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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  My Mets are seriously kicking some you-know-what lately. I love it ... ? also, just out of curiosity, and its totally okay i you don't feel ... it. I guess now is as good a time as any to ponder the intricacies of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  Six minutes ago I was supposed to be out on my flight from Los ... than last Sunday. I am, unfortunately, not on that flight because it was ... past year. Every time I've been at an airport, it was either to say hello

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  elementary school as "filled with friends." i think that's how my life can be ... years at mit, i can say i feel more settled into myself than ever before. i've come to peace with a lot of the things that kept me up late at

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  It’s cold down here, and dark, so I’ll keep this one brief. I'm in ... when others are in the room. She has finally gone to sleep, and I’m trying to be polite, hence being curled on the sofa outside of our room. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  One. It was a lie that made me choose MIT. I was told, and I believed ... over somewhere else. When people assured me that I wouldn't be spending all my time working on classes, I believed it. Two. On registration day

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  (Read part 1!) I will start with a disclaimer--there are definitely things that can and will change at MIT. In fact, that’s what I love about ... , healthy environment while still maintaining our academic rigor. One thing I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  The semester is over and I didn't go home for winter break because I ... to the back burner so I could survive my classes (four technicals, all on grades...the most I've ever taken), so I opted to stay on campus

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  I'm taking [annotation note="Introduction to Education"]CMS.586 ... physics class every Tuesday and an algebra class every Wednesday. i. on going (back) to public school I went to an evangelical Christian school

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  tired and busy and tired and busy and tired and busy and

  

  A couple updates: I quit two of my jobs I'm taking 4 classes and ... -technical classes are still a lot of work I am good, I am okay But I am very tired I sprained my ankle I'm starting my third week of school next week

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 15, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goal setting and organization how i organize my life!

  

  I often get asked how I organize my life, my time, and whatnot and while I'm not the most organized person in the world, I thought it'd be nice to highlight how I organize my day to day tasks and how I track

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  year just flew by in a weird sort of emptiness. It didn’t, of course. I ... , you know, starting at MIT). But time just keeps going, and I’ve more or ... outside world, so I’d like to take a moment and reconnect myself with what

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back 2 school

  

  weeks ago i was leaving seattle, thinking about summertime and trying not ... a big window in our house and i sat on the couch in front of it and watched the colors in the sky changing.   soon after that i was in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  A brief intro... Last Wednesday, I left MIT to compete at the 2016 ... -January. Wednesday I’m done with my last class at 3pm, and return back to my dorm to take a nap. 1.5 hours later, I wake up and start frantically packing. I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / Events

  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  So a few days before Halloween I asked you all what I should be for Halloween. I then ignored all of your votes and went with the most popular choice anyway, because it was exactly what I really wanted but was not

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Wow KABOOM!

  

  I should NOT be writing this right now because I have a ton of other ... as to what your next year of school may look like). I have two psets due tomorrow (halfway through with each), I UROP from 2 to 6 today

  • by Snively '11
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some summer pictures

  

  I've been promising for a while that I would post some pictures from Switzerland, so I'll be doing that gradually (I have lots of pictures), mixed in with my other entries. I spent the summer working as a research intern

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A little bit about me and my trip to La Republica Dominicana A trip to the Dominican Republic to compensate for a bitterly cold Boston winter

  

  me: I'm a rising sophomore planning to major in Mechanical Engineering ... with another area of your choice, it's called 2A), I live in Next House (where the sidewalk ends), I'm from Bethesda, MD (a suburb of Washington

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  :  (metaphorical) There are no ceilings. When I was in high school, I knew (in some ... for me, regardless of where I ended up. In hindsight this was true, and I'll circle back to this idea later. But when I got here, it didn

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  on Tuesday, I turned 22. it wasn't nearly as blissful as turning 21 ... effort. as the weeks of this semester have passed, I feel like I've been ... about my post-grad situation that it's not something I'm looking forward

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  happy singles awareness day

  

  Last week, one of my friends, “Mike”, asked me if I had any Valentine’s Day plans. I didn’t, so he asked me if I wanted to go out to a nice restaurant that day. I wasn’t opposed to the restaurant, although it was

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 21, 2023