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• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  A few months ago, May.  When I'm away from you, I'm happier than ever Wish I could explain it better --- Happier than Ever by Billie Eilish It ... them, I am running on the delightful concoction of sleeplessness, instant

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wooo Summer The goal as usual is to do ALL the things

  

  I know this is delayed, but I never got to write an end ... ended, but I'd like to sum things up in one post and just get it all out. I really have learned a lot during my freshman year at MIT.  I learned

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  Lately I've been occupying space. Many spaces, in fact, especially ones I didn't previously used to occupy. I've found myself laughing and ... being pushed into this uncharted, new territory. Though I am [annotation

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  As a kid, I only moved [annotation note="twice if you count going from Los Angeles to Tucson when I was three"]once.[/annotation] I was twelve. My big sisters were excited about the new house, but I wasn’t. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

  eruptions bring to mind the old tales passed down from our elders. i’m from ... felt the effects. i remember the the one thing all the stories had in ... bit bigger, it feels normal again, that i am waking up and seeing people

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  , Anastassia, Natasha, and I met and we picked five of them to be new bloggers ... : 6 About: Hey guys! I’ve lived in exactly two places my ... ) and Cambridge, Massachusetts (one week and counting). I love making

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  Signs that I would someday Do Science can be traced to when I was 6 ... sample tile that my sister and I have since rediscovered. I've also rediscovered a diary that I kept in first grade. My favorite entry reads

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Your Early Action Deadline Questions The deadline is this Monday, November 1.

  

  some anxiety, I'm happy to answer some of your last minute questions ... comments below), I'd like to ask you to really look for the answer here ... though that doesn't seem to already have been answered, though, I am

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  Everything's going just fine! I'm registered for classes, the grad school admission process is almost done, and I'm on track to graduate and ... to this place than just doing classes. Here's the blog post where I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  I know, I know, I haven't written in forever and a week. Um, yeah, about that. Basically, Jess Kim summed it up as well as I could, so there ... ? Jess Kim is one of those people for me. I was debating earlier on what

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  I’ve been too hosed to write a post that requires beyond ... . Saturday 9:00 a.m. For breakfast I eat cereal and drink jasmine tea. Then I drive with Mira, another pika resident, to a nearby lake. I’ve been

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  In my last blog, I mentioned that since the spring semester hadn ... the spring semester has begun, I am quite late on this piece, but I wanted to write it anyway, so here I am. I considered just not writing

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  The river freezes over, but it isn't frozen solid. My roommate and I ... flowed beneath the sparkling ice. It does, but I didn't find that out ... , melting just a patch of ice. I could see the water rush and tumble from my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  is Quynh Nguyen and I’ve always wanted to be an admissions blogger. Unfortunately, I forgot about the application deadline my freshman year (let this ... and I’m thrilled to share my story with you. I was born in Vietnam

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  In a few short hours I will hop on a plane back to the US. I have some very mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I am excited to get ... friends. I am excited for some of the classes I'll be taking, but with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  There's something I've noticed about the summer (well, my summer): It ... == Empty A lot of what makes MIT MIT is the people you'll find here. I didn't used to be very social, I lived in the middle of nowhere and was very

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  , since I am at least honest enough to acknowledge that it will not receive such thought, I am instead going to erect a shrine to it by documenting everything which occurs, in the style of posts by Shuli and Cami before me. I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  Today, I have a great idea. Recently I had a conversation with a ... luckily I’d had my own disaster-semester in the spring, and we compared ... ? So I went to bed, and the next day I woke up, and I was like: “Gasp

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  . ------------------------------------- A few people wrote in asking if I accept personal email and what my email address is. If your question is a general one, I prefer that you ... "what are my chances" questions. I simply can't answer them on a case

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  quintessential representation of MIT culture. I love that beautiful little dude. It ... hall to a post somewhere on Instagram. I even have a little sticker of him on my water bottle that travels with me everywhere I go. Today is

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 13, 2024