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• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  out of our cozy apartment where we'd spent the year, back to MIT's campus. The passage of time was a frequent topic of discussion: how could ... imagined. One big part of that rightness is all the ways that I can see the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  craze how a blog gets born

  

  do   I've been creating a lot, recently away from the noise of work the bustle of the school breaks help   I've been ... every blog I've ever blogged has come directly out of frenzy it

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  And tomorrow brings a new day

  

  Around this time of the year, we're always told to write something ... statements. There is a larger world outside of the tiny little blip that is MIT ... take the time to take care of yourself and recover from this very

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 15, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Makibaka! Huwag matakot! black lives matter! junk terror bill!

  

  happening back in the Philippines. Here, it’s ever present: news of gruesome ... House of Representatives, and they went through the readings like it was a ... , one of the country’s larger news websites. Then it was refusal to renew

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  We're big fans of Spotify here on the blogs and have been for awhile ... -inducing chance you might get sued for tens of thousands of dollars for the effort ... with some of the current bloggers in our messenger chat, I emailed the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Can Save the World a post on Kanye West

  

  unironically, wholeheartedly believe that Kanye West is one of the greatest ... 's up to y'all. Y'all the future." (28:01) This is just a snippet of a ... is reliant on a lot of the Earth's natural resources and we are

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  number of things that they are worried about. Grades, SAT scores, the ... organization for lost orphaned baby whales in the middle of Africa, speak Spanish ... enough that’s where I found myself. It was one of the only factors I felt I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  live as a human being and not a human doing. Here are some of the things I’ve learned to value, through the eyes of my younger selves to now ... , there are “better things to do with my time”. I’m proud of the fact that

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  On Tortillas and Community An update from a year and a half ago.

  

  Hello! One of the first things I wrote about as a staff blogger was ... of belonging, and community. I had already found the perfect coffee ... two days later, I had two packages of freshly made tortillas from the

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Turn around and pretend it wasn’t you Words of Wisdom

  

  ) I am now 21 years of age 3) Spectrum wrote an article about me 4) The ... out tons of free stuff and market to the college crowd. Alas, I didn ... good idea. You know, one of these things: What I forgot was that the

  • by Snively '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / CPW

  I’m coming back to cross stitch on campus again It's been three years, but I'm back!

  

  been laid off (along with 15% of the country) I volunteered to provide ... time in Cambridge.   In 2024/2025 I was in the middle of the ... That's right - the last time I was on campus for CPW was three years

  • by Snively '11
  • April 3, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  clothes out of the wash, sending emails, cleaning up my room for CPW ... Initial Dissection After crawling my way to the freedom of spring break, I ... long. Where did the actors go? So I go on eating through the bottom of my

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  Aquarius or Year of the Horse is Not Important and you don't need to base ... factors, but most importantly, don't let yourself get in the way of your own ... minutes seeing a window to the outside world, one of the scientists wished

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  . Whatever. It ain't the same. For those of you who don't remember me: hi! Nice to meet you! I'm Keri Garel, class of 2010, and in the blogger world ... , took all of the pictures of all of the things, and own so many variations

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Contest Continues Contest wrapup.

  

  So in response to the death of Pluto as a planet, I am undertaking a campaign to revise the mnemonic and change history books with YOUR HELP Here are the finalists. Cast your vote for your favorite! A. My Very

  • by Bryan
  • September 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  stressed, for equally obvious reasons.] It’s not as if I’m sad most of the ... ’m doing it right. I mean, the tangible steps part of this theory is great ... am unhappy and what else I can do to be happy (usually, one of the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  great to actually be able to just stop someone in the middle of the ... us. One of the bigger projects was to create a person-place piece. (I made mine about Sandy Tenorio, from the Office of Engineering Outreach

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred Students Update Some Q&A for deferred students.

  

  regular action, regardless of when the application was submitted. (A little ... Union, Harvey Mudd, Olin College, RPI, and the University of Chicago. For ... the midyear grade report. You can download one off of the MyMIT website

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  's New Groove for the first time with a bunch of people I barely knew, all ... of December, I went to the Museum of Fine Arts with a friend. It was ... darkening, and the whole outside park was covered with this thin layer of snow

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  For many people, the idea of "what do I want to be when I grow up" is ... you want to do for, potentially, the rest of your life. Even here at MIT ... suffer from cancer the way she did. That day, I began a binder full of

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016