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  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  I've spent the past few days untangling my personal life, which has lately been less than exemplary. In addition, on Sunday evening, I ate ... then I finished reading The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri. It's a novel about

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  Hi!! First of all, I'M SO EXCITED TO BE AN MIT BLOGGER!! When I ... , that said "YOU GOT THE GIG!" I simply did not believe it.  I was sitting ... .  I looked at my computer and I saw the e-mail, and it was just

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  the letters I'd written using [annotation note="i found out about this ... , I've apparently written three of them, although I've only received two so far. I have absolutely no idea when the third one is going to arrive

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here

  

  something that I could actually do when I saw a post my boyfriend's sister had ... sorority shirts. This was sometime in September, and I had already finished ... through them to see which ones I still had, so I shelved the idea until I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  I met Will and Kristina in very different parts of campus. I was ... popped up and started speaking to my friend in Chinese. I hardly even got ... Really Good Chinese. I got to know him better last January on an IAP trip

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  I've always been a little bit of a hypochondriac, and while that is ... , there is one clear trend: I hate being sick. I hate the idea of not being as productive as possible, I hate the idea of not being able to do

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  One. Last Monday, I waited an hour to get tested. The testing ... Building, past Hayden, all the way to Building 6. I thought living in East ... weeks before this. I wait maybe three minutes. Then I get to the table

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  Many a night and moon ago, I was climbing, and my phone slipped from ... I could only watch as my phone tumbled down, down, and crashed on the cement below. I scrambled down to salvage it, only to find the screen

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  one. in mit, and undergrad in general i guess, you spend your time ... are on campus, or near campus. i spent my time with my classmates. i ... . on weeknights, i'd play board games, or go to lectures, or eat out. on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  a sad week for me. It was a short week, but the longest week I've had ... never ended. I can't say what happened, but it was unfortunate. And no ... okay, it is really hard to actually feel okay. So I took a break. I only

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  I had lunch with the ever-dashing Ben Jones today. I hadn't seen him ... topic of blogging. I want to reflect on a couple of points -- this ... breakfast or Student Center study break. That's me. I don't even own any MIT

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  something silly, something weightless, i want my laugh to echo and not hit me back. i am not a very avid reader but i have lately collected lots of short poems. i don't think i have many words of wisdom or

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  climbing the wall why so defeatist?

  

  to describe me- "athletically inclined" is not one of them. I can ... bouldering with them (think rock climbing but without a rope), I thought it ... as anticipated. I got some climbing shoes, chalked up my hands

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • October 7, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Froshmore oh to exist in a state of ~liminality~

  

  Hi I’m Audrey, a new face in this bloggerverse! As the illustration above suggests, I’m starting my second year here at MIT. And that feels ... peace, an outlet to make myself feel whole and sane. I’m excited to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 2, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  Time flies. Today is August 6th, 2020. It's been 143 days since I had to leave MIT. I spent around 190 days at MIT. 185 of those days were as a member of my living community, the Burton Third Bombers. I had

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  I’ve kept an extensive weekly journal since early February as part of my new year's resolutions. Since I didn’t blog that much during the spring, I went through my journal and picked out some of the memories and

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 3 i am starting to feel very old

  

  blogs for many years might remember that i've been writing love poems to ... this style. i like to think that i was their inspiration :,) i'm not gonna lie - i've become a little lazy with my spotify game. i think it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  know that I love video games and making video games, so naturally I wanted to eventually work with MIT's Game Lab. I thought that I would have ... . A UROP! That I was under-qualified for? Let's see the relevant skills

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  How smart am I? I feel like I’ve asked myself this question a thousand times since I’ve arrived at MIT, but it’s never phrased exactly like that. “How can I be so stupid?” is common. “Why can’t I get this

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Using Fireflies.ai to Write a Post About Fireflies.ai behind the scenes: it's pretty meta

  

  bloggers. I usually have to wait for inspiration to hit before I'm able to sit at a computer for hours writing out an entire post in one sitting. I ... ideas to Google Docs when I collaborate with someone else. Last week I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 20, 2017