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• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  context of a human rights-related field, doing mostly national-level and ... fields led to my current job. It has nothing to do with my undergrad major, but it has everything to do with my attraction – which I had then – to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  dedicated to doing a bunch of random projects and learning activities. The ... enjoyed it a lot and might do something like this again in the future ... everyday we do a hike, pack a picnic, swim in some cold lake at the middle of

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology (fatima's version)

  

  tabs open on my phone to see if such a post would be worth doing. it was ... google search, 0/10 for conviction kah do ye kohkan se ki marna nhi kamal ... Hayden Library Widener Library (that's MIT, whatever do you mean!) math

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  out the other while walking to class, while eating, while doing chores, and oftentimes even while doing [annotation note="I can only do this if ... my brain. And now that I’m at MIT, I can only occasionally do this

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  things I have been doing both inside and outside the confines of MIT. I've reached this strange turning point in my life where I want to do things more ... of this to encourage anyone to let go of everything. I'm doing more

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  that perfectionism is purely evil, because I do believe there are cases when it can do good. I'm also not implying "high-achieving good ... succeed in the things you want to do, you must learn the art of eating shit

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  our energy is going to flow in, so when you're doing magic, you want to ... better minute by minute.’” i don’t believe in chi, but i do believe that ... friends i wanted or what i wanted to do with them; i was more focused on

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  up with that on the spot? Well, you do get to rhyme things with your ... dull, who doesn't aspire to do anything particularly ambitious or ... ? but rather as does this person care about the same things as me? What do

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  make my environment work for me was not something I had the power to do ... how many students out there are doing just well enough to avoid being ... classes I observe do a lot of work in small groups, and both teachers often

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  sunscreen physical health and stuff

  

  happened and to walk exactly the way you’re used to, even if doing so makes ... footsteps in a way that minimized pressure on my right foot, and after doing ... anyway, in response to all this i am doing a few things differently to take

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 4, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  oh, the crash and the burn

  

  As evident from my last blogpost, I'm doing a lot and it's taken a ... reflecting and the first place my mind went to, genuinely, was: Do I deserve ... Amazing Spider-Man comics from 2001 onwards. I tried do a little bit of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  some IAP adventures as told by my camera roll

  

  ,[/annotation] MIT offers an "Independent Activities Period" where students do ... , do research, or nothing at all! This IAP, I chose to do essentially ... _row images="72280,72279,72278,72277" caption="admittedly, i do not have a lot

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 4, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  most of my time doing math. I haphazardly dyed my hair at home and ... have continued playing dumb (“Portland—do you wanna know the exact ... if this had anything to do with me. I did not know what to do besides

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  outlines for how to get into MIT are do well in school, be nice and pursue ... lot more deliberate about taking time for myself every day to do ... warmer, or calling friends and family, cleaning, doing yoga, biking

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

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  they can, that they won’t have a chance to do their best because of all ... sad that there are many things that you cannot do to spend your days in the coming months, do not let yourself be preoccupied about how it will

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  next to normal on mental health

  

  myself, and i only do want to speak for myself, when i say that my ... “deepest secrets”, and it’s been more object-level. more how are you doing ... productive, are you on top of your classes? do you still feel anxious about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  "Afeefah, do you still write for the blogs?" I've gotten this ... while you guys. I'm happy to report that I'm alive and I'm actually doing ... hard, make all the cheatsheets, do the practice tests, go to office hours

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  's what I wrote about, and what I would change if I could do it all over ... something you do simply for the pleasure of it. (100 words or fewer) I wrote ... . Lesson learned. It's actually okay to do things for fun, guys. I still

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  that shrouds me—am i doing the right by trading new endeavors and ... , be managing my time better? am i not doing enough? my day slips by ... . no longer would i fall prey to the Hellish Void that is YouTube—i’d do

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  .  People are good, I really do believe that. When you don’t know what to do, remember that you don’t have to know what to do on your own; the people ... wanted so badly to just do all the things! But a lot of times, this would

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019