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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I (don’t) want the summer to end me writing poetry? what a concept

  

  I don't want the summer to end. I don't want to pack the rice cooker ... neat and cram them in my suitcase. I don't want to leave MacGregor and ... nights lying awake, with no one to hug before going to bed— I don't want

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s like I go to class or something. Or whatever.

  

  Contrary to popular belief, I actually do stuff outside of farting ... In Situations Requiring Social Interaction - I foresee the situation ... really, I swear I listen to the things my professors are telling me. Yup

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  suitable than submitting it at 11:59 pm as I do with my assignments. So here ... experiences I’ve traveled 3 times over IAP, and 2 times over the summer ... time as an intern! I will have done GTL-Korea twice, GTL-Armenia once

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good

  

  I'm not a particularly good cook. I once managed to set spaghetti on ... everything... don't ask"]boil it.[/annotation] I'm not confident that I knew ... spring of my high school senior year, I decided that I was done with school

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  By Fatima '25, one of my roommates!   i have been away from ... of leaving the new place. after all, i had only been away from home for weeks. before coming here, when someone would ask if i’d miss home, i

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Cleaning A psychoanalysis of the recently deleted folder in my notes app

  

  It's been a little while since I've blogged, which is partially because I've been telling myself that I don't need to blog at any given moment, but mostly because I haven't had any decent ideas. At first, I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  I live a five-minute walk away from MIT, so I pass campus often. It's a weird experience. I can compartmentalize the last 14-ish months of ... blurs all the lines. The semester is almost over. That means I'm almost

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  one hour. one chunk of my day that i’ve set aside for writing because damn, i haven’t blogged in forever and it’s stressing me out (alongside a host of other things i’m anxious about, many of which aren’t even my own

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Over is the Wait Just thoughts...

  

  being waitlisted, and a whole spectrum of feelings in between. I remember doing a couple of anxious dances and taking a few deep breaths before I opened the webpage which told me whether or not I was accepted. You would

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Beginning of the End & the end of some beginnings

  

  ? There's a feeling that goes something like "ugh, if only I'd taken more classes in previous terms I could have graduated by now!" But I am not ... . Then there's the feeling of relief. Whew - I don't need to cram 6 classes

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Science is Delicious! Zen and the art of hot chocolate

  

  Just a few hours to go, and I know you're feeling the stress. We're feeling it too, believe it or not. I have to tell you that the selection ... heartbreaking, than I imagined back in July when it was spoken of in distant

  • by Dave McOwen
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  I did… kind of poorly on an exam recently. This exam (which was for 6.s966, Symmetry for ML) means nothing, in the end. I’ve finished my major requirements; I’m taking classes for my MEng early, so, in theory, I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  I started writing a blog about freshman fall four months ago, in ... now it’s February... But this one is pretty close to my heart, and I ... morning, I woke up at 10:00 am. I changed clothes, and brushed my teeth, and

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Circles, circles, circles week to week to week

  

  therapist asked me about when I get depressive episodes. And I said that I got them after I'd come home from class, or after a meeting, when I'd come ... that anything in particular triggers it. I'll be sitting in front of my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?

  

  August. I was sitting in Killian Court alone. The sun was sharp enough to require shade, so I moved from tree to tree as the clouds shifted. I watched professors walk by, canvas messenger bags at their hips

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Settled It's good to be back!

  

  who don't believe me when I say I'm 19 and instead ask to see parent-signed papers saying that I'm allowed to travel alone, I am finally back at MIT ... Charles River has been replaced by a partial one that I can glimpse if I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  Today was going to be my sleep day. I was going to go to sleep on ... through until 9 AM Monday, when I have to get up to get ready for my first class of the week, and in so doing I would catch up on all of the sleep

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hi, (gasp!) I’m Kim Kimd's first post as an admissions blogger!

  

  Wow. I've had an intense week. And it's only Wednesday. Now, finally, I've gotten to a point where the workload will be manageable from here on out, and therefore I can say, Hello! I'm Kim. Well, I guess I

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  I've spent most of this summer in Cambridge, Massachusetts, staying ... perspiration. I am probably not made for temperatures higher than eighty degrees ... paleness. People carry themselves more loosely now. Sometimes I can't find a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  a million different corners of the world. Personally, I think we ... filled with all kinds of MIT students in the line up! I think I can speak for the MIT community when I say this: I really hope we do right by all

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020