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• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  under any other circumstance.    Do I regret it? No, not at all ... million changes at once?    At the end of the day, the moments that I ... the best parts about a sitcom is that you can tune in at any moment. So

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  [/annotation] and testing the headbands to see if the impact on your head changed at all ... our poster to the greater MIT community at the end of the semester. The ... in neat rows. Colorful graphs and arrows jump out at me, and each title

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  here at the foot of the Rockies. There’s snow on the tracks, and the ... , and then again from the border to Denver. We arrived at Denver some ... together at the only store open in the whole place. I had some miraculous

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  whiplash feelings from yesterday

  

  somehow always manage to feel burnt out at this point in the semester ... . you feel REGRET upon looking at the menu, because you don’t like coffee ... you no longer feel unwelcome or judged at blogger meetings, and although

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Concert / The View

  

  LOT. Just as you would wait at Disneyland for two and a half hours to ride on Space Mountain, I wait for 8-12 hours to get front row at a ... Val G. '24 and she arrived at the line at around 9am. I took over her

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The CrimZone. there are 2 impostors at harvard

  

  This isn't about cross-registering at Harvard. I was thinking about ... appointment at Widener Library, where they checked my government-issued ID and ... anxiety shoot up, but the lady at the counter was pretty nice to me the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  third anniversary. I liked looking at the dresses, which were gorgeous ... water over our heads. Now, in the past year, at least a dozen engagement ... United Kingdom and started medical school at Stanford. Sometimes I think

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  intern at a start-up that focuses on artificial intelligence and data ... could live at my current place for a very low cost. I had my upcoming ... experience at a company that claimed to use AI for drug discovery, but seemed

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

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

  

  couldn't yet describe when I first visited at age thirteen on a family ... walked fast. At age fifteen, I won a national writing contest. The awards ceremony was held at Carnegie Hall. In a truly foolish moment, I only packed

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 12, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  in transit where do i go from here?

  

  to the next, never fully being present. I crash onto the bed at night ... do to fix this?" and they look at me with sad eyes. What can I do to ... miss spontaneous trips to diners at 3am. I miss feeling excited for the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  actual conversations i definitely had last night happy new year i guess

  

  work A: yeah and i bet they're saying to themselves A: look at these ... mario kart A: like we're driving along in life A: at any moment we can ... up graduating and then working a job A: and i'll look back at this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  've believed you. Now, a year later, I'm looking at the statistics for the first ... matching FSU sweatshirts. I kept glancing at the alarm clock. I was going to ... portal again. I wasn't nervous at all. Confetti streamed down the page. I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  at East Campus"]slightly dangerous ride[/annotation] and things are flying past at a breakneck speed. I’m trying to grab onto moments and ... in me. I look back at who I was a month ago and it takes me some time

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  logistics of crocheting at MIT. How will I pack all my yarn? What project ... 've successfully woven in my crocheting with my life at MIT. But why do I spend so ... [annotation note="At home, I crocheted bonnets for my cat"]functionally useless

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  9.00 with no context are you a cool rat?

  

  This past semester I took Intro Psychology at MIT with Professor ... of the most interesting and fun lectures I've ever had at MIT. As a ... in her dress, you marvel at how green the material of her outfit is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  what i’m doing this iap 2021 a busy busy house

  

  Emma spent winter break at home with her family! She also had some really ... incredibly hard at this project and have been doing really well in [annotation ... stuck at home, hence why she picked up that cool project with Raymond. She

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  through half of my time at MIT. It's strange, and scary, and...viscerally uncomfortable. Is time real?? I've already lived at my current house for longer than both the places I stayed at this summer, even though those times

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  watching Harry Potter for the nth time. On a normal day, there are at least four of us working in the kitchen at all times, with others joining now ... workouts for us. The first night I tried, we did it outside at 11 pm, and it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  imagining a sample day at my future college. At that point in time, I had no ... be fair, no one could have seen anything this damn year threw at us coming.  Starting this semester at the internationally acclaimed Zoom

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything what i did this IAP!

  

  . But the break felt so short, and once I was back at MIT, I was in an ... Monday exam[/annotation]at the end of fall semester, and I stayed at home ... in exactly whichever way I desired at exactly any moment. It. Was

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 3, 2020