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• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  used to see him when I made solitary adventures downtown on Fridays in ... around the city so I go get a smoothie. These women in sundresses order ... . “Hey, how old are you?” “Depends on who’s asking.” “I’m asking!” “Well

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am no longer new here ...well, it's true.

  

  Development. I've now seen more snow than I ever cared to see in my life; by that token, you can tell that I'm certainly not new here anymore. (In ... ; I had an awesome, well-thought-out plan, and look how that turned out

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 11, 2009
• 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 ... layer of masking tape. When I come home from classes I linger in the

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second… Fifth Week?

  

  * -- and I'm here thinking about how awesome CPW's going to be next month. I ... communication course. In the next couple of weeks, I'll write a five-page paper on ... on. I continue to lean toward a major in management science, with a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  ways in my life that I've used task management, especially for goal ... other things that make it in there as well. This summer, for example, I ... summer, I've kept my summer goals in a markdown file in a Github repo. This

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  watch them fizz, which I thought would go down in history as The Most ... . I was taking a bath (not really sure why this detail sticks in mind ... accused me of witchcraft, I was a sophomore in High School, tutoring a seven

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  three years; we broke up this past January. Even though I'm still young in ... birthday today. Starting in 2019, I’ve always thrown a birthday party for ... to kick our asses. But this year, I wasn’t sure what I would do

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  —we live here in the day-to-day.” mit and the cube I would be remiss not to ... , achievable goal. This helps me stay off my phone in the morning, too. I sought ... look forward to every day. I think that’s important. In fact, the “small

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  percentages. But for the time being.. This Semester, I... ...participated in an ... . ...got a job for the first time. In fact, I got two. Having never worked a day in my life before, I was really nervous to actually start. The week

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  of things in my life - how many extra-curriculars I was involved in ... finals in three days, I packed my bags and headed back home to South Bend ... semester at MIT. In retrospect, I realize that - in spite of reading the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  people have already had lab experience in high school, how on earth will I ... what kind of commitment I would be able to make. That was in the spring ... 're doing. 12:45pm – In which I decide to write a poem because I don’t feel

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  warmth feelings i miss

  

  wanted to push me in. every once in a while i’d feel so uncomfortable, when the river and the skyline would fill my vision, and i would forget ... , i knew that i couldn’t. when that feeling would come, i’d turn around

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  What Should I Do Next Semester? i'm making a list and checking it twice

  

  math blog, but I thought it would be interesting to write it again for a ... done. I am graduating in February. I will be spending the Spring semester at MIT but not taking any classes. How awesome is that? I know someone

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  to wonder if I would have been in the 40 percent or the 60 percent. I ... living in. And I’ve even started to make my mark on the walls. I would ... “dorm culture” was a thing. I wasn’t (and still am not) in any MIT 2020

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  games. I really, really love playing this game, in spite of how ... about staying in touch with my friends than I was when I was while I was ... also be FOMO—when I would hang out with people at night at my dorm, I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  's just something about it. this is how i got interested in biomedical ... artificial things than organic things. this is how i got interested in ... fox will make sense later[/caption] I want to major in computer science

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  frustrated with how the whole day had gone, slept earlier than I usually would ... olympiad classes, but I use “swapped” here very loosely. I would still ... for them in what little free time I had. It was my most stressful high

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  ’m graduating in a few weeks, i haven’t stopped meeting new students here and ... interested in film and theater lately i’ve been coming to terms with the fact ... there really isn’t any reason i need to be working in stem. for instance

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  , though, I didn't have a grasp of how important Hunt would be in my life ... Not only the blogs' birthday—in trying to decide what to write, I ... the day, I was trying to figure out how to tell folks on here what the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Flies… especially when you are having more fun than you could possibly imagine.

  

  that I would see them in five years when they would all come back to campus for their 5th reunion and I would be here once again for my 30th. My ... them would return in the fall as freshmen and I was thrilled that I would

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • June 6, 2012