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• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  drew a mail carrier. I only know this because the crayon drawing still exists, in some scrapbook in the back of the kitchen closet. I don ... job at the time. During primary school, I remember wanting to be a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Robots, Space, and the Stories In-Between Using Sci-Fi to Procrastinate

  

  -fi is part of where I get my inspiration for wanting to be a part of the ... the school year in between my work hours this summer and decided to ... : If Star Wars and Dune had a baby, Foundation would be the child. This show

  • by Richard O. '28
  • July 30, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  welcoming our new bloggers! baby bloggers? baby bloggers!!

  

  campus, settling into their new dorm rooms for the year; classes are starting, with so many cool things to be learned; and as of today, the world ... 's like to take Thermo, or all the cool traditions in their dorm, or their

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  who represented the United States at the International Chemistry Olympiad the summer after ninth grade. It’s easy to forget how smart he is ... don’t feel out of my depth. Chris is starting his PhD in the fall

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  you're doing. CJ: It's been great! I like the company so far. Janice ... … Xian: I used to worry about being the oldest intern in our cohort, since I'm two years into my master's program. The first few weeks, I was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  bored in iap maybe i should've signed up for something

  

  bored. so i'm writing this blog post. (how does it feel to be the friend ... , because god is it cold outside. my how fast the seasons change [carousel ... them, but things i've done so far include bacon and rice, the ground beef

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 13, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA decisions to be posted Saturday, 12/18/21, 3:14 PM ET i guess the title kind of says it all, huh?

  

  ...and...well...here’s the announcement blog you’ve been waiting for? kellen: Ella! Jenny! I ... early action, and because you are the closest in age to the 2026s and I am the furtherest from them, I want your help. Sooo, what I should say to

  • by kellen manning
  • December 13, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  day one welcome back

  

  Day one, again. Campus is different than before. The doors don ... adventures in far-flung cities. Most who are still around are the ones who stepped away from MIT during the pandemic, like me. I'm taking mostly

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  i. The days wheeled past like a flock of starlings, and suddenly 2021 is two-thirds over. To celebrate the newly abandoned month, I play ... , blinking into the mid-afternoon sunshine, trying to recall how I got here

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  well, well look who's inside again

  

  'interesting now leave me alone' I don't think I've given myself the proper time to process the fact that I'm living through a pandemic. I've expressed ... " and the responses I get are usually somewhat bland. "Everyone wasted a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 11, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You should get this bundle right now definitely clickbait

  

  I'm taking a break from playing all the video games in this video ... the games I've enjoyed from it that'll hopefully convince you to get it ... a Landlord is a deckbuilding roguelike, much like Slay the Spire

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  list of things that refill my will to live things to do when i don't want to do anything

  

  the halfway point of the camp and we were all sad about it being halfway ... probably the longest hug in my life thinking that if i buy another thing from chipotle with the app, i will have enough points to get a free

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  20 Things I Learned In 2020 from a course 20 who is in her 20s

  

  *full disclosure: this post was mainly written for the title* We ... not feel like it all the time, but we are resilient beings my friends. The people in your life should make your world bigger, not smaller

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 1, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  write about it, what I'm doing and the conversations I've had, but ... to continue to fight the good fight. Sign petitions. Donate what you ... exactly pinpoint my feelings, tired of repeating the same old "I don't feel

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  i’m catching up a blog about all the things i wanted to blog about but couldn't find the…

  

  the usual last-minute packing or the rush over to Logan airport, but ... over, I can finally blog about all the things I wanted to blog about but ... ’s a compilation of thoughts/feelings/things I’ve done over the past (oh

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  Shout out to the MIT VPN for helping me climb the Great Firewall ... kind of works on my phone, and since I have the VPN I can access ... ) was MIT’s graduation and I was looking at all the pictures on Facebook

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When I Grow Up In which I contemplate growing up and what I am going to do with my…

  

  used the phrase when we were little, starting at around kindegarden, to describe the distant future. However, that distant future is now, which is ... unsure. The other is like "Hell yeah I'm going to save the world with

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 8, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  fourth? Took less than a day. Fifth. Sixth. You get the idea.\n") print("Why the exponential growth? Learning coding consists of two parts. 1) concepts. 2) syntax. With your first language, you have to learn the concepts

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  students have the whole month of January to do anything they want - from ... Coffeehouse 1369 in Central Square with one of my favorite persons in the world ... offered during IAP and that we should take one together. We looked up the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 3, 2015
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Fitting in at MIT as a Latino family weekend 2014, day 2 and what I learned

  

  as a Latino. And a huge part of it is thanks to the ardent strides the ... Latino-centric organizations and clubs at MIT, with the Latino Cultural Center acting as the central hub for Latino students and student

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 18, 2014