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• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  in Hawaii. My dad was, and his parents, and their parents all were, so ... culture never really became a significant part of my identity. So am I “from North Carolina”? A mainland girl at heart? Nothing can beat my dad

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  dumb little poems and such emotional support procrastination

  

  pretend my midterm doesn't exist my midterm will disappear if i pretend it doesn’t exist if i set down my pen maybe go firespin it will vanish from my todo-list i’m getting tired of fourier transforms these

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 7, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  self-destruction my entirely self-inflicted problems

  

  him to an idiot, a lunatic, a catatonic.” 1am: i climb onto my bed and try to fall asleep. unfortunately my neighbors are having a lengthy ... interview. i was pretty nervous for it - it was my first ever in-person job

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  back to Boston, because my time there really made me appreciate how much ... classes I've ever taken in my MIT career; not out of a dislike of myself or ... -class semesters and I need 180 units beyond my requirements to graduate

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  “This is it,” I thought as I submitted my last college essay. “I ... on my mind: What is a “white paper”? What do they mean by ... bearings. They also answered my question about what a white paper should be

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Write Academic Papers a look into how i wrote my final paper

  

  start is reading the given prompt. This was my prompt for my CMS.616 Games ... journals listed at my resource page at http ... be really interesting to do my paper on spectatorship and Twitch and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  did you choose to do 21E? I spent a lot of my time going back and forth ... tough. So I agonized over my decision -- should I suffer through a degree I don't like for the sake of getting it? I knew of 21E, but I had my

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

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  hollow since I only have two grades that count toward my GPA (physics and Spanish) so my GPA doesn't really mean much. Get a summer internship ... friends. It was definitely one of the highlights of my summer in Virginia

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  yet i maintain composure manu tenere “i hold by hand”

  

  follow. my partner is lead, but so far, i can hold my own; he doesn’t need ... two behind; forward forward lock forward, which, in my mind, is step ... , we just did that call last night. my mind says step step cross step

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  sadly in my wordpress at this current moment, but have not had any time to ... post about this before the end of the semester...i'm doing my best ... to be spending all my time doing"]working on my UROP[/annotation]. i

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  There is a bench it’s a nice bench

  

  buy lunch, and work on my problem set in the lounge at our floor. Head ... one of these events. Or I’m going to one of my discovery classes in the evenings. Or I’m square dancing. (This is my PE class.) Or I’m eating dinner

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 19, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  summer tidbits a picture and annotations

  

  the rest comes out of my paycheck. TT i'm going to anime expo in LA this ... personal trip to portland, just to explore a nearby cool city on my own. :) i ... ."][/annotation] [annotation note="if i'm at work on my macbook, this is the top bar / desktop

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a shoebox pc clips of summer

  

  before i know it, it's halfway through summer: i started my ... been like and smile. of course, the buses for my commute are always late ... git reset will take back my commits. i can't say i know these well. but

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  past three years of my life. And in the blink of an eye, I’ve gone from ... the living room being a place for my “experiments.” I grew up gluing ... . My very first science experiment was a naive effort to demonstrate the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  this consistently and it is not the “norm” of my life, I actually ... how can you possibly go on. I think, in contrast to Kate, my self ... spring break, one of my smallest cousins died. She was around ten years old

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One more baby blogger Or blogger baby? I don’t know, is it the same?

  

  resume — strictly speaking, she hasn’t actually been born yet. She’s my ... least if I go by the frequency of kicks to my ribcage during my physiology ... me to do interviews for my first season as an EC (I mean, like, inside

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Vending Machines at MIT Because it needed to be done.

  

  would fail my test even harder than I was already going to fail it. I usually never drink soda, but I didn’t want to steal from my hall fridge. So ... ’t accept my friend’s 5-dollar bill. A normal person probably would have given

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another one! The return to campus, round III

  

  Last Sunday may not have been my first time coming back to MIT, but I ... pledges, the sidewalks were a maze of storage boxes and moving carts, and my ... spending two-thirds of my summer in the unfamiliar chaos of a foreign country

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • September 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  My second year of college just ended. I’ve been trying to think of a good post to write on the occasion, or some significant reflection on my ... to have things sort of figured out in my mind, so I can say something

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch and a bonus video of a cat chasing a spider.

  

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch is one of my favorite events at MIT. It ... glassblowing courses. I missed it this year, but I pulled up my photos from last ... . It's one of my favorite things ever. For more, watch the below MITnews

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 5, 2014