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• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  easier said than done. I woke up (well, my mom woke me up) at around 7am, for an 11:15am flight. I made it in plenty of time. Got on the plane ... …and woke up an hour later, to find us in the air. Realized that I slept

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Flipping Failure an IAP update

  

  This IAP, I took part in a writing workshop at MIT known as Flipping Failure. In this workshop, I and other participants worked on developing a ... MIT. After debating between a couple of topics, I chose to tell a story

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 28, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  yo-yos, comics, and other adventures my junior spring schedule!

  

  I signed up for a healthy and sane schedule of 48 units and a UROP, but then I realized I could also sneak into a comic book class with the same professor that I’d had in Brazil. This was too tempting, so I am now

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  I. eulogies are beautiful but  can we talk about leaves before fall? this time, i’ll make the summer count  this time, i’ll be louder    today, i feel like a leaf rustling impatiently behind far gone cars  

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  The first time I ever stepped on a skateboard was in 2015, which was ... Future Part II. I was in seventh grade. It was a week before Halloween, and I had just finished my McFly costume with a cheap skateboard from the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  I am going to put this together haphazardly, work on it in drips and ... . But it can be lovely, too.   When I first thought of this blog ... .   But the more I think on it, the more I realize I had no idea

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  When I was applying to MIT, I thought that was the single application that would determine the entire course of my life. I thought that if the odds of me getting in panned out, and in some wild reality I actually

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  guest post series*   It’s the end of finals. I’m sitting at a ... as I stare at my completed 7.014 exam. I get up to hand the thick packet to a TA and I waltz out of the Z-Center, the sun bathing me in its

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  The next few months of my life are pretty well planned out. I'm going ... all the things I kept meaning to write and then never got around to, and ... there. But mostly I'll be taking classes. Thesis Do a lot of work and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mastering Physics Has No Soul I love online assignments. har. har.

  

  I don't usually like to post these kind of "on-the-whim" entries (I'd write more, but I'm still finishing 2 psets), but I believe this is an important part of MIT Student Life. @@ Say that I'm irresponsible for not

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  for me was something that I looked forward to and feared at the same ... same year. I didn't really know any current students, and I surely was not going to be driving distance from home. I remember packing up my

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ST PATRICKS DAY RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

  

  HOZIER, KING OF IRELAND, IS HERE TO SPEAK:  It can't be said I'm an early birdIt's ten o'clock before I say a wordBaby, I can never tellHow do you ... ?Smelling like a bonfire, lost in a haze?If you're drunk on life, babe, I think it

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 17, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  tote bag tour i have so many things to carry

  

  I don’t know how it started exactly–a nice lug of canvas here, a floppy rectangle of yellow there. I tried my best to retreat under the ... that one’s foldable enough to take on the go, I cried silently. I need

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 2, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  dumb little poems and such emotional support procrastination

  

  pretend my midterm doesn't exist my midterm will disappear if i pretend it doesn’t exist if i set down my pen maybe go firespin it will vanish from my todo-list i’m getting tired of fourier transforms these

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 7, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  In the spring, I bought a polaroid, walked around campus, and took ... between me and the person I was when I stood there last and I had nothing to show for it but stagnation. I’m bitter. I’m sad. I’m angry. There were

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  road trip here in my car I feel safest of all I can lock all my doors…

  

  I really like driving. I wanted to go to college in a city with ... /con Should I go to MIT? list was "I can't take my car with me." Freshman year I got kind of used to walking places and taking the T. Eventually I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 21, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  hard time. I know it did for me; I read it as a first-semester graduate student, during my own difficult time, and I could immediately understand ... author intended. I think it's fair to say that Lydia's blog post

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  I have something of a love-hate relationship with 2015. Last year was ... second half of the year I was thrust into a new, thriving, churning environment, and I’ve been trying to soak in as much of it as I possibly can. So

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Typical Friday Night Done with 6.046 exam, time to chill

  

  As you might have read in my last entry, I had a 6.046 (Design and ... hours :) I thought I'd share the fun times I had this past Friday night, post-6.046 exam. I know that before I came to MIT, my impression of the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Finality Just one more week.

  

  I'm the kind of person that likes to make lists - partially because I forget things otherwise and partially just because I like feeling awesome and productive every time I cross something off :) I have a list for all

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 9, 2010