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• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  before and slid my laptop back under my bed. Hopefully my gel would be ... another hour instead of buying food or watering my plants. Three weeks into my likely very short tyranny my two plants had witnessed a hurricane

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Making an Entrance On being helped to my feet.

  

  On my first day at MIT, I fell flat on my back in the Student Center ... field. I donned my Rooney England jersey that morning, in the hope that it ... pulled. I sprinted ahead, ready to receive the first pass. My team

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  And so it is… Just like the blogosphere said it would be.

  

  I am born! (Or rather, my blog is born.) This is (virtually) my first blog post ever! I hope you enjoy following my adventures in MIT Admissions. For an introduction on me, you can check out my introduction blurb

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m Back!

  

  , which currently owns my life. And I apologize for that. But I'm back, and now that my schedule is really wacky, I'll be updating more often! (I ... was part of the packaging of my brand new awesome laptop): OK, I find

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [liveblog] presenting at the Open Sauce maker expo! built a funky microscope with my friends

  

  Jul 20, 2025 at 11am My friends (Asal V. ‘25 and Isaac L. ‘25) and I ... broke my leg. (don’t worry, I’ll walk again in a few months and be fully recovered in a year) More on this later, maybe. If you want to sign my cast

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 20, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  climbing the wall why so defeatist?

  

  , a month at a time. All this to say- when my friends invited me to go ... as anticipated. I got some climbing shoes, chalked up my hands ... could I prove my "worthiness." I soon, however, hit a roadblock: chipping

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • October 7, 2024
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  I. Lift - Radiohead I didn’t really have a good senior year. My ... stuck in my head-- This is the place Sit down, you're safe now You ... place It won't hurt ever again --and two main things on my mind: MIT

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Circles, circles, circles week to week to week

  

  Content warning: depression, suicidal ideation. The other day my ... back to my room after a long day of being outside with friends. It's not that anything in particular triggers it. I'll be sitting in front of my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  Very early on in my Admissions career I happened to take a slice from ... might expect, I was inevitably asked about my assessment of said pie. I ... 10. There were a number of things that went through my mind in that

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  as wiser than sophomores and freshman when i barely know my way around ... my experiences abroad a few years ago, i would hang out with college ... heavily on the upperclassmen in my living group and clubs. i felt

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  vibe check i'm basically living at MIT again

  

  , and one senior"]11 other[/annotation] [annotation note="my living ... brought; living with my family was great, but I enjoy cooking for myself and working on my own terms. Also, being able to watch Avatar: The Last

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  *to set the mood* [playlist ids="44803"] The floor of my room is a ... last of my clothes and move onto the items in my desk, the same questions that have been floating in my head for the last few weeks resound once

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Tips for a Pleasant Olfactory Experience how to make your room smell good

  

  regarding my dorm. Now, I'm very sure I made the right choice. I like all the ... . I have complete autonomy over my living space and habits, down to the little things like how my room smells. My definition of good

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friends, and other things memories that come rushing back to me

  

  . i have a stack of summer reading on my desk that i will start clearing ... 'm reading for my urop - some are for fun, like the first seven volumes of saga that my so let me borrow for the summer. i started crafting this pile

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 25, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summary of the Semester I'm a senior and it's super weird.

  

  I'm a senior! And it's November of my senior year at MIT! Crazyyyyy ... 's been going on? I Moved Off-Campus Me - once the frosh obsessed with my living group and my hall and everything surrounding MIT culture, now lives

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 9, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Round 2 less shirts and more interviews.

  

  yesterday, and two weeks since my last blog post, which also still feels like ... year, my collection significantly less glorious.   This was ... , last year I was quickly brushed off by recruiters. Maybe it was my lack

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Weeks of Freedom What I'm doing for my last 4 weeks in the US!

  

  a flight to the U.K and embark on the second half of my college ... work for my brother I guess. So this morning I decided it was about time ... . '15 were instrumental in sparking. In my pre-college days the range of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  has happened every day of my 20-year-old life so far (not sure whether this reflects a general trend in my life, or is just a phase) so here ... -cinnamon mousse. That night, I put on a dress and makeup and did my hair, slipped my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  DDR Tetris Read: The silliest video I have ever made.

  

  Last September, Matt blogged about this crazy contraption that my ... cello section social. Then, I let the footage remain in my Flip ... ' Goofiest Video Ever: P.S. Today is my little brother's 10th birthday. Wish

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  I think I get my need for notes from my mom. Every day of my childhood was a festival of notes. I'd wake up to a note on my bedside reminding me to brush my teeth; on the bathroom mirror a note would remind me

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011