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  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  the palm of your hand.” “Really? I always thought it was faster. It’s, like, a more powerful movement for me. So I do it with more force ... the final round. I looked around the room, at the wood paneled walls

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  . there is so much i still wish to accomplish, so many classes i never got to take, so many clubs i was never a part of, so many parts of campus i ... always and recently, i find myself trying and then failing to make sense of

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  Here’s a picture of (almost) all the paper I’ve used at MIT so far ... first semester:[/annotation] I am too [annotation note="the (usually ... measuring impostor syndrome. I got it from Peer Ears training that happened

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  During a layover in the London Heathrow Airport I yanked Mariam (my ... journal. I anticipated that the next ten days in the epicenter of AIDs would be filled with all kinds of sights and experiences that I would want to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  The Aftershock In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be remembered for her big…

  

  cohesive post, I will relabel and map out this process like it was linear ... every few days. And I’m sure it all is a fraction of what her family is feeling as they process everything. I got a missed call notification

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  having so much freedom is sometimes it’s hard to choose: “I really like a good pasta dish, but I also think I might like taco salad. How do I pick just one?” Or maybe, “I’ve put two years into this soufflé, but I don

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  Hello Everyone! Firstly, I’d like to publicly apologize for not being as frequent as I normally am. I think last year, I set a goal of ... difficult. I’m sure you can guess what I’ve been doing..... (*drum roll

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  In June I'll be celebrating, along with my MIT classmates, a pretty major reunion and I've been spending much of the time recently, when I ... one point during that weekend I'll be talking with my old friends about

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  It’s hard to believe that I am now in the latter half of my college career. I am almost done with school, almost ready to go out into the real world. I remember thinking about how old college students seemed all

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  summer projects at the National Institutes of Health (I’m close, but it looks like I’ll be sticking around the lab for an extra week), presenting ... Bon Pain in the NIH Clinical Center (which I justify by the total

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  Although most of the time I coast through my days in lab in a whirlwind of science glee, I have to admit that every once in a while, the lab doesn't love me back. Yesterday, for example, I was trying to get a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.

  

  Here goes another Omnibus... sorry if I didn't get to your question ... what the name of Nance's baby is? We're very curious =D" I think I'm at ... Admissions Officers", but I haven't gotten around to everybody yet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an infinite nine year old and the infinite nineteen year old he became

  

  The first time I walked down that hallway, the world was white. Many years later, I’d learn that that hallway was actually a ‘corridor’—an infinite one, at that. Dramatically, slash if I were into telling fables, I

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  Over the summer, I’ve centered on a fear that I have in graduate ... happen. I’ll write some paper, it (hopefully) gets published in some journal, and someone I’ve never interacted with will read it, and will think

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  soul. These feelings usually sneak up on me—I never know when exactly to expect them, but when they do occur, they do feel motivated. Of course I ... moment, though, I try to keep that analysis in the background and cherish

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  UPDATE -- April 16, 2011 -- Five years ago I ran the Boston Marathon ... their chests to read GO SAM! I ran it with Mitra, my best friend from ... on the front page of The Tech. It was kind of cathartic; I was a chunky

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  eating everything at eastern edge a rave review of a new food hall!

  

  's what I tried! [carousel image1="123426" image2="123425" /] I started ... me, I don't drink coffee and lowkey think I'm allergic, but it was ... tea available and I was determined to have something. Yet, in the first

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 28, 2026
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  Author's note: The original title was going to be "I DUPED THE COOP!" but I decided that was too much. I still wanted to mention it though ... of 2025.” I’ve thought about making custom merch since freshman year

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  It's been over six years since I graduated MIT - longer than I spent ... , full of promise and mystery and challenges that I'm not prepared for but ... accessible in the liminal space between semesters. I remember starting every

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  When I think about my time at MIT, my first thought is: it still feels like just yesterday (I graduated in 2013). Last year, I had the ... — and it all still felt like home.  Okay, all the places I loved to eat

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025