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• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  exciting. My parents drove up from Harrisburg to watch me. My friends painted ... Marathon looking up at my time made me feel like I was standing on the ... to cheer you on. Maybe your parents promised to come up and watch you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  it’s hot and will burn you if you screw up. The fire isn’t any less ... on the internet ends up turning into a human-shaped flaming hot Cheeto ... . The wick itself does not burn and instead soaks up the fuel, which is

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  in more ways than i would have expected to. i grew up with this ... parting, coming up with new words and stories to tell. there is such ... prepare myself for the abrupt goodbye, where one day, we will all get up and

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  years at MIT, I gradually opened up to people, developed some new hobbies, and really opened up. I played music in front of people for the first ... bad for me to show up as a transgender woman”. I pulled back as much as

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  1960s, and I ended up doing my graduate work at the same observatory ... whose eyes are glazing over in lecture because she stayed up until 6am ... that things would rebalance. Sure enough, I made friends, signed up for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  because I scrutinized my handwriting, ripped it up a few times and started ... have ended up together as students, even though we overlapped and had ... your parents will be behind you.  You’ll grow up, and one day before you

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  the months leading up to decision day. I could play with absolutely no ... who I’d stay up late with, chatting and chasing loose threads down ... up my hook and yarn again, like a retired bank robber accepting one

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  first time. And yet again, when I woke up this Wednesday morning with the ... one. I'm talking Shake It Up days. I'm talking KC Undercover. I ... course I've kept up with the more recent stuff, too (Spider-man, Dune

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  up with blogging to my current life, but words are hard. Nothing ... things I've been up to:   Congressional Baseball Game The ... Sunday just because each week brought something new. I ended up buying a

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  of an idea that was. I was going to bed exhausted, then waking up ... .[/caption] I dropped 6.101, but halfway through the semester, I still ended up ... extensions in a row because the work kept piling up and days where I skipped

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  see my breath misting in front of me. when i looked up at the sky, it ... all the topics in your classes line up, and it's like wait, i've heard ... stuff gets brought up in [annotation note="Cell Biology"]7.06[/annotation

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  all these people going up these boulders several meters up into the air ... a bit and try to place myself better, but end up just standing there ... climber next to me what to do, and he goes up onto the wall. I watch him

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  you mess up, you’re screwed, no matter what. Mix that with high achiever ... reason you’ve made up to justify that. It’s hard to say with confidence ... belt all at once. I straight-up failed a class in my fall semester that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  -five blogs. Although I can still bring it up in my mind, the MIT that the blogs ... possibly get back up again -- and where someone reached out a helping hand and pulled me up. All of these experiences are the kind that shape a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  and part 2 to get up to speed if you haven’t already. We spent most of ... . Unfortunately, we ran over time so often that we ended up behind schedule by about ... could feel the excitement bubbling in the air as I lined up in the hotel

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  project of their own to bring up, too. Some will go to protests with me, and ... wandered away from Allston and eventually wound up at an MIT frat’s barbecue ... community, with so many social pockets, feels closer. I caught up with more

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  crazy party weekend from 2019 to now

  

  and western music classes, searching for and finding and mashing up ... up for whichever classes you want as a high schooler i liked firehose ... problems like procrastination and delegation or regularly end up in

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  the five stages of grief: i. denial in which I wake up, horrified ... support systems, and I want to curl up in a ball and demand "why don't I get ... frosh and they screwed up then and I am not just [annotation note="to be

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  literal. I've never been in a classroom where students would get up and walk ... formally categorized as "disabled" and end up struggling silently due to ... students to become like me. There's also the aspect of knowing that I grew up

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  Activities Midway or on Instagram. Arcturus is revving up recruitment this fall ... (@audsphotography).   Amber: Yo Audrey hi what’s up! :D Audrey: Hi hi hi ... next year? Audrey: The month leading up to it during the summer, it was

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022