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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  of you would rather jump into an active volcano. it's not sustainable ... 's nothing earth-shattering. it's easy to minimize as it spills out of your ... devoid of people, because everyone's on break but you're still at MIT

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  again. I spent the two whole weeks of break just complaining about ... myself busy and attempt to be an actual college student. I made a lot of promises in the beginning of the year that I have not kept. I said I would

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  in session and i have...an assortment of feelings. i guess my last post was a lot of feelings, but there's a lot of feelings still. too many feelings. i spent the entirety of my saturday afternoon psetting for only

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  chillness progresses through the semester (a harsh winter of studies and ice ... following: These are the contents of a care package I got in the mail this week. -Twelve jars of tuna canned at home by loving mom and sister. They

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  I disappeared into the battlefield of the semester, not to be heard ... , either. five. A particular microcosm of this joy has found its way into my ... harder, driven by a lack of breaks and the persistence of pandemic

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  of myself into my work. I craved their validation, even though I really ... , "What is the place you've worked at that you're most proud of?" My heart swelled as I talked about MIT, and MIT Admissions, and Petey, and all of the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  Throughout high school and my first two years of college, I extensively used a Google Doc to track all of my class assignments and personal ... manually. I imagine some amount of sorting could be accomplished with a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  pegging my future, and tried out a couple of hypotheses. I looked into small ... My second year of college just ended. I’ve been trying to think of a ... to have things sort of figured out in my mind, so I can say something

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  up for it by putting tons of effort into this much-anticipated virtual tour of Burton-Conner. Seriously. I took literally about 70 pictures of ... 'll see when you walk into Burton-Conner is the front desk. The desk is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  “poverty” doesn't always refer to the consequences of astronomical tuition ... of soup), social life, free food hunts, and a dumpsterload of potential extracurriculars are playing tug-of-war with your attentions, it's sometimes

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  method of looking into a mirror. The first culprit was binge ... lies on a plane of your choosing. And then you can turn that into a solid ... ://www.vote.org/polling-place-locator/ ------------ In the past couple of weeks at Zoom University, I have somehow

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  I’m sitting in the quiet car of a Northeast Regional Amtrak train ... MIT in the fall of 2015, I’ve taken the trip from New York to Boston ... melancholy, sometimes scary trips on the medley of NYC – Boston busses

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  By Ming Lu The Thursday morning of CPW, I woke up bright and early ... , taking the same train. Here’s a picture of the six of us: The train took around five hours to reach South Station in Boston, but the six of us

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  ’ living space, but nowadays it has just sort of blended into the general ... as a sterile place. Labs stacked on top of classrooms and everything ... where I’d be bombarded with art from the most unlikely of places

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! 🦃 Yara has a peath sign on her head!

  

  brace myself for the number of times I plan to hear it on Thanksgiving day ... ="While expressing gratitude is a part of Thanksgiving, I want to make sure we don’t reduce it to only a cheerful holiday. Many of my international friends have

  • by Hala K. '29
  • November 27, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Things That Made Me Happy (and Sick) It’s me and my infection’s TWO MONTH anniversary!! 🎉😍

  

  my experiences enough to come up with some deep analysis of my semester ... you guys is the two months of illness and a phat bundle of electric ... . Quadrant one is like the “Omg my quality of life is so freaking good” section

  • by Powers '23
  • January 4, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Where I Call Home california california cambridge!

  

  Snickers happily snuggled into my side. I miss the smell of freshly prepared ... other side of the country. I lived in a one story house in the suburbs of ... now in front of this big window overlooking the busy street of Mass Ave

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Events

  A Typical Friday Afternoon on a Thursday Honoring the decades old (?) tradition of the East Campus Friday Afternoon Club (FAC)

  

  East Campus is unique for a wide variety of reasons. We build roller ... bajillion cats (SO MANY KITTENS RIGHT NOW). But a time-honored tradition of East Campus is our Friday Afternoon Club, or FAC. Every Friday of the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  November means a lot of things for different people. Thanksgiving and turkey; the spectacular death throes of leaves clinging to trees; the sudden decrease in sunlight as temperatures plummet; and of course beards

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  everybody likes happy, right? This weekend is parents weekend, so instead of just seeing the faces of young students and old professors, you start to ... . Parents are usually easy to spot for a couple of reasons. First, they all

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008