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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  closest friends are still those I met at MIT (including my husband), and ... When I think about my time at MIT, my first thought is: it still ... chance to walk through campus, down the infinite, with my 9-month old baby

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  he likes it that way! If I ever write my autobiography, I’m going to ... .” No, that doesn’t mean my homeland fell into the ocean, or was destroyed ... my birth has become an accident of human history. See, I was born in

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Around the world in 30 days ...ok, maybe more like I'm Traveling a Lot this IAP

  

  . Shoutout to my friends (two from MIT!) for coming to watch and cheering me on! Some of my friends I've skated and competed with growing up qualified for ... the year by packing up all my stuff in Boston, hauling most to storage

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  boarding the plane, my close friend Virginia A. ‘18* asked me how American I ... MIT in Barcelona, Spain. Several friends and I planned this spring break ... exciting~ This is my second time blagging from abroad, the first being

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  school, alone, with my brothers, or with my best friend Shane. It was the ... political forums every night. I cofounded the school newspaper (with my friend ... state; in fact, I was still living in an extended stay hotel with my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not Much Has Changed except a lot has changed

  

  talking about what my first year at MIT actually was like. First things ... nostalgia with a #ThrowbackThursday: PCTI Class of 2013 Graduation with my loving Mom and Dad.   My 18th Birthday/Going Away Party...oh shoot

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  adorable sticker that my friend got me: Yeah, I'm cool. For those times ... semester, I realized I was...comfortable.  Too comfortable, maybe.  My life ... 't really map my life out that far ahead) But all the same, I had a lil' mid

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Halloweekend and the 7 weekends prior!

  

  , meeting my friends, shopping, eating, and going out to Boston and Harvard ... year been like?” Anastassia: “Oh hey, you! My freshwoman year has been ... , Pikachu, Olga the skate guard/my roommate, Portal Guy, and Princess Peach

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  April in front of my computer and went through the process of telling MIT ... fickle and annoying and COLD." I remember my parents jokingly asking me to ... in my room in Simmons, and it's about 22 degrees outside. Ultimately

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  . Anyway, I was hanging out with some of my friends from high school. (I ... apart, it is very apparent that my friends and I have all changed - a lot ... There is a car alarm going off somewhere in my neighborhood. The

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Xanga Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part one.

  

  New Year's. 49. I am wearing a fake gold ring. 50. I love my friends ... . -BJ) 17. I wish I had more friends. 18. I have more than a couple ... person. 21. My first kiss was in middle school. 22. I want to go to art

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  things during it. Some of my friends chose to have an extended winter break and spend more time at home, or travelling. Some of my friends are doing ... IAP. Some of my friends are doing GTL, where you go to another country

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  for the reason behind my renewed vitality until I'd made it through ... fresh. Maybe I should be working or worrying over due dates, but my ... needn't have worried about my protein consumption on campus (I've been

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  heart was racing. I stood, stole a glance at my track friends sitting in ... brainstorming speeches. As a senior, I wanted my last IAP to be truly memorable ... settling on my final topic. I asked myself if there is one person I could

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  weird. After the last midterm, I texted my friend that "humans were never ... generally feel out of my depth in that class, and every pset is a struggle of ... often have trouble wrapping my head around, and it can be very frustrating

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  it way too seriously, but a lot of my friends have recommended it so i ... out okay. i think the real conflict here is that i’ve spent much of my life having no close friends, so i have internalized the fact that there

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  enormous, too [annotation note='I remember, shortly after I got my job I think, learning from a friend that my high school robotics coach, Neil ... , I mean.']special significance[/annotation] as the day I began my life

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  post.  On the week of Pi Day, my friend and I both wondered how a ... NOTE: I drafted and abandoned this post in the spring of my freshman year. It is now my last chance to share these freshman thoughts with you

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  , my friend and I crossed the Harvard Bridge for the first time. We had ... easily. On my first full day here, I jumped onto a trapeze, despite the fear of high places. I talked to my roommate until early morning, though

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  for hotel check in to start, I got to see my grad student friends ... people cracking jokes and even singing. Some of my friends did a pitch ... good or not. Because for good food, new friends, subsidized ski trips

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025