storylines that will keep you captivated. i read this in my ... started holding online workshops and training sessions, so my friends and i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  who wouldn’t be? My usual defense in this kind of situation (aka any ... rejected so that the emotion wouldn’t come as a shock. I told my parents that I wanted to open my decision alone so we could get the argument out of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining, Dig-Ins and Dives Lady Afeefah travels across campus in search of the best eateries

  

  down my to-do list. But here it finally is! Hey everybody! I'm Lady ... variety of food Maseeh offers. As someone who observes a halal-diet, my ... Wednesday Dec 12, 2018: Baker Hall To be completely honest, this was my

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  hello seattle i'm on the west coast!!

  

  't comparing how foriegn it felt from my hometown in long island, new york, but ... replaced the definition of 'home' in my subconcious. i'm in a completely ... two days i met some of my [annotation note="playing smash, and also

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 3, 2019
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  didn't even know about until a couple of my friends told me to register ... more intriguing to me than my bio classes. I don't know if grad school is what I want anymore. I look at my resume, I look at myself, I look at

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Summer With Tulip Interfaces, Inc guest post by Sharon L. '21

  

  learned in classes, but hadn’t had the chance to utilize on my own. It ... , or to easily be able to make contributions of my own. The culture at the company is definitely one that reminds me of my friends and classes

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Things to Do in Cambridge and Somerville places and events, illustrated

  

  Welcome to my seventh and final(!) tourist-y post. Previously, I have ... campus). CAMBRIDGE ON CAMPUS BAHFest This April, I attended my third ... my friends. As a bonus, the keynote speaker was Ryan North, writer of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 15, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  10 ft from Hasan Minhaj D R E A M S D O C O M E T R U…

  

  This past summer, Hasan Minhaj FINALLY made his way to my hometown on ... see in person since basically forever ago. Hasan Minhaj? In MY town ... set above the MIT campus last Saturday, I excitedly made my way to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  upperclassmen. So I asked some of my closest friends who were graduating if they ... different screens did wonders for my productivity. I wish someone had told me ... your original plan. Some of my most transformative and eye

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017