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• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  laughed, called me a shrimp-for-brains, and asked when I’d grow out of it ... perfectly nonsensical goal that I could chip away at for months. I regretted ... near-impossible for me to lose...but this was not a situation I

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Genshin Impact and a better introduction to me

  

  A couple of months ago, I started playing a video game for the first ... cringe for unknown reasons."] RPG[/annotation] in which you play as one of ... small, flying creature named Paimon asks for his angsty backstory. Now

  • by ana~
  • October 7, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch the Tea with Teachers Video Series! and learn about the wonderful students behind it

  

  fascinating. Watch them below! I wanted to blog about TwT for a while, and ... close connections with professors for graduate school reference letters. I ... us in many ways. What we want most is for people to watch the videos

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  its tail’s end, I find myself optimistic for 2017. There are at least ... , but for a spate of fireworks, making January 1 just another day. For me ... , and I have to go shopping for microwavable popcorn. Still, I can

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  hours, maybe. But as for this particular piece of the internet, I haven ... , thanks for sticking around, and to new ones, I hope you’ve been enjoying ... really do feel so much better prepared for this year and beyond

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  mom couldn't explain the rationale for this discrepancy to me in the 7th grade, I declared my ambition to one day run for a position on the ... idiots. That was just for practice. Then he made school boards

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  summer 2021

  

  For the past seven weeks I've been living in Honolulu, Hawai'i with ... family actually grew up here so it was familiar for them! It was really ... 'd wake up at 5:30am to get ready for my 6am-2pm work day (Hawai'i is three

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 5, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  Last week, I left the country for the first time! This was really important to me for a couple of reasons: I had a premonition that I was ... Midwest. So for four-ish days my girlfriend and I went to visit my cousin

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  II comes in! I took this class for one main reason: the final project ... [annotation note="an icon within the mechanical engineering department for not only being a whiz with anything electrical (or musical) but also for

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Eating Studio Ghibli Foods 🌾 At a mini-restaurant pop-up by MINCE <3

  

  menu curated for each event"] MIT MINCE [/annotation]. As a big Studio ... building"] Picower Center for Learning and Memory [/annotation]. [caption id ... food and sharing our love for Ghibli films! Now, onto the part that you

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 11, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  't used my time wisely at all. It feels like I've done nothing for this ... was much easier to do exceptional things and be recognized for it. Now ... necessary resources and have to scrounge for them on their own. Lectures can

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28 by Andre H. ‘24

  

  invite a student leader to help set the tone for the weekend and welcome ... he'd write up a version of it as a guest post for the blogs. And he did ... me for, I was this year's Undergraduate Association (UA) president! As

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 21, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  [HEY! NOTE: If you are looking for the real, scientific reason of how ... . If you are looking for a credible source, try using this link here. If you don't care for citation and just wanna know, I explain it below

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  nothing made sense, except for maybe the classes, and even then only because ... Thanksgiving break. I helped out with Thanksgiving at my dorm for the first time ... for everything—Musical Theatre Guild, lean0nme, Splash, Think, Quiz Bowl

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  see each other again, and for the most part, we didn't. we still wish ... started. the about-hundred of us gathered in Walker Memorial for some events ... the Harvard Bridge for the first time. we talked like we had known each

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 2 Hearing Amazônia

  

  first stop was the Museu da Amazônia (MUSA for short), where we got to ... could see. However, we couldn’t stay up there for long – it was also ... ’ve guessed. And the cherry on top? For dinner, we went to a restaurant that

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  worthwhile.   I took The Folklore of Gaelic Ireland for the fairies and ... workshops where it felt difficult to address flaws directly, for fear of ... enjoyed that immensely since the needs for genre and literary writing are

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  *everything* else to make up for it, that this is my one chance to take a lot of ... applied for many classes which historically had low acceptance rates: a ... world felt right for the first time since covid ripped me away from Europe

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  ="alignnone" width="1536"] as i walk into the giant 10-250 lecture hall for 3.091, i ... ridiculous outfit possible. While I was looking through the racks for pants ... for the career fair. A couple days after that, we stayed up until late

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  sympathy for him, despite him being..arguably one of the worst book ... LOT. like a LOT. i didn't speak to anyone for three days after i read ... without any inhibition for three days straight. i've been coping with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021