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• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  My first impression of MIT was through Math Prize for Girls, and it ... a weird sense of nostalgia every time I walk past Flour on my way to ... at Math Prize all over again; that Covid might end and my high school

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  being suspended in this void for a few seconds, my legs swaying back and ... onto a lane divider, gasping for breath as chlorine stung the back of my sinuses.   Friday marked my first full month of classes at MIT. Back

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  Whether I like it or not, my senior year at MIT is coming to a close ... trying again and again to write my [annotation note="although i am very ... reflect on my MIT experience, to talk about what was most valuable to me

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  —how have I changed in the last year? I suppose that I'm more confident in my ... nail down. Have I become more independent? How have my values changed ... , though, I find glimpses of my past, and it brings me some clarity. In 2018

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Subtle Art of Being Unhosed what i've learned and what i'm still working on

  

  I’ve been spending most of my writing ability and brain power working ... in the future. That plus my involvement with MIT’s fall planning plus my remote internship have kept me HOSED. Compared to past summers, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  senior appreciation post in which i rant about my idol

  

  specifically my relationship with one mentor who has grown into more of a sister ... how to balance my time, prioritize my health and wellbeing, study, eat healthy, cook, deal with my kinky hair, try out new flavours of alcohol

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 15, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  fun. the band, but also the form

  

  This is a short appreciation post for fun., one of my favorite bands ... right now. It feels as if my schedule this semester doesn’t have a lot of free time. Objectively, I know this isn’t true; my Mondays and Tuesdays

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Chasing Success idk what that means anymore.

  

  really just me trying to work through my t h o u g h t s --------------- I vividly remember the day I received my SAT scores. The sky was a ... walked around that day, seeing four-digit numbers float above my classmates

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 5, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  cuts and scratches littering my hands fueled my trek to campus. Today was the last chance I had to work on and impound my robot. It didn't work ... , but the fundamental problems with my robot, Flipstream, were too

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  ). Pick my battles. I was incredibly argumentative as a child, and I learned ... hill you want to die on. On a similar note, every word out of my mouth ... whether or not to wash my hair at night (believe it or not, I’ve once

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  100% Completion It’s pretty hard to do, but I’m going to try.

  

  HELLO WORLD and welcome to my playthrough of a new game - college! I ... , but if I can finish all of them, I’ll consider myself decently on my way ... here. Sidequest 2: Get my Pirate Certificate. To be honest, this is

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2017 it's never too early to start reminiscing

  

  front while both my friends met Tim Cook outside of the bathroom."   ... post. But now I'm going through these photos and it's making me miss my ... wasn't given a ticket to Commencement. So I went with my friend in the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things That Happened! Since I've been gone~

  

  Wow! It’s been a while since my last blag. I couldn’t blag during IAP ... established myself somewhat now. In my UROP, which I’ve had for 5 semesters now ... community--I recently ended my term as president of the Ethiopian

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  quick dispatch from my new room on the first floor of senior haus, just to share how my semester is going. somehow, 1.5 weeks into classes ... semester where i am genuinely excited about all of my classes! i'm in: 14

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  my final semester without taking any classes elsewhere. I signed up for ... -minute remedy. From the course description I judged it right up my alley, my cup ... architecture or urbanism class. And it is my cup of tea. So I spend every Monday

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  , I realized that it would probably be in my best interest to take the tunnels instead of freezing and trying to make my way through snow-covered sidewalks. I had yet to master the tunnels and navigate through them on my

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Institute of Contemporary Art College Night #2 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  Book Fair here) My 20th birthday was pretty perfect. It started an hour before midnight with one of my friends encouraging me to get pumped about ... developments, I will soon gain access to the front of my cerebral cortex, where

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  community: The probability of my vote affecting the outcome of an election is so low that casting a vote is a waste of my time. But what if the value ... little over a year ago, I visited my City Councilor during his weekly

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  Engineering, and one of the most awesome experiences of my life has been rowing ... sport and can’t imagine my MIT years without it. I am sharing my story ... pool, but I wanted to continue my involvement in sports at MIT. I felt it

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  this all in one go in my remaining 47 minutes on the train, instead of ... misty background of my mental landscape. Knowing me, it really is one or ... beginning of the transformative conquering of my sole remaining fear, writing

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015