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• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  answers. My insecurity, jealousy, stupidity, etc. but instead he hit me with ... me that she's gotten better with age at holding her tongue (though her ... after she told me this. In many ways, I can see how similar my mom and I

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

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  ="attachment_88266" align="alignnone" width="300"] sixteen-year-old me needed this album[/caption] Her music reminded me of what I’ve tried to do for a ... sarcastic and silly, and I infused it with observations that had plagued me

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  University of Pennsylvania, which had recruited me for their creative writing ... , and wherever I had attended would've irrevocably changed me. Was MIT perfect for me, or did I become someone who was perfect for MIT? And

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  than me seemingly without much effort now i understand that these kinds ... realizing this is rarely the case this became really clear to me around a ... regularly bled over into my life and their victories regularly uplifted me

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  ’t get any closer to a mental model that would allow me to paint like that ... outcomes of the model at all. If you asked me to imitate the work of any of ... they asked me what i would want to become a magician in, and for a while

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  workshops in creating different marks using our supplies, which offered me a ... my classmates were better than me. It's not like I ever thought I was a ... actually judging me for being bad at drawing (and even if they were, it didn

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  nutritious meals up my sleeve. If all else fails and the hosage monster gets me ... less intimidating, and having the audio-visual element to guide me while ... I'm going to the grocery store less these days, it brings me the same

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Everything Everywhere All At Once a free early screening from lsc and a q&a with the directors

  

  truly felt like it came at the right time for me. Everything Everywhere ... watching the movie but the movie was kind of just happening to me. It is ... At Once. This movie hit me like a fucking truck. I don't quite know

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 29, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  difficult for me that it physically aches. that it is difficult to focus on ... acknowledging that i was homesick changed a lot of things for me. my roommate also ... . instead of feeling miserable for myself, i tried to look for home around me

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

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

    1:33 am: this paper tells me cells have “up to 10 ... not give me any actual numbers that I want but maybe I could calculate ... sheets?   1:57 am: This is the sixth paper that tells me

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  a small moment in time on failing...*very long sigh*

  

  me, Sun has baked me, Looks like between ’em they done Tried to make me ... being infinitesimally small in the cosmic sense actually provided me more ... for me. With that, I started to think about other [annotation note

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Knitting and Playing Tetris Through the End of the World guest post by Salma Islam

  

  What happens when your whole life unravels? Well, if you asked me, I ... healed me. Looping together yarn in that simple way, hands guided by forces unknown in the ether of my mind, has somehow always soothed me. As if, as

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • April 17, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now

  

  Russia this fall has really made me appreciate sunny days, even when – or ... me starting this post and me getting to this paragraph, my sushi ... setting? What parts of me do I keep? What can I leave behind? It’s a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  "] Me on my actual first day of high school! T-minus two months to the ...   To the things that other people say to me when they probably meant ... if I let it see me, From the top of that tree that everyone else can

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  times. My normal routine is disrupted, the heat makes me lazy and slow ... .) It's liminal, but it's not only me who is transitioning between selves ... wanted to know was, how does it make me feel? I think I'll have to do

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  one of the guys working there comes up to me and says. “Caroline, right?” I look up and he’s holding this cup. So I’m like “Yeah, that’s me ... some people, but it means a lot to me. Back home, I was a "regular" at a

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for November Reflect, rewrite, repeat

  

  made me so quintessentially me. We know that this isn't easy, but we hope

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  work // life trying to figure out the balance

  

  mentor, steven, shows me to my desk and helps me set up my computer ... "]clone[/annotation] something new every day. steven introduces me to the rest of the team, which includes alex, an intern starting together with me who goes to MIT and took 6

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 17, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  if rupi kaur went to mit milk and funny

  

  cheeks flushing these late nights always drive me crazy next time i promise ... sometimes you keep me up all night but i love you anyway mit —love letter[/visually_hidden]

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Kekka dake da! "Only the results remain!"

  

  's power (spoiler: he skips time) got me thinking about things that have ... 't have to! But even my 3 class schedule was crushing me. Namely 18.100B. I ... just swirled around my head, confusing me greatly. I jumped ship from the

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • March 7, 2019