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• Blog / MIT Life

  being bad at ice skating and learning to try anyway

  

  't posted her igloo post yet... sometimes procrastination works out in your ... community and hang out/support each other in a group. i'm personally not in a ... stay in touch and support newer members, and i like my famline a lot <

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 15, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  day comes to close, a fire in my hands, a warmth in my soul ... was the boldest decision I made in my life, but also one of the best. I ... real than the one you sit around toasting marshmallows in on a camping

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  've been in a bit of writing rut but, as I was reading through an email I ... different lives: sad girl sulk in Boston, wanderlusty adventures in Europe, and domestic comfort in Austin   anyways   Things I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 15, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  in creativity and fitness originating from a very simply defined objective: "Get to the top of this wall, in any way possible". This flavor of ... . There are mats, but it’s dangerous if you fall in a bad way. But climbing

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  starts (in my case, when I was packing to come to Orientation!) I've gone ... blogs (of course) and coming to blogger check-ins. We're expected to write one blog every two weeks and check-ins are scheduled at that same

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an album a day the only new year's resolution i've ever completed

  

  in 2022, I challenged myself to listen to an album every day. I ... prospect of consuming 365 new albums in a year. what if I found it tedious ... my last attempt at a New Year's Resolution. in my junior year of high

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  The first time I ever stepped on a skateboard was in 2015, which was also the year that Marty McFly time-traveled to from 1985 in Back to the Future Part II. I was in seventh grade. It was a week before Halloween, and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  You may have noticed that everything in this institvte is named by ... ; tool = working. "I'm gonna be tooling in Hayden tonight."  2. n ... Research Opportunity Program, as in doing research. 2. n an undergrad in a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  phases of my life. a while back, i was waiting in atlas to get my ID card ... accumulating in me as the days go on. but they’re more like rings inside a tree ... knows what they're doing in [annotation note="and if you are one of those

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  overwhelming amount of exhaustion. I am doing much less than I ever have in a ... floating in sludge, and that every amount of work I do actually get done ... 've always felt that I lack in comparison to other MIT students: I just don

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  (Current Debates in Media): This is the capstone class for the CMS major ... and debate about various things happening in the media at the immediate ... in the world. I didn't know that we actually had to debate each other

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  in Google with the same intention, Atatiana Jefferson, Alton Sterling ... even in my quiet quarantined home. Tears, anger, frustration… I had been ... peacefully arrested in their homes for murder and aggravated assault of Amaud

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  was ten, and I was in fifth grade, and now I am twenty, and I am in ... . In many ways, I am now, since coming to MIT, more like my fifth grade ... did it. My grades aren't in yet, but I think I did it. At the start of

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  officer in the month of April, naturally, I was at still at work. I was ... to when I was in high school (a much simpler time when Tyra Banks was ... her caseload and no one specializing in college applications, I was

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part three) junior trinkets

  

  are parts 1 and 2 ! As we've described in the first two parts, we have a ceramic mushroom that we dub our memory mushroom, in which we place various ... , wholesome sticky notes given to us by freshman in the program at the final FAP

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  talk to people! from the person least qualified to give this advice

  

  post.   Can I interest you in some background information for the ... it's on Memorial, it's actually on Amherst.) Some kind soul lets me in through the back-front door and I check in to my room. It's hot and it

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  ’m visiting my family in Ohio, and it feels like always. Except, I do miss the ... me while I was shivering under the frigid water in my new apartment ... exposed had that effect. But I was in a rush when I moved out. Plus I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

  . We were in the Du-Pont Multipurpose Room, which, like the Room Of ... , I want to see who is interested in demo-ing a Fitbit for the remaining ... wanted more in that moment than a continuous data stream documenting my

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  exciting ten day family vacation in Japan and Hong Kong (highlights include ... ramen in one night), I’ve been spending virtually all of my IAP at home ... 's invaluable in many ways. For me, it was mostly that I had four pristine weeks

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  This summer, I was enrolled in one of the five summer@future classes ... 390 (Undergraduate) 7.S930 (Graduate) Special Subject in Biology ... experience in communicating through a digital format. Enrollment limited

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 31, 2014