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• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  In 2012 everything about life at MIT felt important: [annotation note ... famous HM case, which is what spurred my interest in neuroscience in the ... left or right in response to different noises and then dissected their

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  generally did an okay job representing my feelings, and i'd like to keep it in ... and not changed my perspective. I am an angry crier. In high school ... . But when I felt a bubbling feeling of frustration build in my chest, I

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  In the rush of finals and the end of the semester, I've been losing ... in my bed for a solid thirteen hours. I've spent my time back home with ... 's Day. New Years is in my[annotation note="only beaten by Chinese New

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  I thought about this post while laying in a fetal position under an ... medication to kick in. This time was feverish; I felt as if my consciousness ... , although very little in the way of concrete thought. Here are a few of those

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  1.5 weeks during which I really had nothing in particular to do. Then ... ™. I had to slump over in the Maseeh 3 bathroom at 4AM and cry for no ... , probably because I went in with no expectations at all. This time around

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  project in a while with a few other people, and already we've spawned many ... real." a bowl is a bowl is a bowl. in the song branches, the chorus isn ... single, uber-version of myself that includes all possible good things in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  self-destruction my entirely self-inflicted problems

  

  story understand explores the consequences of superintelligence. in the ... fire in response to external stimuli as well as to each other, there ... in your brain to fire in a way which destroys you: “He means the Word

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 27, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  else I know from the class of 2022 are still here in Cambridge and on ... mixed up. I've been reflecting on the changes in bits 'n' pieces as the ... sorted out. 1. Where I live I used to live in East Campus, an undergrad

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  how many cities you can name in the US, Europe, Asia, Africa or the entire world.  They tried to name all the cities in the US. I wasn’t there ... completely decimated west New York and Jess H. ’24 named the craziest cities in

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  “Walking in LA” by the Missing Persons and “Welcome to New York” by Taylor ... .) I spent the summer doing a software internship in New York. I lived ... , in classic MIT student tradition, I crammed a year’s worth of self

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  't fit in the other me, the one who had trouble getting both in and out of ... still wouldn't get me out of bed in the morning or stop me from engaging in the popular “who’s more hosed” game. And then senior year came. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  I try and tell myself that I've overcome imposter syndrome, and, in some ways, I have. I have no doubt in my mind that I'm thriving at MIT. I ... they come up, bile burning in the back of my throat, to painfully remind

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  , honor me.   Do you remember in spring how your body wasn’t your ... desperate for sun. there was nothing to eat that wasn’t smothered in grease ... ; I feel like I have not run in days like I haven’t slept I feel like

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  , and/or see people. I love the cafe in the morning. Classical music ... yet unwritten, the ending not set in stone. I left with two characters midway through an escape, lost in the hidden tunnels of a palace

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  In the spring, I bought a polaroid, walked around campus, and took pictures of the places that were memorable to me in some way. Eighteen months ... posters for events from more than a year ago hanging in the infinite. Worse

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

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

  

  for finally, finally giving South Asians the representation in media ... obviously a huge step for Indians in Hollywood, but...yeah, it has a lot of ... . But in an attempt to eschew the "nerdy girl" stereotype for Devi, the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  keeping interest a list of things i think are cool

  

  in my junior year of high school, hated it, and swore I'd never return ... truth in the matter was that I didn't really hate compsci, I just found it ... 've talked about this in past blogposts, but I'm definitely growing out of this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 4, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  sadly in my wordpress at this current moment, but have not had any time to ... am. but this semester, it's a different type of hosed. in other ... . in honor of this re-realization, i decided to document all of the fun

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  my alarm goes off at 8am, and i turn it off in probably enough ... should really get up, so i[annotation note="in room 251, we all have Next ... in light [annotation note="i was fortunate to acquire both a waterproof

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  Summer guest post series* A few dozen children stand fidgeting in lines before us, their eyes squinting in the glare of the merciless sun. There ... instinctively stop you in your tracks because it doesn’t make sense for that

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018