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• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  head, a whirring that keeps my mind thinking about what I need to do next, instead of what I’m doing right now. tick This is [annotation note='like Las ... . Any time of day I walk through campus—like the rare and dreadful 4am

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  time to do something you can tell an employer about).  I’ve had this conversation a few times, but the more I think about IAP, the more I don’t like it. When I was a prospective student, I thought that IAP was the

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  i haven't written about what's been happening in my life at all in the past month, not here nor in my personal notes. i want to say that i've been busy, but that's not true. i haven't been busy much at all. let

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  I hadn't been sick in years. I mean sure, I've had the occasional headache, and yes, there have been days where I just couldn't bring myself to ... ago, I was out sick with the flu. I frankly don't know how I had lasted

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  ’ve settled into their rooms — it’s like i’ve been stirred from a hazy slumber, blinking away the wisps of my dreams as i touch down on earth. “what did you do this summer?” i spent these three months on a languid journey of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  thing that have changed not my class year...pls god i want to be a freshman forever

  

  last year, things were so different. i was an ordinary freshman who ... physical classes. now, i'm living in a house with some friends, taking ... 's what has changed, besides the things that are glaringly obvious... i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  , i'm already inundated with work--but i'm not complaining. after two years of taking a lot of required/introductory/foundational classes that i wasn't too thrilled about, i've finally reached the promised land, a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  I love the weather today. I rode my bike home through puddles and gulped down the wetness in the air like I imagine a fish would if it, and not I, were in that spot on the sidewalk of dorm row. I shuffled into my

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  I'm currently on the MedLinks retreat; it feels good to get out of ... . Spoiler alert: I found it. - This summer, I learned the secret to slowing ... . I noticed that my first two weeks in Albuquerque - when everything was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reg Day collisions People should transfer to other colleges once they dump you.

  

  I had a really interesting Reg Day. Okay, yeah, I know, that was over a week ago, and the last time I blogged was last year, but I never claimed to be any good at this updating thing, okay? (But for real, I have

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  Sixteen months ago, in April, I made a promise to myself: if you ... science for too long. I was walking along a riverbed and I was torn. I spent ... and eat up all my writing time. I didn’t want to go to MIT, because I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  next to normal on mental health

  

  ;   i recently listened to the soundtrack of next to normal, this 2008 ... interesting songs, at least to me, is who’s crazy/my psychopharmacologist and i. [DIANA] My psychopharmacologist and I Call it a lover's game He knows my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  quick thoughts to keep up my new years resolution

  

  In my New Year's Resolutions post, I wanted to make a promise to blog every week. Obviously, that hasn't happened. But I've also had weeks where I've blogged twice in a week so it basically makes up for it. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  pages of MIT Confessions, I applaud him for writing more meaningful words in a few hours than I have in a few months (I'll blame writer's block ... anyone’s love life, I definitely will not be giving you any advice

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  that I’ve been thinking about writing for a while. I listened to Silvana ... song about femicide in Mexico.  Here are two things I weighed heavily ... given me a lot of validation. Representation is important; I often felt

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  Hey there. I know you've all missed my gorgeous face. (From my 4.341 project last fall.) All right, maybe "gorgeous" is a bit of a stretch. I ... few flights of stairs) - you know, the usual. I'd say you've been

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  I rapidly switch between wanting to do something and not wanting to ... failing, and falling back on P/NR. Sometimes I just can’t find the motivation to do things. I was given weeks, but only paid my pistol club dues

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  My name is Camille (Cami) Mejia. I am a lover of music, dogs, baking, and BTS. I main Ashe in Overwatch. I love chemistry and biology. I have a fear of heights and needles. I am smart and capable and ready for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  warning: the post below is probably the cheesiest thing i have ever ... . i usually like to sculpt and edit neurotically, but i'm trying to see what happens when i don't. The week before my freshman year of college

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  New kid on the block

  

  ? You might wonder whether these words are even English. Well, they are (I ... many additions I have made to my vocabulary since I commenced my study at ... Laureates (only 15 fewer than MIT, no biggie- notice the new sense of humor I

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 9, 2012