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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Help Wanted Calling all artists! Design Mitra's new banner and get profiled in the blog

  

  the mail. I'd prefer it if you post your design online and email me ... somewhere, you can send it as an attachment. If no one sends me designs, I ... , which is probably illegal, so please, don't do that to me.

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t believe everything that you read

  

  Someone emailed to me a funny post from one of those rumor-filled college admissions discussion sites; this one made me laugh out loud: I ... . They told him AFTER he was admitted. Let me emphatically state for the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 8, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  product manager position. At one point in the interview, they asked me ... that they've let me do. Simultaneously, my heart sank, as I realized how far I've strayed from that this summer. Work has been hard for me. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  that stuck with me. such things tend to stick with me. we were talking ... another Me. i'm white, technically, from my mom; and black, technically ... looked at me like, hello! You are a black woman. What are you doing? I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  and i try to find my place

  

  A couple nights ago, I cried as Raymond asked me my deepest desires ... it frustrates me that I still feel this way, but it's tiring being the ... reassurances my friends give me, I can't help but feel as if it's all one big

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

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  friends from the philippines died from suicide, and it’s been troubling me ... back of my mind. there was a small, soft voice reminding me of what happened and making me feel guilty about it. but at the time, i could

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  assure me that all was well. At first I clearly didn’t know the meaning of ... to me. However, by the end of the trip it almost became a sort of mantra for me. Don’t be fooled, accepting that all was well and would

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  ice cream flavours.  If you ever meet me, one of the first things you will figure out about me is that I’m a [annotation note="the colloquial ... ,[/annotation] and people do often introduce me as the token [annotation note

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• 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 / Miscellaneous

  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