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• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  Japanese suburbs. Combine all that with my winning sense of direction and you ... train to look for my house. A woman helped me carry my luggage up two flights of stairs from the subway, then looked at my map and declared, "I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  It’s official: my blogging hiatus has ended. It has been a crazy ... drafts, second drafts, third drafts, galore!), trying to finish up my ... my research (2 poster presentations + a lab presentation), writing

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  my German dorm for this summer, laundry costs about half a euro per ... our plight. Sam: "Yeah, I really need to do get some money on my laundry ... children. And now it's time for a short story about my hair. Sometime around

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  where I remain silent adds another weight of guilt onto my back and I ... little more critical of what I post. I've been rereading my old blogs and there's such a spark and pep in my voice when I write, a passion and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  ways in my life that I've used task management, especially for goal ... other than maybe keeping a list of to-dos in Google Keep, or my ... setting is for the summer. During my summers, I always try to set some

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  my new year's resolutions. Since I didn’t blog that much during the spring, I went through my journal and picked out some of the memories and ... braids for the first time. Luckily, I got my hair done by another student

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  90-something days of summer (Part 1) MIT people around the world

  

  :)). Anyway, as you can tell from my post tittle, I wanna talk a little bit ... at MIT and my crazyfrightenthelivingdaylightsoutofme 9-paper exam at ... though, because I love what I am studying! My life:    Anyway back to

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  are some more updates on my travels thus far (I made it a "supersize ... :30am. I begin my drive to Ann Arbor to meet up with a friend for lunch ... over my presentation for a bit, then stretch my legs and walk around for

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21W.762 Poetry Workshop some poems from the class!

  

  and so I have decided to share my (bad) poetry and my peers' (good ... class that's showed me how to be more comfortable with my writing and take more risks. Though my poetry isn't good by any means, I thought it would

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  , and when I checked My MIT account it said that there wasn't an interviewer available in my area and that the interview had been waivered. I ... greatest enjoyment in participating in. How bad will this look on my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  surprised me; where, despite the odds, my heart is full to bursting, bringing a certain buoyancy into my steps which match my momentary lightness of ... day of my second vaccine shot, I walk across the parking lot to the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  on in my life: it feels like there's nothing going on. or maybe, more ... all of a sudden it was finals week. my only two finals were both on ... to spend a whole week studying. i kinda wished both of my finals were

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  ’d like to think so). Unfortunately, at MIT, most of my computational power ... when the Bad Ideas Weekend email (and subsequent reminder email) hit my ... Ideas Weekend was my calling. I sent in two event proposals, and thought

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  extensions way past reasonable deadlines. Along with my S^3 Dean and other ... almost everything about my life at MIT, including my major, but excluding my living group. I started multiple drafts about not dealing well with

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  twelve. My big sisters were excited about the new house, but I wasn’t. I ... . The back yard was mostly dirt and tumbleweed, and my sisters and I ... , two of my sisters shared a room, and my other sister’s room could only

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  everybody has way more free time to spend on the Internet, so my internship ... person I had planned to use my entire housing stipend on a very nice ... history - has really reframed my priorities in life. So, instead of living

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  , one of my friends from hall, Lisa T. '20, and I decided to do "poemtober ... to see what just sprang out of my pen and what was really hard to write ... have mixed feelings about my own writing in the moment, as one does, but

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  In the past five weeks or so, the pace of my life has dramatically ... there, that is. My January looked a little differently. In fact, I’d say that my January was more representative of the average student’s here. I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  icebreakers that I’ve done this year are somehow more interesting than usual; my ... our name, and my [annotation note="Intro to Algorithms, a class that is currently kicking my ass"]6.1210[/annotation] TA asked us for our favourite

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  've reached this strange turning point in my life where I want to do things more ... to get it. My life is getting infinitely more complex. I have to think about applications and a mEng, my GPA and the quality of my research

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023