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• Blog / Challenges

  a text convo on failure and other stuff i guess

  

  My friend Miguel T. '25 and I were texting about random stuff this morning, and failure came up. I thought to share some excerpts with you ... party as part of my birthday festivities. i love sunrises lol

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 12, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  self care define it or perish

  

  as i've previously mentioned on the blogs, sophomore fall is wrecking ... only thing i can do right now. i'm getting enough sleep, but i don't exercise (oops) or read or explore Boston like i did this summer

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  summer side projects a nonzero amount of them are final fantasy related

  

  this summer, i found myself with *free time*. it wasn't quite as much free time as you might expect with a 9-6 job schedule since i was always super tired at the end of the day and usually just went to bed, but i

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  seattle ➞ mit an epilogue in bullet points and pictures

  

  for a brief moment over the summer i think i truly believed that i ... to the paycheck every other friday. [annotation note="the 9 to 5 i didn't care much for. the software i did was pretty interesting. i liked the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  After receiving decisions from the colleges I applied to, the choice was easy to pick MIT. I knew I wanted to attend a school that would not ... fields of research. Regardless of the major I end up choosing, I know I

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  I've spent the better part of a day trying to blog about my semester, but I can't think of a pithy way to put everything together, so I wrote this instead. There's frankly not too much to say because I've been

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  Florence!   So I don't know if you could tell, but I was teaching in Italy over IAP. In October, I applied to MIT's Global Teaching Labs ... . I'd like to present my experience as 10 lessons-- not the ones I

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  DONE (sorta) If I'm done, why am I still stressed?

  

  because right now I'm a little too tired to do a coherent entry. The end of term will do that to you. But hey, I'm DONE (sorta). I -- Apologies to any random prefrosh that have contacted me lately. I've been really

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hot Dogs Or, how I fail at eating hot dogs.

  

  I've always been a big eater. Part of this may be because my dad is ... . That'd be me, I'm the boy, and I'm used to eating massive amounts of food. Before Matt, Ben, and I gave our presentation last week we went for lunch

  • by Snively '11
  • February 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Scratches On My Mind A brief introduction, so you'll know why I see MIT the way I do.

  

  Yeah, I know. It's a weird title for a first blog entry. But bear with me, because it'll seem really appropriate once I explain it (Bonus points for anyone who can tell me where I got the phrase). We all see the

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  The ADD recap of my Christmas break: Ohio. California. Maine. I am finally back from Maine, where I managed to survive on only dialup AOL ... longest I've gone without real internet in a very long time -- when I went

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  I often hear students say that colleges control their destinies and ... about the students' choices. With all respect to these students, I ... to apply (I'll explain this in a minute) and honest with yourself in

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  I'm currently dealing with writer's block, to be honest, and I ... instead, let me talk about some of the things I've been doing in the past month, and maybe this'll inspire me to write more. A new laptop. I got a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dress your wounds and stay in bed self care!

  

  cw: I discuss some injuries with varying amounts of needles and blood   I learned some valuable life skills in Denmark, from how to turn ... of the other skills I practiced was self-care. I learned to let myself

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  One of my goals for my sophomore year was to do all the things I was afraid to do in my freshman year. One of the bigger things I wanted to do in my freshman year that I did not do was join clubs, specifically

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  easier said than done. I woke up (well, my mom woke me up) at around 7am, for an 11:15am flight. I made it in plenty of time. Got on the plane ... …and woke up an hour later, to find us in the air. Realized that I slept

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Flipping Failure an IAP update

  

  This IAP, I took part in a writing workshop at MIT known as Flipping Failure. In this workshop, I and other participants worked on developing a ... MIT. After debating between a couple of topics, I chose to tell a story

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 28, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  yo-yos, comics, and other adventures my junior spring schedule!

  

  I signed up for a healthy and sane schedule of 48 units and a UROP, but then I realized I could also sneak into a comic book class with the same professor that I’d had in Brazil. This was too tempting, so I am now

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  I. eulogies are beautiful but  can we talk about leaves before fall? this time, i’ll make the summer count  this time, i’ll be louder    today, i feel like a leaf rustling impatiently behind far gone cars  

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  The first time I ever stepped on a skateboard was in 2015, which was ... Future Part II. I was in seventh grade. It was a week before Halloween, and I had just finished my McFly costume with a cheap skateboard from the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022