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• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  i can see how far others get when they push off and glide, or see how ... my forehead. my chest would feel half as light, and i'd feel the ... fear." the first day of beginner swimming was last tuesday, and i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  boarding the plane, my close friend Virginia A. ‘18* asked me how American I ... know or learn the language). People in my high school would forget that I ... Hello! If this has been posted, chances are, I’m now miles away form

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Can You Become Back at MIT, with excitement and pictures

  

  't even think about how much TechCash I had on my MIT Card, but it's a good ... was two rooms away, so sometimes I would call his dorm phone when I ... 't it, Tom?) The second I de-planed, literally, I felt very much immersed

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After (and During) MIT Greetings from beautiful adulthood

  

  Well well well... WE MEET AGAIN. I told you guys our paths would cross! For those of you who don't know me, I'm Elizabeth. My hair is a ... other side of MIT that I would love to share with you guys (and feel free

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 28, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  (you can actually read a little about how I learned at that link). My ... would have been helpful, in college, to have known that I was autistic ... role in forming me into what I would be as an adult. Forged and formed

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why Apply? Putting your hat in the ring if you're not so sure

  

  Hi blogosphere! I've wracked my brain wondering how to introduce ... weekend. I cannot hope to match their wit and experiences, but I am SO EXCITED to be talking to you "officially". I've been unofficially answering

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 9, 2013
• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  I walk past it so many times. A trivial memory would be taking ... same time. It made me confront how much I had forgotten something that ... how much I will forget when I graduate.  Building 2 Honestly, I just

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  the rest of your life. No pressure or anything. I will weigh in with how ... MechE is that I would likely use it for biology or international ... Alright, you and I both have some big decisions to make in the next

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  regard to how I felt or what I wanted to do. I was an instrument of a force ... lulls you to sleep. I wanted to learn about Web sites and how to create ... It's nice to meet you. I'm a new freshman at MIT, a member of the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  compared to my classmates. The whole age thing (I would have been 16 when I ... and sent a short outline of what I thought my year would entail off to ... completely eaten alive; I figured I would go out there and get my private pilot

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  lists, since that’s how a lot of MIT student groups advertise). I figured ... back in time, I would high five myself, then say "don't wear your big ... , shimmying through little alleyways I would never have thought to enter in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  : "...It would be hard for me to choose which to attend, if I didn't have to ... applications for MIT. One word I would use to describe application reading is ... colleagues are as inspired by your applications as I am. Regardless of how your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  love for soy milk. It’s sort of how I imagined my freshman year would go ... me. I think this shows in what I like to write about, too: how things ... It was the morning of the second or third day of classes and I had

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just My Luck The somewhat eventful story of my first EMT shift ever.

  

  't, however, what I would call 'pretty uneventful.' Before I begin my little ... the inside and wondering how long I can keep the charade up) Five ... When asked how their first shift went, most of my fellow EMT students

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  -paced curriculum. If I had to learn computer science in Spanish, I would probably ... the U.S. I talked to several students, who told me that they would ... equality. The hope was that by sharing my story and my love for MIT, I would

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  i would just get the pizzas who are confident in their vegetarian ... subjected to personal taste and also otherwise i’d actually be exposed for how ... liked the steak over the shrimp one but i would get both again. corn was a

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  data diaries inspired by Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec's "Dear Data"

  

  your day running errands. If I were to redo this entry, I would sit down ... later. I wasn't sure how I should've counted people drinking from ... styrofoam cup, I assumed that the liquid inside was caffeinated. Similarly

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 5, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  started my walkthrough with Infinite 1 because I would walk down it every ... in the Stud, I realized that there were a lot of cool things on the walls of the Infinite that I hadn't actually bothered to stop and read. In

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  requirements. (9.10 would have been one of my six Course 9 electives had I not ... of me just could not wait for the day when I would be on my own in some ... would appear overnight, know how not to constantly be too snarky for my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  ’t that close to that many people. In all honesty, I thought things would be the exact same when I came to MIT. I would have a good amount of friends ... , but that’s not what I got at all. I would put these families into two

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015