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• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  third anniversary. I liked looking at the dresses, which were gorgeous, dreamy ball gowns. I liked thinking about her wedding, which is happening ... after I'd started dating my ex, Chris, who I was also together with for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  things happened, and just as i thought things were looking up, i spilled ... a new one sucks, but what i find most tragic is the loss of my laptop stickers. i'd been saving space for stickers from all four years at MIT, so

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  fragments instead of blogging (for a whole damn month), I...

  

  , i was promptly swept away by a whirlwind of final projects and ... , i didn’t blog! at all!!   now, as i reflect on the past month, i can only marvel at how many important moments are soaked into the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 16, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  first impressions of LA the struggles of moving cross-country for an internship

  

  three days ago, after i finished squeezing all my summer clothes and ... stuffed backpack, and a very stuffed guitar case, i hopped on a 6 hour flight to los angeles to [annotation note="dope, right??? i get so many

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 31, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  I rolled out of bed at 8:30am last Friday and raced to Pappalardo ... the last chance I had to work on and impound my robot. It didn't work. It could get a whole 7 points. I don't care. Sure it was a bummer

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Kekka dake da! "Only the results remain!"

  

  Hello. It's everyone's favorite angery boi... KING CRIMSON!! I don't really know why I introduced my post like this, but this dude ... occurred recently. Namely with my schedule. A few blog posts ago, I said I

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • March 7, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Hey International Kids! Press 'Submit' already!

  

  I had been reading the admission blogs all through high school purely for recreational purposes, and when I decided to apply I went back, but this time I read them imagining myself as one of the students here. I

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 25, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  anxiety.   In Infinite Jest, which I’ve been reading with a group ... . The more I read this description, which is provided by the narrator via a depressed character, Kate Gompert, in the book, the more I realized

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  I'm back in Boston and absurdly jetlagged. I promised, though, that I would post updates from my West Coast trip after I returned, so, here is my trip report, with 100% more screaming toilets than I had anticipated

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  I had lunch at Harvard today, on the stone steps of a building like any other Harvard building I’ve never been in. I sat with a dear friend and ate the blackberries and apple and cheese I brought from home, and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  Waiting is hard. Waiting is incredibly hard. Well, I guess that depends on how patient of a person you are, but I don’t think I’ve ever really been patient. When a big event looms, I mark its approach in a big

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  Six and a half hours ago, this was me: Why? Because I, like Elizabeth, am officially done with finals!!! I left campus about 2 hours ago, and ... airport is packed, and I've already spotted several MIT hoodies and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  early last Wednesday morning. In these last five days, I feel like I've experienced the five stages of grief (one of the few things I managed to retain ... . I have a Macbook Pro for goodness' sakes!!" ANGER: "What do you mean

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  Hawaii sell Spam.” I, however, sorely lack his flair for distinguishing useless information from interesting useless information, so I usually opt ... past, I observed that my calendar looked like it was about to suffer an

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story of the most epic pset ever If you correct my problem set in the comments, I will get angry. And you…

  

  This semester I'm taking a class called "Sustainable Energy," and so far, it's pretty awesome. It's one of the few classes where I really feel like I'm learning a lot. I mean, I'm sure I learned a lot in 2

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  I have a way of always picking really time-consuming HASS classes ... /Writing Poetry (21W.756), I'm almost as stressed out about my HASS classes as lab and 8.06. I really love both these classes though. I'm this walking

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Karen: A Short History Finally.

  

  Hi, I'm Karen and like most other freshmen, I'm still working on my ... get started on here. Unlike almost everyone else here, I don't have an ... childhood was spent reading books and books and more books, and I think that

  • by Karen F. '11
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  So this morning I went to lunch with three of my friends from high ... , so we get a long time to decide our final schedules. I've been ... and Society in America (which I really love) - and thinking about

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer, East Campus rush, and the new term East Campus orientation activities, the summer, and the upcoming term.

  

  and preparation for the new term. Last week, for example, I day ... ), and then Thursday and Friday, I met up with an MIT alum in Texas who ... looks like I'll be interning there next summer and potentially during IAP

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Sports The store has the word "marathon" in it, so it has to be good, right?…

  

  Brief background: I try to be healthy. I don't eat junk food, and I do sit-ups in the mornings. About a month ago, I got the crazy idea to ... Marathon. Granted, the marathon isn't until April, but I have my work cut out

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 13, 2005