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• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  are on campus, or near campus. i spent my time with my classmates. i ... with me after work, and it's not like people have dorm rooms i can crash ... me feel uncomfortable reaching out to my coworkers to hang out? the age

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  , and my voice dropped to nearly a whisper, finger me hissed in the space ... met the producer in the blur of EC Rush. She pitched the concept to me ... questions, which helped me pinpoint what I was really trying to say. I figured

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  that have resulted in me waking up at 9 am in a groggy haze. getting from ... to find a pic of me dancing on a table in center suite but here we are ... field that separates the two dorms, since it freaked me out being in such

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  near caltech, headed over to playa vista to fetch me, and off we went! we ... i mentioned this in my previous blog post about LA, but let me ... japantown is one of LA's cultural neighborhoods, and is close enough by to me

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  discovery: nostalgia isn't nearly as enjoyable when you're talking about scary ... 'll have to excuse me; sometimes I mix up bloggers with migrating birds ... well and with smooth transitions, which deprives me of my basic right to

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  drawing near, not because the temperature is heating up, and not even ... Isaiah N. ‘26, and they told me a little bit about life as an MIT lax bro. [carousel image1="114228" image2="114230" /] Tell me about yourself and what

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  better. I got some good advice from a friend and they helped me understand ... started at MIT, I’ve had a bunch of folks ask me for application advice ... deadline nearing I thought I’d add my two cents. Disclaimer: I do not work in

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  turning back time now your clock can follow the right hand rule!

  

  ="103857" image2="103858" /] But we do a lot more than just math (gasp!). Let me ... divine inspiration, as does often happen when I am hungry and near cafeterias. Don’t believe me? I have proof. [carousel image1="103895" image2

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  bay area parties well, two of them

  

  course not. they're asking me about the supposed startup i'm a cofounder of ... mentioned that i was an employee, maybe it was just me, but i felt like i ... -dollar raise. this surprised me until i realized that "raise" didn't refer to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 15, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane

  

  couldn't be looking so far ahead. All I had in front of me was the present ... four years have meant. The writer in me feels like there's so much to deconstruct and talk about, so many metaphors to build. So as graduation nears

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 10, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  since i’ve been home

  

  activities and already-brimming corpus of memes has kept me sane in this quiet ... room last night and got 0.27 Mbps download speed and nearly broke down ... books i intended on finishing with me to campus (these three among them

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  "]Hosed™[/annotation] to put effort into a blog post, so here’s what you get instead. Me ... returned to me so far. I write up my psets for 8.022 and 18.701 Algebra I ... back was me practicing calligraphy, which is one of my hobbies. In the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  this IAP (with headers inspired by me realizing that parkour easily fit ... NEVER be 'just' crawling to me again. Oh god, I'm so sore"]just crawling ... learned that they're not just Greek! If you're a etymology nerd like me

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  already coding basic functions, as they neared the end of a demanding, fast ... me was how much stronger the culture of collaboration was here than in the U.S. I talked to several students, who told me that they would

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  semester. I even downloaded a countdown tracker on my phone, reminding me ... 's motivated me to get through some hard weeks — "It's almost time," they said ... , Megan F' 19, me, Jessie W. '19, and Vivian Z. '19. Can't even remember how

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  . Plus, I’d be on the West Coast near my family, have the chance to live in ... guided my work but also gave me a lot of freedom in terms of which tasks I ... setup was perfect for me. The first week or so, I took time to familiarize

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  for today’s students was critically important to me since I would be ... are nearly one-third of our undergraduate female population at MIT now ... that was close to campus but also allow me the chance to get a first hand

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  jumped into action. Early in the morning, dorm presidents (like me ... student organizers my cellphone number, and they told me to expect a meat ... signing up to volunteer, or e-mailing me offering their support. i

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  . Don't ask me why; I don't like being busy, but here I am enjoying myself ... revealing about our culture that these events stand out in tandem to me, but ... 'll imagine what I encountered). Some of these punks called out to me: "Hey

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  on another airline. Let me transfer that ticket." "What? They say we ... messed up when they do it at the airport. Let me put you on a flight to ... me I am not communicating correctly when they won't share gate

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008