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  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 / Classes

  between now and departure stands a few classes

  

  My final semester once felt like it was at such a distance. I remember wrapping up my freshman fall and thinking it took so much life out ... weeks. This spring seems like years. The rest of my life is an eternity

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 14, 2026
• 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
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  quarantine throwback i present to you my early april 4 am thoughts

  

  myself at programming memes on codehub. My room is dimly lit with my twinkle lights and I occasionally guilt myself into putting my phone down long enough to actually work on my Computation Systems lab due in two

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 6, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  Let me just start by saying that, historically, my sleep habits suck ... track my sleep. It calculates my sleep quality by recording me through the ... . Besides, it gives me a lot of insight into my personal data: when I fall

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  Every fall at MIT has felt like a new beginning. My freshman fall ... away from my family for the first time. The next fall, during my ... within Macgregor, so my academic life and my social life felt new and

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  a perfect long weekend in other words: i did no work and now am kind of a mess

  

  by [annotation note= "my urban dance team’s annual performance. we had ... first Mocha Show performance was on Friday night, so a good portion of my ... ’t want to fuck it up. also, my parents were coming from New Hampshire to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  My first two weeks of GEL kicked off to a great start. I really like working (some would even call it playing) with my team. To help us get to ... most of MIT. I need to decide what I want out of my MIT experience. I

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• 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