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• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  entirely derailing my finals schedule— I’m going to pull one tarot card to prompt my blog writing today: Tarot 101 Before we start interpreting, here’s my general understanding of how to approach tarot. I’m going to model

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  months allowed me to discard a single vision of my future and evaluate what ... elsewhere, and when my MIT waitlist decision came back, it felt more on equal ... hopes; MIT had been my dream for so long. I felt like a new version of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  my bookshelf, at the perfect vantage point to scornfully watch me. It’s a green house, inspired by the one across the street from my parent ... of guilt, pushing down the desire to grab my paint brushes, because I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  Twitter. Since my blogs do a decent job of encompassing how 2022 went for ... about it. Someone asked me today what my 2023 resolutions were, and I ... barely exercise, and also my time management is a mess, and maybe I should

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  This is my favorite poem. Ladies and Gentlemen in Outer Space By Ron Padget   Here is my philosophy: Everything changes (the word ... change") so quickly that it literally surpasses my belief, charges right

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans

  

  boring) but it is an accurate representation of my life at the end of the ... , so I stayed inside. Then sun came out so my friend Gabi N. '22 and I ... of doing my usual Sunday-night-meal-prep, I had some Popeyes chicken

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 20, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  Today was moving-in day, where I moved all of my stuff out of storage and back into my dorm room. Moving-in day is my second ... cramming all of your things into a bunch of tiny boxes). Me driving my stuff

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  -January. Wednesday I’m done with my last class at 3pm, and return back to my dorm to ... at 12:45pm the following day, and realize I left my pencil case in my suitcase. Oops. I end up just looking through my notes and thinking through

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  November summary: books, playlist, gratitude

  

  I'm on the train home to Philadelphia. Currently: four women run my life--SZA, Solange Knowles, Sappho, my mother. Schoolwork saturated the ... there, and then almost missed my flight back to Boston. I grew restless

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 25, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  long it would take me and my fellow undergrads to notice if all of Boston ... have been "MIT," rather than "Cambridge" or "the Boston area." My German ... the bus "home," back to town, back to my apartment. That bus doesn

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  time of day. My name is Lydia. We have a lot to catch up on. I was born ... ’s financial shakiness was magnified in my family by my parents’ youth and profession (blossoming scientists—specifically, underpaid grad students). My

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Always Rooting for the Anti-Hero it's me! hi! i'm [the problem?], it's me

  

  where i am Since the beginning of the fall semester of my senior ... , jokingly referring this period as my "nice era" to my friends. In this new ... . Whether it be my aggressive commenting style on [annotation note="A Facebook

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  in with my parents. About a month ago I decided to go back home for the summer, which was a large deviation from my initial plans. This post is my ... always feel like this, you get the idea. One of my favorites of the blanket

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  I did it again. I broke my right foot. Well not really, it's just ... 'm sticking to my good friend, the air-boot-cast. Before you all go "WHAT ... back to freshman year. I'm all on my own, at college, and I am stressed

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  For my last blog as an undergraduate, there would be nothing more suitable than submitting it at 11:59 pm as I do with my assignments. So here ... robotics research internship in the UK :)   433 units taken Over my

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  my teeth, and stumbled across Memorial Drive to the boathouse. At 6:30 sharp, clad in sunglasses and head-to-toe rain gear, I yelled at my ... my mic while trying to keep my MIT crew hat from blowing off in the

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  7:48 AM The view from my window If you crane your neck, you can see ... neck, you can see a silver SUV trundling down Mass Ave. My room has one ... pleasant phone noises that constitute my alarm clock, leaving me just enough

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  easier said than done. I woke up (well, my mom woke me up) at around 7am ... sitting in a little metal box, up in the air, with a bunch of strangers, my ... . Longest. 7-8 minutes. Ever. I sat with my head against the seat in front of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  , match wasn't foremost in my mind. Or in my mind at all. In fact, it wasn't really part of my college search vocabulary or conceptual framework. I can't recall once sitting down with my guidance counselor, or parents, or friends

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  to now and forever

  

  in my senior year after my other friend group split. Ethan, who has been my friend for the past thirteen years, came and spent the weekend at my apartment. It was bizarre in a way because there was a part of it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 15, 2022