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• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  and realized that repeating years of my life with full knowledge of ... . My answer is always because I love learning, and I love taking classes ... inflicted upon me—means being okay with having less money or status than my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  rush wilg bunnies inside this blog post

  

  know us from my previous blog post where I investigated a fire that ... difficult to look back on my time at MIT and not also see it as my time at WILG, since the two are so inextricably intertwined. My memories of dorm

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 13, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  Back in September, I wrote my first blog. I called it Things I Know ... won't like in the future. As a challenge to myself, I'm putting my ... points. Here are some of the things I've learned to be true from my

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  civilization you expect me to just work a chill tech/quant job and relax in my free time and not care about my impact on the world? you think i can just ... left my mind since. i think this is because the ideas the grad student

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  a season of secondhand joy on mudita and vicarious delight

  

  's the kind that makes me want to move my head to the music, to move my ... . so many of my friends had so many different performances, and i could ... shakespeare ensemble or the toons or asian dance troupe or tech twinkles. my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Listing It All Out you get a list and you get list and you get a list

  

  naps than studying in my opinion. Add in the pretty comfortable green ... My Life 11.011 - The Art and Science of Negotiation 5.12 - Organic ... distance  from my dorm to feel like an excursion of a sort CAVA - also in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 29, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  the first of my grad school app deadlines: an application to the NSF ... telling a [annotation note="you all are my friends yes? yes. good ... and resubmit it based on comments from my TA. Some of you might also be

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Parting Remarks Part II: The Blogger Bio That Was I just graduated!

  

  bio/about section of my blogger profile, which I wrote in either August or September of 2016. I thought, in the style of my last blog post, I would write some snappy lines about how my bio no longer captures how I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  particularly memorable. Until eventually, my standards raise to the point that ... in Ilocos Norte. The day after my sixteenth birthday I ditched school ... trip took two hours. It was the farthest I had ever traveled on my own

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  my time at M*T. All this has been fine, until this week when I've been ... work. (Or I'll try my best, and no hard feelings if it doesn't.) vital ... ; hated the idea of being the only anthropology major in my year; pined

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  York’s JFK airport (where my trans-atlantic flight was leaving from) out ... my initial introduction to Italian hot chocolate, which should make the ... . Day 5: Pavia, the titular city of the province and the city of my

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  're sitting on for this view. It was an exciting day for my Fitbit. My team and ... to stay on top of my work.” How I look at it now is “I have made a ... GSL lead and my friend :) The weather was a little indecisive about

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Introducing the New 2017 Bloggers Let's get ready to ruuummmmble!

  

  characters left to adequately describe the full extent of my obsession, so ... wore to major competitions (and also to my MIT interview) My face while ... legitimate tears of joy for the first time in my life when a Playstation 4

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  Marathon, for the first time since 2013, when the Tsarnaev brothers killed my ... of this blog may recall my post, last April, about MIT and the Marathon ... happened to me: overuse injuries in my knees and hips that never got any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  . Welcome to my dorm's implementation of CPW! MAC.0001: Introduction to Mac ... in F entry (my home). About half of us are on the meal plan, while the ... MacGregor people. I missed it (smh bad blogger), so no pics for you. My

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  freshman spring in which today is the first day of spring

  

  becomes infeasibly heavy. I keep these thoughts close to my heart more than ever lately: I tread a very fine line. My committments, classes, psets ... in the differential equation, the system that is my life, and I am oh

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  spring notes resilience, change, warm weather, Santa Fe

  

  sleeve shirt instead of my sister's Tin-Tin t-shirt with the arms cut off, but when light comes in my window I wake up optimistic) and I ate my breakfast on the back porch. I had class at Harvard, the only school

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 18, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  firehose of insulin right through my veins. by admissions' own Holly ... (including my first choice, the only real school I was excited to attend ... . In my life, I've applied to nine graduate programs. I've been admitted

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  few of my friends in DUSP, and their stories about getting here ... volunteered abroad in high school, in Guatemala twice and India once, shaping my ... passions. My first major is electrical engineering and computer science

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  , Firefly. I've shaken hands with my boss's boss, which puts me two degrees of ... afterwards). I've been sunburned twice, and I can now use my watch tan to tell ... writing classes I'm hoping to take. I'm excited to see my friends perform in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014