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• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  This blog has been in the works for a… long time. I first started this one on April 2nd. Of last year. I was looking through my blog drafts and realized I have a lot of half-finished blogs, which is a bit tragic

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  After four years here at MIT, I am finally graduating. I have a lot of mixed feelings on graduating. On one hand, I'm nervous. I'm terrified to leave MIT. How do you make new friends as a new grad? What if I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  Four days after I returned to my home in New Hampshire after the Great Campus Exodus in March, I decided to pick up running again. I decided that I would absolutely lose my mind staying inside all the time

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Hospital State of Mind The things I hate about being stuck here

  

  I hate going to the hospital. Yes, hospitals help people. Most nurses ... can also drive you cRaZy. I'm in the hospital, and have been since Wednesday. It is driving me crazy. I started talking to my squishible monster

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  I just came back to my dorm room from all the graduation hooplah. I have a diploma. I have about 100 pictures. I have a sunburn. It's a strange feeling (being graduated, not being sunburned. I'm plenty used to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  Just thought I'd reiterate, for anyone who's applying to MIT this year (or next year, or in five years... whatever, I don't discriminate), that I feel your pain on the application deal. I'm applying to graduate

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  This summer, I worked for fourteen weeks as a software engineering ... that my internship is wrapping up tomorrow, I'm reflecting on what I learned this summer and what it means for me going forward: I shouldn

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  welcome to new york went to nyc & all i got was this blog post

  

  When Taylor Swift's 1989 album dropped, I read a review describing ... Taylor's first decisively pop album and I was young enough to be easily ... years since I've read that review yet I still remember that description

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 12, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  i've been drafting and drafting this blog post over and over again in hopes of making good impressions but i realize at this point it will all appear as the same verbal upchuck. hello! my name is cami, i'm 17 years

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  As promised, I offered the chance to write a guest blog to prefrosh ... ! If you have any comments or questions, post/email them and I'll be sure ... experiences I’ve had this year. When I got into MIT back in December, I

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  ? Well, dear mortals, I have perfected the art of photosynthesis and ... , I need to supplement my diet with human food. So I took a picture of all the food I ate for a week, because I thought that would be a cool

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  .0 Times I've cried over classes: 2 (surprisingly) Smoothies made: 12 COVID tests taken: 11 Times I've been locked out: 3 (Unique) cats ... Spiders seen: 2 Classes I'm taking: 5 Classes I've thought about

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  This was originally going to be a post about how now that I’m in college I’m finally taking steps to beat procrastination and do things early and within a reasonable time frame. The plan was simple – I’d finish all

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A Maple Peach in Cambridge They have some weird fruit here

  

  Talking about myself is weird, but I’m sure all you out there that ... (: Hello everyone! I’m Kirsten, one of the four fabulous freshmen MIT ... . I was born in the magnificent, but chilly, country of Canada. However

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Genesis Embrace me Blogosphere!!!!

  

  story all about how My life got flipped turned upside down And I’d like to take a minute just sit right there I’ll tell you how I became the ... Square (I know, I know….give me a break, my title is long and I’m not a

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to back to back maybe i am doing too much

  

  The last post I made was kind of a lot. Even beginning to write this post took way more effort than it normally would have. Anyway, I’ll continue my theme of talking about my problems in public, and I’ll walk you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  ’t something [his] brain keeps track of”. I find this simultaneously hilarious ... ="Also how I navigate campus, unlike some people we know"]I navigate memory ... place where it occurred; I remember the directions to my aunt’s house in

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  a blog that explains it step by step i figured id just cut to the part ... impossible to type. i've tried not to mention you here too often, out of fear ... presence lingers just a bit too long (it does, sometimes). i wanted to carve

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m not swollen anymore!

  

  Okay, so I agree that it's been far too long since my last update. I ... week and a half recovering from wisdom teeth surgery. I just had my stitches out this afternoon -- *VERY GLAD* to be done! I'll be moving into a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 21, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  sexualisation I tend to talk about friend groups a lot on the blogs. I've always been someone that has traveled in a pack. In high school, I had a group of three girls I hung out with a lot and I felt like I understood them

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022