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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  When I'm feeling irritable and/or stressed, I dislike empty advice. I ... ’t think of better advice. I don’t blame them, certainly, they were just trying to be positive. Still, I don’t believe in blanket statements. I like

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  i’d like to write a happy post a sestina

  

  I've been gone from the blogs for a little while, since this semester has been quite a difficult one and I haven't really had the headspace to write. I'm hoping to come back soon, but, in the meantime, please accept

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m just curious as to why you keep invoking William Faulkner. "MIT is so charmingly nerdy" entries #12 and 35.

  

  I had not the greatest week, but tune in tomorrow for my misadventures with the reply-to-all feature and otherwise... I don't want to ... the greatest week, I was thinking about limericks, which of course led

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  Before coming to MIT, I had no idea if I wanted to continue skating, training, and competing. Before committing to MIT, I accepted the fact that ... -to-plausible possibility that I wouldn't have the time, energy, or resources to continue to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Always Rooting for the Anti-Hero it's me! hi! i'm [the problem?], it's me

  

  where i am Since the beginning of the fall semester of my senior year, I've felt a decided shift in the air. I've mentioned it before ... . Things aren't upsetting or exhausting, but exciting. I'm not sure what

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  After a year and a half on a forced meal plan, I have now been freed ... thing I did when I came to MacGregor? Get a rice cooker, because I haven ... , rice is great. I'm a Filipino, so I love rice. Second, rice cookers are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  How many days I have left in my parents’ home is approximately as ... ?” Which means I have two homes now, and although I should feel lucky, I am torn. In the college home, I get adventures with friends, bright city

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  , Girona[/caption] 9/8/2025 Dear blog, Last night, I arrived to Figueres ... the escalators in Catalonia to be down. Certainly— I decided as I rode from one crowded platform to the next— the amount of times I had dropped

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  a text convo on failure and other stuff i guess

  

  My friend Miguel T. '25 and I were texting about random stuff this morning, and failure came up. I thought to share some excerpts with you ... party as part of my birthday festivities. i love sunrises lol

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 12, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  self care define it or perish

  

  as i've previously mentioned on the blogs, sophomore fall is wrecking ... only thing i can do right now. i'm getting enough sleep, but i don't exercise (oops) or read or explore Boston like i did this summer

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  seattle ➞ mit an epilogue in bullet points and pictures

  

  for a brief moment over the summer i think i truly believed that i ... to the paycheck every other friday. [annotation note="the 9 to 5 i didn't care much for. the software i did was pretty interesting. i liked the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  After receiving decisions from the colleges I applied to, the choice was easy to pick MIT. I knew I wanted to attend a school that would not ... fields of research. Regardless of the major I end up choosing, I know I

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  I've spent the better part of a day trying to blog about my semester, but I can't think of a pithy way to put everything together, so I wrote this instead. There's frankly not too much to say because I've been

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  Florence!   So I don't know if you could tell, but I was teaching in Italy over IAP. In October, I applied to MIT's Global Teaching Labs ... . I'd like to present my experience as 10 lessons-- not the ones I

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  DONE (sorta) If I'm done, why am I still stressed?

  

  because right now I'm a little too tired to do a coherent entry. The end of term will do that to you. But hey, I'm DONE (sorta). I -- Apologies to any random prefrosh that have contacted me lately. I've been really

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hot Dogs Or, how I fail at eating hot dogs.

  

  I've always been a big eater. Part of this may be because my dad is ... . That'd be me, I'm the boy, and I'm used to eating massive amounts of food. Before Matt, Ben, and I gave our presentation last week we went for lunch

  • by Snively '11
  • February 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Scratches On My Mind A brief introduction, so you'll know why I see MIT the way I do.

  

  Yeah, I know. It's a weird title for a first blog entry. But bear with me, because it'll seem really appropriate once I explain it (Bonus points for anyone who can tell me where I got the phrase). We all see the

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  I often hear students say that colleges control their destinies and ... about the students' choices. With all respect to these students, I ... to apply (I'll explain this in a minute) and honest with yourself in

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dress your wounds and stay in bed self care!

  

  cw: I discuss some injuries with varying amounts of needles and blood   I learned some valuable life skills in Denmark, from how to turn ... of the other skills I practiced was self-care. I learned to let myself

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  One of my goals for my sophomore year was to do all the things I was afraid to do in my freshman year. One of the bigger things I wanted to do in my freshman year that I did not do was join clubs, specifically

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020