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• Blog / How to Human

  My freshman year is almost over honest thoughts on it

  

  I have two finals left as I write this, [annotation note ... GIR."]7.014.[/annotation] I should feel excited about finishing up my first year at MIT, but I feel less excited and more dissatisfied about the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 16, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alaska Where I am right now.

  

  I have decided that today I will operate under the assumption that I am in Alaska. Not because it's cold or anything, just because it's a change of pace. Your thoughts on Alaska are welcomed.

  • by Snively '11
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I AM SO BUSY

  

  But I still went downtown to fetch a fresh fruit eclair. (Sorry for shouting.) Someone asked what I'm doing for spring break. I'm going to ... Sweden to Abisko. Should be a lot of fun, and I promise to post pictures

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  I FINALLY PASSED THE SWIM TEST!!!! 3.5 years late hehe

  

  ="368"] the moment of truth. let's see if i can swim 100 continuous meters...[/caption] [caption id="attachment_110810" align="aligncenter" width="381"] I CAN!! I PASSED WOOOO[/caption] Now I can graduate!! Yay!!!!

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Travel

  clownazoo part 2 this post is two years late

  

  In case you have not seen part 1, I posted it near the end of my freshman year. I am now going into my senior year. I think I may have procrastinated a little bit. In total, we ended up spending around 9 hours on

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 1, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  i'm in the class of 2023. this means that i spent only six full months on campus before getting kicked off due to the pandemic. now i'm back on campus, but more than a year has elapsed, and i'm a junior now

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m still alive And I missed entry #2000 by one! Blargh!

  

  So where have I been? Short answer: doing work. Or just at work. I ... the O'Connor Lab, guaranteeing me the shortest commute to work I'll ever have to make. (Yeah, you know I used Paint.) The round trip is less

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And here I am!

  

  Well, I'm back in the States. I thoroughly enjoyed everything but I ... five thousand miles of fishing line and a solid hook? :-) I've long ... school. I'll share some things I learned, some things that were reinforced

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  I saw going to college as a rebirth. I really disliked high school ... up the friend circle I never had in high school. What I didn't realize ... something that I've had to work to seek out and keep and occasionally

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  ≧◡≦ , my name is River. Just like most people, I had dreamed of coming to this university since childhood. And now I am about to enter my sophomore ... it really came true. I never expected to be the person who I am now

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  This is, for the most part, a post about Seattle. I've been a ... little about Seattle that I don't like. I love the weather that never really goes above 80 degrees, and enjoy the infrequent summer drizzles. I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Every August a million small moments

  

  This is the third rush to happen since I graduated MIT. And most of the time, MIT is not at the forefront of my mind. I've got code to write, planes to fly, trips to take. MIT isn't my turf anymore, and I

  • by Piper '13
  • August 30, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  on thursday morning, i woke up at 9 am, after only six hours of sleep, and i felt awful. my throat was sore, i simultaneously felt hot and cold ... i started feeling the night before. i reported the symptoms on covid

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  this and helping me think about how to formulate it! I’ve been very contemplative lately. In my first few weeks here I had tons of questions, but they were “easy” ones: how do I register for classes? If I use the last of the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 Resolutions posting so i can be held accountable

  

  Happy New Year! I usually make resolutions every year, but I forgot to make them for last year, so I decided to show you mine for this year ... gym four times a week I started going to the gym when I came to MIT and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  *waves goodbye* Homeward bound

  

  That's it ladies and gents, sophomore year is over for yours truly. I ... are for. I have to say, it's going fast. When I applied to MIT and got in, I always thought of MIT graduates as geniuses. These people went to

  • by Snively '11
  • May 19, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  I spent the last two weeks of IAP abroad. I had thought about ... UROP research ultimately won out. Still, I felt like I needed a break, a change of scenery, so I semi-spontaneously planned a trip to Europe with

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Questions from Beyond one last blog

  

  Wait. Why am I here?  For those of you who don’t know, I actually don’t work at MIT anymore. I actually haven’t worked at MIT for a whole week. So, again, why am I here? Well, there’s really only two reasons. The

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember

  

  i've realized i spend most of my time trying to divorce myself from ... used to feel like home, dusting off once-beloved keepsakes. these days, i ... , sometimes amused by who i used to be, sometimes saddened. whenever i think

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  . What follows is the very long and detailed crisis I had in picking my major, organized by what I considered, in a roughly chronological order: Course 8 (Physics) Okay I never seriously considered physics while at MIT

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025