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• Blog / Uncategorized

  working very, very hard campus tourism and imposter syndrome

  

  student here, it feels as though everyone in my life is convinced that I ... Sitting on Killian Court, in the summer, I get this feeling that I am ... ; Did I do that? Did I work very, very, hard? At one point, this has to

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • July 22, 2026
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  that I've grown to dislike my time in California. Only a little bit ago I ... 've learned in life this past semester. Breakups I know this is a bit personal ... for the first time in a year and a half is incredibly jarring. I have no

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  excited about all of this; I think it's amazing that in literally a month, I ... In my New Year's reflections post, I mentioned that over the winter ... a UROP in linguistics: I mean, research experience would be useful

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  when all you have to do is pedal.  Now that I’m Funemployed, I get to do ... all I feel like doing is rotting in my bed and scrolling through social ... bike. Because all I have to do is to pedal.  I like Boston a lot because

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Poetry from 5 AM This Morning Don't worry, I drank an entire MUG of espresso

  

  This girl is tired. Verrryyyyyyy tired. I had a lot of ideas for what I wanted to post this weekend. A month into my time at MIT I can ... energy? The nice thing is that I don’t really care if it’s good or not. I

  • by Powers '23
  • September 30, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  what I can only imagine is how living in a bachelor pad feels like. I had ... UNESCO). It was also a quiet town that after around seven in the evening is ... finally got to the Malpensa airport in Milan, I was a little shell

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  discouraging (about a goal that I had that in no way concerned or affected them ... science. I also remember laughing over a “B” that I later got in Personal ... --first, everyone told me that Pessimism was In Vogue and I ought to give up a little

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Idol A selection committee fantasy.

  

  selection committee. (As a guy who is not wired to do science and math, I'd be ... In a few minutes I'll head over to the committee room to begin Day 7 ... committee this year even more than I have in past years. Maybe that's just

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Visits… Bring Em’ On! This entry will focus on the dos and don'ts of a fall visit to a…

  

  gracious to send you. I know that most of you will put it all in a big box ... socialscenarios. Do you offer the academic program that I'm interested in? What ... If I'm not mistaken this is the time of year when you begin in

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  Christians and high GDPs. The fact that I didn't get a present this year is ... swamp when I noticed that Santa hadn't visited my house and left me a ... Vicinity.” Furthermore, I'll concede that the Santa function is complex and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…

  

  tower. Nothing made that more apparent than standing in front of a ... change the world. Let's not forget that there actually is a world out there, a world that exists outside our little academic ivory tower. In my

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  of people yell "I'm in!" back at you (The Pour House is a bar ... I've never seen before, and there was a summer camp that I think is ... application to work on yet so there's not a whole lot to do with that. This is

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  . I was able to exist in this space in a way that I needed to. In a way ... learn and get better at math. In a way that allowed me to be me. I guess I ... mathematician” (a role, thatI am nearly certain, doesn’t exist in actuality). But

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Profile On The Web: Can It Hurt You? Responses to questions on Facebook and other internet profiles and how they can affect college…

  

  A rising high school senior who is currently in a prestigious summer ... in general?) Do you believe someone could be rejected from a school simply because of an internet profile? Do you think it is fair for that to

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  I LOVE TATTE💖💖💖 back in boston baby

  

  pastry selection and chic decorations. It is easy to feel lost in the sea that is Boston cuisine [annotation note="I'm reading this out loud to ... mutual enemy: Flour Cafe.), I of course come straight to you! In fact, I

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 30, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nisha’s Restaurant Review: February this is extra but i'm doing it anyways

  

  favorite place that I've been to all month. Roxy's is a (truly amazing ... few nuanced opinions about it.  I mentioned this briefly in a previous ... a LOT of new ~culinary experiences~, and I've gotta say that going out

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Want A Radio Show!!! about Christmas Music Year Round...or Midwest Pizza...

  

  I want a radio show!! This summer, I'm going to be in Boston ... , though, so that defeats the purpose... Segway!! I'm a part of WMBR, MIT ... , I don't just listen to it in November, or in October-- I am a FIRM

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • April 29, 2026
• Blog / MISTI

  Ich Spreche Kein Deutsch. Apparently that's how you say "I don't speak German"...not that I would know.

  

  curriculums we designed earlier this year. In just over a week, I'll be able to ... girls and I hope to do quite a bit of sight-seeing. We especially have our ... really want to do a segway tour of Berlin, though I'd probably fall off the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 3, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  . Walking through campus itself is an experience that I appreciated a lot when ... trying to boot out of the country, nor do I have any in-person graduation ... the most stressful ones of my life, and is a saga that unfolded over

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Return of the Nance Effect The Summer Update Edition!

  

  I say welcome! Come on in, the water is just fine. I hope that you ... around the corner. (Funny I say that even though Boston had a heat index of ... . This is, after all, a community designed for and about you. When I began

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 9, 2006