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• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  about how i can be the best fit given the context i am in. i'm not working ... all my futures. i can see so many of them, blooming in different ... possible are worlds i will be happy living in, and i can maneuver so to make

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  tell this story so that you can see just how far I spiral. The truth is ... there was in Interphase, where I can't just go somewhere to escape the ... ingrained habit. When I was in high school, I would write about how sleep

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking 3 math classes this semester as someone who isn't a fan of math

  

  matter how difficult they can be. I share 041 with Stephen, so psetting ... something I could ever establish an interest in. The weird thing is that I ... and how it works, I've found it difficult to figure out how to use that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  of dreadful. Doing them in the absence of that I-can-I-will-this-is-what-I ... year in the US, and probably all my life until now. I can actually ... moment I’ve encountered someone in MIT play the piano with amazing

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  she saw me wearing the ring in the wild (and I gasped in despair at how ... every day. It feels strange when it’s not on my finger. I panic when I can ... , only for it to ultimately reappear under the couch.) I don’t know how

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  memorial for a dorm goodbye east campus (for now)

  

  suzume, i guess, in how you have to think about how this place was used ... east campus and the death of this room in particular 62h306 today i ... , but i do know enough to have gotten to know you i've done enough in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 6, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  twenty in four days.  I always cry on my birthday. I think this is a ... . For the first time in a long time, I let a friend see me cry - not ... often. Believing in one’s own infallibility is a dangerous drug. I’m far

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES

  

  person or group of people based on a specific topic. You can go down in the ... ask! Seriously, you can ask us anything [annotation note="I know this is ... clarinet in the MIT Wind Ensemble. I did not play the bass clarinet before

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 18, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  Internships in F/ASIP, you can always take a really cool Advising Seminar. I ... , however, was this: Schedule: doable? Um, no. Regardless of how set I am ... .012 is and if you should take it in the fall and hey, how come MIT doesn

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  mischief every time I jump on at 9:05 am. Fix my home-cut bangs in the video cam while the chat room explodes with questions. I’m scribbling notes in ... thought you once had that you can no longer grasp. I will never have REX

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  So How Does It Feel? Now all you have to do is wait.

  

  asking others for advice. It got to the point where I nearly had my writing memorized, and I grew tired of seeing the same little letters in the same ... As the MIT EA deadline approached last year, I remember reading over

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nike+iPod read entry & vote at the end

  

  paper I read in 14.11: Experimental Economics reports that too many choices can be demotivating. (You may have seen this research quoted in the ... ? What do people think about this Nike+iPod Sport Kit? Vote in the comments

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy: Continued This time, the title even makes sense.

  

  about keeping a car in the city. I love to drive; I've for a long time ... 'm listening to the radio and driving (in a still-fully-attentive sorta way). I ... knowing where to park your car between safe periods. Most of the time, I can

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 22, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  packet to a TA and I waltz out of the Z-Center, the sun bathing me in its warmth. "I finished the GIRS, am in a super romantic relationship with ... York City" I AM DONE. Not only with my exams, but freshman year in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Going Home ... but where exactly is that?

  

  I'm currently sitting in the SeaTac airport, waiting for my flight ... , where my family is and I return for the holidays, where I can get behind ... safe in the world, I've never been that afraid of uprooting my life and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 6, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  . "Oh my god, hey! I haven't seen you in so long. How are you?" High ... existed in my high school is defeated here, that I have no reason to avoid ... I don't quite fit in. But it's become so much of a habit that I truly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  Pass/No Record, I don't see any Cs. Well, I can't see any Cs. 9 ... 't help much in the long run. I've always been ridiculously independent ... of me just could not wait for the day when I would be on my own in some

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Invasion of the Stikmen Another invasion of MIT?

  

  . As usual, Steven was in the loop. He mentioned how he had stumbled upon ... around finals time, MIT had an invasion... Well as I walked to lab last week, I noticed something interesting on a crosswalk on Memorial Drive

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 14, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  . This semester, I have been feeling what I can only describe as an 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

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  My Favorite Spots in Cambridge/Boston well-trodden and well-hidden alike

  

  Park after shopping in the CambrdigeSide Galleria Mall, but I like going ... (wonderful) [annotation note="my boyfriend and i walked in a random direction ... ,[/annotation] but I'm [annotation note="that's amoryyyy"]in love with

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 19, 2020