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• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  ="attachment_83349" align="aligncenter" width="300"] in case i get a new avatar, i ... in the in-betweenness of young adulthood. As we drove away, I felt ... are just a part of growing up. And it's somewhere that I thought I would

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faith Embracing uncertainty as the world changes around us

  

  peace in my cozy little hospital room. I drifted into a deep sleep. I ... minutes, I gave in and pushed the orange button. The nurse fluttered into ... disappeared underneath the skin on my left arm. In a few moments I was relieved

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  know or learn the language). People in my high school would forget that I ... MIT in Barcelona, Spain. Several friends and I planned this spring break ... B. ‘18. I was traveling in a group of five, and we ran into people at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  . Instead of spending time in school, I’d have to find other things to do ... years ago, while in the early months of it, I kept being asked why I was ... for me to read. I found it was a good way to check in with myself

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I tried* to run to the airport *thank you Noah and Sydney for saving my life

  

  I wrote in an earlier blog that I took up running. Since coming back ... descent in wikipedia rabbitholes [three cool rabbitholes i found: marathons ... thought. If I really buckled down it would be hard, but I'd be able to do it

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  . Compared to most people in the South, I certainly don't. But in my first couple of months in New England, somebody told me I had a Southern accent ... ". I promise I'm not making this up. In the South, "coke" isn't just a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Publishing abroad A taste of an MIT-Russia student's blog

  

  English that I wrote it in to the typical Russian they publish in, but the ... thinking about an article about foreigners living in St. Petersburg. So I ... first published on http://dfactorial.tumblr.com I wrote an article about

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  in the moment. It's also nice being able to think "I would like to do ... glow. I’m sitting on a cold concrete slab, where the tides would normally ... often think things like... How would I want to spend time with my best

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  it stayed in java i would not be a 6-3 right now. i love typescript ... would've enjoyed it. i keep wondering, would i have liked it more? and in ... what if i overshoot, what if i adjust too much in the wrong direction? in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Are YOU Up To This Summer?! (2010 Edition) Happy summer!

  

  7 countries in Europe :p) but I know there might still be awesome pics ... 'refrigerator'/blahblah I will post selected entries in a complete blog to come! You'll have at least 2 weeks to send them in. :) Will post when I get

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  . I noticed that my first two weeks in Albuquerque - when everything was ... work alone. I walked two and a half miles in the dry Albuquerque heat ... cracker jacks and funnel cake for the first time. I fell in love with green

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  In May 2016, I wrote Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later, where I shared the ... worked out okay. In 2014, we denied another student, whom I'll call CT. I ... ... For a while, I really felt like a failure that I didn't get in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Road I’m On Life's a lot to think about sometimes...

  

  all the (hopefully) awesome entries I'll be putting up in the next few ... decided to go to MIT. In some ways, I am still surprised I got in to MIT ... being in five days or something, yes? Yes. When I got into MIT, I was

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  Lately I've been occupying space. Many spaces, in fact, especially ... personality was interesting and the people were interesting. I chose to live in ... time I've ever felt like I was back in high school despite being in the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  invalidated all possible arguments against speciesism I heard in 24.03 (Food ... including meetings with friends in my Google Calendar. I also semi ... and emails, I have gotten the following nice items in good condition

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  nothing would be cooler than a public lab where I can walk in with an idea ... and I came up with almost nothing. At one point in time I would have ... , I spent the last year of my life in Shanghai studying Chinese at Fudan

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  a UROP in linguistics: I mean, research experience would be useful ... basically the moment I read it, there was no question in my mind that I would ... in my head, I was planning how I would update my resume. One cover

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  'm developing my traditional mid-winter cold. I have way too much to do in the ... sheer force of will. I originally wrote "shear force of will," as in the ... blog is actually smarter than I am. Do you know why? One time in high

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  AMA Ask Me Anything.

  

  !) question you ask as honestly as I would if I were the one asking.  second ... -7) and math (18) and minoring in writing (21W). This fall I will be ... blog posts I wish I could write for you right now but I can’t, at least

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 20, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I LOVE MUSICALS!!! wicked just dropped and I am LOSING MY MIND

  

  December of 2012, and I found out about Wicked in November of 2014 ... I should go, and I did—completely cold. I went in only knowing that ... collective art—are some of the moments in which I’ve felt most connected to

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 29, 2024