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• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  (turns out I'm That Person Who Cries For The Entire Ceremony), eight of ... do fun stuff because I believe it's important to make time for fun ... for; he lives in Maine, and invited friends to go visit at the end of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  laughed. He was apologetic for taking so long to cut my hair, when it had ... to try: be blindfolded for 24 hours, inspired by a blog post I read. It ... , from 6 PM to midnight. He talked about his work, and for that I was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back and ready for action! Saying goodbye to summer and hello to my sophomore year

  

  did face was while waiting to fill up our tank at a NY rest stop for a ... It feels good to be back at the 'Tute!!! My family drove me up to Boston on Friday night. We expected to hit a lot of traffic, considering

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  the edge of the unknown for me, personally. The path of the train up to ... -by in order for freight trains from the railroad in charge to pass them ... exceptions to this lie primarily in the Northeast; Amtrak owns the track for

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  I've drawn enough Lewis structures to satisfy me for awhile. When I ... seagreen paint next to the X office" or "cute cat, call xxxx for more ... who scan reuse for computer parts to build random cool things. For real

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  concept for a new story! I’m not sure I’ll be able to do this every semester ... somethin’), kinda hard for those new to coding; and 2.003, Dynamics, less ... for a semester.  The ‘25s are really nice, and I got to spend time

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  to be my defining personality trait. I’m an assertive, extroverted ... ="Computer Science"]6-3[/annotation] perhaps isn’t the place for me. I’ve decided to ... arrived at the level of hunger where your sides begin to tingle as if they

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updating my blogger bio because its no longer accurate

  

  realize it’s pretty difficult to sum up a personality in these brief ... Simmons Hall, we somehow stumbled upon the topic of my blogger bio, to which ... ’ve happily called it home for the past 17 years. However, I’ve now been yeeted

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  , before heading over to a celebration dinner for Jess K. '10 graduating from ... weekend I'll return to the Bay for the annual Maker Faire Bay Area to give a ... . [ASK] me about traveling for 2.5 weeks in two carry-on bags. May 13

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  excerpt from the PE course listing for last quarter. Here's a link to the ... reps, and space for us to track our progress. Each class we would run ... to de-stress and take my mind off academics for a little while. Plus

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  surprisingly fun. you can check out our Github for it here. it was super fun to ... aspire to work on more personal projects like this during the semester, but i never have enough time for them. went to TWO concerts: fun fact, i

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  22 to 28 will pass in the blink of an eye, and so on. thank you for ... first three weeks each felt blissfully long, as if i’d found a way to ... has more to do with an inability to retrieve information than a problem

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  to present to my peers, the rationale for this being the intensity of ... past few weeks. also, i had shut away my internal to-do list for the ... my god WE’RE NOT AT MIT!!!”  i’m really grateful to my class for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  second floor. You’re too busy praying for the elevator to go faster to ... little apprehensive about having to cook for yourself, but you’re confident ... [/annotation] for two years to pay for it.” “Oof.” You walk over to a large

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  what shoes to wear for summer. And no, it wasn't some peer-pressure thing ... mailing list for MIT students to get help with all sorts of conundrums. I ... to be so much material for the lapel that it might just be a waterfall

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  have more time for myself here- which I think is really important to ... better and might be easier to talk to about personal matters. 2. Your ... time to study for exams here and actually feeling like I could do very

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  sunset/sunrise swiftly flow the days

  

  impressive to myself and who I am as a person at this particular moment ... -nighter”: pull an all-nighter (informal, v.): "to stay up all night." Personally ... (alternatively, civil dusk to civil dawn)  to be awake continuously for 24 hours

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  project I've been working on for the past two ish years and want to try to ... do for the project. But I need to accept that it would take too much ... again. There has to be a middle ground, though. I'm still looking for it.

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  . writing letters i don't plan to send. forgiving myself for having days that ... funk. A deep funk. It took me awhile to notice. A few long months ... I am, nor who I want to be I've made decisions and said things that

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Announcement] The MIT Bloggers are hosting an AMA! Ask us anything this Friday and Saturday!

  

  what an AMA is, it's basically a Q&A session with a person or group ... /IAmA subreddit."]AMA ("Ask Me Anything")[/annotation] on April 18 (9 AM EST) to ... AM, I'm going to make a post (on the MIT Blogs) called "ASK US (the MIT

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 15, 2025