Search

Search Results

• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  This is my first IAP.⁠01 Independent Activities Period, which runs throughout the month of January I also got hit with a case of writer’s block, so I went through at…

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  bored in iap maybe i should've signed up for something

  

  winter break is nice and all, especially when it runs over into iap and i have nothing much to do. but with nothing to do, i’m getting kinda bored. so…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  I try and tell myself that I’ve overcome imposter syndrome, and, in some ways, I have. I have no doubt in my mind that I’m thriving at MIT. I love…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  as a kid, i used to always be on edge when interacting with people. for instance, i remember when i was in elementary school, my parents would drop me off…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  On New Year’s Day, I got a tattoo of a saguaro. Saguaros are massive: ten, twenty feet of towering spiny cactus. They dot the desert mountainsides like trees. I got…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  act I: prologue When I was a kid, I used to dread going to sleep. I would lay there in bed, words and thoughts spinning around my head without pause.…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  “What’s course 12 again?” That’s a question I deal with a lot when people ask my major. Course 12 is Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) and it’s one of…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary an image a day keeps the psets away

  

  1/3/22 The sentences just didn’t seem to flow as I attempted different potential blog concepts. I had ideas, but none came out smooth. They were choppy, disjointed, or I simply…

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 3, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  most MIT students i’ve spoken to, and probably most college students these days, feel as if they’ve lost a lot of time to the pandemic. the sophomores and freshmen have…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  Col·lege ma·jors (noun) A term that invokes pain and, as compensation, newfound freedom in class selection Last April, I declared my major. Not too long before that, I blogged about…

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  A: god it’s already new year’s eve B: yeah there’s still some people around campus A: i mean we’re around B: no like B: other people B: doing work A:…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  If I had a dollar for every body pillow I’ve purchased in the past six months, I would have four dollars. For a net decrease of approximately $40 because those…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  My semester has officially ended and I can happily say I’ve wrapped up the most successful MIT semester I’ve had to date. I’ve gone through a series of ups and…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  This year, I’m volunteering with the MIT Educational Council to interview students applying to MIT. During one of my interviews, a student asked me for an “uncommon piece of advice that…

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  cw: talking abt chronic pain   Everyone derides the EC basement gym, but I kinda like it. The paint is peeling off the walls. Thick dust gathers in the corners.…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  MIT is overwhelming. Though this sounds painfully obvious, I don’t think I actually fully realized just how much it all is until the first time I went home this fall.…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  the truth— you want to be needed so badly that you think you might choke on it. you need to be wanted so badly that you think you might keel…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  tw suicide mention and angst!! to the skeletons in my closet, it’s taken me days to even get started on this⁠47 hello cami here. this is? a different kind of…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  excerpts

  

  I haven’t been doing a great job of blogging this semester for a variety of reasons (grad school is busy, life is hard, writing isn’t my highest priority in life…

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  a few weeks ago i asked my friend what kinds of people i should date and they replied “probably non-stem people”. and the moment they said that a glass wall…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021