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• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey look, I’m famous…or something

  

  to Ruth '07's column from last week. Two people complimented me on my ... recognize me by face. I apologize for this not being a more substantial entry. You prospective MIT students should ask me questions or something

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Le BBQ

  

  this weekend, and enlisted me to help organize. My main contribution ... stabbing me? I just released you from prison.' " -- The Daily Show) We ... the moment. Here is the location of the BBQ. It reminds me of the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The summer begins…

  

  Now that I've completed the FEE, it's time for the math diagnostic. I've got my freshman advising application in, as well as my MIT ID card photo and housing lottery preferences. With most of this behind me, it feels

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Stress

  

  parents reading this blog, is there anything you'd like me to talk about, or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  talk to me in the comments!  Reputation This was the first Taylor ... really liked the I Did Something Bad, Look What You Made Me Do and Don’t Blame Me vibe of songs. The live performances for these songs were

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  parents, and my mother handed me a package of peanut M&Ms and an ... me warm in an entirely unknown and frightening Boston winter. I was in ... me), and what floor he was on (3AB, a few doors down from my room). He

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  . Me: Anxiety, what’s wrong? Anxiety: EVERYTHING Me: A little more ... house sucks? What if you have to stay at home with your family?!? Me ... you’re late. It’s not even a good essay anyways. Me: But it’s not too

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  worried about my decision to go to MIT. Of course they were proud of me, as ... stable, obviously voiced a little hesitation. It took me a while to ... fact, will be okay. Every day, though, my mom is sure to send me

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  that is going to have to take a back seat in order for me to document to ... finished them off when the second to last one snuck up behind me and pulled a ... him when he sliced me in the face! Then I beat him up and kicked him

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  .” This short summary, however, does not nearly encapsulate how FREAKING ... now know is named Nora) and her mom sitting somewhat near us. And as the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  , activities involving precision didn’t come naturally to me. The cookies I baked ... studying something cool would make me happy. I spent that next summer in ... wandering to new things – I wanted to do something that mattered, and for me

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  i've been thinking, recently: in times of need, who takes care of me ... . (when i told her this, she said she was going to mail me a bunch of ... , but they do make me feel better by virtue of being something familiar

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  well, well look who's inside again

  

  cw: suicide ment in lyrics if you'd had told me a year ago that i ... 'interesting now leave me alone' I don't think I've given myself the proper time ... how people comfort me by telling me that everyone else's lives have been

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 11, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  It hit me just a little while ago, that today is November 1st. It ... alarm clock that will pull me out of bed with only five hours of sleep. I ... sea of people brought together on a mundane Thursday night. It hit me

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  90-something days of summer (Part 1) MIT people around the world

  

  find three programs that allowed me to travel for 1-3 months and I can ... again. I am so thankful that MIT gave me this part of my life. My twin host sisters (Shirley and Samira, 6 years old) who always made me laugh

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  seeing them beeping and booping away made me realize I should probably ... me through graphs and pigeonhole principles. I secretly really loved 6 ... it. Seems like we have a running trend here. 6.08 showed me that I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  activities that has stuck with me, like an itch that I just can’t shake ... straightforward. I can take it anywhere with me. Virtually every problem is new and ... can scramble the puzzles for me. I can do it for a minute or for hours

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

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  Caroline P., but all my friends at MIT call me Powers (which is my last name ... name that no one at MIT uses for me, so I changed it.  Throughout high ... eyebrows at me when I told them that I ran as “a meditation on the utility of

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  Jones informing me that I was selected to be a blogger...BUT every once in ... ! (either way -- I'll draw it out of you anyways ;) but help me help you! :D ... with years of practice and experience. Trust me - it's not hard to tell

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  , who was willing (and had enough faith in me!) to give me a calculus ... the wedding, after the rest of my family left, she took me out to lunch and dinner, made me breakfast (despite my insistence that she really

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012