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• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  has a lot more free time for me to do other things and really focus on doing well in school. It's a lot of free time for me to be a tryhard. For ... really could've prepared me for the reality of it. It's a genuine timesuck

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  -brain freshman year me decided that it was completely okay for me to ignore the ... it impacted me quite a bit. with every new year comes an onslaught of ... confessions disgust and perturb me beyond belief. the November Rule might seem

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

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  challenge of social distancing. Let me tell you: MIT’s dorms, student groups ... the Bloggers” event for months. The blogs meant everything to me as an MIT prefrosh; they made me feel like I had a place at MIT when I was

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  the one where i talk to ameer what is real again?

  

  So, let me set the scene for the [annotation note="Some would call it the basement"]garden-level Admissions office.[/annotation] There’s me, in front of me is the Jeremy, behind me is Ariel, DJ to my left, and

  • by kellen manning
  • April 9, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  know this will only keep bothering me until I get it out, so I'm going to ... -so-characteristic Anaheim buildings made me very desperately just want to go back to campus ... me, or what was lingering in California. But sometimes the past

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  me it was really sweet how that person described their experience in ... . i've come to peace with a lot of the things that kept me up late at ... teen whirlwind years are far behind me, but it doesn't mean i disparage

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  parallels or juxtapositions in one sitting at flour cafe

  

  fruit, beckoning for me to reach out and grab them. it seems every ... , and they told me i may be a scientist, not an engineer at heart. this ... class that has pushed my brain in frustrating ways that make me question

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 26, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  : palm trees, iguanas, piña coladas. To me, they were nothing but pathetic ... twilight, a previously unfamiliar event to me. And, let me tell you, such did ... captivating, but to me, they were expected, unlike the ones here in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  wednesday of april, i could almost feel covid looming threateningly over me ... -diagnosing depression this WHOLE TIME, and you're telling me i've actually been going to ... hitting me pretty hard. getting sick definitely didn't help. my sore throat

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  random thoughts about choices why mit? why not mit?

  

  less about mit than it does about me. for the same reason, there's only ... want to ask isn't what matters, but what matters to me? if you haven ... i thought mattered to me turned out not to matter as much. there are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 29, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wrote a whole post on Halloween and forgot to publish it So here's 2 months of blogging in one post

  

  How was your Halloween? Tell me about your costume & remember that ... October 87th but my friends all got me death-themed presents and I'm so ... me Tell me how your break/holidays are going! Also please give me

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • December 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  When MIT Gets Tough, CAAAATTTT Everything was terrible, and then I cat

  

  past weekend, I rushed my mom and sister to come visit me at MIT because ... me, we cooked a bunch of food so I wouldn't starve, and we went on an ... I can call her mine and she can call me hers. Call me the crazy cat

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 7, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Hello! I would like to schedule a meeting with Senator Markey.” Exciting spring break plans

  

  ) freaked me out. This afternoon, I drank a cappuccino and in a fit of ... ? Me: Um. [suddenly completely unable to speak English] Me: Um, yes ... 's calling, please? Me: Oh, yes, um, hello. [thinking: DARN, I already said

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Events

  This…Is…BLODGEBALL! Everything and anything you ever wanted to know about us.

  

  have my self-esteem bolstered when pre-frosh recognize me at CPW and then ask to give me hugs (side note: I love hugs and freely dole them out ... + Dodgeball = Blodgeball (credit to Emad). And far be it for me to deny an

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing! !!!!!!!

  

  conversation: ~*~ Mathura: omg omg omg me: whatwhatwhat Mathura: im sooo excited, i just ran around the floor screaming me: :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) Mathura: scared samvaran, hahaha me: LOL, poor guy. i'm giggling in my room

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ADITL MIT's Technique spearheads one of the most interesting projects I've seen on campus recently.

  

  of my friends and everything around me is that hundreds of other people ... also how they choose to frame that. The project made me notice the things around me all the time that I never really stopped to look at. Like eating

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  This will default to miscellaneous Finishing this blog entry was my biggest accomplishment today

  

  . Without the people and the place that have become a home for me. Well there ... . The prospect terrified me just last year, but with every incoming class, I can relate less and less and then I know it's time for me to go. And

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Evolution of Physics Physics gets harder as you get older, go figure.

  

  Don't forget to vote for me in the 2008 Blogging Scholarship for $10 ... dispel those rumors: I don't like physics. Lucky for me, there are all ... of physics in high school for me: We have an Honors physics class

  • by Snively '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  When it Rains It Pours

  

  these into paragraph form, let me do a quick rundown of what I'm doing and ... Tuesday Toy Design Presentations So, let's see, where does that put me? I ... present in exactly one week (seriously, Toy Design is freaking me out right

  • by Snively '11
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Pachyderm Photography I'll try to avoid elephant jokes. There might be one or two, though, just for…

  

  Ave tomorrow morning at 10 and YOU should go see them! ME: Everyone else I know just emailed me to tell me that. EVERYONE I KNOW: That's not true; you only know us. ME: Oh, right. Every year in October, the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 5, 2007