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• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  , everyone sporting Rush T-shirts from years past; on the back of each shirt is ... “wasn’t too bad” thirty seconds before it hit). We were apparently ... perhaps hadn't emerged in the same way before. I’m looking through my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2026 is now live

  

  time is right for you to apply to MIT.  Our application hasn't changed ... that didn't go according to plan that you feel comfortable sharing ... . During the time when your checklist is not available, please don't call or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!

  

  food, so I didn’t eat much. When I got home, they measured me, thinking I might have grown at camp. I hadn’t grown -- but I was starving. I ate ... things. I’ve been seeing people and taking walks. (It wasn’t the pandemic

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 24, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  language, which doesn't help"]tedious,[/annotation] albeit manageable. 21G ... poetry in high school,[/annotation] but haven't been had the creative ... unexplainable way. Hopefully, that excitement won't change after our first exam

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  whiteout conditions forget your mission, just get out alive

  

  vague desire to go to classes and do work. but i don't actually want to. i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now

  

  delivery I ordered to arrive. The sun was out today, fully, in a way it hasn’t ... the things that might have defined you in high school don’t stand out anymore. You don’t stand out anymore, and it’s such a liberating feeling

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  walls of the Infinite that I hadn't actually bothered to stop and read. In ... things that caught my eye. The Infinite, for those of you who haven't ... a friend you hadn't seen in a while, and stop awkwardly in the middle

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Watch this year’s 2.s009 final presentations designing kindness during a time of covid

  

  to 'attend,' alas, but I can't wait to watch the archived footage later!

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  first snow it snowed on campus

  

  outside my own dorm window[/caption] It doesn't snow too often in my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  in line. I honestly didn’t think I would get through those two days. I ... stocks up and hibernates when the weather goes a degree below 60F, so I don’t ... life isn’t cutting me any slack. Pandemic or not, there is simply too

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  This (mostly) isn’t a post about application essay advice. But, if ... for me in a way that I haven’t done since college applications ... college apps will fade? but if you don't find college apps difficult

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  muscles will help you float. but it doesn't. you've got to let go of the ... . at first i said that this didn't sound right, because i like to think ... 'd feel randomly lonely, yet didn't feel like talking to people. after all

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Subtle Art of Being Unhosed what i've learned and what i'm still working on

  

  Hi world, it’s me!!! I haven’t been writing on the blogs much because ... isn’t divided into “hosed” and “unhosed” phases, each day is its own thing. I shouldn’t be waiting around for things to slow down, I should be

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 2 recipes for people tryna Little Chef it up

  

  for mustard since I didn't have any and...it worked, surprisingly. The ... who didn't know soft boiled eggs were a thing until I ate ramen for the ... snack or side dish. It's also a way to consume avocado that isn't guac or

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 19, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds like home Quarantine songs, from my home to yours

  

  [/annotation]through the windows. But it wasn’t until this past weekend—nearly four months ... [/embed] Sounds like home: a quarantine playlist If relaxing hip-hop loops aren’t ... for everyone—even if most of it isn’t your favorite."]These are the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  , telling him how I felt a mixture of calm and anxiety, and I couldn’t quite ... ambulance, or a police car, i don’t truly know"]fire truck[/annotation] drove ... update me on the world situation after 9 pm. Even though classes weren’t

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  This is the way…to check your decisions

  

  works for you. Strange things happen to people who don't verify they will

  • by The BlogChild
  • March 10, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  New York Trips that we went on with Arts Scholars!

  

  didn't get to go on the New York trip that year, but we did every year ... years later, can say that hasn’t changed. Sleep No More was just as, if ... your face, and suddenly you don’t really recognize who is who and where

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 5, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  myself for it. This isn’t going to go away soon, and all I can do is keep ... sophomore is different, and not just academically. I didn’t even notice the ... of normalcy where things aren't as bright and shiny anymore, and I have

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  ’ve grown throughout my first semester. I don’t feel like I’ve become much ... my first serious relationship [annotation note= "which isn’t really ... fact that I could stop working on psets [annotation note= "i don’t think

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019