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• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  Picture this: me, three water balloons in hand, running across ... I guess there are some things in life you can’t control. For me (and ... me cringe, and this often works against me. I definitely didn’t shorten

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  The Aftershock In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be remembered for her big…

  

  how grief manifested itself in me. Instead, it was a tangled balloon of ... sometime before the New Year’s countdown. Thinking it was just to wish me a ... , Val, Kate’s sister, called me again, and I picked up. What followed was

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 18, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  (ExpressionEngine hates me) I decided to hold off on publishing until Wednesday ... down her back. Beaming, she asked me to sit on the far side of the room ... ; when I was three, my parents took me to the pool, and the instructor put

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  fall off beneath the plane is exhilarating to me. It makes me feel free ... sitting so close to me. I even love it when things go terribly wrong and I ... always feels like an adventure to me, and if there's one thing I love more

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questions and Answers Evan Broder is taking over my job.

  

  me look bad. =P I've copy-pasted all his answers into this post, in ... ...because i was thinking of applying...if someone can help me...please e-amil me ... . Evan replied: Karen- It makes me feel important to help answer questions

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  Spammy, I'm really hungry, not gonna lie. Make me dinner, Spammy." And ... knowledge going in, but ultimately this UROP taught me that me and chemistry ... hoping that nobody saw me, because the grad students in that lab were

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  cutting my hair for me after it had gotten particularly wild who didn't make me feel ashamed, and rather made me feel feminine and seen. Almost ... name here) perform. And I love this piece, don’t get me wrong. But it

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  , along with a yellow house that stopped me in my tracks. "that looks a lot ... picture i ever took on killian court was of me and the rest of the camp t ... and he roasted me for calling it "bubble tea" instead of [annotation

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept by julia p. '24

  

  it terrified me. In 4th grade, I started to get more anxious about my ... my entire future. 8th grade led me to my first big lapse of my eating ... ’t healthy or I felt may make me sick. I was pressuring myself to push through

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 23, 2022
• 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 / About Decisions

  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