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• Blog / People & Identities

  I Could Never Do it Alone People of a semester, thank you

  

  academically. Therefore, community is virtually required. There's a phrase I hear often at MIT: I could never do it alone.  With this in mind, I wanted to ... '25 and I taking a ginger shot in front of Cambridge City Hall

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 19, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  that there is one puzzle in the universe you have not solved: what did ... instinct is to do what you ALWAYS do when you have a question about her MIT ... days. Dates associated with saints. You realize that she is interested in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  A credit card is something I, in theory, knew I needed eventually. Apparently a credit score is a thing that people care about here. The thing is ... landlords care about. I knew all this, in theory. I've known for a few months

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  getting back in the groove 🎵groovy groovy🎵

  

  goals is not that big of a necessity as long as I do something a little ... inclined to sit down and do a pset, I think it means that I'm at a better ... want to do in tandem with the academia that is about to suppress it. This

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 3, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  about east side culture. i cared that undergrads could paint murals in ... says is that it's sad. maybe i'm old. maybe these things don't feel as ... a new country. maybe that's why i leave meetings early and don't sign

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to Do While Waiting for Decisions Like elevator music, except without the awkwardness of standing next to a stranger whose priorities…

  

  . (Direct quote from a friend last year - "I had a dream that I got into ... , especially when my cousin Kerrie and I got matching haircuts. But that's a ... A couple weeks ago someone asked what I did to pass the time while I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  is the village in Kaffa, Ethiopia where I've been doing the water ... that cars could drive on. 5 miles, therefore, is a lot more in Kaffa than ... complicated water is. I created this post as a sort of quick-guide to water, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In many ways on average-posting

  

  In many ways, the work of a critic is easy.  In the summer of 2022, I ... frequency of my blogs. I do not have to force-write posts if I am in a writer ... ; But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 7, 2023
• Blog / Events

  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  world. It was awesome. Then I headed over to SpookySkate, which is a ... therefore doing one in a full length vinyl jacket while shooting a Nerf gun ... So a few days before Halloween I asked you all what I should be for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Media That Makes Me Feel Okay School's out! Time to get distracted :D

  

  kicked out of MIT. I’m in the process of writing a blogpost about this ... ’ll meet anyone in the next three months). It’s not like “omg I need a lady ... ’t I?”. I don’t have a lot of friends back here in Milwaukee; I’m gonna

  • by Powers '23
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  the world is blooming! and so am i?

  

  , fall, and winter, I feel like these depictions do a pretty good job ... realistic, but I’ve learned the last few months that it's not a lie. I thought ... for me (I LOVE SNOW), or the way that a picture of auburn leaves falling

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 17, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  alums, and that's from a hall that has a lot of them. I hear, in the ... 're being ridiculous and is in general a breath of fresh air. I wonder if he ... parties going on that night, and the other two were a lot closer, but I didn

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t believe everything that you read

  

  directly from someone who has a friend that goes there and knows the ... true that students who have achieved a national or international degree ... in MIT admissions. But do any of the above things, or anything else

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 8, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  everyone who has been in a relationship agrees that maintenance is orders of ... reading it was that i value relationships as a space in which you can ... get all A’s in classes, but there are also many others that i’m just not

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  definitely a possibility. In fact, a lot of people do that to avoid packing ... , congratulations! You have a lot to be proud about. From experience, I can say that ... campus, which I am still very, very grateful for.  In addition to that

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  . It’s a snow angel! Like in the movies! I’d only ever seen snow angels ... like? >:( The backstory explaining this is relatively simple. A ... ’s nighttime when my eyes open, and the middle of the day when I go to bed. In

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  birthday today. Starting in 2019, I’ve always thrown a birthday party for ... where I’m living now. My answer is always the same. I’ve lived in the same ... is what has built the life I have. From a poem by Yena Sharma Purmasir

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / Events

  This…Is…BLODGEBALL! Everything and anything you ever wanted to know about us.

  

  Note: I'll be doing a Q&A video with our very own Dean of ... like a 4-year-old. I realize that I could write a whole entry on how our ... pool groups, I had my FlipCam a-rollin' to document that sometimes it

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  how much of a nerd I am (Ok maybe it is a little about that last one ... remembering that I had a calc test the next day as I laid in bed, and then ... 18th. Of course being that it was a long plane ride, I wrote some

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  + connections on LinkedIn, but he says it's because I dress like a kid, to which I ... that I didn't think of the pun myself. Anyways, so a week ago, we went ... be "nice claup." I made a Reddit post that got deleted by the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021