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

  

  ...blah. I don't even feel a right to feel bad about those days because nothing ... . Then, I remember that [annotation note='whoooooops']feeling bad about ... through life, so I try to welcome the feeling. It's very human to have these

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I should’ve started this earlier A statement exemplifying my first month as a Junior

  

  If I had to explain what Junior year's been like so far.... I'd say ... anything...) Since I'm a visual person, I drew this little photo to explain my work this semster.   So essentially, I've been hit hard with

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring break Q&A! ask me questions :-D

  

  It's spring break here at MIT and I'm busy with thesis work. I want ... questions in the comments section! I'll update this post with my answers ... -year-old, or Hollywood actor Matt Damon -- anyone's welcome to ask! I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 23, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  MIT is overwhelming. Though this sounds painfully obvious, I don’t think I actually fully realized just how much it all is until the first time I went home this fall. It was mid-October, and I don’t actually

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

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

  

  I've sort of been implying this on the blogs for a while now, but I ... the school year has progressed, I've sort of come to the conclusion that I am very tired. And I don't think that I'm ready to go quite yet

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  Hey guys, I first want to start off by apologizing for not being around recently. However, I will make it up to you guys over this summer and into the next year. I have a ton of plans to make sure you guys know

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  I wrote a blog at the end of last summer subtitled "so many different ways to feel lost:" I feel lost on a much deeper level than ever before, and it’s not entirely negative it’s just... I feel so directionless

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to PNR First semester in review

  

    What I'm pretty sure next semester will be like. No offense ... . Without further ado, I present my expression of feelings for the first semester of MIT. Ode to PNR Pretty please Pass/No Record, how I wish you

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Whoa…You’re Old Bryan returns from the crypt of grad school

  

  So I realized that despite not having left MIT, I haven't written on ... fortunately, I remembered my password today and given the start of a new school year, I decided I'd stream some consciousness. First off, an update on

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Work, friends, sleep – pick three In which I manage time effectively.

  

  Remember that time when I was an RA at nerd camp? Here's what I ... this summer: "Devin (another Spectrum '07) and I have been reading A LOT about MIT. She wants to go (a lot), and I'm keeping my eyes and ears open

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Leaving home…

  

  [I'm at MIT now, but wrote this entry earlier today while still travelling.] For months, I've been looking forward to the day I'd be leaving for college. I talk to my future classmates daily, and it seems like

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 28, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Post-finals stress? Oh, it happens. Trust me.

  

  I was lucky enough this semester to have only one final exam, which I took this afternoon. So, I should be relaxed right now, right? Wrong. I need to have everything I own packed and stored by 6 PM tomorrow

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  When I was in kindergarten, I wanted to be a doctor. The summer before my senior year of college, I wanted to be a doctor. Are these two statements the same? Nope. So since I'm from the 80s, I can tell you that I

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  I started writing blogposts when I came to MIT. I wanted to be like a ... vaguely speaking I’d say this has been a moderate success (y'know, being an MIT Blogger now etc. I literally get paid to contribute to my own

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  cobblestone placed on this path that we follow—but I suppose this day was more ... had asked everybody to leave campus, so I was at my boyfriend Chris ... most people I have met. But now we were binary stars, gravitationally

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  When I'm sad, or there's some conundrum in my life that I need to process, or I'm riding the high from hanging out with friends, or I'm so stressed that I can barely quiet the buzz of all the bees in my head--I go

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  I had a breakthrough the other day. I was sitting in my favorite Kendall Square restaurant, Clover. When I say favorite, I mean F.A.V.O.R.I.T.E. In a busy week, I’m there at least once a day: The prices are

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  First Midterm of The Semester Here I go...

  

  I have about 30 minutes before the first midterm of the semester. I just finished gulping down a breakfast burrito. Back in high school, I ... . I missed dining hours this morning so I'm at Anna's Taqueria because I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 1, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summertime Science Got that summertime, summertime science...

  

  Hey! Remember me? No? Hi. I'm Elizabeth. I graduated last June. But here we are, me crufting on the blogs, you not knowing who I am. I never officially said goodbye, and I STILL have that post. I'm working on it. Proof

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 14, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  Today, I will p-set. Really. I wake up at 7 am. I shower. I try on ... baggy t-shirt to p-set in. I sort my pile of clean laundry. I sort my pile of dirty laundry. I print out my p-sets for the week. While I’m at it I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011