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• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  ? Jess Kim is one of those people for me. I was debating earlier on what ... love Boston weather. Most people look at me like I'm crazy when I say ... the people waiting for me at the airport would just leave because they

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my hottest STEM takes actively starting internet wars

  

  defend. 1. Proofs are boring Don't you dare show me a mathematical proof. If I care that much, I'll have the internet explain it to me like I ... /tutorials/the internet will tell me how or b) it will be edited by ChatGPT to be recursive

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • July 28, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  not hit me back. i am not a very avid reader but i have lately collected ... . light pollution should have taught me that hope demands hurt to be seen ... find me and not find me and i see the sun less and less and i have lost

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  craze how a blog gets born

  

  itself through me as if it, itself, wants to get out into the world and I ... pursuits feel like this to me   it's kinda funny being at the whims ... meal with me in deep detail, and have been told I'd make a good Anton Ego

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Photos of Freshman Spring 📸 My attempt to take a photo a day for an entire semester.

  

  ![/caption] Somewhere, deep inside me, I also had the desire to improve massively in art ... be an exercise in visual art and composition. But for me, it would also ... photo would be the thing that would keep me grounded through a semester I

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • October 31, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing the wall why so defeatist?

  

  to describe me- "athletically inclined" is not one of them. I can ... , a month at a time. All this to say- when my friends invited me to go ... pesky rocks I couldn't quite reach, the same steps that left me resigning

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • October 7, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  in sophomore spring, that for me the meaning of life, in essence, is ... because it is the one thing in this world which makes me feel most human ... societies in the way that we have now. It is the one thing that gives me hope

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week of UROPing in few words

  

  training to me, though, made me learn how to use this thing: it has two grips ... allows me to control the direction and force, change the power, and run it ... Course 2 through this work, and it helped me understand that I am

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Somatic My spread for MIT's Infinite Magazine Issue XI

  

  I did know that inside me there are two demons. Demon #1 - Any opportunity I have to pitch an idea to an organization is an opportunity for me to host a comedy special. Demon #2 - These people are giving me money

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 17, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  ways of saying goodbye joint post with CJ '23!

  

  coming back again? Is it ever coming back again? Take me back to the ... this bridge with people I loved who loved me. I'd never loved peers like ... understand you are disgusted with me. TT: As an unpalatable expression of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am finished with my undergraduate career. I am finished with my undergraduate career.

  

  , enjoy these photos of me throughout the semester. [carousel image1

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  told me. “James is ambitious, accomplished. He’s self-made.” But I ... ’s curiosity. When I ask Chris how he got into chemistry, he tells me about ... the colors and textures. “It felt like magic,” he told me on one of our

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  experience. At least it feels that way. Here let me give another example that ... smaller chunks, almost "resetting" your clock. For me, one of those milestones was becoming a blogger. For me, this past year was 100% of my MIT

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  , which is the kind of writing that always makes me want to write my own ... —will begin, leaving me no time for self-reflection or recovery. So, I decided ... , as my academic advisor once told me: writing an essay is a process of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  ; the machine is kind to me, has free seltzer and coffee in the break room ... somewhere over the sea. Adrienne maree brown’s language of self-love fills me ... baggage claim with an accent like my late uncle’s told me they’d send the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA decisions to be posted Saturday, 12/18/21, 3:14 PM ET i guess the title kind of says it all, huh?

  

  So, on Slack I asked Ella '25 and Jenny '25 to help me with this ... them?  ella: WAIT LET ME MOMENTARILY CHANGE MY PFP THEY DON'T NEED TO SEE ME  IN A MICKEY MOUSE HAT kellen: but they won't be able to see your

  • by kellen manning
  • December 13, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  day one welcome back

  

  stepped away from MIT during the pandemic, like me. I'm taking mostly ... at me. Most are from the First-Year Pre-Orientation Program I was a ... . Afterwards, we get lunch at Starbucks and she tells me about her gap year

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  get to attend their funerals. People keep telling me that maybe it is ... 30 minutes in which I remember. And so it just keeps hitting me over ... are around me a little harder, and show my appreciation and love while I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember

  

  , ones that invite readers to reminisce with me, rather than those that ... to a time in sophomore year of high school when it made me so happy i ... . ryan and shane keep me company like old friends, their banter making me

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  . Tbh senior year me had some wisdom to share. Wisdom that I kinda needed ... -cringey commentary from present-day me. Friday was the {last} time I took a school portrait. Wait, let me correct that. It was the [first] time I took a senior

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021