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• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  life My time in COVID The ghost toilet in my basement (Trying to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I (don’t) want the summer to end me writing poetry? what a concept

  

  I don’t want the summer to end. I don’t want to pack the rice cooker and carry my laptop through campus; don’t want to fold my sheets all neat and…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  girls just wanna have fun when u gonna live ur life right?

  

  My father yells "What you gonna do with your life?" Oh daddy dear ... my fan experience and my life as a fan. I recently had to give a ... in my career and what I'm doing with my life. As a kid, I never really

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 24, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  list of things that refill my will to live things to do when i don't want to do anything

  

  probably the longest hug in my life thinking that if i buy another thing ... enjoying /r/hollowknightmemes the fray's how to save a life sleeping at

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  —where I can lay them to rest without feeling like they’re gone from my life ... like the haze had lifted in my life. I was lying in the grass just in ... . Or maybe as a reminder that there was a different kind of life in store

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  hope springs eternal a warm feeling

  

  are already signs of life. People have, slowly but surely, began to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  essays, splaying my life story to strangers in interviews, and thinking ... it can bring to someone's life. Even from a purely secular perspective ... life. I'm aching for the social rituals of greeting people with hugs and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  i visit Cape Cod and discover the most beautiful beach on Earth

  

  less. i have never ordered a venti in my LIFE. before we reached the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 24, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  An MIT Community Vigil for Black Lives

  

  particularly of Ben’sposts on Amaud Arbery and Life of a Black Person

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

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  assorted candy congrats! you don’t know what you want out of life. but who ... your life together.    mostly 4’s Smarties congrats! nobody

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  a gcal september never really used it until now

  

  you want to). in this way, the gcal becomes a more accurate life log of ... care of myself and feeling like i have actual structure in my life for

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Boston’s Climate Strike youthful activism

  

  began to feel hopeful. For one of the first times in my life, I stopped in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 20, 2019
• 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. You can go back to 2012 to Qiaochu's post about his life in the cloud; back to 2014 for my post on how I read applications; Nisha's post in 2018

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  lessons learned this summer reflecting back on a summer that flew by

  

  your phone at work having no social life has its ups and down clothes

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 2, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  Thank You for unity and kindness

  

  and continued on with my life. I avoided social media for the next 24

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 18, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  living in a universe of Organic Chemistry. To the point where Orgo and real-life ... . To label it "the synthesis of life" or even "the synthesis of my future ... materials are. You simply let life carry you from one reaction to the next

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  peek into my life during the last 3 weeks. Adding pastel green to ... ): figuring out our life purpose, what we want to do after we graduate. After ... quickly as possible. That was the hardest exam I've ever taken in my life

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Killing Time…Not Really guest post by Sheila B.'21

  

  *written by Sheila B. ’21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest post series* Lesson learned–you should always have a backup plan. Or improvise. After end of…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  While some of us have spent the first week of freedom from classes doing essentially nothing (I’m @ing myself), other MIT students have hit the ground running with meaningful projects…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fig. 4: Study with me! A semi-productive Sunday afternoon vlog (feat. an hour trying to find a printer)

  

  Grüezi mitenand! Thought I'd give you all a quick update on how life is 6'014 km away from the 'Tvte. Time flies (seriously), and I ... quick look at what a day in my life looks like here in Switzerland, I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 30, 2018