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• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  . as with any piece of writing, there is no obligation to read further if ... 's important to explicitly remind you that it's ok to not read this. covid is still ongoing and you might just not want to think about things any more

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter

  

  pretty much the same: after all, flowers were finally starting to bloom en ... it was hard not to forget that I had psets for a couple of days. Here’s some of what I got up to!   Name [latex]2^n[/latex] Women: Dorm

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  STARS (Small-Town and Rural Student) Ambassadors, to give you a quick recap of everything we’ve been up to this past year. Spoiler alert: it ... applying to college, I sometimes felt like I didn’t have people to turn to

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  tl;dr it’s cool to explore interests completely different from what ... response to the application essay question “what department or program at MIT appeals to you,” I wrote:  Pursuing Course 6.3 and UROPing at the Media Lab

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  Hi everyone! It’s good to be back here, on this familiar platform but very different website. I’m so not used to it that I still drafted this ... fancier back-end I could have used (unbeknownst to you all).  The last time

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  respite from a very busy IAP (which I'll hopefully get to blogging about eventually...). But since I don't really have anything interesting to say about IAP yet, and I couldn't think of a single unified topic to write about

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  , because you get to see where all the creative energy of the student body ... Cooking" and "How to Make a Bike". Or those who want to explore a new field ... MIT—an intensive entrepreneurship workshop that runs over IAP, open to any member of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  time to have fun. I promised to write more about the fun stuff I've been doing, and this is that post! Here's some of what I've been up to :D 1 ... from here when I lived on campus, so really this used to be my local

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goal setting and organization how i organize my life!

  

  nice to highlight how I organize my day to day tasks and how I track ... tools I utilize to track changes and make sure I'm where I want to be. Fit ... probably necessary to track my health, sleep, steps, and heart rate somehow

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  play dough

  

  I'm a very Type A person, I'd say. I tend to need to be in control of ... come later than they originally said they were going to. I'm impatient ... things are out of place, which is funny because to the average viewer, my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  Last week, non-seniors who want to live on campus in the [annotation ... dorms was an experience in and of itself. In trying to figure out who [annotation note="we were allowed to staple with a group of up to eight people

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  reminded me of my own experience getting piercings my freshman year. To me ... gained from going to college and getting my first paid (on-campus) job ... , not permission" to more of my interactions with my parents. I've been

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  love the way the evergreens seem to stretch up to the sky, and enclosed ... receiving the head scritches I am dying to give them. [carousel image1 ... of getting to them without a car was too high. I've found that the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  little power to actually change anything. There’s no ‘taking my anger to ... wake up every morning to reminders that you once had less rights than a ... , in broad daylight, when a policeman chokes an unarmed black man to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  getting shit done. i love setting goals because they offer opportunities to be productive, but more often than not, i end up, uh, not committing to ... few weeks ago, and dedicated a few hours to laying out everything and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  free time and loneliness. While I generally try not to literally do ... hard to continually motivate myself to finish my outstanding psets and ... it's okay to feel unmotivated right now, though. The world is an

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  quick thoughts to keep up my new years resolution

  

  In my New Year's Resolutions post, I wanted to make a promise to blog ... wanted to update with some thoughts and things since the spring semester ... and talking with people, I made the ultimate decision to drop 6.009. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  . In many ways, I am now, since coming to MIT, more like my fifth grade self than my high school self. It's hard to tell if this is because of ... . It's been a long semester. I had to take four course 16 classes, and I

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  be filled with all kinds of sights and experiences that I would want to ... week that I didn’t find the time (or the energy) to step away from it all to write things down. Fully immersing myself in every single moment

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

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  as I stare at my completed 7.014 exam. I get up to hand the thick packet to a TA and I waltz out of the Z-Center, the sun bathing me in its ... economics, and am ready to embark on the next adventure: an internship in New

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018