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  this is fine some thoughts at the end of the semester

  

  I’ll be honest, I lost track of time somewhere around the end of March; I feel like classes started really ramping up, everything started happening all at once, I started…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  You learn how to navigate MIT. It’s inevitable. After you stay here for a couple days, the bulletin boards begin to look familiar. You’ll start knowing where things are. There…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane

  

  When I started my freshman year at MIT four whole years ago, senior year and graduation and “the end” all felt so far out of reach. I wasn’t sure if…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 10, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  I’m turning nineteen today, without much fanfare; after all, nineteen is not a particularly interesting age, and the past year itself has also been a little barren, devoid of many…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  nothing really matters or does everything? a tale of epiphanies and a crisis

  

  A while back I gave a presentation at MIT called Three Epiphanies and an Existential Crisis. It was basically me walking through my career in digital communication⁠04 social media, email,…

  • by kellen manning
  • May 6, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Choosing Classes: Choice Paralysis [skye from valorant voice] help a girl out would ya!

  

  One of my favorite things about college is browsing all the classes I could hypothetically take and imagining my futures in them. Of course, the imagining bit is a lot…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 3, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  it’s a cloudy Tuesday morning and i’m walking to Caffe Nero to get a matcha latte. Caffe Nero is conveniently only a five minute walk away from my house in…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  This post is intended to be accompanied by⁠11 consider viewing them side-by-side! this one. Spring Semester, 2021 The four-day weekend which just passed is a result of this obscure Massachusetts…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  This post is intended to accompany⁠19 consider viewing them side-by-side! this one. Spring Semester, 2021 This semester has been extremely hard; the exhaustion in the undergraduate community has been palpable…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  girls just wanna have fun when u gonna live ur life right?

  

  My father yells “What you gonna do with your life?” Oh daddy dear, you know you’re still number one But girls they wanna have fun With less than 48 hours…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 24, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  on body image me in my head, me in the mirror

  

  One. It’s the first time I’m seeing Sean in three months. He’s the person living nearest me whom I’ve known for the longest—I think we’ve been friends for four or…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  When I was applying to MIT, I thought that was the single application that would determine the entire course of my life. I thought that if the odds of me…

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  From my journal the other night– It’s 2 am, and I should be asleep. I’m listening to SJ Tucker on my headphones that only play in the left ear. I…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day of April) cami edition

  

  I was inspired by Ceri’s take on VEDA and partly by my long-time vlogging/blogging influence StephenVlog, who I actually wrote about in my blogger application, to finally take on this…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 19, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Knitting and Playing Tetris Through the End of the World guest post by Salma Islam

  

  What happens when your whole life unravels? Well, if you asked me, I’ll tell you I knit. Stitching things as my worldview unravels is perhaps the main thing that has…

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • April 17, 2021
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  It’s never easy to turn people down from MIT. But sometimes, I unexpectedly hear from students to whom we did not offer undergraduate admission in the past, who went on…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember

  

  i’ve realized i spend most of my time trying to divorce myself from the present, lingering in corners of the past. revisiting things that used to feel like home, dusting…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Take Care of Us asking for change

  

  I try my best to be as honest as possible on the blogs, while simultaneously trying to be kind to the institution that gives me the privilege of having such…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  the only way i can convince myself to write anything for the past two weeks has been bullet points. lists in lists in lists. i wrote an entire short story…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  It’s April. I’ve been on campus for close to two months now. It’s halfway through the semester, and I’m in this weird mood lately where I really don’t want to…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021