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• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  moments where i ask how can it be home when it so obviously, clearly, is not ... , i missed home. a lot. to the point where ‘i just wanna go home’ was ... "]IAP[/annotation], i began to cook™ for myself often. i would buy weekly groceries, make

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All-You-Can-Eat Summer I hit food coma at the first paragraph.

  

  the last to get up. After I get up I go to my job in Building 46, where ... restaurant you were expecting eleven and having them spit in your sushi. I ... razors with soap in them already. I'm living in a fraternity in Boston

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 10, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Where’s Waldo? Hack Attack!

  

  The time is 11:23 am, and I am sitting in the Student Center. Then to in my email inbox I receive this email. From: Friend with the ... day. I surprise Erik as he's about to eat lunch. Screw "Where

  • by Bryan
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  car. In one sense, I am bringing the old me to a new place, where they ... dad is in the front seat; I'm in the back, sharing space with enough ... entire life is in this car, pretty much, if you leave out all the friends I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  groceries you can’t find in the US for dirt cheap. Then again, I’m biased ... needs help walking now. They raised me since I was born and stayed in the US with us until I was 14. The last time I visited them was in the 9th

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Three Weeks a short summary of this crazy place

  

  the impostor syndrome slightly creeping in, where I sometimes question ... Campus time and time again, and since I was temped here in the first place ... . my room in 5th west is kinda messy   I like it here. I don't want

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 12, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  for built-in excuses for not knowing what's going on!) I was born in Jamaica, but I moved to the Miami/Fort Lauderdale area in Florida at age ... thing. I live in Senior Haus, which is awesome. (You mean I don't live on

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  right. In the process of helping build a very large fort, I picked up a ... ’t been a single time this semester where I’ve learned something in one of ... declared a double major in CMS (Comparative Media Studies) so that I can get

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  into some situations where my French concentration came in handy. The ... heritage; in fact, there is a Canadian law enforcing that the regiment can ... , I drank the biggest cup of coffee I have ever seen in my life. I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  “Choose Your Own Adventure” MISTI edition

  

  them. They're only "in season" during the summer. You can buy 4 of ... really, can you guess where the edible part is??? I couldn't be sure. Here ... discussed our most memorable experiences in Beijing so far.  I talked about

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  ’t know about you, but I like to eat. I grew up in a family where food is ... , which can make a quick, no-fuss lunch. I was buying those until I read the ... creative. (Ok realistically, half the time I run out of my dorm in the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weather Sensitive I know you think that I don't care, but I really do.

  

  So you all know that I come from South Florida. (And if you didn't, then look! You do now!) In Fort Lauderdale, we don't have seasons. Sure, it gets cold in that wet, drippy way that makes you feel like you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  Green Building stairs when I can just live all my 3.5 years on campus in ... This blog has been in the works for a… long time. I first started ... team that has no reason to be in the C league. Last semester, I picked up

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Love is Blinds A short, fairly irrelevent entry, as told from the perspective of the 7+ people who…

  

  last night, in the hallway ANGELA MONSTER: Allin and I are going to Economy Hardware tomorrow morning. ME: Oh, can I come? I need to buy blinds ... Hardware ANGELA: Oh, are you buying 37"? That was the kind I was returning. I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an infinite nine year old and the infinite nineteen year old he became

  

  ’t many columns in Texas so I can actually say this was probably one of the ... in Texas. It had snowed before. Anyway.  The first time I walked down ... metaphysical walls of Sachse, Texas, where I’d grown up. They had immigrated from

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  to now and forever

  

  finally done it. I've reached a point where I can forgive them. When I think ... lounging in my work office as I finished work. When it came to a close, I felt a bundle of knots in my stomach and I braced myself because it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  where I spent my days eating Steak n’ Shake and fishing in the lake by our ... When people ask me where I grew up, I hesitate for a moment before saying Orange County, California. I was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, but I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  -year learning community in the MIT Morningside Academy for Design where I get to ... dinner with the freshmen and seniors in CC where I got to see some real ... the past month, I’ve done everything from holding a ferret in our

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  wade in. It’s the coldest water I’ve ever swum in, but it’s not as bad as I imagined for water a few degrees off freezing. We stay in the shallows, where our feet can still touch the ground, and get out after a few

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  firsts of first year 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1…

  

  firsts. Here are some that I remembered, in roughly chronological order ... fort party Got a temporary neck tattoo Popped a balloon in front of ... As we’re approaching the first of 2024, I’ve been thinking about

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 31, 2023