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• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work VII The triumphant conclusion! Plus, the CIA is watching me.

  

  my trademark bunny hat. Don't worry, nobody dies in this entry ... usually don't shower on Thursdays, but I also usually don't go to work with four colors of paint in my hair. Anyway, it wasn't a problem because my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  . Ooops. Oh well. What's interesting is that my second entry didn't happen ... didn't have much of an audience in those first months, so blogging wasn't ... admissions staff, but also with each other. They didn't just want to join the

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hi, My Name Is: (insert name here) name my newest pet and win BIG! prizes and fame included!

  

  this would be the first pet that if it died overnight, my mom wouldn't be ... before I woke up and saw them. (Now the rest of this story I wasn't ... couldn't fight the tides, and he was soon gone. Ladies and Gentlemen, it

  • by Bryan
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  has scores that are fine, let's move on," but it didn't really make an ... , I don't think I have ever in my summary of a student used high ... student host didn't ask me what my SAT scores were. At MIT, people care

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Community Projects

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  ”. It can’t be that bad right? WRONG. My pride as an Asian with spice ... other. Unfortunately for us, our bodies don’t completely digest all the ... in a few hours. (I didn’t, the milk works) [caption id

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  now it's 12:45AM. I haven't done a "what am I taking this semester ... haven't felt so apprehensive about. It's mostly because I have a lot more ... 's come with becoming a senior, I think. I haven't necessarily become

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  surprisingly common behavior for lots of people. I couldn’t, really, tell you why ... slightly unlucky. Something doesn’t work out, and I end up incongruously sad around the end of January. Unfortunately, this year hasn’t been any

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  . They were weird and cool and smart and funny. They weren't just ... and liked at CPW, but also the people I hadn't met yet, whose pictures ... today. I don't think this is true of MIT: I am not a fundamentally

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  ="the two weren’t mutually exclusive but it appeared that more people over 25 ... MIT communities I’d seen so far, and how I could join one -- I wouldn’t ... several of my friends did, and decided whether they did or didn’t fit in

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

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  , I answered (in 250 words or less) that [annotation note="i don't think ... animation, I didn’t actually create a lot of art during first semester. I didn’t ... [annotation note="i was disappointed to discover MIT doesn't really do the whole

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  bumpers a revelation i had while bowling

  

  said that the ending of a story defines what it is about. And I haven't ... the original, like how light always scatters through glass. Since I don't ... Life of Adults, and I simply don't know it. But this version that I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Too Good To Go fighting food waste with good bargains

  

  I'm pretty sure that MIT dining hall food isn't the reason why tens ... !"]regularly.[/annotation] Of course, sometimes you just don’t have the time or the energy to cook ... should be worth $12 or more. Who doesn't love a good bargain! Listings are

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"

  

  just enjoy things as they come. I don’t want to [annotation note ... room. I don’t remember the last time I’ve let myself sleep in to my heart ... ="boston's subway system"]T,[/annotation] but the walk over [annotation note

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  blogs to see what fun stuff the bloggers are doing; maybe they don't want to hear the ramblings from the inside of my head, maybe they won't find ... 'em). I kept going back, but I didn't know if I was really getting

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  MIT is overwhelming. Though this sounds painfully obvious, I don’t ... time I went home this fall. It was mid-October, and I don’t actually ... lets me remind myself that no, it isn’t my entire life, actually, even if

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  to get disappointed when reality doesn’t match up with your dreams. you ... ? you don’t have any friendships that have lasted longer than three or ... you're still hurt, aren't you? it's a familiar ache in your chest, the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  syndrome this summer, and I can’t tell if it’s because of the team I worked ... spring semester, but more importantly, I felt stronger. I realized I wasn’t ... that they’d drive me to places I’d want to go. So, I didn’t feel a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  In my last blog, I mentioned that since the spring semester hadn't started yet, that blog wasn't being posted too late. Unfortunately, now that ... pervasive struggles during the fall had to do with finding motivation. It wasn't

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  I am very tired. And I don't think that I'm ready to go quite yet ... , they don't really mean it. They complain about hating school and hating ... 've always felt that I lack in comparison to other MIT students: I just don't

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  though—you can't live there for a good while, and neither can we. but although we can't seduce you with descriptions of our mice-infested suites ... going to separate us, and COVID certainly won't either! you may be wary

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020