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• Blog / CPW

  CPW will not be perfect and it doesn’t have to be

  

  experiences you’ll ever have. How overwhelming, you may ask? At my CPW in 2023 ... in the weeks (and maybe years...) leading up. One of my closest friends ... of events on pure adrenaline. The subsequent days felt slightly more in

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 8, 2026
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A circle of shared breaths rediscovering synchronized skating at MIT, by Eleanor L. '27

  

  synchronized ice skating, I was VERY excited. not just because [annotation note="in ... skating culture in general is lowkey underrated!! and also Eleanor is so ... coherent program. Teams typically range from 12 to 16 skaters, all moving in

  • by Janet G. '27
  • April 14, 2026
• Blog / Uncategorized

  wednesday at wai & aina (liveblog) and leaving the mit bubble

  

  semesters in which students are encouraged to explore, take a break, do as ... were essentially entirely up in the air at that point, he sent me a ... with him on... some adventure that we'd figure out in the next few weeks

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • January 21, 2026
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i got a cat he is so small

  

  you told me you had kittens in your suspicious white van.) I’m sure you ... lose him in my room. He’s just a little baby When I first got the boy ... back, I found him hiding in the corner of my closet. As he slowly got

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 14, 2026
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  the ocean, partitioned by the faintest, haziest stroke. In front of me ... .   1 There is an innate human fear in being by yourself. Survival instincts tell us that we're in greater risk of danger. The unfamiliar is

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  in tents outdoors. at meals, we would gather around the heater and melt into the homeliness that seems impossible to find in ten days. a few tunes from this song take me back. huddled up in our coats, the last day

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / Events

  dtyd weekend all party, no planning (for once)

  

  reason exists in Walker Memorial, right next to East Campus"]the Muddy ... 's, a popular rooftop bar in Harvard Square, to catch up with some friends. on Friday, I finished a pset, got lunch with a friend in Somerville

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  -of-the-line when I bought it in 2020, but the powers that be had rendered it just about ancient in terms of repairs. The first shop I went to didn’t have a ... put my phone away, the half-centimeter line of screen in the middle

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  conversations with friends so many different ways to feel lost

  

  feel to be back in the city m: kinda weird it's nice because i love nyc ... : boston/cambridge/mit really does feel like home right now because in my mind that's where i'm going back to i'm just here in nyc for a bit _____ m: since i’ve gotten

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 21, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  and for all. For the last several summers, I’ve floundered in a soup of confusion and unease when it comes to my future. I taught in New Zealand and ... like after graduation.  In retrospect, I should have been more proactive

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  ’ll start knowing where things are. There are only so many intersections in ... leads you. One. Don't look: what's the color of the floor in the room you're in? Coming back to Valenzuela, my hometown, feels especially painful

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

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  week. And going for three hour walks at midnight in the middle of the ... kind of control, I began walking in earnest, sometimes seven or ten miles ... ’t exist. By the time I was moving in my friends for the fall semester, the

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 Resolutions posting so i can be held accountable

  

  home, I have not stepped foot in the gym. For 2020, I want to see how ... freakouts in my last post. read at least 5 books Fun fact: I don't read a ... consumed more fanfiction in my life than I have non-fanfiction content which

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  made some breadsticks rolled around in crushed corn flakes. I eat that ... some apple crumble and pie that’s also left in our free food table ... some croissants from the Dunkin in [annotation note="the woefully

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  draw a picture for a different prompt every day in October. This year ... have mixed feelings about my own writing in the moment, as one does, but when I look back over the stuff I wrote in Oct., I really like a lot of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  have we. Let me explain how. How (and why) we redesigned In 2016, we met ... , culminates today, in the launch of the MITAdmissions redesign. Why did we ... had on so many readers. However, as is always the case in web design

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  summer, back during Fall Career Fair in late September. I was feeling confident and professional in a button down shirt and grey blazer, handing out ... summer. For real, though, taking my first internships in Michigan had some

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  at MIT (and even any of our years in K-12), in that we only took ONE ... and Engineering) is extremely flexible! So as opposed to in K-12, when ... have taken advantage of it to an extent in freshman spring and sophomore

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  -control to only let the emotional floodgates open a little. I apologize in ... burnout. They seem to lose their motivation and desire after a few years in ... to a sense of motionlessness, that progress for women in the workplace

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Events

  REX at Simmons Hall 2015 water balloon wars, pancakes, roofdeck parties, and a trojan duck

  

  it in the news). Simmons is hard at work as well, preparing for the ... cardboard fort in the Mailbox Lounge. We'll be working on the construction all ... you've ever seen before. Meet us in our dining hall. 9:00 PM - 1:00 AM

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 31, 2015