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• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  of my friends live!"]Next[/annotation] to hang out for a while. Around ... in the energy of my high school for longer, or asked friends more than ... Here’s part two of my “I wrote this but procrastinated on editing and

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  deferred again, i wouldn't react in the same way? many of my friends reached ... my mind, that many early applicants got deferred. i told myself that i would be prepared to open my decision and see the deferral and it would be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  . ii. It’s my birthday today. It does not feel too different from any other days, except my boyfriend flew up from Georgia to see me. Later, I’m hosting a party for Boston-area friends.  When I was younger, birthdays

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  several of my MIT friends were incredulous when I explained it to them. By ... It's been a while since my last entry. Right now I'm visiting my mom ... . Compared to most people in the South, I certainly don't. But in my first

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  reed—and, honestly, patience isn’t my strong suit. New plan: my friend ... experiencing them. I mildly detested my last couple years of high school during ... ) of my essays and how 20 year old me thinks about what 17 year old me

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  particularly grand style, but I do plan to give some of my friends heart ... that events, games and making new friends are replaced with p-sets, p-sets and chatting with hosed friends. Well…don’t take my word on that. Nah

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Takin’ My Time I've got to keep on chasin' a dream...

  

  Thursday, after my classes were done for the day, I grabbed a few friends and headed over to Baker House to witness my very first Piano Drop ... 'm referring to my 8.022 pset, my 18.03 pset, my big humanities paper, my 20

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 29, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  My Entirely Unexciting IAP see title

  

  backpack across Europe in 4 weeks, which is what one of my friends is doing ... So, compared to my IAPs of years past which I spent studying abroad ... complaining on my end. IAP (or also known as January Term in some other

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 28, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  and generous to my friends. I think that's my greatest mistake of the ... where I missed cheering on my friends, the texts and FaceTimes I didn ... late with my friends and watch bad horror movies and shriek with laughter

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  of my friends asked me “do you believe in true love?” and my response ... mind these days: that it’s very hard to make friends after college (my ... (my friends who agree with this tend to not bother learning much outside

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  friends. I remember one of my friends articulating this well, saying one of ... harder moments a lot. I’ve also had a lot of fun with my closest friends in ... many questions about making friends in college that I even wrote a blog

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  post-blizzard pics except idk how to use photoshop

  

  "]East Campus[/annotation]. On hall, some of my friends made hot coco and ... "] these poor souls, i left my bike out in the snow once and then my chain ... ="attachment_123355" align="alignnone" width="1000"] Stata[/caption] My hands started

  • by Victor D. '27
  • February 28, 2026
• Blog / How to MIT

  loftblogging 3: liberation via customization i <3 process

  

  ="alignnone" width="1000"] my high school friend jin (who was visiting from UC Berkeley ... friends who insisted I build, and helped me realize my dream loft :).   ... My dorm East Campus (EC) has a long tradition of radical room

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 26, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  most of my high school friends. I may not have ever really met as many ... students, parents, my friends at other schools who read this. Disagree or ... So I've been spending some time in my hometown over Winter Break, and

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  IM sports totally rock

  

  without intramural sports. My four years playing on my dorm's C league ice hockey team were great fun, and every time I look at my Baker House ice ... 'll have to take a picture of it and post it), and I'm so proud of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  practiced in front of my mirror, my friends, and my faithful stuffed animals ... irrevocably changed in many ways (my meme game has improved exponentially), I am ... November, and I'm reminiscing about my own early action application. Here

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  sweater and got my photo taken for the yearbook. For my senior quote, I ... my time off MIT campus and am only 3 units above the credit cutoff to ... clubs and responsibilities so that I have the energy to dip my toes into

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  what i ate in a week* living the influencer life (clickbait included)

  

  my nexties and sims"] no more than a 5 minute walk away from friends ... representative of the rest of my blogs =D  not to be cliche, but there is truly no better time to have friends than in college. the experience of living

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  friends, refreshing some of my math knowledge, incredibly weird technology ... friends and "good" conversations Musicals I like How my day is going ... ) Lead clubs The nature of my friend network Favorite etymologies

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I (don’t) want the summer to end me writing poetry? what a concept

  

  lots of board games with all of my friends— I don't want the summer to ... don't want to see all my friends in person, because I'm afraid that I ... and carry my laptop through campus; don't want to fold my sheets all

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2021