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• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  to my schedule but, instead, days that were fully my own. Before making my decision, I spent a lot of time sitting and thinking. There’s much ... .  FYI: I gapped during the COVID-19 year (June 2020 - August 2021), so my

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  39 windows and 2 friends a love letter to simmons's architecture

  

  floors.   my room last year, which i shared with my two roommates ... "] in the room that my friends cyan and liong share. if you want to learn ... [/annotation] on their own floor. on the other extreme, my own floor (the a tower

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • December 2, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  concrete roadmap for the next four years -- I basically re-made my class plan ... to pick classes. Questions about dorms On my marathon tour of Mac ... outdoorsy -- certainly my entry isn't. There's really quite a bit of variation

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  ; Often (and my roommates have heard me use this analogy countless times), I ... major in Course 8 - I'll leave it to my roommate, Zach. (he finishes the 8 ... reason why it took so long was because the orgo reactions on my 5.111 pset

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  reading about your passions and achievements. I polled my colleagues about ... music I listen to). What're you eating/drinking? I have to start my ... have a dedicated home office space. I always read in my office so I can

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  note="My roommate can attest to my numerous skincare products that sit ... world~. Whether they voiced it or not, I knew my family was really worried about my decision to go to MIT. Of course they were proud of me, as

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  returned from my gap year last September. I knew I’d changed a lot over my gap year, but my transition back into being an MIT student both ... my blog where I left off — the version of me typing up this blog post

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  (my roommate would arrive in about a week). I gave up when I got onto ... boxes in Saran Wrap. Inside the boxes, I carefully loaded all of my clothes, my bedding, my shoes, the books I'd yet to read, my crochet hooks

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  to my identity as a woman. There’s a common theme here, though; it ... , but my general impression is that growing up is just the process of ... , however regrettable that may be.   1     My Existence is Performative

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  of my roommates when I was two years out of college, who had formerly ... honor to be here at MIT. Not only did I spend some of the best years of my life here, but it has proven to continue to define my life in countless

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  , but more because of how much it makes my roommate laugh whenever I try ... away from my dorm? Do I talk about the halal food that’s served in Mc ... in my hijab? When I found out about Muslim Women’s Day, I immediately

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  weeks: My roommates have a dog, and she is perfect, and I pet her all ... Finally, finally, I’m in my last semester of undergrad. I need three ... school. All my classes are remote, and I don’t have campus access, so I can

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  ?[/annotation] My roommate, Mariia, once told me that she can't complete any of her ... My name is Camille (Cami) Mejia. I am a lover of music, dogs, baking ... whatever MIT has to throw at me. That last paragraph is supposedly my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  , my family sat down around the kitchen table for a discussion. My dad ... for it... if this is what you really want." My mom was glaring at me in ... State on my full scholarship, she was planning to get a pool in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  honest review of MIT dining hall food, sponsored by my lovely [annotation ... meal plan YIPPEE unlike the majority of my friends. but also lowkey MIT ... . [/annotation] I’m happy to say that both my [annotation note="one of the new apps

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a walk down memory lane in the form of albums

  

  incredible musical journey throughout my life and I thought I'd try and take you all through that with me. For a brief overview into my different ... this post: Birth to ??? 5th Grade?: Whatever's on the radio/whatever my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  a bet. I had been telling him about my research interests and my ... read an article about you in twenty years." That caught my ear, though ... ,[/annotation] if he sees my name show up somewhere. I still don't think I'll go on to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  time travel is overrated conversing with my past self

  

  inboxes at the end of freshman year.  my letter, written while walking home ... and flying back home and visiting my old friends that i never had the time to answer my questions.  but here they are at last, along with my

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • November 2, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2,024 liked songs spotify is my favorite social media

  

  , Sagittarius moon, Gemini rising,” she said. That checked out. One of my closest friends, August, is a Gemini, and the similarities clicked in my brain ... , social, and a little dreamy and elusive. “Okay, guess my sign,” I said

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  . Plan to partition your room evenly if you have a roommate. If you take a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015