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• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  ="a volleyball anime lol i'm not even interested in sports ... spent binging 400+ chapters of it while in Japan four years ago"]Tower of ... friends again, I can't help but reconsider anime's presence in my life. It

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  , fyi"]taking 66 units[/annotation]. I had probably hoped that in a future ... 'd go over them in this blog post and see which subset of them I ... only problem is that they’re all in Japanese and take me eons to read

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  In this past semester, the definition of "home" changed a lot for me ... breaking down in the middle of the loopty loop or like my legs just seized up ... even just students in general. This was a confession posted recently on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  MIT, and whether or not I made the right decision in coming to this ... ." I've found solace in my writing classes and creative outlets: writing ... 'm reminded of why I'm at this school in the first place. Being an MIT student

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Can Save the World a post on Kanye West

  

  musical innovation, but also in his ability to continue to stay relevant and provocative in such a volatile, fast-paced media world. Obviously, he's said some rather controversial, if not just blatantly offensive, things in the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  MIT students, and probably college students in general. Many do ... last undergraduate summer, we wanted to outline what we’ve done in each ... 't really on either of our minds. And we were lucky enough to be in a position

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  It was a hot, humid Friday afternoon when I touched down in Logan ... crumble in laughter if they could read this), I have tried to condense ... school (elementary/middle school) and high school in Nairobi and was within

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  61 Photos from my Time at MIT from freshman to senior year

  

  D. '21, our hallmates, and I all went to Tasty Burger in Harvard ... later. In January, I fulfilled my blogger-career-long dream of taking ... in East Campus, First East has a FFT (Free Food Table). Anything on the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done done done end-of-semester happiness

  

  junior year. i haven't blogged in a while, so i thought i'd write up a post ... the first time in recent memory, i don't feel burned out at the end of ... loved (not reflected by my spotty attendance). in many of my course 14

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  picture lying in my aunt's bed, listening to my favorite song of all time ... , college in a week, "1979" on repeat forever and ever A photo posted by ... Instagram in over a year, so my profile is cluttered with content from

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

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

   midterm, and the greatest pleasure in the world is ripping my glasses off, dragging pajamas on in a hurry before jumping into the softest bed for a nap ... off long hours of studying, check in with friends and fellow midterm

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  mentors gathered in the conference room for a final learning session and de ... things to say about everyone else. Really, we all loved being in that room ... audition for a play, something I hadn’t done in over ten years. It worked out

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  ’ combined. Of course, this was typical: in high school, I perpetually resolved ... materialized and my daily calendar just symbolically slouched untouched in the ... class so I could sleep in. That’s OK, Joel, you’ll survive - you can get

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  We all have those weeks. Some sort of tragedy happens - a death in ... extracurriculars, the negatives and the tragedies all add up to be, in a way ... them all away. I went to a new counselor in the morning who taught me

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  incredible traveling to Los Angeles and dipping my toes in the Pacific Ocean ... summer in a row.  His major is Course 16, or Aerospace and Astrological ... NASA field center in Pasadena, California.  Pasadena is about an hour bus

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  New Semester From caving adventures to amazing classes, MIT is awesome.

  

  , dreams and struggles in the hopes that someone will benefit from my sharing ... ’m improving so much!! I can get almost every shot in the black area of a target ... . MIT students are some of the best shooters in the country because we

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  years at MIT, (b) leave in the closet for all four years, then pull it out ... realized that he still had 26 items left. In case you think this would be an easy thing to do in the two weeks between finals and graduation, take a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  Our first full day in Haiti yesterday was exciting and informative ... meeting was with a man named Jean Francois, who was in charge of the ... analyze. Still, it was fantastic to finally talk to someone in person after

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Entry for Parents Students shouldn't have all the fun.

  

  parents love getting to visit me in Boston. The Parent Lounge: I hope you'll take advantage of the Parent Lounge. The Parent Lounge will be in the ... Headquarters/check-in. It's a good place to relax, and to meet other parents. It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  the final steps in the long journey that is the medical school ... in a future entry.) I’m ashamed to say that I had received an email ... may know, asking an MIT student what they’re majoring in may result in a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007