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• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  " to get help, I felt like I could exist a little bit easier knowing I ... to fly home the day after my last final instead of waiting just one ... thought back to last winter. Around this time last year, I was writing

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  , it feels exciting. How grateful I am to get to be all these different ... me: is this my fourth semester? can you explain that to me? my mom: nope. can someone explain to me the passage of time? how to avoid

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  , which scared the hell out of me when I didn’t get admitted to other ... ’t get a section of the tap dance for THE LIFE OF ME, and I wanted to just ... time. I would get back to the dorm at midnight and collapse on someone

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  team can answer and the other team gets to hear the rest of the question ... course I had to say, "Now I'm definitely writing a blog post about ... quizbowl is, you can probably skip this intro paragraph and go straight to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

  protects her right palm from the cruel concrete. On Sunday, she goes to get ... leaf. She's back where she started and took a long route to get there ... to Harvard solely to get fries from Tasty Burger, discovered that my

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  get used to it after a couple of sessions. She asked whether anyone had ... I hadn't considered how to get them over my butt. Awkward. I sat ... (ExpressionEngine hates me) I decided to hold off on publishing until Wednesday

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  uber to my Airbnb and after meeting my host and getting the run down on ... essentially visit anywhere in the world for free, while getting to gain ... ! How much do you want to get out of these 4 or so years of your life? Are

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  work to get grants, artists get stuck in bubbles that make it hard for them to broaden their horizons, and students like me get swayed by status ... 2 types of games. Finite games where the goal is to win on a

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  Ave to get groceries from Target and H-Mart helps clear my mind a little ... making an effort to get off-campus more frequently, even if it's just to ... remember why it was that I went home, but one Friday I took the train down to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  homeland. The reason for the commentary is a proposal to clamp down on binge ... to tackle Scotland's binge-drinking culture have been announced by the ... not only because it is fun to see British terms like "Freshers week." It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  about who you were and you get to enjoy the consequences. I hope applying ... accepted that application they were going to get the student they read about ... known as high school. Everything from where you sat at lunch to which

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  just to get into Boston. I feel kind of dumb now thinking that my moment ... all the way up to Boston. You'll still get in great shape, you'll still ... we can get back to my regularly scheduled blogging. Here's some

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  -die in a car, and I’m still unsure why sixteen-year-olds are excited to get ... to get me -- I’d finally found my fellow lizard people! Socializing on ... attempt at pretending to be smart. Getting on campus didn’t fix my tendency

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  long sticks that you put glass on the end of, but we'll get to the ... messy lip. However, getting it to be the same width all around and ... 'm very fortunate to get to be a small part of such a wonderful place.

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  the process of learning, but five days isn’t enough to get me over the ... hasn’t done anything related to law) and her goals (getting into Harvard ... chat with him about what I can do to get the most I can out of 6

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  they do something you don't like, it's hard to get angry at them because ... windowsill to get a better view. * Dr. Popular can make every noise possible ... walking over your face because he/she needs to get out. * Besides having no

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The CrimZone. there are 2 impostors at harvard

  

  Orientation, when I decided on a whim to get a Harvard library card, which is ... wanted to get a library card, came with me and we both got our cards fresh ... is for getting students to go to Harvard's sports events. We had to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  (thing is true) but why? I go to MIT 100% (or so I've been told) I get these ... . I've been known to say things like "Well, I'm fairly sure that I have ... makes my tendency for already-nebulous statements even more nebulous to

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 16, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  could get used to the water temperature before going out further and ... campus is that I get a lot of time to think for myself. So I have these ... to do a pset WITH people me: i like STEM and i want to get involved in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  first impressions of LA the struggles of moving cross-country for an internship

  

  flight to los angeles to [annotation note="dope, right??? i get so many ... wandering around LA [annotation note="groceries, getting a bus card, etc."] completing various errands [/annotation]. i've never been to LA, so i formed a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 31, 2019