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• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  was hard for me, because I like to shower after I run every day. Also ... help per week, this can vary a lot. Oftentimes, for me, hosts were ... . You've got to advocate for yourself, and, if you're like me and prefer

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Questions Fall 2007 Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or…

  

  answer those without your entire application in front of me, in the context ... mind to furnish me with more information about what kind of person MIT ... 'm really sure represents me well. So I'm just curious - why did MIT choose

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

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  discussion about test scores] doesn't make me think of SAT scores or grades. It makes me think of the guy who fell in love with trains as a kid and worked ... gave him a job before he could even drive. It makes me think of the girl

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  way that people around me inspire me with how they’ve learned and done so much while being the same age as me. deeply curious curious, hold ... upperclassmen who just talk to me about anything, ask about my day, are friendly

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  no real way, however, for me to talk you through exactly how difficult ... ,[/annotation]and, to be honest, it still means very little to me. I started out in the ... me to breathe. The question remained whether or not I wanted to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  forth (me), whiteboarding with other people in your pset group, or ... sophomore fall was an interesting time for me, because a number of things ... motivation trying to keep up with 18.100A (which ultimately led me to drop it

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Travel

  [liveblog] morbing at the airport the flight is delayed for several hours because of toilet issues

  

  airport) for so long that blogging is the only thing that can keep me sane ... bristol. oh, but it's okay! because delta airlines gave me a 12 dollar food ... brainrot has gotten to me[/caption] there's no one in the comments, but a

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  hard for the next one will only make me stronger!!!!! <- coping so hard [caption id="attachment_113809" align="aligncenter" width="300"] me ... text I’m reading requires me to think a lot more critically about it than

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  to campus. I loved these weekly jaunts into Boston–the walk brought me ... subsequent step worked well for me. There’s no “correct” form for throwing ... take me a long time–lots of coning up and down, accidentally introducing

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  newsletter. It doesn’t really feel like it meant for me, though, somehow, it is ... id="attachment_110240" align="aligncenter" width="950"] me, circa 2025 ... me dwell a bit on this. This led to me commuting home one day and

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Aiden Wrapped a year in review

  

  random, [annotation note = "Spotify Wrapped HATES to see me coming ... , which inevitably leads to me watching the same things over and over and ... friend randomly go see this with me one day after it came out and it was a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 3, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I love musicals! Wicked just dropped and I am LOSING MY MIND

  

  ago, my friend Adrien V. V. ‘24 told me I should go, and I did ... note='this is me speaking to myself lmfao']let’s calm down a little bit ... PERSONAL NOTE   For me, “Breathe” from In the Heights resonates

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 29, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  , there were about seventy. AdMITs who were all much taller than me filled ... . There was just one person on Software left, and me. But we felt bad ... projects for a half hour or so. Then my teammate had class, leaving me alone

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  forgive me! If it makes it any better, this is a very long and fairly ... . 6.006 (Introduction to Algorithms) was a bit of a nightmare for me, so ... warned me that the Design Project expectations were unclear, the papers

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here

  

  blankets out of old MIT shirts, but the idea first occurred to me as ... sent me a few pictures of the quilt in progress. I gotta say, I still ... 't come for me"]Fencing was an amazing time[/annotation] and I'm glad that I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 27, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  the 2019 THINK team saw in my proposal but THANK YOU for believing in me ... stirred within me an excitement for... life in general. I know I’m being vague here, being around such passionate people made me excited about

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  , sucked the soul out of me more than I thought possible. And honestly, I ... , I think I know what I like to do, and what makes me tick. I like my ... broke down, dumping me into the deep end and soaking my map, leaving me

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  ) it's terribly frightening and 3) it makes me sound like a try hard. But ... possibility for me. Naive Afeefah believed she would never have to fill out a ... making a decision made me anxious. For many nights, I chose to simply go to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  college dorms didn’t fully hit me until I walked in for the first time. For ... to me by Maya K. ‘19. “So the whole black-light dragon fiasco happened ... , it reminds me of Tetazoo’s traditions like “pancakes,” or making baked

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  meeting all the incredible people attending this school with me ... Cormick sewing room. A friend kept me company as I skillfully employed everything ... had other plans for me. I am currently doing some work redesigning the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016