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• Blog / About Decisions

  the life I could’ve lived it’s like one of those “what if” episodes

  

  For most of high school, I knew exactly which college I wanted to go to. I planned out my major, looked through course offerings, and ... school Hala, she would’ve confidently told you she was going to go to the

  • by Hala K. '29
  • April 12, 2026
• Blog / Advice

  everyone* knows each other sin limite/ebony affair/cpw psa; class of 2030 discord plug

  

  , and similar circles. These circles tend to intersect and so even if not ... high schoolers such as MITES (MIT Introduction to Technology, Engineering ... to MIT, I hadn't interacted with these circles[annotation note

  • by Victor D. '27
  • April 9, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life But make it four

  

  little montage where you get to see the live comparison of how each person spends their day. My roommates and I wanted to do the same thing but in ... our best to snap a picture every hour of what we were doing at the

  • by Gloria Z. '26 MEng '27
  • February 10, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

  mission to bake as many cookies as possible and hand them out to people I ... school backpack, slipping them under the desk to friends during class. So ... ="The icing on the cake, the cake is a lie, to take the cake, and cakewalk

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  easily to the strangers i pass on my way home. it's finally warm enough ... windowsill. recently, most people i've talked to have been high-strung and uncertain. recently, it has been hard to see the good in the world. recently

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  he likes it that way! If I ever write my autobiography, I’m going to ... moved to South Carolina (where they were from originally) and I left my community of friends behind. I plan on going back to Panama this year. We are

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  tote bag tour i have so many things to carry

  

  floppy rectangle of yellow there. I tried my best to retreat under the guise of functionality: this one’s dark enough to hold tubes of paint, and that one’s foldable enough to take on the go, I cried silently. I need

  • by Gloria Z. '26 MEng '27
  • May 2, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  ever fall into the Charles River that borders MIT campus, you can swim to one of the shores. The river is 200 yards wide, so you would need to ... ![/annotation] You are required to swim 4 laps in the pool without stopping, with 3

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  school, and my parents also didn’t go to college, so I couldn’t ask them ... what to expect. While the information I learned was useful, it couldn ... to the humanities, but I’ve quickly learned that this just isn’t true

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  faith in the future

  

  The more I try to push it I realize gonna let go of control In my AP ... ; specifically what comes to mind is the Schachter-Singer theory, where the ... identify them. It feels a lot like trying to untangle jewelry; I try to undo

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid

  

  January"]IAP[/annotation] when I was just about to prep materials for my spring classes, I got a positive test last Wednesday and had to quarantine in my room. I feel a lot better compared to the first few days of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  myself to different perspectives and value systems was incredibly ... who has been raised to mythical proportions. We also dipped into the ... of the Fae was used to grieve loved ones, ie a mother that died in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023
• Blog / Events

  LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue

  

  Have you ever wanted to be a performer but can’t sing or dance? Why ... screen or talk to one of our personnel after the show. LSC – it doesn ... the LSC intro before Jojo Rabbit gave me the urge to become a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  , we were assigned to read Raymond Queneau's classic Exercises in Style ... style, ranging from "Hesitation" to "Tactile" to "Spoonerisms". We ... assigned to narrate a short story of our own, in both our favorite and least

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  subway to and from work. I spend most of my free time wandering around the streets of NYC. I’ve made two weekend trips to and from Boston via the Amtrak train, and more recently a day trip to Providence, RI also via

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  you want it to be. That most people don't actually take six classes a ... 't that bad. That was one of my last reservations about committing to MIT ... of junior fall, I lied to my advisor for the first time. He looked at

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  prelude. I used to be a (slightly) strange child. I once failed a ... ” was, anyways, but it was easier to pretend I just misunderstood the ... to put on a human mask every few hours, but I’d grow out of it. There

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  got switched to hard mode for me after November started (and no, this has nothing to do with the November Rule). I finally have time to actually work on a blog post now, so I've decided to recap my past three

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  i saw twenty one pilots at td garden in boston live music is very much alive and here to stay

  

  I wanted to share that with you all. trigger warnings: talks of suicidal thoughts, depression, etc. background I started going to concerts ... barricades, I was hooked, and I knew I had to go to concerts for the rest of my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  Meet the baby bloggers! you have to read that to the tune of meet the flintstones

  

  "]annual[/annotation]excitement: I get to introduce you to this year's crop of baby bloggers. To hire ... wonderful group of people. And now you, like us, get to laugh, cry, and lose ... welcome to: Alice L. '24 of California, who definitely has not drunk cell

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 24, 2021