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• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  everywhere. You might have seen me if you walk down the Infinite at the right ... first time. Here’s me with a bucket:          We finally moved ... that time revolve around me trying to learn English. Before I started

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  friends Tina, Teresa, and Caroline (all freshmen, like me) baked Ben several ... was writing. The conversation went something like this: Me: "Hey Ben ... Stu..." Me: "Aw, Ben..." Ben: "...and a meeting at eleven..." Me: "Ben

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  down to this. I know what's best for me. I know that what's best for others isn't always best for me. I know if others judge me for doing what's best for me, I can and should ignore them. I know when I don't know

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  and then sticks around forever. At least, not for me. A social circle is ... with those of the people around me. I'd be lying if I said that none of ... frustration made me aloof. I didn't want college to be a repeat of high school

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  the things i hate and what they say about me

  

  i hate when people ghost me, especially over text or email. not when ... to talk to me but are choosing not to because they assign low priority ... , and they’re also issues my parents and other adults told me would be

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 9, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  made me certain that everything that happened inside of me had happened ... was checking IDs glanced at me and said, "You're definitely under twenty ... first notes of "Love Me More" drifted in, Mitski stepped out, and the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  , lighthearted, and brimming with stories from his many travels. he taught me how to play shogi and how to tend to his garden, and he took me all over Nara to show me his favorite sights. I visited my host family every time

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  This summer, my friends in LA kept telling me I hadn’t changed at all ... friends, who’d known me back when I failed each and every single one of the ... -ups), calling me athletic. I was surprised, too, that S and I could now joke about

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  through the Student Art Association, my wisdom teeth rebelled against me and ... - who is a super expert birdwatcher - invited me to go on a "birding" trip ... binoculars and "scopes" (Davie told me that if I made the mistake of calling it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  would also get me to actually read these papers. It did not. I carried a small pile of paper and the weight of shredding two baby trees with me but ... myself up for this SuperUROP, and they gave me the freedom to choose where

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  work of all the people who came before me, and how other humans were ... civilization you expect me to just work a chill tech/quant job and relax in my ... ends with me and i’m not going to try to continue it”? maybe people not

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  ’s a college thing but part of me feels like I’ve gotten away with ... , alerts me that my microphone is off. This is the MIT I’ve come to. When I ... missing little things -- I can’t borrow pens from the person next to me

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  lifelong injury-free streak, was well oddly comforting to me. When I was ... blood, my eyes closing on me. The only other memory I have is holding my ... wasn’t whole. Something had gone wrong inside of me. And I could feel it

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  June and Flaky Biscuits The first part of an epic summer and food, bien sur.

  

  month, what makes me feel guilty (and thus what makes me post again) is my ... me to be an MIT blogger is because THERE ARE SO MANY AWESOME THINGS ... two things to talk about. So props to Snively for motivating me. But if

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  In which Elizabeth tries something new. (My idea of thrills is changing the location of my bookshelf.)

  

  circumstance, this would have been a mere blip on my daily radar of Shiny-Things-That-Distract-Me. But on this day, Chris not only had to give me hard time for not knowing ... kind of hard for me and for a lot of other people, as I discovered during

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faith Embracing uncertainty as the world changes around us

  

  helped me. The morphine had helped me. Not God. I felt crushed and angry. “Why would a being, all-powerful, ever-merciful, let me suffer?” And it was not just me. It was the homeless man repeatedly stumbling into the

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  think up something wonderful. And it seemed to me that this sentiment was ... gratifying to me to turn on this radio program in my car and have this sunny ... a play at the Cutler Majestic Theater. The original plan was for me to

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  Let me start with a confession. Last year, if you had told me that I ... your face. Me, an MIT student? The concept was practically unthinkable ... same conclusion: What could possibly be so special about me, that MIT

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just a little advice…

  

  enroll. Don't be shy- send me an email. Say hi. Introduce yourself. I try ... be able to say to you what Ben said to me (which totally made my day): "Laura?! The Laura? Awesome!" and not "ummmm... who?" So do me and yourself

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  from my own room in Burton-Conner on my new (to me) laptop and will soon ... dorm and my family helped me carry all my crates of junk up to my room ... moved out, they "un-crowded" my room and gave me a single on the Conner

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005