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• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  in my key and walking out the door. I knew it was coming, of course, ever since I moved in. And in the last few weeks my mind had been increasingly turning over and over the knowledge that I would have to leave. But

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  .[/annotation] It’s helped me edit, and in turn, write better, since I can more ... I’ve been in a bit of a post-application-season pre ... , with bullet points, ideas yelled back at me in ALL CAPS so I don’t forget

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Comfort and College Scared of applying to colleges far from home? Then read this!

  

  paved my comfortable life in college-never too far from home, so that if I ever did get homesick in my apartment, I could rush home and eat amazing Mexican food or hang out with my siblings. Life was good, but I was boxed in

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  exactly sure what I had, but I was basically either in bed or at MIT Medical ... ). I’ve only really caught up in 6.042 (Math for Computer Science), I ... ’s a midterm next week in that class. I’m incredibly thankful, though

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  I grew up in Nashua, New Hampshire, an unassuming city with lovely people but not much to do.    Now that I’ve been living in Cambridge ... 'm enveloped in an impalpable childlike innocence that convinces me that I spent

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  . Ha, looks like the elements did have a place in my list! I feel ... firmly in the back of my throat -- out, I finally came up with a simple solution!  While helping my mom clean the bathrooms, I would tell her to

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.

  

  's. Back in the Fall of 2002, I set out on a journey that is still ongoing. I ... school." To me at that point, it was like this castle in the sky. I didn ... or anything of the sort, but I did know that sometime in the spring, I

  • by Bryan
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Central Ohio Summer Send-Off Event celebrating the Infinite Connection

  

  guests here is unsurpassed in warmth and joy. Last year, I came as a ... college life. Would my sister Skype with me often? How could I stick all my ... to be as awesome as planned? What would happen next? Next, I met MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Could Write a Song a Hundred Miles Long I only sing Coldplay because it will help me get girls.

  

  normal art songs, I thought that mine would be the weirdest one in the class. I was in for quite a surprise when I showed up on performance day ... accomplished pianist. I think my rule faltered in at least a few places writing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  not been nearly as involved in pistol as I would have liked to be this ... excited. Science fiction is my favorite genre, and I would love to take a ... seniors and juniors, so my sophomore friend and I did not get in. So I was

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  its way like sweet nostalgia to my ears, I’m in good and plentiful ... . I’m extremely drawn to bright colors. This would be more of a problem ... ’s-eye pictures of it, which I was unable to get as I am not, in fact, a bird (as

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  ready for you next time If I could grow up in a day, I would Come back ... spend another year or two in MIT and get another degree, or should I leave Boston and work in industry? Never mind the question of what industry I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Yes, I am still alive My fourth of July in America's hometown

  

  Well, I spent my 4th of July in Plymouth with Adam's family and my ... horrified look on my face in 2004 when I realized that there were no hot dogs ... place anybody in four generations of my family came from is Indiana. (I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  ’s Women’s Soccer team! I was the first in my family of four kids (who all ... . I’m a senior in college now, meaning I did my recruiting process ... were interested in going D1, but I’ve noticed D3 isn’t as crunched for

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  little free library while I was living in my van. I wrote a poem here and ... called it — and I thought, why not? We met on Sundays at 10 pm for me in ... would begin with typing up the poem I’d handwritten the previous day

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  into words, I had slowly become someone who wrote with reception in mind. Whenever I published a blog post, I would check it every single day. I would ... content that is submitted? Would the series gain momentum? As I often do

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Got Us iPads! [UNBOXING VIDEO] ft. my cat and my new apple pencil

  

  correctly: MIT announced that students in the dorms would be able to bake ... excited for my friends, but didn't think I would personally get one. Then, I ... day in August, I checked my parents' front porch for a package from IS

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  We Stan Matt Parker i'll try not to mention the parker square

  

  In my junior year of high school, I started taking single ... student (at least, for a high school student). But I remember sitting in ... to form the corner (i.e., three). The same concept is true in lower

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  would’ve meant the world to freshman me back in high school. But as I ... before leaving. In that moment as I was waving and watching him walk back ... really on my own - not just in the fact that I was flying by myself, but

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  I Think I’ve Found Paradise (Guest Entry) Work hard, play hard. For the next four years.

  

  every once in awhile. So I would like to thank everyone at MIT for making ... name is Gordon and I’m from sunny Santa Monica, California. Most would ... , only taking pictures with a color balance approximated below: I tend

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008