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• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  Last month, my friends and I saw Mitski live. I didn't know that many Mitski songs, but I went to her concert anyway because the songs I did know ... -one, right?" I laughed her off because I wasn't planning on drinking anyway

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

    I. With the fall semester complete, I could finally focus all my ... during the last few weeks of the semester, I had prioritized school first, pushing training to the side. I didn't even plan on skating this season

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I saw a turkey the other day… hello, world!

  

  ...which may not be a big deal to most of you, but since I was on a ... ’s driveway, I thought it warranted a mention. It’s not like there isn’t wildlife in Boston; I’ve seen my fair share of creatures, including the

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 14, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  stop thinking about it.  In reality I think we all have a little bit of ... without it. I think I could describe the 7 years since I graduated (but ... I was so frustrated to never find the answers. It distracted me from

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  the hours i've spent in bed recently have added up, pointing to one conclusion: actually, i only recently discovered that i've been diagnosed ... : during my last therapy session, i asked my therapist about how i can go

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  love or lust

  

  recently, i have been having a lot of thoughts about the ways in ... spring and summer were full of striking moments when i made big realizations about myself and i suddenly became more sure of major decisions

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  Hey, blogs. How ya doing? Long time no see... Or, I guess, write. All last semester I was thinking of the right way to say goodbye to this ... . I graduated more than a month ago with the double major in CMS & 7

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  helloooooooo blogosphere! so i wasn't planning on posting this week ... reading everyone's blogs has brought me so much joy, and i'm sitting here on a Sunday afternoon just being chronically online, and so i have

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  ’s pain. I’ve felt violated, angry, spiteful, exhausted, guilty, ashamed. I ... ball of hurt I carry with me, a part of the constant calculus I engage in as I attempt to navigate the world. I wish I had some hope to impart

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  solace in the self it's me! cami!

  

  Hi! Hello! Long time no see. It's weird to be typing again. I feel ... time that I've been gone: I've concluded my junior year at MIT. I have one year left. I found out I have ADHD? But I guess a lot of my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 30, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  for most of my life i was very prone to envy. part of that was because of the academic environment i was raised in - other people doing well on math contests meant i would have a worse rank, other people

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  I spent winter break in MIT. I thought I wouldn’t be alone. After all, it’s not as if everyone’s going to go home, right? I thought that maybe ... IAP began. The week before finals week, I started asking people for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  I did some ~leadership~ in high school, as I'm sure many of you did ... , tbh, since I followed a very typical path. In middle school and freshman year, I joined some clubs, learned a lot, and had fun; sophomore and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  Reflecting on the lessons of last semester, I knew I was going to have to kick it into high gear for my 6.042 exam on Wednesday. I spent all of Monday night from 8pm to 2am studying. I woke up promptly at 7

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  semester begins Tuesday, and so will begin the class I’ve been diligently ... Science. I’m glad I’ve learned so many things, and I’m glad MIT gave us all ... everything to shut down for two days, though my roommate and I determinedly

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  [Guest Entry from Kelsey Kennedy '12] When I sat down late last ... that I would, in fact, be attending their school in the fall, I thought I knew what I was getting myself into. MIT is, well, MIT, right? After

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  I have an interesting MIT “story.” It wasn't my first choice school until very, very late in the game. I first started researching colleges ... weird. I liked it a lot because it stood out in its rejection of the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  I very much agree with what Jess wrote about your comments on Stu ... enlightening. As I wrote back in February, I'm reading three heavy-duty books in ... both difficult but possible to understand. I really enjoyed both of them

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  So four years ago, I began a year-long journey to start seeing what 12 years of public school education could do for me. I started applying to college. I kind of went about it in a semi-orderly fashion, but I

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  I’m sitting on the floor of my living room in Ithaca, New York. It ... days ago I got back from Ireland, where I gave a seminar and served as the external examiner (“extern”) for a PhD Viva, and now I’m trying to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025