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• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  in the future. I can just do my best now and see where that takes me ... effort I put in to make a change. How long can I hope that this time ... qualities of the game that you can't avoid, in the same way that I can't avoid

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  , because I wanted to jump back up in the sky and say, no! I can't let go let ... just in different hues. I've been traveling for the last month around the ... over and over. And sometimes I would look at myself in the mirror and

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  These are the drones you’re looking for Aerospace engineers: what do they do in their free time?

  

  , majored in biology and brain and cognitive sciences, and I graduated in 2006 ... in developmental neurobiology at Children’s Hospital Boston. I’ve been living in Boston since I blundered onto MIT’s campus fresh out of Columbus

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  in the back of my mind until I was finally able to finish it over IAP! I also got started [annotation note="We're allowed to do this in EC ... in love with movement than usual. I ran up stairs for fun, just because

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  My Favorite Spots in Cambridge/Boston well-trodden and well-hidden alike

  

  Park after shopping in the CambrdigeSide Galleria Mall, but I like going ... (wonderful) [annotation note="my boyfriend and i walked in a random direction ... ,[/annotation] but I'm [annotation note="that's amoryyyy"]in love with

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  [Joint Post] THE WORLD’S gREATEsT CROSSOVER EPISODE Jebby '25 is my flatmate

  

  somewhat okay, but you can never be too careful. In public, Jebby and I both ... than I can count on my hands in Boston, and have been absolutely ... .   Everything is jarringly British in Bristol (wow what a shock). I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  compensation, newfound freedom in class selection Last April, I declared my ... much in that position.  But it’s weird though. It’s not like I have just ... around. I might be the next time, at least I hope so. I can say with full

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Over here things are different. Life is about the same.

  

  me, that I can hold my own. I'm beginning to really take pride in my work and in what I'm capable of. And maybe one of these days I can ... snowstorm outside my window. So I sat in bed for an hour watching it. The

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  my grades are good, and last week I fell In love for the first time ... if I let it see me, From the top of that tree that everyone else can ... look at it:   I got into MIT, I swam in seas of blankets With the

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  , but I can't think of a pithy way to put everything together, so I wrote ... or to find myself shivering in a heated room; I often go to sleep with ... 'm tired. The last time I blogged about classes, I was enrolled in six; I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  i am in the tenth week of my summer job and i can remember how the ... shorter than the previous one, unless i pull as hard as i can to stretch it ... quickly what it really means is that their time passed quickly, that i can

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  successful -- I cried at every single movie I saw in theatres in 2005. While ... in my form (to the lovely Jessie, I might add), I ran into my friend ... ), and I'm heading to a PhD program in biology. And it's all super

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Managing a Full Plate Both Food and Life

  

  timespan and then can knock out the problems in no time. I now spend about ... learning but life in general this semester, and I can fully say I am ... refreshing in these last few weeks. In my last post, I uploaded a picture of my

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 26, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Bloggerduction a challenger appears

  

  Hi! I'm Qiaochu Yuan. That's "chow-chew," as in ... write a math blog, Annoying Precision. I'm interested in a lot of ... lot about it, too. I'm interested in physics, cognitive science and

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  to have things sort of figured out in my mind, so I can say something ... ’ve realized in the past semester that I can be really hard on myself. Sometimes ... , and in the last few months, I feel like I’ve lost my way more than I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  Piece of my Heart Hey, look, a Turkish internet cafe.

  

  at least three bathrooms. Hey there. I'm in Leverkusen, Germany ... pretty well set up here--I opened a bank account, almost entirely in German ... DID YOU KNOW? The proliferation of "standing cafes" in Germany was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  figured I'd say hello to all of you lovely folks in the style of Qiaochu Y ... answered, and I'll try to get to them quicker. Examples of questions you can ... involved in at MIT How I've spent my summer Hobbies that I have / used to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  course, I did nothing of the sort. (That's in the true MIT spirit as well ... is now.) Anyway, I know I got some quality naptime in on Friday, which ... to get in for another few months. I guess I just got lucky. (*How did I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  been someone that has traveled in a pack. In high school, I had a group ... myself in having the best friends in the world. This semester, I felt a cold and sobering moment as I sat in my friend's dorm room in the late

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello applicants, i don’t know what to say but i can try

  

  powerless. i wish love was the kind of thing i could package in a box and deliver. if love was the kind of thing i could wrap up in words and send ... too much for me to handle. and i’m hoping, how i’m hoping, that you can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 13, 2020