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• 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 Charles River has been replaced by a partial one that I can glimpse if I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
• 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