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• Blog / MIT Life

  Yo quiero… A Spanish themed entry?Ok, not really.

  

  Today I took a nap fom 5 AM to 9 AM. Then I went to class. When I came back, I slept from 3:30 PM tp 8:30 PM. That's 9 whole hours of sleep ... alarmed. Today was "Laura's going to catch up on sleep" day. I don't usually

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  As a quick sidenote, I want to say my heart goes out to everyone going through these particularly tough times. I know this blog may seem out of place with recent events. I've tried a lot to figure out how to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply if I already have a degree?

  MIT doesn’t award second bachelor’s degrees, regardless of the course of study. We encourage you to apply to MIT as a graduate student.
• Blog / How to Human

  and i try to find my place

  

  A couple nights ago, I cried as Raymond asked me my deepest desires and I told him that for once in my time at MIT, I want to be good at something, to have my niche. I've been struggling a lot in finding my place

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Non-Blinding my junior year(s)

  

  It's my junior year, and I am busy working on graduation requirements. I don't love my classes, but I'm getting through (y'know, relatively). Sometimes people ask me why I'm doing this to myself, but I just tell them

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  I’m being honest. To understand what I mean, you need context. For the last couple of years in high school, I was in a near-constant state of burnout and exhaustion from all the things I was trying to accomplish on not

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  hello, again it me

  

  It's been almost three months since my last blog post, so I thought I'd check in again--I keep meaning to blog, but each time I think about it I feel increasingly like I need a really good post about all the cool

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  which I've just forgotten what's important to me. This blog is about the mistakes I made this semester, largely losing sight about what I actually wanted for myself. I think one thing that gets underestimated here is the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  one. when i was applying to be a blogger i wrote this in my blogger application, under the question "why do you want to be a blogger": i want to be a blogger to write for tenth grade me. i want to show him, the kid

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  just on the horizon. I wanted to share what my daily life looks like, in ... it to. Here's a muddled average of all the things I've been up to these ... winter. I had a lot of trouble figuring out which day to start on, because

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  Last week, I wrote all about the classes I took this past year. It was originally meant to be a one-off post, but in writing it, I found myself having a lot to say about the impact those classes have had on how I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  i saw twenty one pilots at td garden in boston live music is very much alive and here to stay

  

  introduction I'll just word vomit here and say that I started writing this blog as soon as I got home from the concert. I am so overwhelmed, I am so in love with art and music, I am so in love with life, and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  When I was younger, people called me the "art kid." I distinctly remember the first job I ever wanted to be was an interior designer. I drew ... smile. While my desire to be an interior designer[annotation note="I soon

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer plans

  

  I've spent the last two weeks enjoying a nice vacation at my mom's house in Louisville, Kentucky. It's been great, and I might even have caught up on all the sleep I missed during term (for some reason, while I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 11, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  RzRhXL?si=bf9640445d204047[/embed] "Where have you been?" Dear Reader, I'm not sure if I can begin to even explain where I've been. At the risk of sounding edgy, I've spent the past month and a half feeling as though I am

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  , recording—all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in ... to intimacy. Yes, God, I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  i. The days wheeled past like a flock of starlings, and suddenly 2021 is two-thirds over. To celebrate the newly abandoned month, I play august by Taylor Swift on repeat. As I grow older, I find that Taylor is

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Memories My first two months at MIT, all wrapped up into one post.

  

  lecture, I realized that I’m more than halfway done with my first semester ... could the past eight weeks have gone by so quickly? I can still remember how I felt when my plane first landed in Boston - when I walked onto

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  this spring, i am doing a study abroad semester at Imperial College London. what this means is that i have been away from MIT for a little over ... for the fall semester. i decided to do this for a lot of different

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  faith in the future

  

  I don't even know myself at all I thought I would be happy but now The more I try to push it I realize gonna let go of control In my AP ... wrong; emotions can be experienced before we think about them, but I think

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 1, 2023