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• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  kind of like it." My roommate this semester told me that "you seem ... of my life—the SuperUROP corresponding to 6.UAR, a year-long class structured around a fixed research project; my newly-minted role as Dorm

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• 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
• Blog / MIT Life

  a state of moving ny --> ma, macg adventures

  

  Providence. It was a bit hectic once I got to Boston because of all my luggage ... who helped me carry my luggage at some points on campus, which I am ... ="64142" image2="64117" image3="64113" /] Moving into Macgregor, my first

  • by Waly N. '24
  • April 5, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  that’s probably for the best. My roommates wouldn’t appreciate it much if ... -gritty details and hundreds of cool pictures, check out my hiking blog. I’m going to take this space to connect what happened out there to my future at

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  my favorite/most-interested-in topic. Half of it was all the cute ... . What follows is the very long and detailed crisis I had in picking my ... wanted to major in physics--I've always loved math, and space has been my

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  Last month, my friends and I saw Mitski live. I didn't know that many ... . She drew an X on the back of my hand with Sharpie. My friends and I ... because it was cute enough and partially to remind myself that I was a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  universe, and everything. My roommate and I finished preliminary work on our ... my brain full of knowledge by 10:05am. Unfortunately, what I ought to ... coordinating themselves. I am no stranger to staying up late, but usually, my

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  This is a guest post by one of my friends, Heidi Z. '27, one of the first friends I made here at MIT and my favorite "homegrown ... come full circle is honestly surreal. My favorite blogs were always just

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025