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• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  that I’ve been thinking about writing for a while. I listened to Silvana ... song about femicide in Mexico.  Here are two things I weighed heavily ... given me a lot of validation. Representation is important; I often felt

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  Hey there. I know you've all missed my gorgeous face. (From my 4.341 project last fall.) All right, maybe "gorgeous" is a bit of a stretch. I ... few flights of stairs) - you know, the usual. I'd say you've been

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  I rapidly switch between wanting to do something and not wanting to ... failing, and falling back on P/NR. Sometimes I just can’t find the motivation to do things. I was given weeks, but only paid my pistol club dues

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  My name is Camille (Cami) Mejia. I am a lover of music, dogs, baking, and BTS. I main Ashe in Overwatch. I love chemistry and biology. I have a fear of heights and needles. I am smart and capable and ready for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  warning: the post below is probably the cheesiest thing i have ever ... . i usually like to sculpt and edit neurotically, but i'm trying to see what happens when i don't. The week before my freshman year of college

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  New kid on the block

  

  ? You might wonder whether these words are even English. Well, they are (I ... many additions I have made to my vocabulary since I commenced my study at ... Laureates (only 15 fewer than MIT, no biggie- notice the new sense of humor I

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Bloggerduction a challenger appears

  

  Hi! I'm Qiaochu Yuan. That's "chow-chew," as in ... pronounce my last name. I only know one other person with the same first name ... help. Isn't that weird? Anyway, I guess I'm supposed to tell

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  This blog has been in the works for a… long time. I first started this one on April 2nd. Of last year. I was looking through my blog drafts and realized I have a lot of half-finished blogs, which is a bit tragic

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  After four years here at MIT, I am finally graduating. I have a lot of mixed feelings on graduating. On one hand, I'm nervous. I'm terrified to leave MIT. How do you make new friends as a new grad? What if I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  Four days after I returned to my home in New Hampshire after the Great Campus Exodus in March, I decided to pick up running again. I decided that I would absolutely lose my mind staying inside all the time

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Hospital State of Mind The things I hate about being stuck here

  

  I hate going to the hospital. Yes, hospitals help people. Most nurses ... can also drive you cRaZy. I'm in the hospital, and have been since Wednesday. It is driving me crazy. I started talking to my squishible monster

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  I just came back to my dorm room from all the graduation hooplah. I have a diploma. I have about 100 pictures. I have a sunburn. It's a strange feeling (being graduated, not being sunburned. I'm plenty used to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  Just thought I'd reiterate, for anyone who's applying to MIT this year (or next year, or in five years... whatever, I don't discriminate), that I feel your pain on the application deal. I'm applying to graduate

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  every class i went to during the first week of fall all *checks notes* twelve of them

  

  I went to a lot of classes in the first week of the fall semester. According to my iCal, I have spent nineteen hours in class in the last three days. Why? Because I want to experience everything. [caption id

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 11, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  This summer, I worked for fourteen weeks as a software engineering ... that my internship is wrapping up tomorrow, I'm reflecting on what I learned this summer and what it means for me going forward: I shouldn

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  welcome to new york went to nyc & all i got was this blog post

  

  When Taylor Swift's 1989 album dropped, I read a review describing ... Taylor's first decisively pop album and I was young enough to be easily ... years since I've read that review yet I still remember that description

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 12, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  i've been drafting and drafting this blog post over and over again in hopes of making good impressions but i realize at this point it will all appear as the same verbal upchuck. hello! my name is cami, i'm 17 years

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  As promised, I offered the chance to write a guest blog to prefrosh ... ! If you have any comments or questions, post/email them and I'll be sure ... experiences I’ve had this year. When I got into MIT back in December, I

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• 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