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• Blog / Challenges

  passionless had a crisis, got a tattoo

  

  'm glad I don't go to school near my hometown, I feel a certain air of ... school, but at least those people know what they're choosing. It feels more

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  My First Few Weeks at MIT … one year ago

  

  at MIT for rising high school seniors. During the program, students ... known me since elementary school. How could six weeks with total strangers

  • by Hala K. '29
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  one of my labmates has a friend from elementary school who was on the latest season of love on the spectrum. another labmate watched it and told ... elementary school as "filled with friends." i think that's how my life can be

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  school. It was part of an anthology assigned in English class. That single ... encountered it in high school, or if it struck a deep, already-existing chord

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  especially in school you don't have real feedback loops on your learning, or at

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking this spring study abroad edition

  

  point! i had been scared at the thought of graduate school and doing ... , although it feels so scary to think about graduate school, i am also very

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 22, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  I recently downloaded a chess app on my phone. Now, I know people who have been reading chess books since grade school and have numerous ... embarrassment of grade-school Shorna straight from my past. I mentally chastised

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  school! And not to mention those professors with scientific results named ... professor commenting when I asked about graduate school admissions, “That

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  school or earlier? Fortunately, none of my remaining classes had finals ... —especially at this school—to forget that they are doing really difficult things

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  . “You work harder in high school than college,” she said; she had, as a math major at a tech school in the ‘80’s. When was the hardest that I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  learning more about climate modelling.    High school students must ... I knew. I try to base it on wordcount, outside of school; 1k words a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Atomic Friends a comic

  

  tightly pulled back sits in a high school chemistry classroom reading a ... PANEL 3 A fourteen year old Cami sits in her high school chemistry

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  Lectures MIT is a hard school, and the lectures aren't always that ... contains apps for a job that I haven't worked since I was in high school

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  by the time you notice it’s too late anime, bloons, and piano

  

  defense every day during my elementary school recess. while watching them ... elementary school. i was never good, but at some point i got to the state where

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 4, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  you & i will always be back then time is an illusion that helps things make sense

  

  me. I started watching it with my high school boyfriend in junior year ... season 6, due to just life happening. School was starting up back in person

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  If you can't tell from the title, I love scrolling through Wikipedia. Yes, the website that your middle school English teacher probably rained ... , which is why I try not to play the Wiki Game on busier school days. It

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  school? With that sari-sari store selling overpriced school supplies and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  in high school, though I think I prefer taking it now, when I'm more ... badass, having trained in military schools since age seven. Their society

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  really even leave the mental space of high school? Maybe I needed a ... ?   For my high school yearbook quote, I simply put the words “why not

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  school. The days I spent at CPW felt intense – MIT is a unique place and ... much as it is for academic growth and fun."]my sheltered high school self

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020