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• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  in my inbox: friends, romans, countrymen, significant others, others ... MIT") alike. I set my sights on the ultimate heart attack: The Viagra ... applied and was accepted EA last year (my application was sent in a little

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  , my roommate needs me") to get out as fast as possible. I tried to ... I like to tell myself that I've escaped my high school demons. That ... 't still make my heart beat at an uncomfortable rate and tie up my tongue to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  Sunday, October 6th   12:00 PM: I wake up. When I pick up my phone to look at the time, my heart skips a beat. Noon? Already?!? I planned on waking up at ten at the latest, but both me and my roommate slept

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  means I finally finished my EMT training! Yay! Of course, I still have to ... bit...rude/standoffish. so my mind kinda went into the "blank, what in ... this from my personal CPW experience.) You stay with this host during CPW

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here

  

  something that I could actually do when I saw a post my boyfriend's sister had ... arranging my shirts in my closet at school, and didn't feel like tearing ... started slowly packing up my room again in November. At this point, I could

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 27, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents too…really!! ...a helpful guide for parents (I hope

  

  should I attend with my child?" In truth, there won't be very many of them ... Barker Engineering Library. It's one of my favorite rooms on the campus ... , activities, dining options, roommate matching and more. Come learn about all

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  's wrong with me. when my roommates spot me with my work laptop on the couch ... are on campus, or near campus. i spent my time with my classmates. i ... . this summer, and my internship, are different in a lot of ways. the bay

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  fall, my obsession continues.  So when walking back from dinner at New Vassar with my roommate, I was appalled to hear he missed out on the ... rekindled my love of the movie and feel inclined to revisit it. Now I know I

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  1.30 am) just to turn in floor(x/2) of my assignments. some days are ... my window and breathe in the fresh air; and sometimes when i'm walking through stata i see a baby so cute that everything else seems a little less

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  Hello Internet! I'm briefly poking my head into the blogosphere as a ... person I got into a relationship with at MIT is now my boyfriend :) We ... documentaries. More frequently, I force myself out of my room to go wander around

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  time one of my friends brought some tea from China, so we had a cute ... writing about what my IAP looked like, i thought the best way to share what ... concert back in august![/caption] hello blog!!! my name is sarah and i am a

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  ? of course, growing up, the answer was my family. i woke up one morning craving the napa cabbage and meatball soup that my dad used to make. along with the phantom taste of salt and light broth on my tongue, there was

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  SLP-F9FD20PWLMX0 I primarily use my iPad, SLP-F9FD20PWLMX0 to take ... nothing more, SLP protested greatly when my friend tried to download Genshin ... believes in my ability to improve, despite my chronic inability to focus on

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  the giant beanbag on which my roommates and I have slept on more times ... This week, hands down, has been the most chaotic one of my life. I ... less than five days. I screamed in anguish with my friends on [annotation

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  thought was cute. I miss when that was the biggest thing on my mind. I miss ... that was stopping me was a 750 word essay on my greatest challenges that ... Mr. Hometown, and my coworkers. I miss taking home a large pizza

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  with my roommates rui and tiffany who i will miss so so dearly when they ... one of my labmates has a friend from elementary school who was on the ... elementary school as "filled with friends." i think that's how my life can be

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  in my cute short dress, it looked like someone had taken a baseball bat ... Hello everybody! My name is Katy and I’m a senior studying electrical engineering (6-1). Joel has kindly let me write a blog post for him about my

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  I'm having a lot more fun with it now than ever before. My roommate ... Today was my first full day back on campus! This summer was a ... MIT friends before officially arriving back to my very-not-unpacked dorm

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  21M.601 (Drawing for Designers). It's one of my favorite classes so far ... whole at MIT). I focus more on the struggle of drawing, a selection of my ... , for the larger part of my life, I’ve thought of myself as very bad at

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  too well. If you get in, here's a virtual mug of my favorite [annotation ... honey[/caption] Here’s my deferral story. It's pretty angsty. I was an ... strong. By June, I had written first drafts of my essays for MIT and

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021