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  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  used to make me feel proud? Balance my work life and rest life. Besides ... ’t really mourned for the life i had since this all started, and i feel like i ... the effects of this virus inching closer and closer to my life back home

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  to complete the cycle. It’s the college circle of life. You will also ... regrets in life is that I didn't take more pictures in college. My excuse ... life, nowadays MIT helps a lot more on the job market than it did 12

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  in real life. In some ways, the concept of "hookup culture" was like ... people in your life, who give your life meaning and happiness. If you can ... own as far as the details of actually dealing with dating life goes! My

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  to undertake whatever course of action in life is most meaningful to

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  less romantic than it sounds. For the first time in my life, I'm hundreds

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  A cold and biting wind claws its way across campus, and a motley congregation gathered in the East Campus courtyard huddles together slightly closer. A man stands on the stage,…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  the love of his life. Forgive me if I spoil the ending, but “Jay Gatsby

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  failing at life. Rather, I thought that getting in would mean having access ... because you’ve been accepted and your life is complete, or because you’ve been rejected and your life is over. To make them happen, wherever you go

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  life goals? My parents said I couldn't take a job as a crab fisherman on

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  -worry-inducing gadgets, I realize just how much MIT has permeated every part of my life ... some cool pictures taken. You know MIT, you're alright. And life is good

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  are waiting to help you remove the weak elements in your life (CAUTION

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  When I applied to MIT, I didn’t consider whether the people of Boston would be as friendly as the people of Wisconsin. I probably wouldn’t have given it a second…

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  (I started this post wayyyyy back in January. Ask any blogger who's seen the unpublished posts; I just keep changing the date and planning to post it. I fail at life, I know.) I woke up on Wednesday morning at 11

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  semester, we chatted about major plans, extracurriculars, life at mit and how ... about his interest in entomology, seeing it as his most likely life path ... neglecting for the first 18 years of my life. in my freshman spring, i took 21

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  Jebby Every fall since 2014, Next Haunt puts together a horror-themed escape room in the Next House basement. In my opinion, it’s one of the coolest showcases of student culture…

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  understand the irony of that statement, since I am paid to share my life with ... lie and say that was me. In real life, I am an opinionated, fast ... account and started posting massive photo decks of my life. I should mention

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  earlier in life personally, during the college application process the ... . Know the resources and people in your life who you can utilize when you ... Thanksgiving, I hung out with two of my best friends who have been in my life

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  , me just being yet another ordinary kid living an ordinary life hoping ... green single subject with the words “Questions of Life” written on the ... , biological makeups, drug delivery ideas, and of course “Questions of life

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  realized I wasn't enjoying it anymore. In a past life I would have taken the ... actually, truly in love. But my daily life is wading through my inbox, trying ... wet rooftops outside my window. My life has become the sum of modest

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  supervisor ingenuously dreamt up my original life plan and presented it to me

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012