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• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  sounding like a bad Xanga entry, I'll warn you, gentle reader, that thar be ... members of the class of 09, preparing to leave thier respective wombs, ye be ... third-degree burns. He'll be ok, Mobile, AL has the country's third best

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  , it turned out to be the human specimens room. It was full of skeletons ... would be beyond thrilled, floored, some kind of astonished. I achieved ... I would be, nor am I anymore the person who imagined her. I’m steadier

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  Campus meant being able to glance at the line outside my window and line up ... it might be more interesting to do research than to do nothing, a comment I would think comes from a place of him being very interested in his

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  . light pollution should have taught me that hope demands hurt to be seen ... promised to be or maybe you didn’t but i stand by the tree with no rope but a ... that feels eons away, for which i now weather away will be wrapped around

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to ... , so you should be sure you are prepared to receive your decision before ... . There are also students who may be climbing other mountains, with other

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  1. Why I didn’t think I would be a good fit for engineering. I came to MIT certain of one thing: I would never be an engineer. In eighth ... , and, to be honest, I wasn’t even interested. You can therefore

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  -than-the-usual amount of freedom this semester. It’ll be fun to reflect on how I thought ... exercising without the pressure of pushing myself to be better and better.  Dance. I kind of want to try out for Dance Troupe??!! I think DT would be

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The After

  

  In a couple months, I’ll be back in Cambridge after 10 years of ... never stops being 🤯. My job has given me the opportunity to travel ... . I’ve loved getting to be a part of my friend’s next steps in lives

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  ’ve been getting occasional “it MiGhT snow… mAyBe” messages from the cryptic ... snow angel will not be permitted[/caption] By this time, it was 1:30 am, and we had work to do. But sometimes, side quests must be sidequested

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to ... , so you should be sure you are prepared to receive your decision before ... home. There are also students who may be climbing other mountains, with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  expected the faucet water to be lukewarm when I asked for cold, the way it ... climate you’ll have to experience henceforth used to be somebody else ... . To be fair, it’s worse to have heat waves here because the city isn

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  ways of saying goodbye joint post with CJ '23!

  

  graffiti, but you can't be home again. from homestuck: TT: Please do not do ... being, and you can be grateful for them, even if they were never meant to be in your life forever. I'm glad I knew you too. B: Knew, huh? D: Mhm

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to ... , so you should be sure you are prepared to receive your decision before ... undergraduates who already call MIT home. There are also students who may be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  What I made in my documentary class three videos and many, many lessons

  

  : Portrait of a Person or a Place In this first assignment, your goal will be ... around recording them. And the result~      https://youtu.be/HyVoIIL8y2g ... bit more wide open, but potentially more complex. Your goal will be

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  i don’t know how to comfort people

  

  don’t want to force them to be happy again, because it’s better to let them heal on their own time. i want to tell them “it’s okay not to be ... enough to them to comfort them just by being there. i mean, i’m not saying

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  , however regrettable that may be.   1     My Existence is Performative ... experiencing pressure to be a desirable, inexplicable creature whose every ... lilt of my voice and the curl of my hair. I’ve chosen to be the man

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  't have enough experiences to warrant me being a junior. why am i perceived ... not used to being "older" and "wiser." i took classes with people two or ... , who jumped from being half-sophomores to seniors, have reflected on how

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to ... , so you should be sure you are prepared to receive your decision before ... MIT home. There are also students who may be climbing other mountains

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  the topics that seemed to be the easiest to write about was a recap of ... a long blog about both, but I felt it would be better to ... semester gave me a little more confidence in my abilities to be a remotely

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  some small distractions to help with many weighty things

  

  because how can a small animal be so good (but maybe i'm just jealous 🤔 ... to believe. let his happiness infect you!!! maze being flooded: my ... together huh cat taking sled ride: also courtesy of my housemate! oh to be a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2020