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• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  than actively feel awful. Kate self-medicates to reach that state, by imbibing marijuana or drinking, which leads her to the halfway house for ... while, and then her condition continued to get worse. My aunt called me a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Off to Zambia

  

  Through my awesome D-Lab class, I am going to Zambia today until Jan ... the school is able to hold adult classes in the evening. Another one of ... demonstrations. Sodis uses a method of water disinfection intended for the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 7, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  stars admiring from afar (to properly credit "we fell in love in october" by girl in red as the reference for this blog's title) Between the ... that numbs both fingers and souls alike, we only get a few short weeks of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have classes

  

  'm hoping for this one to be better. I'm happy that I seem to remember more of ... to be able to keep all five, but if it is too much work then I will drop back to four. I've provided my first impressions of each class

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pass No Record, Oh How I Loved Thee. A quick look at first semester!

  

  more bearable by finding people to work with and understanding what ... forward to another great one. Tune in next time for a post about IAP, all of ... When it comes to MIT you can put everything you do into one of two

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  RA Indu (WashU '09) and I were walking to Elder Hall for lunch. Going ... loud enough for everyone in the area to hear, he shouted, "NICE MOVE ... Two or three Thursdays before finals, Peach '09 and I went to Au Bon

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  powder. It felt more like getting punched in the face by a pineapple, but ... room to forgive Thailand Cafe for their unspeakable red curry combo ... I. Emergency Dinner Sunday afternoon catches me cooking for 30+ in a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action Updates Some helpful tips for those working on their EA apps.

  

  your MyMIT Tracking; the deadline for ECs to submit their reports has not ... form and we will be sure to get the interview report. If your EC has ... for our review. If you do not send them directly and plan to use Score

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  processor can take care of--for instance, dialogue does not need to be ... 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

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers Sigh.

  

  same goes for your SAT score. I will be the first to tell you that it ... felt like this was enough of an issue that I wanted to get my thoughts ... least six blog entries in the past month or so, I haven't had a chance to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  get a job to help pay for school, on top of doing a lot of great things ... -ing for a class or two, and applying to grad school a year early (because he ... out of the dining hall, I stop to get some coffee and he chats with a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  you don't want to. So get rid of commitments, drop classes, say no to ... of randomness you can pay attention to, like the probability of getting ... for a slightly better chance to do lethal? [caption id

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Lost in other people’s stories My brand of escapism

  

  experiences, though. It means you get to be that person for a little bit. You ... . You get to be that person with a genius idea for every predicament. You ... else’s head. You get to experience what they experience–the fear during a

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 28, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  getting ready for casual Friday at work where I get to wear flip-flops and a ... able to get a copy of the book. For entertainment, the party had a "Make ... sidewalk outside Fenway Park hoping to get tickets to a game that highlights

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline With the deadline approaching and the Office of Admissions closed for the holidays, I'll try…

  

  deadline, the longer it will take our records office to process and for it to ... With the deadline approaching and the Office of Admissions closed for the holidays, I'll try to field some questions here. Please remember

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2008
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  's motivated me to get through some hard weeks — "It's almost time," they said ... ; This semester has been by far the toughest, most challenging to date ... 've constantly reminded myself that I didn't come to MIT expecting easy. It was by

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All my pasts and futures A blog entry about band and quiz bowl, to prove that I'm still hip.

  

  Fidelio. Tonight we had the Burton-Conner Trivia Competition. Prior to the competition, I sent an e-mail to my floor telling them to keep three things in ... message ever sent by telegraph was "What hath God wrought?" The second one

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 19, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  on body image me in my head, me in the mirror

  

  've been influenced by this view. As much as I wanted to pretend that I didn ... by the people I talked to growing up. Stories of "the freshman twenty ... . My dad handed me a fifty-peso bill and told my to get a haircut, saying

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, per se a selection of fantastic dishes, part 2

  

  virus. Gastronomy seemed to be sacrificed in exchange for a sense of ... best. A difficult claim for me to make, I know, especially considering ... somewhat arrogant and definitely premature [annotation note='Link to previous

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  MIT campus is defined and elevated by its people, and for this blogpost ... expecting to get in. Other places he applied to include Caltech, which turned ... freshman-year jolt MIT is known for. He admits to feeling like hot stuff

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016