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• 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
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  surprisingly large part in my conception of self over the past two years. I ... . February 20, 2020: I write my name on a little piece of paper, sit in 10 ... luckiest sophomore in the world when my piece of paper is pulled and I get

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  actually work on a blog post now, so I've decided to recap my past three ... before I sat in Bates Hall for about two hours and made progress on my ... [/caption] Monday: I woke up with cramps. On top of my 3-week old ankle sprain, the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  on body image me in my head, me in the mirror

  

  . When I took a gap year before coming to MIT, my friends at home would tell me, all the time, that I've gotten fatter. That my face is rounder, that my belly's bigger. In this context, Sean's remark wasn't really an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  I’m writing this sitting at my aunt’s kitchen table, at midnight, waiting for my next class, and then an info session, and my tutoring job ... day anyway. Every day. My sleep schedule needs help. So much help that

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  As I’m starting to write this, I’m sitting on an airplane, my rear ... Los Angeles, and I can’t wait to spend Thanksgiving with my family. At 6:00 this morning I was tugging my carry-on across MIT’s campus on the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / Residential Life

  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  Living off campus this year means that I don't head home until my ... turn on my blinking bike lights, flip my kickstand, and pedal as fast as ... the bridge that sometimes detects me as a moving entity. My record on my

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  able to play the Taylor Swift song). also, this was my last birthday where all my closest friends were at an arms length. going out to dinner ... spontaneously gathering people to celebrate took walking 20 feet from my room. it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  you’re on your own, kid

  

  too deeply into that right now."]in October of my freshman fall ... of my college experience up until this point has been a joint venture, a co-op adventure of sorts. I don't regret any of my time spent in the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  .UAR[/annotation], which really just means that I was waffling on my floor in despair and baking cookies for my [annotation note ... resets my “send help I am So Lost Right Now and I Know Nothing

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022