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• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  the tip of my tongue, and i can see it in the smiles that come more easily to the strangers i pass on my way home. it's finally warm enough that i can bring fresh air into my room and let my cat hop onto the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  ="aligncenter" width="300"] i drew this on my phone[/caption] Skiing! I missed the ... my research supervisor (Hans), I didn’t know how to ski, so I ended up ... the ski rental lodge lobby with snow in my boots and icicles in my hair

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] Your Guide to Boston Cafes a letter from chomps

  

  Jess: This is a guest post by my friend Grace Z. '25! I met her ... at MIT. I created @grx.chomps (originally @grxeats) during my freshman year as a private diary to document my food adventures in college. While

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Admitted Early

  

  remained patient Grindin' with my brothers, it was us against them, no one

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  briefly considered working on my crochet, but I got carsick without even ... . My sketch isn’t really very good. The drawings were all beautiful ... appeal of biting into apples, I thought to myself, after indulging in my

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  to be hitting this week. Last night my friends and I wandered from B1 ... friend who urops at my lab about our research over gluten-free cake in the ... in, took off my coat, and was immediately challenged to an arm wrestle

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  /11/thanksgiving-first-draft.mp3"][/audio] I had a very difficult time my freshman ... about my choice to come here was that sometimes I would visit my friends ... Thanksgiving break. I helped out with Thanksgiving at my dorm for the first time

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Simmons Cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat

  

  [/caption] Wait a second. … Oh. My. Goodness. … Could it be? A living ... yes yesyesyes!!! My prayers have finally been answered – Simmons has a ... ="aligncenter" width="768"] What a soft boy[/caption] Oh my! He’s such a sweet little

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  telling the tale some thoughts on acting, change, and meaning

  

  musical this spring! i have always loved musicals, and during my junior ... suddenly i was thinking about creating a character and how my emotions were ... defines my character"]shyeah.[/annotation] putting on a musical is

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 3, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  want to pound my head against a wall, and it costs hundreds of dollars ... is usually that the other water dispenser on my floor in the office is ... into my life. But first, I need to give you more background about how

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  By my count, there are 61 times I've referenced a song in one of my ... substitutions to some songs not on Spotify. Stats This is my 173rd post, so ... explicitly covers: Minsan, My Body Is a Cage, Dear Kuya, Mamma Mia, and Hurt

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] give us your words you have words. we want your words.

  

  poems that I write for my poetry workshop class and Alan writes for their ... ,[/annotation]and, for this year, my goal is simply to write as many sestinas as I can. Fatima: Last week, I also had sestina as the prompt for my poetry class. On

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  begged another TA to switch recitation spots with me and confirmed my attendance. My attendance at what, I did not know. At 7 pm yesterday, we ... to attend in person." I was now press! I straightened my coat and tried

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  data diaries inspired by Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec's "Dear Data"

  

  protein to get my first strict pull-up, so we split a ticket for sampling 10 ribs. We were stuffed by the time we got to rib #7. After dumping my ... .3102.[/annotation] The extra ruffle in my path plot is due to me forgetting my jacket

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  ’ll reopen my firehose/Courseroad/[annotation note="website that shows which ... upperclassman right now. just let me live my wee underclassman days for one last blog"]upperclassmen[/annotation] to once again rearrange my schedule

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  (The subtitle is from my unpatented and unholy mix of the songs ... Swift, with which I have been annoying my family for almost a decade now ... New York, and I hate living alone. My friends have already heard me

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  you & i will always be back then time is an illusion that helps things make sense

  

  me. I started watching it with my high school boyfriend in junior year ... to be too childish for my tastes, as the show is riddled with moments ... watching the show after breaking up with my boyfriend, with the show

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  :10 am: I am going to apply to grad school with my entire personal statement being that I want my cells to have spec sheets.   2:13 am ...   2:26 am: oh my god there are more I’m going to listen to

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  I Could Never Do it Alone People of a semester, thank you

  

  I finished my first semester at MIT. There's so much to write about. I could write about my IAP UROP. Or the Infinite Magazine. Or getting ... use my final post of 2021 to share the best part of MIT — the people. I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 19, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  kickoff the season, I thought I'd share a little bit about my acceptance to ... my elementary school parking lot alone. Vienna by Billy Joel was on the radio. It was drizzling. I parked facing the forest and turned my

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 6, 2021