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• Blog / MIT Life

  Yay, weekend!

  

  was really supportive and helpful to me back when I was running for UAVP ... the link I provided instead of me putting the picture up, because those ... delivery, but we'd never been to the restaurant, which is near Boston

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Happy 375, Boston! Turning 375 years old is no easy task.

  

  how many years older than me?) And of course, who has a 375th ... time on the 4th leaves me high and dry in terms of getting remotely anywhere near the festivities. (Expect an entry about all the festivities

  • by Bryan
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  having to explain how MIT works to curious 24s has made me realize that ... humanities. Let me repeat that. YES, MIT HAS GOOD HUMANITIES. Okay, let ... Pass/No Record anywhere else. (If you have, let me know!) Mailing Lists

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Events

  DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.

  

  never blogged about it. Well, I'm going to now, because someone asked me ... . Blah blah blah motor trouble turns one way but not the other why me don't leave me alone with this oh for god's sake watch out for the 1000 dollar

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 25, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  professors teach? Call me naive, but I didn't even *think* about this at a top ... quick perusal of the evaluations makes me think that the mean/median is in ... told me lots of good stuff, stuff that made even me happier about MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  idea with a number of other mathematics graduate students, nearly all of ... true? I think so. Nearly every time I’ve heard this phrase, it’s been ... ’ll be hard, but I want to try. Give me a shot and you’ll see—I will try my

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  Previous me wrote in a blogpost that I "did not want to write about ... reading books I don’t like has been somewhat of a challenge for me, because ... from the Netherlands gave me in a hostel in Spain, but that was an

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  of late and it has me feeling really guilty. Blogging used to be ... more hollow. I think it's bland and boring. And it makes me scared to ... just...gone. And I don't know where it went. And it terrifies me. The

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  -ish blog last week. i thought it'd be interesting to post this now—nearly one ... for the rest of the day in the spirit of productivity. If you know me ... from my parents alerting me that the restaurant was busy. For some

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28 by Andre H. ‘24

  

  yapping from me! The rest of this post is all Andre's words.  I gave a ... me for, I was this year's Undergraduate Association (UA) president! As ... experience. For me, I quickly realized I chose the right community in Theta Chi

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 21, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  training. I went to gyms sometimes in high school — and nearly every day ... I met while backpacking in Italy showed me how to use the kettle bell ... podmates to work out together, she showed me proper form. Then off we went

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  , or move off campus. moving off campus didn't appeal to me since i ... for me to get in. it's clean, nice, and has great communities, but i ... from Burton Third wanted to staple and move there with me, along with six

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  ’d[annotation note="a near impossible task to ask of two 19 year old college students ... would turn to jelly after every workout. My arms noodled out above me when ... you’re some kind of pro, but it was a pretty big deal to me, at the time

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  string is everywhere, splayed out in front of me like...like...well, I was ... 't have Space Bags to help me clean up this mess. Too many time commitments ... ="300"] My sunday-saturday schedule ft. me having a major crisis

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  Kasow, who, after learning my name and who I was, had heard enough from me ... 't redirect me to youarenotblack.com again." You can see why none of this is ... get me everywhere I needed to go, and to an extent, it did. This turned

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  *witty title here* (Guest Entry) You want awesome? I'll show you awesome!

  

  landing at Logan. The guy sitting next to us asked me what I was doing ... conversation he gave me his business card and told me to call him if I was ever ... campus to register for CPW. Along the way I saw this and nearly died

  • by Snively '11
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  really made me understand what was so entrancing about computation back ... honestly a lot of fun – frustrating at times, but (at least for me) nowhere near as soul-crushing as distributed systems was. It helped that my

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  . Trust me, everything is going to be okay eventually. You'll figure it out ... boyfriend is a grad student living near campus and I wanted to stay near his ... significantly. Calling people stresses me out, but man, does it get the job done

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  nurse? No, she doesn't want to get near your blood, God knows what kind of ... friend from Dartmouth was telling me a story about how she came home one ... excrement here* smeared everywhere. It doesn't get nearly that bad here, but

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  . I didn’t know what to do with myself or what was important to me ... that could guide me - only an emptiness that needed to be filled by ... guilty about when it brings me joy. I learn to value time to decompress

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025