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• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  my podmates; other times I feel frustrated at how few new things I ... better this was than store bought drinks. I promised that we would go to ... ” to go most days. Each time I did go I grumbled about how much of the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  . On Saturday I got some basic instruction on how to use a lathe, which ... to get in for another few months. I guess I just got lucky. (*How did I ... it would be some big bureaucratic waste of time. It turns out I have a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  Silence continues. I've finally picked a story, though. This is about how ... a "telescope", the other birders would judge me.) Now, I'll be ... the Galapagos. This knowledge of how to look was, I realized during the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: What do those ROTC kids do during summer…? guest post by Karen C. '20

  

  ones) or in our blues (they’re quite spiffy, I know). You probably didn’t spare us much thought besides the usual “Oh, I didn’t know they were ROTC ... do we do? While I’m sure you’re dying to know all about of our

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 23, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  difference. Sometimes, I wonder about how different my life would have been ... ’t think I would have fundamentally changed, to be honest, and I feel like ... the driving forces that made me who I am would have still been there

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  obituaries. I don’t really know how to narrativize it, but I imagine many ... Leetcode fine—it feels like a repeat of my competition math days—but I would ... thirteen-year-old’s academic skill at age nine. They were more about how I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Three Months In Paris The MISTI experience of Jenny Nelson '09.

  

  , like how MISTI flew me over to Paris, how the research lab I was working ... Paris' 14th, and how I even got a small stipend, my parents were just as excited as I was. Ok, maybe not. That would have been pretty hard. I left

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  did not anticipate how much time I would be spending on career ... would have a healthy amount of work. However, something I did not factor ... stress and strain and all that, sure. But I've also learned about how I

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  self, myself just before entering college, I probably would have said ... why would I reiterate that? I know I remember that anxious anticipation ... friends and I will naturally marvel about how our hair's lengthened or

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  coded key of how I classify the classes.Notice the relatively small ... really like bio - in a slightly different version of this universe, I would ... about how awesome my classes are and how excited I am to be in them :)

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  important role in how i experience attraction. i remember a few years ago one ... so than people who don’t expect it, and that’s a response i would still ... failure, no matter how counterintuitive it may seem i don’t know how to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking! (fall 2025) highways, storks, and movies

  

  we discuss each session. Over the summer, I realized I don't know how ... PSETs have a definite start and end, it's hard for me to gauge how much I ... exams last semester because I set hard limits on how long I could wait to

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 5, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Parting Remarks Part II: The Blogger Bio That Was I just graduated!

  

  would write some snappy lines about how my bio no longer captures how I ... The original premise for this blog post was that I would dissect the bio/about section of my blogger profile, which I wrote in either August

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A quick one, while he’s away I write reviews of things that I know nothing about.

  

  I don't really like The Eagles' "Desperado," but it's sure been stuck in my head for the last few days. I wonder why. Last night I did some things and I thought I would relate them to you in the form of reviews. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Win Sam Stuff! That, amongst other things.var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" +…

  

  with prospies and tell them how cool MIT is. I'd been on the tour for, oh ... certain 80s music video. Dan Sauza '11 and I both realized that it would ... ://www.songstowearpantsto.com (ignore Laura yelling that it's boring). I would like to take this

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  again, I would spend hours locked away in a corner of the library staring ... . People told me a lot of things. About how I need to take care of myself before my academics. About how even if I drop the class, I've learned so

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  his second book would be a total letdown because I found the first so ... Harrisburg Update: Yesterday, I biked 20 miles with Ben, see? I ... . "What socioeconomic class would you say your person belongs to?" "Do you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  from home. Thankfully, over time I learned how to manage the homesickness ... would make differently if we were managing the team. I'm back at weekly ... Of all the things to happen in college, I never expected baseball to

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  words what the show was about, what I thought during the show, and how I ... have to use my body and voice to convey how I’m feeling (which is angry ... how awkward my body is. My stance is haphazard. What do I do with my

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  wishing that the semester would hurry up and come already, or that I could ... cook more than I would normally have time to do! In addition to my usual ... fudge of my childhood. I've been really impressed by how easy it is to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019