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• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  haaaaaaated dealing with this stuff in high school, or rather, I wasn't very ... sucked. After each round of decisions came out, I hated hearing my name in ... mother's say (to her) that I only got in because I was a girl. My internal

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  I haven’t blogged much at all this year. I remember how happy I was when I found out I’d been selected. I thought “Wow, I can share my experiences with untold numbers of people. Maybe I can even give them some

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  i haven't written about what's been happening in my life at all in the past month, not here nor in my personal notes. i want to say that i ... , because i'm graduating, and i can't support this forever. i'm kinda worried

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  will help the company after I leave in August because they can easily ... . About a week later, I wrote an initial report to describe not only how my ... company had a project ready for me to start work on the second I stepped in

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  work in my lab as a full time employee, and I guess I'll see how much I ... within the forests and the mountains, I feel safe in the way that I ... ="54230" /] I feel very strongly about Seattle in a way that I haven't felt about

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  drinks cool. I opened the fridge in the middle of the night to grab ... to be hardcore and sleep outside in the snow. Sam and I were among ... picture, because I told everyone to gather in and then held my camera out at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We’re #1! What's the emoticon for oversize foam hand?

  

  International Colleges & Universities, a higher education directory. I have a ... changes every weekday. GAMBIT Game Lab: Games created by MIT students. I ... such a vibrant, creative place that if you can't find something amazing

  • by Dave McOwen
  • January 29, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  .[/annotation] It’s helped me edit, and in turn, write better, since I can more ... and realized just how much I had changed in a year. For so many months ... better. But in that moment in the grass, all I could think about was how

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  , but sometimes, I feel like responding: Dear MIT, You know how much my graduate student stipend is. How much can I afford to donate? Again, it's not ... write in a 10 page paper. It was about how many different sources could I

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  and i try to find my place

  

  in the mirror and I see my accomplishments. I think of how far I ... I look in the mirror I can only see a pity accept. The AOs threw a ... me best can identify a strength. I play this over and over and over in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  -packed in the closet. Now, I’m buying a dresser and unpacking my clothes. As I ... I loved living in Macgregor. Every weekday, I woke up at 6, brushed ... :30 sharp, clad in sunglasses and head-to-toe rain gear, I yelled at my

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  emotions to create a lens I can use to view my worm. I get to see how I ... Song: Ramblings of a Lunatic by Bears In Trees Two months ago, I ... were (i.e. yourself any time in the past), but you aren’t yet who you

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  example, in the context of blogging, I can write my blog posts on Notion ... ) for each blog post. Then, I can view my list of blogs in a table, kanban ... blog, I'll show you an example of how you can use Notion for working on

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  little ways back in my history (what history I have), not too far, just a ... , depending on how you look at it. I was 8 and lived on the outskirts of one of ... up here in Cambridge and I'm glad of it. It's easy to not know, but

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blended Learning at MIT benefits of technology in MIT classrooms

  

  Learning website here.  Fourteen years ago, MIT democratized secondary ... technology in its classrooms.  Professors and students alike are engaged in an Institute-wide effort to translate traditional course offerings

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  I. eulogies are beautiful but  can we talk about leaves before fall ... ; i look smaller in all the mirrors  that make you better    if ... ’ve been better. II. Growing up in a place where I did not have many

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Things We Don’t Remember Enough About each other

  

  can get in the way of relationship-building, but here are three things I ... In any given school year or work week, there is so much we can stress ... relationships we have or can have in our lives should be a means of support rather

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  ? for example: in confronting the self, i discuss how my feelings of ... of ihtfp, how it can both mean "i hate this fucking place" and "i have ... 't) want to be alone. two in a season of secondhand joy, i talked about how

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das

  

  in the space, how to get access, and notes about the space’s culture ... in just how many maker spaces (or spaces for making) it houses! To try ... to. I hope that this becomes a living document that people can add to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Flipping Failure an IAP update

  

  This IAP, I took part in a writing workshop at MIT known as Flipping Failure. In this workshop, I and other participants worked on developing a ... MIT. After debating between a couple of topics, I chose to tell a story

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 28, 2024