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• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  Today I wanted to thank a very special person in my life, someone who is still the smartest person I know, and who I wouldn’t be here without: My Mom mom and I in Shanghai! Yesterday was Mother’s Day, so I thought

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  Hey Internet, how’s it going? Good? Good! Personally, I’ve had a ... -absence of productivity - three things I have not experienced consistently in a very long time! Before that, though, I was in Mexico for two months doing

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  As promised, I finished my post about deciding what to do this summer. Disclaimer that I haven't slept in 22 hours. - Last summer, a life plan took ... summer started, I had planned to become a neurologist. I knew a lot about

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  A Day at the Races Read this entry. It will rock you. I promise!

  

  and unexpectedly with no other plans for Friday night, I decided to use up the extra day that I had hanging out on my Eurail pass and take a day trip down to Montreux, Switzerland. I AM SO HAPPY. I've been a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  things: where you come from, and what your interests are. So, where am I from? That’s easy, and maybe moderately interesting. I’m from Hawaii ... culture. If you’re in the market for somewhere to be from, I give Hawaii a

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Ellie on the M.T.A. writing about the T, on the T

  

  I grew up without any public transportation. The closest thing we had ... single bus route that I don’t believe really existed. But when my family traveled to Chengdu, China, and eventually more and more cities, I got to see

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  . it's been a while since i wrote a sad post here. well, not sad exactly ... less funny, or witty, or whatever. it's not like i haven't been sad. i guess it's just that i've been busy with classes, and my urop, and there

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  take less than 60 units? As of writing this, I’m finished with my sophomore year, halfway through MIT. I’m choosing classes for next semester ... through [annotation note = "I asked her about it now and apparently the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  My boyfriend and I made an impromptu trip to Montana over the weekend ... more honestly, probably won't get one because I don't have the time ... who loves hiking, I was stoked. I coerced my boyfriend to wake up at 3

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  Over these past couple of weeks, I've had the absolute privilege of ... on Campus Preview Weekend. Who knew that the years I spent wasting away ... this? During this time, I've been able to talk and spend a lot of time

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  Hello Internet! I'm briefly poking my head into the blogosphere as a respite from a very busy IAP (which I'll hopefully get to blogging about eventually...). But since I don't really have anything interesting to say about

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friends, and other things memories that come rushing back to me

  

  seems like I haven't had the time this semester to sit and think about the relationship we've weaved, but now that I am free, it all comes rushing to me ... . i have a stack of summer reading on my desk that i will start clearing

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 25, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Not Farewell After All Hello again!

  

  In my last entry, way back in June 2013, I painstakingly bid good ... : “Farewell, MIT blogosphere”). But I’m back!! Just in time to join other ... MIT blogs and also to offer an update on my life post-MIT. I graduated

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Remembrance Another year of old people remembering things

  

  On September 11, 2001, I had just begun my junior year. I was running ... after 9. My "hi" to my coworkers died on my lips as I looked at their ... into the World Trade Center," Brian quietly informed me. Only then did I

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 11, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  I know, long time no see. My last entry was almost exactly four ... overwhelming than I thought it was going to be - a confusing whirlwind of psets ... finals week rolled around, I was desperate to be done. I stumbled through 1

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  I got an e-mail the other day from a deferred applicant, who said ... the effort I've poured into everything in my life thus far." I sympathize - I know how it feels to pour a lot of yourself into something, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A New England Spring and what that means for incoming prefrosh (from outside of NE)

  

  In a conversation I was having with my good buddy, Quinton, today ... ". To which I thought, "You're darn right, pal!" But of course, now that I live in Cambridge, MA, how do I come to terms with the fact that I will

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • March 28, 2012
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Comfort and College Scared of applying to colleges far from home? Then read this!

  

  your parents let you? I began thinking about these questions after I met ... valid issue; I have known many people who stifled their educational ... , for college. I have also known many students, for fear of leaving their

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stayin’ Classy Workworkworkworkworkwork *deep breath* workworkworkwork.

  

  as follows: I agree. Completely. This semester, I'm taking five classes: (1) 5.13 - Organic Chemistry II: I'm one of those weirdos that actually likes organic chemistry - and not just because I like drawing little

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  up late, and climbing on roofs, I met the start of school with a dangerous sense of nonchalance. Consequently, I spent the first month of classes burning the midnight oil and wishing I'd worked harder over weekends

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009