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• Blog / How to Human

  2020 Resolutions posting so i can be held accountable

  

  I actually really enjoy it and seeing my progress. Since I've been ... grades very soon. get a summer internship You can see my internship freakouts in my last post. read at least 5 books Fun fact: I don't read a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  : 6 About: Hey guys! I’ve lived in exactly two places my entire life: my family’s house in Los Angeles (one week and 18 years ... right now. My guiding culinary principle is “Keep calm and add

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  -planning, promise-making, and more personal resolutions than all of my New Years ... to become the model student I felt pressure to be, but my plans never materialized and my daily calendar just symbolically slouched untouched in the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  although I would like to be comforting: 1) I worry that my words will feed ... share my personal system for dealing with nerves; I do acknowledge that ... worst possible scenario. Acknowledging this weakness, my system is

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  . After that, I dedicated all of my time to studying for the 8.02 exam that was held 7:30 that night. I finished around 9:15, got back to my room ... did not get much sleep Thursday night. At all. Then I got my 8.02 test

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  minutes before my alarm goes off. i haven't woken up naturally in a while, so this is a nice change. i blink at the brightness of my room -- my ... of the time. instead of reaching for my phone like i normally do, i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  more times than I can count, whether by car or bus or plane or train. My ... from me, taking the rest of my life with it. For some holidays, my mom ... , and for the first time in my life, I learned to fly alone. I’d grip my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  After my rejection from MIT in my prior post, I attended Cornell for my next degree and had a sensational time. Now, many years later, we ... me, many times over. It turns out local graduates in my field are

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  how i handle canker sores not professional medical advice

  

  inside of my bottom lip. If you've been lucky enough to never experience ... . This did not work that well, because the sore is on the inside of my ... my lips and ice easily melts inside my mouth.  1/10 Salt. I saw on

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  left living right next door to some of my closest friends. 84 hours left ... student.  I’m sitting on the floor of my dorm room, surrounded by boxes ... freshman year when I stuffed every single thing in my room into cardboard

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Haven’t Been Blogging I, uh, don't really have an excuse

  

   police for getting too close to the front while both my friends met Tim Cook ... reasonable hour. NOPE! It's 3:58 AM here in China. ---- My birthday is in less than an hour, my bus leaves in less than an hour, I need to do

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  moving out i'm leaving for a bit

  

  down my room. My finals were done, and move-out day was tomorrow. I only ... . Temporary as it had been, my room was a home and a safehouse. With a west ... popcorn movies or quiet conversation. A friend once told me that my room

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 12, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Halloween Tag In which I do a YouTube thing for a (bonus) Halloween vlog

  

  wayyyy too early (anything pre-December is too early in my book, in case ... college life sometimes. My dad decided to send me a surprise Halloween ... of my month. There were candy pumpkins, what looked like an entire

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  subtract the 4 minutes I spent staring at the squiggly darkness inside of my ... -wearying fatigue that still permeates my body and makes my eyes feel heavy is any ... who were much better conversationalists than my textbooks and psets. I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Good Morning, Sportsracers! *erases introductory post draft for the umpteenth time in the vain hope that he'll stick…

  

  up my face in a ridiculous manner? (That last one has worked a couple ... I was getting ready to attend my own Campus Preview Weekend (CPW). I ... people right away, but my complete inability to remember names and faces

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Moving Across The Pond From One Cambridge to Another

  

  -essential employees I said my final goodbyes, hopped on a plane to Canada and shipped ... . Patiently waiting to be interrogated and yelled at for misplacing all my papers. My first few weeks at Cambridge flew by. Participating in meets

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 6, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  The Abstract The adventure density has been high

  

  I owe you an explanation for my absence (and you'll get WAY more ... : After my last final on December 20, I flew home to London for winter break ... presented my research as a poster, was judged by various graduate school

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thanks, man I'm feeling human again.

  

  account of my entire summer, but I have to stop to thank the people around ... while we search for a more permanent place, brushed my teeth, and did my ... hundred emails, checked my itinerary for the trip back to Cambridge, and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • August 27, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Current State of Mind ewoufbwu iyfh[things I must do]w39478ry3927rhiwf83tr

  

  Yesterday, (or was it a few days ago?) I reached into a pocket in my backpack several times before finally realizing that my hand was now covered in ink, and that my ID was ruined...(or splattered-decorated with ink

  • by Ana V. '15
  • May 6, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  don’t remember much what happened during my Pi day; I think I went for ... all of my years in school, especially during the seven years studying ... for serious business and once to meet with my high school classmates in

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012