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  Questions from Beyond one last blog

  

  Wait. Why am I here?  For those of you who don’t know, I actually don’t work at MIT anymore. I actually haven’t worked at MIT for a whole week. So, again, why am I here? Well, there’s really only two reasons. The

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2022
• 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 ... used to feel like home, dusting off once-beloved keepsakes. these days, i ... , sometimes amused by who i used to be, sometimes saddened. whenever i think

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  keeping interest a list of things i think are cool

  

  For the past week, I've been thinking a lot about what I want to do with my life and my time. I'm currently on a track at MIT to pursue EECS (Course 6-2) and Media Studies (CMS). Prior to coming to MIT, I swore I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  . What follows is the very long and detailed crisis I had in picking my major, organized by what I considered, in a roughly chronological order: Course 8 (Physics) Okay I never seriously considered physics while at MIT

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  I first arrived at MIT as a tourist, a thirteen-year-old with glasses that didn't flatter my face and blunt bangs I cut myself. It was spring ... memory. Walls papered with activities posters, that's the main image I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Love Math Snakes on a plane!

  

  Yes, I will be watching this at 10 pm Thursday night. This might be the end of Samuel Jackson's career, and I might as well be there for it. And stay tuned for an entry about my 21st birthday on Friday.

  • by Bryan
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  “i’m not depressed!” haha

  

  i had an awesome long weekend, where i went sailing with a friend and ate dinner with other friends on friday, and i got to play my first assassins guild games in a while on saturday, and i got a lot of work done on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a believer Bikes! They're totally worth it.

  

  OMG. Bikes are amazing. So, I'll admit it: I'm stubborn. I like to say that I'm "tenacious", but what I really mean is that I am set in my ways and have trouble admitting that I'm wrong. Today, I found out that I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Where WAS I? Honestly? I still don't know.

  

  I am starting to run out of excuses for when I disappear for long ... and the arm of my coat ripped three-quarters of the way off. I always ... reason for why I haven't posted in over twelve decades ("I was sick", "I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  I Feel *a* Last or at least, I'm trying to

  

  . A voice narration begins. I attribute many feelings to love or to hate. When asked how I feel about a situation, I usually say something akin to "I love that feeling when" or "I hate that--". It's a bit of a catch

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’M BACK!!! This, kids, is why you should store your passwords somewhere safe, just in case Firefox…

  

  Ok, so long story short (I'll blog the whole thing later), I use firefox to remember my password to login to the MIT blogs website. I remember my username easily enough, but I could never remember my password

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 9, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  This weekend, I was an invisible woman. Flashback: There’s a festival in Davis Square with an array of arts and crafts vendors. I’ve been ... . No, this is a fancier event. The handmade cups here cost $68. And I am

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  It's 9:05am PST. I told myself I'd wake up past 9:14, but either due ... year, I'm up 9 minutes too early. It's 9 minutes too early, because in 9 minutes, or so I've been told, the early action decisions for MIT are going

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  .” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby *** I have come to the profound realization recently that I think I'm boring. I'm not entirely sure where I sit with that. More importantly, I've recognized that the pressure cooker of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I who have nothing Darling, 'tis I who loves you.

  

  Europe. Probably forever. I'm just chilling here in my air-conditioned (!) hostel room, listening to the dude above me snore, and I thought that ... bajillionth time, I should make good on my promise to write something from Spain

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  This semester I’ve lived in an apartment with three roommates: one omnivore, one vegetarian, and one vegan. I decided on the day we moved in that I would try out vegetarianism, just to see how it went. It wasn

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  current resident or someone from years ago. But when I moved into my room ... raw, unpainted wood. I immediately resolved to paint it. I wanted what I ... the door had ever been painted. I thought about it on and off for all

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  I've been reading a lot of slow, contemplative writing recently ... blog post of that nature. Frankly, I've been overdue for such a post, both in the sense that I haven't appeared on the admissions blogs for a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  little ways back in my history (what history I have), not too far, just a ... , depending on how you look at it. I was 8 and lived on the outskirts of one of ... a cliff. I was just a breath away from the main highway they'd started

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  i dropped os 🎉 i'm a hass boi this semester

  

  operating systems lab with the precious few late hours left that i'd had -- i ... wasn't enough, which is, unfortunately, a common occurrence at MIT. i ... was graded, i was still passing 0% of the tests. i needed to sleep, and

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 18, 2019