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• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  all these people going up these boulders several meters up into the air ... a bit and try to place myself better, but end up just standing there, waiting for something but not really knowing what. After a bit I thud back

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  wait for scores to come back to know I failed. I definitely failed because I didn't remember half the vocabulary for this exam; because I fell ... the five stages of grief: i. denial in which I wake up, horrified

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  catch up on sleep over this break but I traded it for social time ... ="I’ve heard people say this actually kinda works for algorithms, but thus far it has not proven successful for intro organic chem

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  I was at the park near my grandparents’ place today, picking up ... up. We walked around the park that evening -- in Tucson summer everything takes place at night; only those with a special disregard for sweat

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  WMBR: College Radio at MIT will anyone watch the entire 36 minute video? probably not

  

  rare this quality is"]they will show up for their show and be there on ... even made a playlist before, and my voice isn't really the best for broadcasting. I showed up at WMBR orientation in early September 2016, became a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  -11, and opened up my book. I read for a long time. It’s pleasant, under the ... needed to exchange last year’s light-rail tickets for current ones because ... , what’s your name?” We talked for a while. He said he’s from Texas and he

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  setting my alarm for 9:30, blinking and realizing I slept for another hour ... test yesterday morning, and a final assignment for something else due a ... interning elsewhere for a railroad, and made a few other phone calls as well

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  appreciate the ups and downs and in betweens of life for making us the people ... For a while now, I’ve had this realization that I tend to overthink a ... predictions for outcomes. But every time you consider more details, you do more

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  FYI: Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025 what it says on the tin

  

  -based financial aid this year for undergraduate students — up some 70 percent from a ... : sorry for not blogging much lately. With my new-ish role —  Director of ... income threshold. And for the 50 percent of American families with income

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  pathways where do i go from here?

  

  ago quite a bit. it's inevitable; each day, SnapChat memories pop up and ... situation especially bittersweet. for me, it's my former dorm, Burton Conner ... to think about it, after all—but it shapes how I've been planning for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  a tour of New Vassar also known as west garage

  

  , through the building, and up to my room on the fifth floor. We'll start ... choices made for this building. The color scheme in particular annoys me, as ... ="I know theyre important for energy efficiency, etc,, but they have these

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  Looking back, 2020 was a very chill year for me. Ridiculously so, if I’m being honest. To understand what I mean, you need context. For the ... nearly enough sleep. I could go into the reasons for this – wanting to do

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  food diaries pt. 3 amazing restaurants around MIT

  

  restaurants. When I tried to go in person last year, I gave up after waiting for ... Central for two months during the pandemic than I did during my ~6 months at ... ...my experience living here for the summer only proves that I didn't take advantage

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  grew up in Valenzuela City. Its longest and busiest road is MacArthur Highway. To get to school, I would take a jeepney up MacArthur to this footbridge, cross the street, then walk for two minutes. On a good day, the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  I think I speak for every undergraduate when I say: holy fuck.  The ... will see again. There's barely any time for real goodbyes, for send-off parties, for thank-you cards, for savouring the moment... Even at the best

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / Events

  To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before: P.S. I Love You THANK YOU LSC

  

  chat this: HELL. FUCKING. YES. For those of you who don't know me ... sucker for romcoms. And it's ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE that MIT Lecture Series Committee has access to resources like this. The moment I finished up the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  danceAP IAP: wonderful. sore muscles: not

  

  program or not (and was supposed to find out before i left for Christmas break), i couldn’t register for the class. as a backup, i signed up for ... planning on taking a class to satisfy the culture course requirement for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures planning my next two weeks

  

  to San Francisco. I'll be spending two weeks on the left coast for a ... kinds of trips retrospectively but figured I'd lead on the front end for ... blogs for the rest of the month, b) alert Californians to some interesting

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Itinerary: IAP 2017 4 weeks in a suitcase and carry on

  

  's resolution(s). My one goal for 2017? To get back on a normal sleep schedule. "Normal," meaning not going to bed at 3am and waking up just in time for ... 2016 -> 2017 On Tuesday the 3rd, I packed up what was left of

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Virtual Reality, Startups, and Donuts in a particular order

  

  for lunch and just wait for dinner. -Minutes later- I was walkin ... little thing in front of me: Ain't No Rest for the Hungry. After taking ... the new Vice President and Dean for Student Life, Suzy Nelson. I sat

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 15, 2016