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• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  live."][/annotation] I’ve always wanted to dye my hair but not damage it ... showed as purple. The downside was that there was a lot of transfer; my shoulder was silver/purple/orange for a few weeks and so were my chair, hands

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  parallels or juxtapositions in one sitting at flour cafe

  

  celebrate. last spring, i was emailing my advisor telling them i felt lost ... fall i was in an engineering class that pushed my brain in satisfying ways that validated my place here. this spring, i am in an engineering

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 26, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  things i have done since leaving school but only in the ten hundred most used words

  

  ~~~ cut off all my hair moved to city where the sun is out every day ... friends drank at bars decided that black is my best color played outside in ... people with long sticks ate so much good food. sometimes even made my own

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 19, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  refreshing to make memories that are anchored in places beyond my bedroom. I ... -res pics of campus and either my last memory before the pandemic or a notable memory there.  Kendall Square This view reminds me of my desperate runs

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  In high school, I neglected many of my personal interests to make ... would sacrifice my time now to get into a good college and then pursue my ... -off because shaking off the mentality of 'if it's not on my resume then it's not

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  amazing. I wrote this essay during my freshman fall here at MIT and thought ... post that connected the bed to the wheels. Fluorescent lights flooded my eyes, and I couldn’t think. My heart was pounding, and I felt slightly

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s for dinner? The joy of cooking

  

  not I like this new development in my life. I’ve always been a big ... kitchen facilities that were available in New House to come up with my own ... I made some of my best friends, and where I got to use a bit of my own

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Whoa…You’re Old Bryan returns from the crypt of grad school

  

  this thing in a really long time. Part of it came from my own thinking ... undergraduate, and the other part came from me forgetting my password, but fortunately, I remembered my password today and given the start of a new school

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  This will default to miscellaneous Finishing this blog entry was my biggest accomplishment today

  

  . Then I took a nap. After my nap I fixed a rip in my pants, hooked up some ... to actually do it, and video chatted with my grandparents in China ... feels right that next semester is my last. It's a funny thing, one minute

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Over here things are different. Life is about the same.

  

  snowstorm outside my window. So I sat in bed for an hour watching it. The ... my birthday. Then sophomore year I had 2 finals on my birthday. Junior year I turned 21 the day before my 8.05 final, studied til about 4am and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  ADITL My wednesday.

  

  begins to buzz. Play hide and go seek with my alarm clock for twenty ... . My breakfast. My best friend telling me I'm crazy because I'm taking a photo of my food. 8:55 AM - Arrive in lab, unload my stuff at desk. I

  • by Bryan
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Solicitation You've got questions. I'll have answers tomorrow night.

  

  I have multiple things to admit here. 1. My arms kind of hurt from ... sitting on my couch or Ben's couch with my laptop on my lap isn't exactly ... . In my defense, I'll say that I'm a lot less of a drama queen than I was

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Super Adventure Club In a little while, I'll be gone.

  

  my beloved homeland--Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. And how am I getting ... there for a cheese croissant and a large tea before my 6:40 AM train to ... make my 13-minute (!) layover and get on a train to Lancaster, PA. If I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  ’s final projects hell month, my stack of moving boxes are begging me to fill ... over and tells me that I need my [annotation note="Boston also has the ... .[/annotation] I drop everything and open up Craigslist.  My dad got our family cat

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

    I. With the fall semester complete, I could finally focus all my ... . Last season was intended to be my last. But a last-minute injury in the lead up to the 2018 US Champs crippled my preparation, mentally and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  (a/n: My birthday was a few weeks ago! So this blog is just slightly ... twenty in four days.  I always cry on my birthday. I think this is a ... maladaptive coping mechanisms, but my inability to cry in front of other people

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  i recently experienced my first weekend at mit with classes finally in session and i have...an assortment of feelings. i guess my last post ... feelings. i spent the entirety of my saturday afternoon psetting for only

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  you. Here, I want to try my best to share a few moments in my life that ... my life time. These moments in my life are not extreme in the sense that I had to fear for my life, which was already beautifully covered by

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  Even as a kid, school never fit right for me. I recall my third ... year was already familiar with my shenanigans, just sighed and said ... about marching to the beat of my own drum or any other idiom. For every

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  part 1: My B. Song: Bright by Echosmith. part 1a: early action A ... Bridge finalist. My friend, was accepted. I was so happy for him, but I was also ... solemnly completing what became a seventeen page application to my local

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023