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• Blog / Academics & Research

  iap: this year vs. last

  

  it's IAP! I don't have classes! I can end my day at 5 pm like I could during the summer!!   dance last IAP, I was dancing and ... , my dance team's annual performance. I'd go to class from 10 am to 1 pm

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  . For the past couple of years, I've used an app called Sleep Cycle to ... some privacy issues, but I simply choose not to think about it too hard. Besides, it gives me a lot of insight into my personal data: when I fall

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  Freshman fall I decided to join a sport. I had never played sports in ... , I emailed the women's ultimate frisbee team and showed up to practice one day. It was such a struggle. I could not throw a single disc. I

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  I watched the sunrise this morning

  

  one of the reasons I love dawn is it reminds me that the sun will ...   that doesn't mean I don't matter I'm no insignificant blip in the universe it means I am part of something much bigger than myself  

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 7, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Looked outside my window, and what did I see I probably shouldn't be surprised, but I am.

  

  This is probably one of the last things I was expecting to see when I went to my window to investigate the staggeringly loud noise I heard ... impossible to try and capture it all in a blog. Never fear though, I'll figure

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Setbacks head hurty

  

  I’ve gotten a little better at planning. I use a Notion now like all the cool kids, and it's great because I get to customize my planner the way it fits me best. This is one of the pages I've made for myself

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  ways of saying goodbye joint post with CJ '23!

  

  from something better: 'Cause all my life, I've seen these skies It's paradise, paradise And every time I leave this place I'm terrified, terrified And I still think back to that summer And I hate that I still remember

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  A note about the title: when I was little, my mother (who is a 5th ... hooky more than I ever did. But when your mother is begging you to call in ... ?) Today was my DOFMH from the lab... I've only taken three days off this

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  , as I hurried down the Infinite and out into the cold. “Junior year is ... math major at a tech school in the ‘80’s. When was the hardest that I worked? I told myself, in freshman spring, that I would never take 4

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  relationship with food, health, and fitness has always been rocky. I don't know if I can really pinpoint where it first started but I definitely have a ... school, I was relatively hyperconscious about my weight and my physical

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  I have experienced love before, at least I think so. Awkward hand ... periods. I've been in love before, where love was 18 hour phone calls and whispers of "I miss you" as electricity carried our voices hundreds of miles

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  Sunday, October 6th   12:00 PM: I wake up. When I pick up my phone to look at the time, my heart skips a beat. Noon? Already?!? I ... right through the alarm.   1:00 PM: After debating if I really

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  “I pulled a sophomore stupid” said my friend as we tried to finish up our last problem set of the year. I laughed, and felt my heart sink as I ... sophomore stupid.  I reached my limits, and I really think I learned a lot

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  one if i had to write a literary analysis on my blog posts, i'd talk ... ? for example: in confronting the self, i discuss how my feelings of ... yeah, i'm turning twenty, it's terrifying, i talk about how i hate

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  the social aspects of college, first of all, chill. I have received so many questions about making friends in college that I even wrote a blog ... reputation, especially for us nerds. In particular, as a multiracial woman, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  I Am Not As Lame As I Appear I've just been feverishly at work on the new website...

  

  Really. I've just been feverishly at work on the new website because Mollie starts tomorrow and I needed to get things to a certain point so that she'll be able to do the work that I've hired her to do. So

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  . This sort of sentence has been one I've had trouble saying throughout my ... through, I felt like I was drowning.And hardly anyone knew. -- Way earlier in the semester I had asked my mom if I should spend the extra money

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2021 Reflections & 2022 Resolutions

  

  resolutions I couldn't accomplish due to the pandemic, but since the world has adapted since then, I was able to do them! I'll be including the 2020 resolutions I accomplished in this list, as well. 2021 Resolutions Go to a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  An Origin Story Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Jinchūriki

  

  I felt the sudden urge to write something tonight. I wasn’t sure what it would be, or what exactly to say, but I guess it’s always good to start at the beginning. Now that I think about it, the beginning makes a

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  I hate the way I don’t hate you

  

  I'm in the Pacific Northwest, waiting for my Seattle Central Meeting ... on a non-working day. Well, for me, I decided I'd go catch the film Garden State. Still having jet-lag, I woke up quite early so I wanted to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2004