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• Blog / Challenges

  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  . Capturing the avatar is the only way that Zuko, who has been disgraced and banished from his family and his homeland, will be welcomed back as the ... completely different person, working with his uncle to start a tea shop and

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  warmth feelings i miss

  

  a summer sunset, as it filled the sky with orange and blue, as i held ... were on, but i heard and i felt the wind blowing from behind me, as if it ... , when the river and the skyline would fill my vision, and i would forget

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  a perfect long weekend in other words: i did no work and now am kind of a mess

  

  two shows, both at 10 pm on Friday and Saturday"]Mocha Show ... , grabbing dinner as a team, and putting egregious amounts of stage makeup on ... and set-up had all led up to a two-hour performance, and i really didn

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  [GUEST POST] CPWgCPWaCPWyCPW huh...there are some lowercase letters in the title. that's odd.

  

  have to post this anonymously... MIT is hella gay, and lots of cool gay ... the first and oldest lgbtq+ club on campus! I’m like half involved (um yeah...that’s the most apt way to put it haha), and we do a bunch of cool

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walking in Tim’s Shoes Trust me, those are some pretty big shoes

  

  down enough to send a coherent response and spent the next twenty ... good news. And that’s pretty much how, one week after starting classes ... out to be a lot more complex and thought-through than you originally

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  airports and train stations. Yesterday, I was at LaGuardia waiting for a flight that had been delayed by two hours. So, I got out my laptop and ... Maison Française," "MIT Classes," and "MIT Extracurrics" are now all in a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  Six and a half hours ago, this was me: Why? Because I, like Elizabeth, am officially done with finals!!! I left campus about 2 hours ago, and ... airport is packed, and I've already spotted several MIT hoodies and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Accountability Some thoughts on decisions and school

  

  reviews, but it’s Spring Break now and time for all of us to take a ... came out, some of you were happy and would have found the above message totally agreeable and your lives totally rewarding, but some were sad and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  cooking dinner with my boyfriend and he was telling me about his visit to ... junior or a senior there and was blown away by the setting. "Absolutely ... , very natural beauty. Everywhere was mountains and trees and ocean and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside the box In which I start a new life at pika, etc.

  

  My top left desk drawer hates society, government, and everything ... , the entirety of the drawer declares mutiny and goes madly deskless. It ... place on the hierarchy of desk assembly, and it took me at least 45

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  That’s right, you’re sick Thank you, nurse, for stating the obvious.

  

  a headache? Have some Tylenol! Stuffy nose and a cough that just won ... at the Registration Day meeting and Continuing Education sessions (like last night's session with a psychologist and a social worker from MIT

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  year at my friend Jacob's house, as I usually do, and caught up with a ... terms of their future occupations and pursuits rather than just as people ... around the country. But I digress and philosophize. To pass the time until

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  [annotation note="well, 4.66, as in 5 until mid-April and 4 after that. But that ... semester, UROPing, and working on my novel. My classes have been the ... ."]main thing[/annotation] on my mind, and I've been meaning to write a schedule

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  few days. That's over now, so breathe and allow me to distract you with ... with open-source projects, general computer help, and resources galore. Last Wednesday, I attended the SIPB Computer Tours and Story Time. It was

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  written. it is highly unedited and makes me feel both embarrassed and proud. i usually like to sculpt and edit neurotically, but i'm trying to see ... started, I went to Amsterdam and Vienna with my brother and aunt. It was a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  with not having enough time to pee, then moves to my poetry class, and ... schedule packed-ness, and works quite simply. First, count up the number of ... throughout the week and 7 times to pee--once after my last class every day, and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  upperclassmen and say "I am prefrosh" and then get blasted with free food, swag, and all sorts of other goodies. Ah, I miss those wonderful prefrosh days.  I made some of my best friends during CPW, and I'M SO EXCITED THAT IT

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  that I cannot quite recall, and in any case, it didn't linger, not in the ... into the upper echelons of campus administration, and in the week before break, some folks attempted to make actual change. President Reif and the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  "mother"? It’s from the same root we get alma mater and matriculate. It ... , from isip “mind” and sanayan “practice”; hence sipnayan, mind practice. I ... you’re done saying it. The words “tangent” and “integer” are cognates

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  still have not seen and will probably never see. life lacks closure like always and recently, i find myself trying and then failing to make sense of this remarkable experience and everything that came with it. i know i

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025