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• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  of MIT students this fall, the characters talk about two types of depression. One is “anhedonia”, or the inability to feel anything, unable to ... feeling where a person loses the ability to even understand what happiness

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

    “It’s just a few more weeks,” my mom told me, on the phone, as I hurried down the Infinite and out into the cold. “Junior year is ... math major at a tech school in the ‘80’s. When was the hardest that I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home is Where the Heart is In which I speak only in trite cliches.

  

  , it is now I make my triumphant return to these blogs.The timing is ... that person with the drug-dealing rodent-faced roommate who embezzled ... . The living groups at MIT are as diverse at its students, so whether you

  • by Tom R. '14
  • December 13, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  very far from school. Now I'm in the midst of a lot of school and am ... someone will feel inspired, and we can dream of what we'll be doing when the world can accommodate travel again. This post will be a list of the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  specific deadlines throughout the summer so stay on top of your emails and check the Orientation slack so you don't miss any of these deadlines. 2 ... doctor who could communicate in English or at least keep the prescription

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goal setting and organization how i organize my life!

  

  while I'm not the most organized person in the world, I thought it'd be ... ago, maybe in the middle of this past spring semester, I invested in a ... Calendar just seems to be the typical calendar a lot of people use so it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  Happy New Year! Even though I'm nearsighted, this is the year for looking towards the future and making moves while not bumping into furniture ... 2016 as part of the Class of 2020, which means most of my friends are

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Sport CPW cpw at senior haus

  

  CPW has come and gone, and it’s left all the students of MIT with ... of the school year, because I love having silly events and meeting ... it before. Mix the two together and you just get a really excitable and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  The other day I was talking to someone new, and he asked me what year ... not caring as much. I don’t know if it’s the word I would use to describe how I’ve been feeling, but I know there was a point in the past when

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  'm writing this from the train on the way to work. Please heed my advice: When settling in for an hour long T ride DO NOT eat a McGriddle right before, the grease does weird things. Anywho, on to the stuff that actually lets me

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questions and Answers Evan Broder is taking over my job.

  

  ...get permission, and paint it back at the end of the year. Some of the dorms on the east side of campus have looser policies, and some other dorms on the ... mentioned that. Also, BC's policy is kind of a policy in name only. If the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  five years, and only now do i feel comfortable dusting off the little box ... memories have been left to gather dust over the years. after i burned through ... started poking around the house. there were lots of goodies that were a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  pretty much lived off of avocado toast in the morning and Maseeh dining for ... , though, so when prompted with the option to buy a meal plan for ... the mashed potatoes,[annotation note="foreshadowing"]spent an abysmal

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  In the rush of finals and the end of the semester, I've been losing track of time. I flew back home to Pennsylvania for the first time on December 22 after my last final, drove home from the airport, and fell asleep

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  exciting College Adventures™. I had to slump over in the Maseeh 3 bathroom at ... . What I didn’t realize was that, in the process, I forgot to do things for ... closet, playing a video game in my room. All the hangouts and trips and

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  assigned around 13 students, and I quite liked my crew. Throughout the week ... of a flower, the people of my orientation group seemed to blossom.  As ... sorry not sorry']they didn’t ask for help nor prompt the discussion at all

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  little. It’s pervaded by the soft buzzing that follows too many days of too ... arrived at the level of hunger where your sides begin to tingle as if they’re being held taut under tension. Emotionally, I feel as if I’m caught at the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  the hours i've spent in bed recently have added up, pointing to one ... recently for the class of 2024, and i swear all the sophomores were dropping ... they no longer display that data on the covid dashboard. (publicly, at

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  conversations with friends so many different ways to feel lost

  

  ! clearly gotta start off the blog with this message _____ r: so how does it feel to be back in the city m: kinda weird it's nice because i love nyc ... so directionless like i’m in the middle of a field and there used to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 21, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  on body image me in my head, me in the mirror

  

  One. It's the first time I'm seeing Sean in three months. He's the person living nearest me whom I've known for the longest—I think we've been friends for four or five years now. The first observation he makes upon

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2021