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• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  important to me than my studies. Is that enough to make an identity? A pile of ... The summer before you come to MIT, there’s a bunch of forms to fill ... -Orientation Programs–totally not required to apply, but they're super fun

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

  places around and at mit godless and holy

  

  've tried to make an effort to explore campus and its surrounding city area ... .01/8.02 TEAL room Every time I walk by the TEAL room I want to vomit. I have ... 's difficult to compile footage all together and i'm really trying my best. but

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Toons and Tasty Burgers adventures in chalk and tasty-burger-tasting

  

  me, and I have to work hard to make sure I get enough of it. Burgers ... hears the cows' confession of being able to talk. Comedy sure doesn't make ... Comparative Media Studies. I'm kind of considering it. > I have yet to see if

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  that I think would make for some good discussion. For a full reference ... article is that the US is no longer the superpower when it comes to ... there's tremendous economic pressure to suck you away from what is perhaps

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  by a coyote to be relevant? She has to ditch her friends, who are ... and pasted them together to make this. Not my best work, for sure. so ... making her entire narrative about being thirsty and desperate to party was

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  of things to make you feel better. cj: snark later! at least introduce ... : well, the point i wanted to make was that the planning was a coping ... make plans, right? i kept trying to look forward to the future, tried to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid

  

  ="MIT undergraduates have to fulfill a swim requirement by either passing the MIT Swim ... to make me into a hot emotional mess. My emotional threshold was so low ... January"]IAP[/annotation] when I was just about to prep materials for my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  forbidden gatorade cell media looks tasty...

  

  give you water poisoning. Other notes: Don’t try to make tea by heating ... could make media with different liquids, and now I really want to feed the ... with “Try not to drink the media.” This really just implies that cell

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Survey says… A LOT of freshmen report that they were leaders in high school!

  

  War, according to his bio on the GEL website. Diane, who supervises ... . Thanks to those of you who read and commented! I then realized I shouldn ... last November. According to this survey, 85 percent of freshmen said

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Celeste the best video game i've played in months

  

  allows you to tweak some of the game's mechanics to make certain rooms ... to by Madeline as Part of Me. Part of Madeline looks like a goth ... I have run out of things to write about because nothing is happening

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 13, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  incremental game support group let's distract ourselves with games!

  

  to make your numbers grow to staggeringly huge values, the likes of ... Given how depressing and sad the last few days were, I’ve resorted to ... the extent to which they're amenable to idling is very different. I don

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  company to watch a movie that person can be found just by walking into the ... apart but they make opportunities to visit each other, vacation together ... goodbye post to share with you… When I was an undergraduate at MIT I spent

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  fall off beneath the plane is exhilarating to me. It makes me feel free ... group on campus called the MIT Outoors Club that caters to the ... passion I'm glad I've been afforded the opportunity to develop at MIT, it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Love Is Hard (A Sequel) wherein anon feels different from how he felt seven months ago

  

  used to have. Or when a picture makes you want to climb into that moment ... . Have I gained an ounce of sanity? Not really. Will I continue to obsess ... relationship ends, you tend to look back on your experience and think about the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 3, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  tunnels instead of freezing and trying to make my way through snow ... instead. But I eventually did make it back to my dorm--and, most ... men who will make better and more enlightened citizens to the ultimate

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Around the world in 30 days ...ok, maybe more like I'm Traveling a Lot this IAP

  

  2018 is turning out to be quite the adventurous year. I kicked off the year by packing up all my stuff in Boston, hauling most to storage ... mattress pad, cooking utensils, etc.), and the rest to bring with me on a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ambulance! Ambulance! So I'm in this serious long-term relationship.

  

  to gain experience by working as much as possible, especially before ... It is four days into IAP and I have yet to sleep in my own bed. In ... half an hour since returning to MIT on Sunday, and I was only home for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  was ranting to me about how stressed the workload was making him, and so ... good afterwards…” “Look, yeah, I get you’re trying to make me feel ... I want to submit this by the deadline, and it feels horrible, and I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  chill). This was the rationale I used to make sense of the rejections that ... , snapping me back to reality by succinctly reminding me that being at MIT is ... -and-tank-top-wearing days to finally be upon us again, I have also been in an application

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  There's a story my mother likes to tell about the time, soon after I ... teacher. Evidently, when my time to show-and-tell had arrived, I read aloud ... seemed to pay me any attention at all (this was a recurring theme of my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014