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• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  As I write this we are just east of Buffalo. My mom is driving; my dad is in the front seat; I'm in the back, sharing space with enough ... entire life is in this car, pretty much, if you leave out all the friends I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  ’s house. I underpainted it pink. It looks bad, and I don’t have the time to ... beautiful, but I know I probably won’t be finishing it anytime soon. As much ... of guilt, pushing down the desire to grab my paint brushes, because I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  Song: Ramblings of a Lunatic by Bears In Trees Two months ago, I ... , four dimensions. I’ve been thinking about this a lot recently when it ... were (i.e. yourself any time in the past), but you aren’t yet who you

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  I had a plan for this blog post: I was going to build a ... about it. Then I had another plan for this blog post: I was going to build a loft before school starts, and then write about it. Then I had

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  Hiiiiiiiiiiiii 好久不见朋友s I missed you guys. I really really really did ... , I spent the last year of my life in Shanghai studying Chinese at Fudan University. I am currently working on a number of blog posts that will be

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  I'll begin with a flashback. Scene: On my way back from my daily ... . Bryan: Hey, long time no see. How was Cambridge? Friend: I really liked it, but I'm glad to be back. Bryan: Cool. Friend: Weren't you supposed to

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  being bad at ice skating and learning to try anyway

  

  Boston autumns are beautiful, golden, apple-flavoured, short-lived. I ... never gets this cold where I’m from. I distinctly remember getting excited those few days when I’d wake up to frosty dewdrops on the grass at home

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 15, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  snip snip liberating the shoulder one free t-shirt at a time

  

  Dear blog readers,  I have something to confess. I, Veronica P, am an addict. No matter how hard I try to fight it, I get this uncontrollable urge. Every single time I get a free t shirt, I can't help myself

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 28, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Memories I know this feelin', yes I know it very well (Thutmose)

  

  Hi everyone! I am excited to be back celebrating this milestone with you all. When I left MIT in 2018, I "graduated" with the first class I helped admit. It felt poetic, in a way. I embarked on a new career as a

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  Have you ever wanted to feel happier and thought, hey, maybe if I eat ... .[/annotation] In any case, I spent all semester thinking about laser-powered dopamine ... date and I have not been able to bring myself to watch it but now I will

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  I've been taking the time to explore some classes and activities in Copenhagen that I haven't tried in a while. I took a pole class, a week of krav maga, and did art with some coworkers! pole I’ve tried out the stripper

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  zero. once again you can determine how busy i am by the rate of my ... whatever time i have left, because it can just take an arbitrary amount of attention. but when i don't have that time left, then oops no blog post. and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Poetry from 5 AM This Morning Don't worry, I drank an entire MUG of espresso

  

  This girl is tired. Verrryyyyyyy tired. I had a lot of ideas for what I wanted to post this weekend. A month into my time at MIT I can finally say I’ve drunk from the firehose and tasted it vicious glory; there

  • by Powers '23
  • September 30, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Doing well??? Uh, sure... I guess

  

  In my last post (which was way too long ago 😖), but I guess I should ... question is: Ok, I guess... As a quick reminder my current schedule is ... me fairly well. But why? Because I actually changed and improved myself

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • April 3, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Day 1: Going North Leaving the light pollution bubble to go to class?

  

  どうしてみなさん外国語を使う？ひさしぶりだけど、いつ必要ですか？ じゃ、僕も英語を書きません。そして…. I kid I kid, though I could write an entire post in Japanese if I wanted to. Maybe I will later, but today’s not that day. I just wanted to share this

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Hug Your History Teacher Because it's 9/11

  

  So, I manage the blogs. Interestingly, the best way to manage the blogs I found, is to do it by NOT managing the bloggers. Might take a second for that to make sense. But we have an agreement. I don't tell them

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 11, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things That Have Happened To Me Recently in no particular order

  

  The other day I tried to hard-boil eggs for the first time. The first ... next batch came out fine. But then I ruined them by trying to turn them into egg salad. See, what I really wanted was an egg salad sandwich (I

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  QUOTE: "MIT is a very good place; I'm not trying to put it down. I ... -spaced pages in Word later, everything made sense. Or at least I hope it did ... prior. I hear Kayla '12 get up in the room next to mine, and she soon

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  This will default to miscellaneous Finishing this blog entry was my biggest accomplishment today

  

  . Then I took a nap. After my nap I fixed a rip in my pants, hooked up some ... . Conversation (always) goes like this: I haven't visited China since I started college. I think I will go. This summer, after graduation. Graduation. And

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  NOOOOO! It's so sad!

  

  I've found my excuse to write a new blog entry. Remember way back when, when I blogged about the new chairs that could possibly be ... read and get acquainted with the various seating options. I picked up a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 9, 2008