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• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  this is different this has been a build up a wave   I haven't ... been persistent thought patterns I've experienced that don't reflect who ... don't feel true to my values everything feels off   trauma has

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  those days. the blah The ones that don't feel quite right, but you can't ... ...blah. I don't even feel a right to feel bad about those days because nothing ... , most people, including real adults out in the real world, don't really

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  I don’t have the voice to ever become better than a mediocre singer ... higher. I don’t try to take my writing too seriously, which isn’t always ... likes? I don’t want to commodify everything, and I don’t want to be good

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  dinners with friends my wallet is crying

  

  didn't spend writing i spent eating dinner with friends! on tuesday ... pretty good, both the actual steak and the tofu steak. i haven't eaten ... valentine's day dinner, which i couldn't make this year because i was running

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  you’re on your own, kid

  

  many people do care about me, people I wouldn't thought to have ... seem to hear alongside these check-ins are "I don't know a Cami without ... , a co-op adventure of sorts. I don't regret any of my time spent in the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  ’s overused, I think, to the point of meaninglessness. I don’t want my friendships to be beautiful, I don’t even know what that means. I want my ... classmate pontificate about manifest destiny, and realizing that they weren’t

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  learned this summer and what it means for me going forward: I shouldn't ... position where they can't care about compensation. And to be honest, a large ... , I don't want people to lose their jobs in a society that requires

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The seniors are tired but the frosh are fine

  

  -years, or technically prefrosh as they aren't first-years yet, because they aren't officially frosh until convocation, the international ... , but it's only a lie in the sense that it can't be truth, because

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  made a comment, half-joking, something to the effect of "I can't wait to ... over time. I said I wasn't ambitious, anymore, that I had let go of that ... ,[/annotation] if he sees my name show up somewhere. I still don't think I'll go on to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  wouldn’t think twice before saying no. i couldn’t be seen as weak, or i wouldn’t deserve coming. i wouldn’t deserve being at one place when my ... probably my most-said sentence. it sounds so dumb that i couldn’t identify

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  just vibing tough times out here

  

  you something else: how many things you never knew take time. You won't ... by you I mean of course me, can't enjoy music the way you used to. Can't think about what you want to do with your life. Can't consider your

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taylor swift songs as applicants emergency evermore post

  

  lost their minds. If you haven't listened to it yet, please go do that ... and go to plenty of parties in college.   gold rush But I don't like a gold rush, gold rush I don't like anticipatin' my face in a red

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything what i did this IAP!

  

  awkward middle spot: life wasn't quite full enough to feel that the semester ... -person things. This IAP, I tried something different -- something I don't think I've tried in I don't know how many years. I did... nothing. (But of course, in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  ’s basketball team turning up strong! If “athletics” isn’t the first word that comes to mind when think of MIT... I don’t blame you. In some ways, it ... doing math or whatever. Doing math or whatever And I won’t regale you

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  her there. So, I’m excited! I don’t speak the local language, I have no ... here your whole life! And isn’t the whole reason your parents and your ... than I do now, who knows. This isn’t to say that I feel un-American, it

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

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  your body is saying, “Can we do this?? No, we can’t!!” (Also quick ... just can’t do it… As I'm sure you know by now, “you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take” (Wayne Gretzky). But sometimes, you think about how

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  experience still smoulders in the mind. Here goes: Breathe. Don’t ... composed days before the deadline. And I’ll add this: the Internet isn’t ... fascinating. Don’t miss it. Connect. Venture one conversation with a commonly

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  ...don't freak out. 1. Prepare Your Wifi I applied early to MIT ... -long retreat with my church youth group with no Internet access. I also didn't have a smartphone. I sure wasn't going to spend all day in agonized

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  What up, y'all? I don't go to MIT anymore! ...okay, so I work here ... . Whatever. It ain't the same. For those of you who don't remember me: hi ... (spoiler: I didn't stay) and checking out Senior Haus during REX, I'd never

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Story of Tim Tebow My friend Steve '11 wrote a blog for the not admitted.

  

  's note:" so for the people that don't know, a vermonster is essentially a ... blessing in disguise. More importantly, you don't have to go to MIT to be a ... your field. Now, I hope you don't obsessively dwell on this blog in the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2010