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• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  ,[/annotation]and I was t i r e d. I was ready to sleep in! To relax! To have fun! Well ... classes is actually, uh, not a break, even if you don't have any class. My ... promised myself that no matter what, I wouldn't do any work until the Monday

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  isn’t to say that I haven’t made friends, not at all. I’ve made a couple ... constant source of stress, and I don't think I'm alone in this experience ... like to pset together over zoom, but it hasn’t really worked for me

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  ) that fall.  That didn’t happen. Life got in the way. I joined the cheer ... more feedback in December, she also told me that we probably wouldn’t go ... : publishing gets pretty quiet in December, and editors don’t acquire many new

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  bed at 10:03, i can't believe that i used to get up, eat breakfast, and ... part about this is that Chinese class hasn't changed much at all. unlike ... encourages a listlessness that i can't banish, no matter how [annotation note

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious

  

  different. I tried to get into a fifth class and didn't (it was too ... is good, and fun, and right. I thought I believed this before. I didn't ... , and that doesn't make them better or worse as a person -- but of course

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 10, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  the surface, a place like MIT didn’t seem compatible with my passions, which scared the hell out of me when I didn’t get admitted to other ... that isn’t STEM. People love the humanities, the arts, business

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  well! I've just been ridiculously busy (that's shouldn't be an excuse tho ... ) and it still doesn't feel like I quite have the grip on how to navigate ... : Midterms really don't equate too much in the grand scheme of things. Work

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  Final year at MIT is done! I don’t miss it… yet. But the realization ... adult. For now, my life hasn’t changed. I have a summer job at MIT ... fit is more important to thrive here than at most colleges. If you don't

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  an effort this break to try to move a little. Since we don’t like most ... , or none of us do and we talk. But this one time, since there weren't ... actually solidifies at that temperature). But that didn’t stop us! We put on

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  . This also isn’t a coming out story, mine is pretty boring. We’re gonna ... some point I was like wait do I? Yup, turns out I didn’t. So moving ... couldn’t. So here I am, in a new city, surrounded by people I don’t know

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

  sleep at night. And I don't get much out of it. One hour spent and very ... /skateboard/penny board/scooter/Heelys people can't relate.) Zero displacement, measurable ... realizing that yes, in fact, t does equal t, but that is not answering the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  said, “hm, I don’t know.” It’s interesting, I’ve heard people use that ... not caring as much. I don’t know if it’s the word I would use to ... I cared more than I do today. I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad

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

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  ” (I didn’t actually think that last one, but the juxtaposition holds). And you know what I think about that now? I don’t. And what I regret? Defining my senior year by the future of "college." I can’t tell my past

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  wouldn't do justice to any of them, so I'm going to write three posts. Here ... -burning." A little alarmed (the Party?) I changed into shorts and a t-shirt, and ... class, and walked to the DuPont T-Club Lounge. The T-Club Lounge has a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  don't know what casing the joint means 2) FRANK WILCZEK IS TALKING TO ME ... laughed and said "ahh, I see" as though he didn't believe me. Recovering my ... memory of him walking away; one second he was there, the next he wasn't

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  hadn't been collected yet) and dashed to 10-250 (one of our big lecture ... and Their Implications for Electronic Order." Don't know what those are? I don't really know either, and it's ben 35 minutes. That said, he

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  I've had to study for? It wasn't to make my birthday not fun; it was ... I almost don't know how to get started with things. That same ... understand why: chemical tissue clearing doesn't look easy. So...MIT assigning

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  , "experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted" (Randy Pausch). All wasn't lost last semester though! I learned about toys, differential ... realized I couldn't stand the thought of being away from MIT for summer (2016

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  on College Confidential (if you don't know what I'm talking about, don't ... , yeah, there's an application fee, so don't apply if you don't want to ... THIS SCHOOL. (Disclaimer: If you don't actually like science all that

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  wouldn't mind if maybe he reclined his chair in her space just a little bit, maybe, if she didn't mind, so sorry about that. That's Japan for you. I ... "Ladies Dream." I don't know if it's trying to imply that this bus is the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009