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• Blog / Challenges

  at a distance staying in contact with friends from home

  

  A [annotation note="at the time of writing"]few days ago,[/annotation] one of my best friends from home, Ariana, posted a picture with a ... think about just how disconnected I am from people at home—some of the

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 20, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology (fatima's version)

  

  phone. after closing the many repeated tabs of instagram, NYT games ... winning streak. (at least three tabs of this oops--) tanhai by Faiz Ahmad ... Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot Ulysses. this was just a

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  loveallurfriends <3

  

  large rock. Bodies of water have an unwritten contract: if you look at ... scintillations on the surface of the river.  I was tired. This is unsurprising; it ... breath of the day as the stress of the past few weeks settled deep into my

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 6, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  Waiting… and a more serious note about pre-decisions at the end

  

  about some of the things I did to avoid thinking about decisions. Hopefully some of these help take your mind off of college, even if just for a ... 't hold any of these quizzes to have any merit or influence in my life, but

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 15, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  objective: "Get to the top of this wall, in any way possible". This flavor of activity reminds me of the mental motions to solving a math or programming ... get afraid, and have to cope with risk and the limits of safety and your

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  by itself was really boring. The challenge of winning a bunch of stuff ... -achiever-ism go hand in hand whenever people discuss either of those topics, but ... to how someone confronts failure. The goal of high achievement is to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  Recently, one of my friends relayed that she grew up in an ... . It’s a story I’ve heard from plenty of people. I needed to be careful ... even say that, to suggest that other people might be envious of me

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Creating the MIT-verse behind the scenes of this year’s pi day video!

  

  lots of fancy art supples. we brainbarfed at each other for a bit and ... of how there are so many dimensions to MIT. Angela: what is this work ... slide of said powerpoint: [caption id="attachment_73362" align

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • March 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  tired and busy and tired and busy and tired and busy and

  

  A couple updates: I quit two of my jobs I'm taking 4 classes and two of them are technicals and two of them are not, but one of the not-technical classes are still a lot of work I am good, I am okay But I am very tired

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 15, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  ... Like most MIT students, at the start of every semester I make my trip ... passing thought. One of my new housemates lives west of me, within the US; she was also hoping to drive to Boston instead of fly. "Hey Mom, wouldn

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Events

  freshman blogger, sophomore student a reflection on some new and old things

  

  introduced myself as a freshman one too many times. Now, I take on the task of ... beloved members of my living group who have now [annotation note="I miss you Annie:((("]graduated.[/annotation] This and the influx of new faces have

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 21, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Anticipation a little something to keep you company

  

  Sometimes, its hard to pull yourself out of bed. The uncertainty of ... 're probably feeling a lot of butterflies right now. Butterflies that might want ... little bit of today. Because quite frankly, there's nothing that makes you

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: What do those ROTC kids do during summer…? guest post by Karen C. '20

  

  a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest post series* Everyone knows the deal - MIT is a constant whirlwind of PSETs, exams, lectures, and the occasional puppy labs. For several of us, there’s so much more

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 23, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  're sliders and levers. Room doors don't have hinges to open into or out of ... length you need. Most of the time, these are cute. They fall into the category of cultural differences like "toilets are heated and have a fake

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wryping styles wryping = writing + typing

  

  sentences with commas, always thinking of replacements for semicolons, etc. I ... calculated, slower, reasoning System 2. I feel when I type in this kind of ... backspace quite frequently in search of better grammatical phrasing. I do

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 29, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Iron Man is a 15-year-old MIT Student and lives in my freshman year dorm

  

  recreates a rough version of an Iron Man suit using parts "borrowed" from campus. Presumably, she spent a lot of time at the Stata Loading Dock ... rendition of Simmons Hall is to the real one. ArchNewsNow   But do

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  November summary: books, playlist, gratitude

  

  first two weeks of November, and then last week was suddenly too free. Now ... snippets from the past month. (I've kind of been following my own schedule and not doing many student-life related things because of the time

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 25, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  my dorm (East Campus). I've spent a lot of time living by my own agenda ... or to sleep. I seem to value the pursuit of my own goals a lot more ... about image and reputation. Many of my best friends are pretty uninhibited

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  of the city where I was born. I felt the calling. Actually, I also ... high school. I take the free bus down to the other end of 16th Street ... to the ticket window. I give people the benefit of the doubt, but I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  I started MIT as a bubble of idealism. MIT was going to be AWESOME ... began the painful process of defroshing. I learned that, no, I was not ... my hometown of Los Angeles. It wasn't bad. Taking four classes was just

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014