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• Blog / How to Food

  Tofu corndogs and low-fat ice cream

  

  Today marks the tenth day of my ill-conceived diet, and all I want ... strictly true. Today should be day 11 of my diet, but on day 2 I feasted on pizza and bourbon chicken from the mall, so day 2 doesn't count.) In my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  ridiculously detailed records of my life... I guess you could say I was born for keeping a lab notebook), and even in my journal at age 9 I included a rundown of what I considered to be the essential statistics in my life: "My

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  , blinking away the wisps of my dreams as i touch down on earth. “what did you ... lot of [annotation note="my list: all about love by bell hooks, crying ... , going into my junior year of college, i’m almost done. it took me long

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  in transit where do i go from here?

  

  -about-the-journey-than-the-destination kind of person and I find it bittersweet once my train finally pulls into ... yet. Because lately I've felt as if I'm running out of time. The way my ... that wraps me before I close my eyes. I am eating myself alive. I cut

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 6, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  This post has been rattling around my brain for a few weeks now, like ... offer my congratulations, and a warm welcome to the MIT community. For the rejected, I offer my condolences, and the best of luck as you apply to other

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  setting up a house will it take an entire semester? stay tuned

  

  ="the laundry app we used in dorms"]WashLava,[/annotation] the bane of my existence—and living spaces. It's pretty litty. My group started moving in on ... initiative and hop on Craigslist to look for one. As for my own room, I have a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  get away, but my research called to me and i decided to forego a bunch ... mode on my research project. i also expected to be really fucking lonely, because my boyfriend is doing GTL and SO MANY of my friends are gone as well

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  , but sometimes i don’t even know where my time goes. i feel like ... that my days are a constant stream of checkboxes on my To-Do list; i ... swept away by my next assignment before i even have the chance to reflect

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  took over my life, and I spent lots and lots of my time and energy ... wrong with this path; through my extracurricular involvement in high school, I learned a lot, both about my clubs' topics themselves (#Classics4

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The final stretch ...of 2017

  

  fourth midterm that I don't need the take the final. For my other Course 6 ... my write-up and cleaning up my code. At 20:55, I uploaded my work and ... my print statements. I quickly commented them out, re-uploaded my code

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 21, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  ’d last been home. This past Thanksgiving break, as I turned into my ... the fridge felt like I was a guest in my own home. Even more than that ... inordinate amount of time sitting at my desk. As a student studying computer

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Itinerary: IAP 2017 4 weeks in a suitcase and carry on

  

  my first trip of 2017, bringing along one suitcase and carry on. It was ... -long excursion around the country. I carried with me, too, my New Year's resolution(s). My one goal for 2017? To get back on a normal sleep schedule

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  It's 3am and I should probably be studying for my first 8.01 exam ... all of my classes (which includes going to all the lectures, reading the ... impossible right now. Life is now mostly a choice of how to spend my time the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  reflecting on my past semester... On the one hand, perhaps that's because I ... of you out there will have to be content with hearing about my fun-filled winter break and fantastic first week of IAP. Over my winter break, I was

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  from the future. I got a crash course in not burning out - and my mentor ... up last weekend, when my family and I took a trip to Block Island, a ... that were clear around me were the oceans - and, for a moment, my mind

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Senior Survey (Says?) (For the record, I think that being on Family Feud would be totally awesome)

  

  , for an upcoming post about my favorite door on campus. (No, that is not ... experiment in 9.61. A lot of my work involves living in the New Media Center ... much time is left on my conversion to a movie in Final Cut Pro. (Two

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 3, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  attempted to propel myself off his back, except that with my knees roughly ... to the ground. Luckily for my head, he decided to let go at this point, gravity took over, I hit the ground on my back and the wind was knocked

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  when I found out I’d been selected. I thought “Wow, I can share my ... class this semester. Here’s a snapshot of my registration: 69 units is ... performance: I had too much on my plate. Because I took so many classes, I didn

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  to stress or due to a (relatively) healthy sleep schedule my senior ... grab my iPad and go to the decision website in anticipation. It's 9:06 when I think to myself: "I'll just try putting in my username and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  I’m typing this at around 1 PM on a Friday. My head hurts, just a ... I could find because I didn’t want to be aware of my corporeal form. I ... settled deeply into the cracks of my psyche. Everything just sort of… aches

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022