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• Blog / Residential Life

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  the internalized misogyny and sexism that my high school had taught me ... put anyone at ease. There was something so homey about Random ... this pandemic and the workload MIT has thrown at us, that none of us have

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  word here before, like it’s a thing - becoming jaded with being at MIT ... your own internal state, and I keep noticing in various unrelated ... . At the start, I was definitely too optimistic about how much fun I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  traced with green marker at a kids’ arts and crafts space with my little ... sharpener, also from Max. Paint I got on my desk while painting my room at ... indoors). At the end of last semester I finally caved and bought a bunch of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  year I decided to write another monologue to give at the performance, and ... about my experience as a transgender person at MIT. The one thing I just ... embracing memories of my time at MIT because I feel that's already talked

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  innovation internship at the Boston Veteran Affairs (VA) Medical Center through ... rounding team at one of the VA campus hospitals, and visited the VA's Brain ... catch the 7:30 bus for the first leg of my morning commute. I shopped at

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  college life, particularly here at MIT. I’ve only been on campus for a a ... , philosophical, and ethical look at the future of biotechnology. Despite it being ... long internal debate, I decided to drop it. I was nervous to email my

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech version: slightly jaded

  

  application. Or it may happen all at once, after this summer, when I decide to ... E classes, and something at Harvard, and something to do with writing.]   ... for at least two days to sit down and grind out p-sets, thirty percent

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  engineering internship at a startup.  How it’s going so far: I feel super lucky ... much jurisdiction over the entire product. If I were to work at any ... someone who works at a place that rhymes with Schmacebook, and she said that

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  "]wake up at 7am,[/annotation]and head down into the cramped gym in the ... you’re some kind of pro, but it was a pretty big deal to me, at the time ... combination of external pressures and internal workings. That summer, right

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  quintessential global MIT experiences, MISTI, or MIT International Science and ... get work experience, AND you get to travel at the same time. If you ever ... abroad for high school and university students. What’s cool: 6 weeks at a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  walk freely at night.” from The Journals of Sylvia Plath I am in New ... cousin is at her job, working for a public health/charity organization, and ... was breaking. Shouldn’t have had it in the first place, an internal

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  , or at least they were smooth enough for human eyes and neat enough for ... did not look closely. No one looked closely. At ten o’clock she walked ... outside. They were content. At dinnertime the sounds of human life again

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  at it. No, really! Okay, so unlike some people in the dorm who live ... worse room than the year before. At this point everyone thought I was ... before (furniture rearrangement). Also, there is one very lousy window at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Wiimote Fun in Spain What I'm actually doing with my time over here, when I'm not learning Spanish insults…

  

  info of my wonderful adventures in Spain: MISTI (MIT International ... decentralized. So, for example, if there was a professor at MIT from a particular ... to meet with representatives from Telefonica at the European Career

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  figure out if you really like it or not. My second term at MIT, 18.100B ... a reason. I'm not particularly good at thermodynamics, but last spring ... years after taking AP Bio, and didn't feel unprepared for them at all

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  reasons you have stayed at MIT?" Nothing too exciting, I'm afraid, for the ... am not, for the record, a star student at MIT), but I like that I am ... partially agree with you. :) The vast majority of people at MIT are

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  “from North Carolina”? A mainland girl at heart? Nothing can beat my dad ... [/annotation]. It’s hard to proudly claim the identity “American” when a guy at Mc ... ’s marching band uniform. I thought of waking up at 3 am to a “team alive

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  pages and thinking about going to school there. I miss the potential ... but relenting to let me pass. I miss working at Hometown Pizza. I miss ... miss making wishes at 11:11 in English class. I miss the way my friend

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  behind the different features. My parents and I were both shocked at my ... hope the Class of 2022 can have a Ring Delivery to celebrate at some ... to school at BU, and I try to visit her at least once a semester. I don

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  row at this point, and I figured that it would only be appropriate to ... because of last year's internship at PlayStation, I have still not acquired ... % complete. I think that this semester, I felt like I belonged at MIT the most

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019