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• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  around and answered questions about student life while Tiffany (who’s ... pretty off topic, so she’s restraining herself from going off on a tangent, awkwardly.” Okay, maybe it’s a little plausible that you’d be thinking exactly

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  skimming over the topics in my head: “zZzZ….OMG calc test tomorrow!....what’s it about?….oh! that’s right, infinite series.”*Back to sleep*. That’s ... , and I made A’s and graduated in the top of my class. I never really

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  and a million other things. the stakes still feel high, but it’s also ... -22-year-olds in cambridge it’s a house in sf with people moderately ... better care of my physical health, and so on it’s obviously not true that

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  a text convo on failure and other stuff i guess

  

  ']weeb[/annotation] 🤭 I’ll probably be in DC or cali this summer Depends on what program(s ... 's what it feels like It’s almost over thank fucking god I need a break ... semseter] burned into our brains ” 😂😂😂 Let’s be so fucking for real [We

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 12, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  [annotation note="21G.S55: Japanese V"]class.[/annotation] I woke up early that ... changing the kanji’s meaning entirely. I translated vocabulary and long ... 1830s, navigating racial and colonialist tensions. The setting aligns

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In the Music Cubes, no one can hear you scream…

  

  -hand last week, and it was pretty mindblowing. That’s right – the Music Cubes ... much of MIT’s brutalist architecture, the exterior doesn’t exactly scream ... the one I know the least about. As far as I can tell, it’s just one

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 25, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  cleats on feet, smile on face thoughts on injuries and spring season

  

  partially torn ligament in my right foot, it’s been a physical and emotional ... do it – and it’s already a dream come true. Putting on the practice ... passing and dribbling. But here’s what I can do: I can run now. Not even

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  GUYS IT SNOWED!! yayayayyaayy

  

  refresh the registration site over and over until 8:00 am hits. It’s the ... ="94978" /] And ok, it’s not a lot of snow (as my parents so kindly informed me ... ="aligncenter" width="300"] before you say anything—don’t hurt my snow angel’s feelings

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  My Summer in Japan Tokyo, Spaceships, and Lots of Ramen

  

  working on ispace’s Mission 2 attempt as a part of the [annotation note ... to a mind-boggling temperature to mimic the sun’s heat and then shook ... (or JAXA, Japan’s version of NASA). Here is where the 2-meter

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  group has a piano keyboard, and I’ve downloaded MuseScore. It’s my first ... . I became interested in songwriting after listening to Olivia Rodrigo’s ... internalized misogyny, by other people’s expectations of who I was “supposed” to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  friend’s life to be as good as possible, for them to move past all their ... have friends who will be forgiving of my past, and that’s why i feel ... suggest that i’m immune to jealousy now. there’s a popular model of the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  simply gotten the grades and graduated with degrees. It’s not a particularly interesting struggle. It’s not a heartbreak immortalized in song lyrics, and it’s not a grief that demands witness through eulogies or

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

  whiplash feelings from yesterday

  

  maseeh dining because people on mit confessions have been claiming it’s ... says he’s become a lot more enthusiastic about post-college life over the past year, because he’s met a lot of interesting and thoughtful people

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  responded to my email minutes after I sent it and told me to go to S^3, but here I was nearly a full day later after S^3 had closed for the weekend. So I set a reminder to drop by S^3 the following Monday, and stocked up

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  [Guest Post] The Alleyway by Isabella Y. '24

  

  favorite side of the house. Well, there’s only two to choose from, and the ... rats scurrying from dumpster to dumpster. There’s a different sort of ... ? iii. My favorite view of the back is from the roof because it’s no

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  ’, whenever aang enters the avatar state we see all the past avatars? that’s ... every experience, i don’t think it’s possible to say no to trying very ... student told me the avatar idea wasn’t stressing them out, but it’s a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  actually come up with the most accurate answer on the spot. there’s probably ... they like skiing because it forces them to confront reality - it’s easy ... natural human behavior in the same vein as anxiety; in addition, there’s

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  does that matter? You’re here now. me: but there’s people who can do ... it. it’s just that...i don’t think i have the skills to pursue STEM, y ... friends down aaaaaahhhhh inner voice: That’s a lie. You solved a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  doing another conversational-style joint post? CJ: There’s literally no ... Hunt is the title of this blog post. The author’s an MIT alum whom I know ... knowledge of MIT’s campus and all its many quirks. Their blog also has a lot

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  goodbye” kind of way. Rather, it’s hard in the sense that I don’t know what ... choosing lives is built on the idea that advice comes from one’s own ... go through life, or that my writing has helped you understand what it’s

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021