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  I’m not swollen anymore!

  

  Okay, so I agree that it's been far too long since my last update. I ... week and a half recovering from wisdom teeth surgery. I just had my stitches out this afternoon -- *VERY GLAD* to be done! I'll be moving into a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 21, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  sexualisation I tend to talk about friend groups a lot on the blogs. I've always been someone that has traveled in a pack. In high school, I had a group of three girls I hung out with a lot and I felt like I understood them

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  And miles to go before I sleep. Here we go again.

  

  long night ahead of you." Great. The thing is, I know how to handle these nights. I should anyways; I have enough experience. Part of my application ... . (After all, our work is never over.) But it should be over. I've learned my

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  very different website. I’m so not used to it that I still drafted this post on Google Docs as I always did, though our new platform has a fancier back-end I could have used (unbeknownst to you all).  The last time

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  things are clicking into place and falling completely apart all at once. i worked all through spring break, including weekends -- i think from monday the 17th to saturday the 29th i went into lab every single day. i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  it feels hypocritical of me to write words to you, because even if i was deferred myself, i was eventually accepted to mit. such is the ... feelings feel more distant day-by-day, but i faintly remember how painful it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  On IAP A time for P E R S O N A L P R O J…

  

  update you on my life since October! First, I've passed every class that I ... . No, not that kind of P. The pass kind of P! I passed calc, writing, and ... stressed me out a bit. See, I was gonna write a musical programing language

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • December 27, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  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 / 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

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  You know what I thought I was good at after getting into MIT? You know what I thought was my shining glory, my thing to be proud of, the thing I would definitely do well at even at this really hard institution

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  I’ve gotten into the habit of keeping graveyards for my writing ... —where I can lay them to rest without feeling like they’re gone from my life ... .[/annotation] It’s helped me edit, and in turn, write better, since I can more

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• 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 / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  , 2021 at 5 pm EST, if I actually post this on time - I will no longer be an MIT student. I wouldn’t consider myself graduated emotionally, but on paper, I will be. As far as I’m concerned though, I’ll only really

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021