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• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  every way possible, every night I lie in bed, the brightest colors fill my ... My parents were born under kerosene lamps. In a place where monkeys ... playing in the streets blended with the crowing of roosters. The perfect

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  more people in a day than I would in a week of high school, I felt ... 1.5 weeks during which I really had nothing in particular to do. Then ... ™. I had to slump over in the Maseeh 3 bathroom at 4AM and cry for no

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  in the class, has been pretty chill so far. I’m sure I’ll be eating my ... about in an upcoming post. I got cooked to death on my last midterm but it ... semester, so I doubled up this semester in order to get on track to complete

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

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

  

  assignments, I decided to take a break by traveling to Bath in Somerset, UK. I ... -10°C (okay, I know I live in Cambridge, Massachusetts so I can take the ... emptying garbage bins in the cold, when the sun wasn’t even up yet, I felt

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  last three weeks, since I'm pretty sure I won't get up in the morning unless I'm being paid to do so. When my alarm clock goes off in the morning ... voice in my head says, "I'll pay you $9.25 if you get out of bed right now

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  On Sunday night, I sat alone on a bench in South Station holding what ... ’t what I imagined my final moments in Boston feeling like. I expected there ... seniors, I had no final exams – or any obligations – in the three weeks

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  things i've been doing in the past week. it's truly felt breathless. i ... what things were like back in the day, the next night i'm in a hallway ... and i'm playing board games with friends and i'm in the z center

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  Well, I'm back home in the great state of Ohio, getting ready for ... to be home for the first time in six months, and I'm looking forward to ... object lesson in what not to do. As I've said before, I had decided to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Safari I sneak around taking pictures and videos at night.

  

  up, I would be awake. I was, and I showed up in Killian in the pitch ... If I were to show you the following series of pictures, how would you ... . With the first dome hack in three years, why would it just be a banner

  • by Snively '11
  • April 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  would have studied for the MCAT differently. I thought I'd share some of ... in..." series (I do recommend these though!), but I did use their ... 's MCAT Organic Chemistry review; in many ways, I found the PR version of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  How does one write a first post? This probably isn't the way...

  

  mind, he did what anyone in his position would do: he spent hours on You ... something today. Oh, my name is Kellen and I work in the communications wing ... come up with the perfect thing to write. Something that would garner

  • by kellen manning
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  existence or what I was having for lunch the next day or what I would sing ... . Which is also just about the best thing in the world, now that I think of ... !xobile Time: 12:48 PM Subject: long story I had a dream that I went out in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Update It's been an amazing year!

  

  what's been going on in my life so I thought I'd throw together a giant ... , computers were always my brother's thing. Growing up I would spend my internet ... continued to learn. I wanted nothing more than to carve my own niche in my

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  the start of one of the most curious experiences I have probably ever had. In lieu of a proper picture, I have made a diagram to try and ... called himself the “chief”; he would come over, yell something in English

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  exhilarating and utterly terrifying days I’ve had in a long time. Especially ... exercise I did before for the program I participated in last summer. A little over a year ago in July 2019, I wrote a blog post for my summer program

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Sentimentality a.k.a. Why I'm So Glad I Picked MIT.

  

  Cormick at about 11:45 pm, naively thinking that I would be in bed by 1 am at ... very same Walker Memorial in which I have endured many a painful midterm ... arrived, my joy at having gotten in was weighted down by uncertainty. Did I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  Previously on the blogs, I’ve written about MIT’s commitment to ... other institutions to do the same (more here). I’ve also blogged about the ... students did for fun, also in the late 1800s. For some of you, this post

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017
• Blog / Best from staff

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  junior high (in ~2010) boys who came to a competition I was staffing, would ... Rosenberg, had gone to MIT. I went in to talk with him and told him and he ... mark the passage of time. When people ask me how I got my start in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  makeup, and then I had to get to school early so I could get in extra math ... , because I was deeply unpopular in high school. And no, it wasn't some trying ... + connections on LinkedIn, but he says it's because I dress like a kid, to which I

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

  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  . Personally, I find this a lot more exciting than Mystery Hunt. I mean, there ... things. For me, there is nothing to be said for locking yourself in a room ... exceptions to rules here at good old M.I.T. Anyway, I wasn't really around for

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008