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• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  with such excitement that I can't help but be excited, too. In high ... some, I feel as if I've finally learned to love in full. I can think of ... periods. I've been in love before, where love was 18 hour phone calls and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  When MIT Gets Tough, CAAAATTTT Everything was terrible, and then I cat

  

  about a test that I ended up not being in the right state of mind (let ... I can call her mine and she can call me hers. Call me the crazy cat ... more regularly, and I can immediately reward myself with kitten cuddles

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 7, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  ’m pretty sure I can breeze through this one” *Frantically googles ‘What is an ... in line. I honestly didn’t think I would get through those two days. I sell myself short in interviews- I freak out over things that I’ve seen

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Uh-oh Spaghetti-O

  

  feminist you are, I'm sure that you can see that it can seem a little ... directly corresponds to a nearly 1:1 ratio in the admitted pool. I'll admit that I've even been slightly skeptical of that in the past. Anyway, the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  MIT, that I can wander to the Charles river at the three in the morning ... ; I blame it on being an only child and growing up in NYC. This is all to say that at some point in last night's studying, around 3 AM, I went

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  i’m gonna keep this short so i can get to posting real content again ... in writing Last semester I tried to get all my writing requirements out ... resulted in way too many essays for my liking. On the bright side, I didn

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Love MIT And why you should

  

  enjoy playing Ultimate Frisbee, there's a team for that! I can pretty much ... excites me! I can't believe some of the opportunities MIT students have to ... performing or playing in a game, we gather people to watch and cheer them on. I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 14, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT or Bust Our story begins here...

  

  . I'm a member of the Class of 2007. I was born here in Massachusetts, but most recently I'm from Houston, Texas. I'm *definitely* majoring in ... Biomedical Engineering. (My mom hates it when I revert to MIT-speak; I can

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  Song: Ramblings of a Lunatic by Bears In Trees Two months ago, I ... were (i.e. yourself any time in the past), but you aren’t yet who you ... for nothing because it didn't pay off in the way I had wanted it to. And

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  ear. I want to bask in this feeling, write it down so that I can read ... of my eyelids, as if I can puzzle out reactions in my [annotation note="I ... hands can go only so many hours in a given week -- but also I wanted

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  otherworldly...I can't imagine reading at this point in time; I managed to get ... 's a weird experience. I can compartmentalize the last 14-ish months of ... , in retrospect, and I hope that I'm able to participate in at least one

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  In last week's blog entry Diversity or Merit? I included the ... air-quoting so hard I might sprain a knuckle) in their admissions ... - broadly defined - for college to matter.   I hope that this quote is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  this is fine some thoughts at the end of the semester

  

  it. All I want to do is lie in the sun and read a book, but... finals ... being on campus, and my freshman year in general. I don't really have any coherent thoughts, yet. But in this moment, I feel a lot of resentment for

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  gathering in Allston. I’m at Life Alive in Cambridge now, writing this, while ... . The runners were going about the pace I’d shoot for in a three-mile race ... ’t fit in entirely, but I liked their gatherings, in a different backyard

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  i haven't written about what's been happening in my life at all in the past month, not here nor in my personal notes. i want to say that i ... , because i'm graduating, and i can't support this forever. i'm kinda worried

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  I have a real-ish job I can spend more time out in the mountains that ... my disappointment when I'm eagerly waiting for a huge storm to blow in ... -ish snowstorm. Of course now school is in full swing and I'm running full-tilt to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  in a few hours than I have in a few months (I'll blame writer's block ... whatsoever about your love life. However, I do hope someone out there can ... -lighted many times, I was still definitely in love with him because I could still

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  I can begin to even explain where I've been. At the risk of sounding ... living it and participating in it. I was recently asked by my friend "Are you okay?" and in response, I described a bunch of things going on in my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  believe in hope I believe I can touch the sky if I try. With you beside me ... (which was very exciting, by the way - I have never been in a country with ... 's pretty much the same then at this time of the year. Although I can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  , existential crises, and everything in-between, I know I can go back to a group ... many questions about making friends in college that I even wrote a blog ... reputation, especially for us nerds. In particular, as a multiracial woman, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017