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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  I’ve gotten into the habit of keeping graveyards for my writing ... —where I can lay them to rest without feeling like they’re gone from my life ... .[/annotation] It’s helped me edit, and in turn, write better, since I can more

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  I wrote a blog at the end of last summer subtitled "so many different ways to feel lost:" I feel lost on a much deeper level than ever before, and it’s not entirely negative it’s just... I feel so directionless

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to PNR First semester in review

  

    What I'm pretty sure next semester will be like. No offense ... . Without further ado, I present my expression of feelings for the first semester of MIT. Ode to PNR Pretty please Pass/No Record, how I wish you

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Whoa…You’re Old Bryan returns from the crypt of grad school

  

  So I realized that despite not having left MIT, I haven't written on ... fortunately, I remembered my password today and given the start of a new school year, I decided I'd stream some consciousness. First off, an update on

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Work, friends, sleep – pick three In which I manage time effectively.

  

  Remember that time when I was an RA at nerd camp? Here's what I ... this summer: "Devin (another Spectrum '07) and I have been reading A LOT about MIT. She wants to go (a lot), and I'm keeping my eyes and ears open

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Leaving home…

  

  [I'm at MIT now, but wrote this entry earlier today while still travelling.] For months, I've been looking forward to the day I'd be leaving for college. I talk to my future classmates daily, and it seems like

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 28, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  , 2021 at 5 pm EST, if I actually post this on time - I will no longer be an MIT student. I wouldn’t consider myself graduated emotionally, but on paper, I will be. As far as I’m concerned though, I’ll only really

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Post-finals stress? Oh, it happens. Trust me.

  

  I was lucky enough this semester to have only one final exam, which I took this afternoon. So, I should be relaxed right now, right? Wrong. I need to have everything I own packed and stored by 6 PM tomorrow

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  When I was in kindergarten, I wanted to be a doctor. The summer before my senior year of college, I wanted to be a doctor. Are these two statements the same? Nope. So since I'm from the 80s, I can tell you that I

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  IAP is in full swing, and I am having a blast! At MIT, the second ... internships, travel, take classes, and/or just have fun. Here's what I'm up to ... up with cute names for everything else I'm doing, too

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  I did not graduate on time. At first, I thought, I'm not one of those people. I was a good student. I defined myself by that quality more than I ever admitted. But I did, undeniably, fail to graduate on time

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  I started writing blogposts when I came to MIT. I wanted to be like a ... vaguely speaking I’d say this has been a moderate success (y'know, being an MIT Blogger now etc. I literally get paid to contribute to my own

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  cobblestone placed on this path that we follow—but I suppose this day was more ... had asked everybody to leave campus, so I was at my boyfriend Chris ... most people I have met. But now we were binary stars, gravitationally

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  When I'm sad, or there's some conundrum in my life that I need to process, or I'm riding the high from hanging out with friends, or I'm so stressed that I can barely quiet the buzz of all the bees in my head--I go

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  I had a breakthrough the other day. I was sitting in my favorite Kendall Square restaurant, Clover. When I say favorite, I mean F.A.V.O.R.I.T.E. In a busy week, I’m there at least once a day: The prices are

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  First Midterm of The Semester Here I go...

  

  I have about 30 minutes before the first midterm of the semester. I just finished gulping down a breakfast burrito. Back in high school, I ... . I missed dining hours this morning so I'm at Anna's Taqueria because I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 1, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summertime Science Got that summertime, summertime science...

  

  Hey! Remember me? No? Hi. I'm Elizabeth. I graduated last June. But here we are, me crufting on the blogs, you not knowing who I am. I never officially said goodbye, and I STILL have that post. I'm working on it. Proof

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 14, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  Today, I will p-set. Really. I wake up at 7 am. I shower. I try on ... baggy t-shirt to p-set in. I sort my pile of clean laundry. I sort my pile of dirty laundry. I print out my p-sets for the week. While I’m at it I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  On Friday evening, I made the disturbing discovery that my computer ... about three weeks – I’d plug it in, but the battery wouldn’t begin to charge until I gave the plug a little jiggle. The odd thing was that I was

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breaths Perhaps wisdom, perhaps not. See for yourself.

  

  I've been reading a lot of the comments about the applications that are due on Jan. 1. And while what I'll say now is just my opinion ... , etc. I agree that it is easier said than done, but I'm in the same boat

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2006