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• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  , swayed by other factors important to me, including distance from home ... me. I didn’t even know what school I wanted to go to, let alone what I ... it more together than me). Worry #2: I became less sure I would fit in

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  pretty lazy past two weeks, indulging in Netflix and the sun and a near ... such that procrastinators like me can still land an internship in mid ... asked me a couple of questions about what I was studying (Economics), what

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  instead of vase, a man I barely knew nearly accidentally killed me ... not love tech. Now, don’t get me wrong, I still adore math and science ... friends keep me company. That’s more than the number of my personal cells

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / People & Identities

  HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! 🦃 Yara has a peath sign on her head!

  

  Whenever someone wishes me a Happy Thanksgiving, I can’t help but ... ’ve recently been feeling very homesick (blog coming soon to a laptop near you) so just four days at home means more to me than I can properly

  • by Hala K. '29
  • November 27, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  essays my neighbor gave me as a graduation present. I went on long morning ... , the other facing the sunlight. Nearly twelve uninterrupted weeks of this, and then: MIT. The month I've spent here thus far reminds me of

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  I hope you (and the powers above) will forgive me for blogging about ... constant chatter that is around me - Japanese people speak so fast with so ... sentence from the Wikipedia article made me die a little on the inside: "It

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  me. He closed his eyes and heaved a sigh. Turning to me, he grumbled ... wit. He asked me if I’ve been to the UK before, and I told him that it ... Line, my heavy suitcase and jet-lagged state convinced me to take the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  . The last thought nearly brought me to tears, so my mind skated off of it ... Limited will take me to Chicago, arriving at 10:12 AM CST on January 4th ... me to San Francisco, arriving at 5 PM PST on January 6th, by way of a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  needed drained every last ounce of energy out of me. At some point, I ... actually got to meet nisha & the person who lived in my room before me ... much my glasses shielded me from dust and other minuscule flying debris

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  !” there’s p-sets and a weather intent on killing me. Close enough. What ... experience I’m still stacking up on, which is a chance for me to babble about ... , assuring me that she would save me a spot next semester. And she did! The

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  admitted high school seniors. He stayed with me for one night before crashing ... finally outgrew me, but now he is much taller than I am. [caption id ... , they broke up during her junior year of college. Near the end of her time

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  me is scared that the real world won't be anywhere near as good as it ... walking from the west side of campus, so with me living in the east side, we ... after quarter after quarter. It reminds me of a conversation I had at my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  voucher sent to me by an upperclassmen. as i walk, a thought pops into my head: "ah. i haven't blogged in a while, have i?" a gust of wind nearly ... rank our EC floor choices. my sister lived in EC and was able to tell me

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  dump it in while the egg part is cooking/nearly done. This allows me to ... For those of you who know me well, you'll know that I did not cook at ... me I didn't have to follow this strictly and I ended up making it again

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  ’d invited me to live with them somewhere on the east coast. I knew that not ... up over the phone, asking me to come home, and I remember telling her ... . She’s a good mom; she understood. But then it was just me and a group of

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  me that she wished we could have spent more time together, which was ... ; I decided to paint mine for the senior who had comforted me when the ... regrets. It’s taken a lot of time for me to process my emotions, but I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  graduate MIT. People were going to start asking me what I was doing after ... of my friends were going. They tried to convince me, but I didn't want ... of my friends, one that I met at TechCrunch DisruptNY, messaged me with

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  Healthy Eating Craze It is not difficult to be a vegetarian here at MIT

  

  pharmacist told me that I wouldn't get nearly as many vitamins and nutrients as ... , about once every other month. The people surrounding me have brought up ... to try to find out what's wrong with me.  I also went to the MIT

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  , if they're me. My friend Daniel '12, on the other hand, used his list ... , who spoke next to no English, to ask for directions. Me: Hello! Would you happen to know where we can buy some fish? Lady: ? Me: Um...buy some

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  mid-reviews sat three feet in front of me and I can already tell they ... ? He kept going. Let me demonstrate for you. He walked up to my boards ... . I had tuned out near the end and as soon as the chairs started

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012