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• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  ? Well, dear mortals, I have perfected the art of photosynthesis and ... , I need to supplement my diet with human food. So I took a picture of all the food I ate for a week, because I thought that would be a cool

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  .0 Times I've cried over classes: 2 (surprisingly) Smoothies made: 12 COVID tests taken: 11 Times I've been locked out: 3 (Unique) cats ... Spiders seen: 2 Classes I'm taking: 5 Classes I've thought about

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  This was originally going to be a post about how now that I’m in college I’m finally taking steps to beat procrastination and do things early and within a reasonable time frame. The plan was simple – I’d finish all

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A Maple Peach in Cambridge They have some weird fruit here

  

  Talking about myself is weird, but I’m sure all you out there that ... (: Hello everyone! I’m Kirsten, one of the four fabulous freshmen MIT ... . I was born in the magnificent, but chilly, country of Canada. However

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Genesis Embrace me Blogosphere!!!!

  

  story all about how My life got flipped turned upside down And I’d like to take a minute just sit right there I’ll tell you how I became the ... Square (I know, I know….give me a break, my title is long and I’m not a

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to back to back maybe i am doing too much

  

  The last post I made was kind of a lot. Even beginning to write this post took way more effort than it normally would have. Anyway, I’ll continue my theme of talking about my problems in public, and I’ll walk you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  ’t something [his] brain keeps track of”. I find this simultaneously hilarious ... ="Also how I navigate campus, unlike some people we know"]I navigate memory ... place where it occurred; I remember the directions to my aunt’s house in

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  a blog that explains it step by step i figured id just cut to the part ... impossible to type. i've tried not to mention you here too often, out of fear ... presence lingers just a bit too long (it does, sometimes). i wanted to carve

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  When I was in preschool, we had to make a crayon drawing of what we wanted to be when we grew up. My classmates drew astronauts and firemen. I drew a mail carrier. I only know this because the crayon drawing still

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m not swollen anymore!

  

  Okay, so I agree that it's been far too long since my last update. I ... week and a half recovering from wisdom teeth surgery. I just had my stitches out this afternoon -- *VERY GLAD* to be done! I'll be moving into a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 21, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  sexualisation I tend to talk about friend groups a lot on the blogs. I've always been someone that has traveled in a pack. In high school, I had a group of three girls I hung out with a lot and I felt like I understood them

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  And miles to go before I sleep. Here we go again.

  

  long night ahead of you." Great. The thing is, I know how to handle these nights. I should anyways; I have enough experience. Part of my application ... . (After all, our work is never over.) But it should be over. I've learned my

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  very different website. I’m so not used to it that I still drafted this post on Google Docs as I always did, though our new platform has a fancier back-end I could have used (unbeknownst to you all).  The last time

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  things are clicking into place and falling completely apart all at once. i worked all through spring break, including weekends -- i think from monday the 17th to saturday the 29th i went into lab every single day. i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  it feels hypocritical of me to write words to you, because even if i was deferred myself, i was eventually accepted to mit. such is the ... feelings feel more distant day-by-day, but i faintly remember how painful it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  On IAP A time for P E R S O N A L P R O J…

  

  update you on my life since October! First, I've passed every class that I ... . No, not that kind of P. The pass kind of P! I passed calc, writing, and ... stressed me out a bit. See, I was gonna write a musical programing language

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • December 27, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  ...blah. I don't even feel a right to feel bad about those days because nothing ... . Then, I remember that [annotation note='whoooooops']feeling bad about ... through life, so I try to welcome the feeling. It's very human to have these

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I should’ve started this earlier A statement exemplifying my first month as a Junior

  

  If I had to explain what Junior year's been like so far.... I'd say ... anything...) Since I'm a visual person, I drew this little photo to explain my work this semster.   So essentially, I've been hit hard with

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  MIT is overwhelming. Though this sounds painfully obvious, I don’t think I actually fully realized just how much it all is until the first time I went home this fall. It was mid-October, and I don’t actually

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  I've sort of been implying this on the blogs for a while now, but I ... the school year has progressed, I've sort of come to the conclusion that I am very tired. And I don't think that I'm ready to go quite yet

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020