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• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  great for me to care. Nonetheless, I did apply to some schools as a ... being a poli-sci major, but if I chose wrong I can just get a masters ... into a very capitalist mindset for like 3 hours, and then I remembered I

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Events

  I’m still here. Promise.

  

  -credit class that meets twice a week for an hour and spend the rest of my time sleeping." But then I had to be like "nah, I'm going to take a class that meets for 9 hours a day 4 days of the week. That sounds like a plan

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  hear it all the time from MIT alumni (I work as a techcaller yipee ... . I became a Campus Ambassador for Monster Energy! I came out as trans ... happy with that growth and where it is heading.  I am growing into a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  wherever you go, there you are alive internet theory

  

  posting this blog [and being home for a week for Christmas], I listened to ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_-9E4AYRGg Where to go from here ... year some life I've engineered to the good for all my peers. Did you

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  -Madison. *Having a five-year-old sister, I get to see for myself, from a new ... had a giant crush on MIT. I signed up for a million classes (five and a ... brothers. The acronym 'scuba' stood for "little can of air I strap on my back

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  other. It's a unique program where I could pursue sociological questions ... a thesis for my program, and the profs - from day 1 - tend to scare ... technology development. It turned out to be a job description for what I

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  and visiting this dorm, Burton Conner, for a free Thai food event. I ... 's hard to find a moment where I don't feel it, to tell the truth. If there ... state as a pre-frosh at Campus Preview Weekend. I was one of those admits

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  like a canned statement, but it couldn’t ring truer for me. i wallowed ... ’ve settled into their rooms — it’s like i’ve been stirred from a hazy slumber ... from august 2018, i can’t help but cringe at the unnecessarily harsh ways

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Killing Time…Not Really guest post by Sheila B.'21

  

  anything lined up. I cursed myself for wandering through Career Fair with a ... summer. I even stuck a note on the door for myself and my roommate (who ... Else Fails, UROP." Good news--I did find things to do. I applied for a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 15, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  commitment than it used to. I gained a higher tolerance for low effort, and I ... have a manageable workload, but I have spent the past few hours doing ... , running a quick setup test for a UROP, filling out a when-to-meet, things

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  from my laptop. Looking up, I saw that Fatema had replied with a link to ... Maria,” I messaged her, “you know how with ultra hand you can…” A few ... make?” I was, for better or worse, all too familiar with this “ultra

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  8,726,400 SOS: The Conscious Subconscious guest post by a fellow '21

  

  coat goggles gloves, Can I see myself do this for the rest of my life ... call, why do I do this I have to workout, for the team, for me Hang clean, squat repeat Practice, wow I can’t do anything well today? Am I getting

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 13, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  the end of the day. I don't know how one can can feel so long when a ... . Coexisting with the sage, rosemary and mint I bought for a dollar a plant, and ... . For now, however, I have 14 meals/week in the dining hall, where the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  beliefs. For now, for the coming summer, I have a few small things I want ... sake of physical fitness, but for the sake of proving to myself I can do ... —every post is titled with a lyric from a song I've heard, which I find

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  've reached a point where sometimes things are just so fucked up I can't help ... people, as a result. I remember one day after lab, where were all cleaning ... will come a time where I won't be there to say something. This happens

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Comments on A Boring Friday lItErArY aNaLySiS

  

  resolution to, but kinda forgot, oops. I wanted to go for a "maybe it doesn ... feel like I have a purpose. Why can't life have that? I chose to include ... Spoilers for A Boring Friday, you should check that first

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  I think I get my need for notes from my mom. Every day of my ... from every song I ever heard at a dance from 6th-8th grade. Could my ... : There! Now you've got some cool MIT-ish stuff to see, and I can clear a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  For the past six years or so, I've been a desk calendar addict. You ... a time (I think my mom got me Word-A-Day for my senior year as well ... place. It isn't for people who are afraid of hard work, and it can get a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  my STORY of helping Wyoming students shoot for the STARS get it? do u get it??

  

  from over 200 miles all across Wyoming, here for what they called “a once ... made the journey from a rural upbringing to working at selective ... Arkansas! (I know that looks like a big bat but it's me!)[/caption] This

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  rejected by Google and I even cried about it for a couple of hours. It hurt ... personality for a longtime. There wasn't anything I could really talk about ... being in a sorority. I even took on a leadership position for this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021