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• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  important to me for a couple of reasons: I had a premonition that I was ... Midwest. So for four-ish days my girlfriend and I went to visit my cousin ... country's primary language for various reasons, but still have to navigate

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• 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. '26
  • 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
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  !! Thanks everyone for such a fantastic week :) and thanks to my dear friend ... assignments, I decided to take a break by traveling to Bath in Somerset, UK. I ... and walking to the Cambridge train station in sub-zero temperature, say

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  and cheered for their friends. My boyfriend's aunt leaned over to fill ... battle to fight both in advocating for the importance of undergraduate ... exotic to a city girl) his aunt took me to a fashion show, organized by one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• 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 / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  possible class schedules for colleges I didn't even apply to. Something about ... a little annoying, but there's no way for the instructor to tailor ... 're a really stubborn person who wants to be able to do everything

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!

  

  an iTouch or to dedicate myself to MIT for four years weeks before CPW ... of my personal goals during CPW was to collect as many free shirts as ... performed: Here in Your Arms: Thanks to Sam '12 for uploading this

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 19, 2008
• 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…

  

  've forsaken for years in order to bang my head against various engineering ... world needs people like me for something. So, I went to my fall-back: the ... When I was in preschool, we had to make a crayon drawing of what we

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  actual conversations i definitely had last night happy new year i guess

  

  A: well i wanted to say, oh shoot, it's another person, act normal B ... work A: yeah and i bet they're saying to themselves A: look at these ... all trying to act normal all the time B: well B: don't say that, that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 1, 2022