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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  , but I can't think of a pithy way to put everything together, so I wrote ... ; I'm also wary of involving myself in arguments on social media. I ... Phone today--deleted a list of songs I discovered in Iceland, the Athena cluster

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Announcements

  An MIT Community Vigil for Black Lives

  

  have all said it better than I can, so I instead of writing more myself ... Communications Officer in the office of Graduate Education Heather Konar ... I think I speak for many members of the MIT community when I say that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 4, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas in December and July

  

  I'm back at my parents' home now (watching reruns of Buffy the ... imagined, though it isn't large by the standards of national parks in the ... , and I was surprised at the amount of respect the exhibits paid to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  journal. I anticipated that the next ten days in the epicenter of AIDs would ... part of me that doesn’t feel like I’m in a new place though. That in some ... then I thought of writing it all out in bullet points, but the sheer

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s the PI-nal countdown! Don't roll your eyes at me.

  

  rejection letter. And the best way I can think of to calm your nerves right ... decimal places (yes yes, in honor of the class of 2015 because I love y ... the fact that I hadn't gotten in and only checked my account to confirm

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 12, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  was the boldest decision I made in my life, but also one of the best. I ... , because it's really really fun. It’s not something I can fully describe in ... of calm and focus I usually don’t get in the hectic day-to-day of an

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  memorial for a dorm goodbye east campus (for now)

  

  east campus and the death of this room in particular 62h306 today i ... isn't even really that long in the scale of places i've stayed in but ... to me graduating, or of my time in mit, because after i leave ec i won

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  Ever since I first visited MIT in the summer of 2007, I knew that the ... first classes, turning in my first p-set, the clubs I've become part of ... talk to some of the current students. I was on campus for a grand total

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Managing a Full Plate Both Food and Life

  

  refreshing in these last few weeks. In my last post, I uploaded a picture of my ... semester in differential equations. I walked out of the exam room confident ... of the times in high school when I would stay after school ranting to

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 26, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  can no longer be a part of “When people ask me why I live in ... of loneliness can be cured.” when i first listened to this episode ... , except i suppose they’re also allowed to be in the office. but when you

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Good Morning, Sportsracers! *erases introductory post draft for the umpteenth time in the vain hope that he'll stick…

  

  to taste, and I live in East Campus.") but I feel a weird level of ... 're gonna fit in here just fine." I wore my beanie through the entirety of CPW ... -heavy) trying to fight back the fears of blogging I've had in the past. Discarding

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Upside-Down Letters We will get to the bottom of whatever caused this error, that much I can…

  

  inexcusable and all of us are beside ourselves in embarassment and frustration. We will get to the bottom of whatever caused this error, that much I ... -bad letter even worse. I only hope that you can accept our apology and

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  Loved Rhetoric with Strang. I can say that now because I got my name picked out of a hat to stay in his class. If I'd known it would come to ... with it, I just can't imagine a class laying such an egg in my schedule

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Over here things are different. Life is about the same.

  

  me, that I can hold my own. I'm beginning to really take pride in my work and in what I'm capable of. And maybe one of these days I can ... snowstorm outside my window. So I sat in bed for an hour watching it. The

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  but her emails how to assert?

  

  To Me. I am self-conscious about the number of "I"s in my writing ... as a result of their Womanhood. In fact, I expressed these thoughts to ... to compete. I [annotation note="we live in a society, man"]can't fix

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 5, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  ? for example: in confronting the self, i discuss how my feelings of ... of ihtfp, how it can both mean "i hate this fucking place" and "i have ... had lots of things i was looking forward to in the fall. that last post

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  acquaintances. However, I do have a very small amount of special people in my life I can consider true friends. There are those people in your life that ... ’t know I live in the #1 dorm on all of MIT campus #BURTONCONNERORDEATH

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fraternities @ MIT They're quite a Rush.

  

  other Greek men, I have a great deal of pride in not only my own ... and the same triumphs - both of which can be found in abundance at MIT ... When I was a freshman, an upperclassman friend of mine described MIT

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Bloggerduction a challenger appears

  

  write a math blog, Annoying Precision. I'm interested in a lot of ... Hi! I'm Qiaochu Yuan. That's "chow-chew," as in ... lot about it, too. I'm interested in physics, cognitive science and

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 1, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  encouragement in these stories of students like these. edit: A few days later, I ... . Thankfully, I haven't paid much attention to that last bit of advice. In terms ... In May 2016, I wrote Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later, where I shared the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018