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• Blog / Challenges

  Circles, circles, circles week to week to week

  

  Content warning: depression, suicidal ideation. The other day my ... , filling my body like helium. All the energy would leave me and I'd lie on my ... morning. I once told my psychiatrist that it's awful how the episodes have

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  D students, and grad students on their research projects during the semester ... of the process in obtaining a UROP[/caption] It's a great opportunity ... notice you in the first place can be a daunting task. But it doesn't have

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  “i’m not depressed!” haha

  

  appointment with my therapist ended with the conclusion that i'm doing better now. i am doing better now, right? and at the time it was fine, but the ... reappearing the next day! and haha things are bad enough i can't even write

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 17, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  This summer, I took an art class through the Student Art Association ... the Harvard and Mass Art catalogues several times. I guess there was so much else to learn. But in the last year or so, the old dream of doing a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das

  

  makerspaces, if you know where to look. The issue is, it’s difficult for any one student to know where all the makerspaces are. PhD student Rima Das is ... map of MIT makerspaces throughout campus! Rima: The makerspace map is a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  “Who are you?” said the Caterpillar. This was not an encouraging ... the point of unwritability. I would probably still be re ... , though, I’ll spare everyone the pain of Schrodinger’s equation and just

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 16, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  on mit’s mailing list culture update: tetazoo glounge

  

  'm spending my free time playing a lot of monster train. actually that's the ... over fifteen hours in the game oops. anyway, here's a small post about ... chat for emails. as the name suggests, it's a list of emails that an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  the present, lingering in corners of the past. revisiting things that ... about blog posts i want to write, i gravitate towards the reflective ideas ... my life. because the reality is, there's not a lot of new and exciting

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted

  

  YOU GOT IN! Feel free to drop a note yelling in the comments below, but also, and more importantly, to go celebrate and be happy with your loved ones.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  I’m being honest. To understand what I mean, you need context. For the ... burnout and exhaustion from all the things I was trying to accomplish on not nearly enough sleep. I could go into the reasons for this – wanting to do

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  's a weird experience. I can compartmentalize the last 14-ish months of ... blurs all the lines. The semester is almost over. That means I'm almost ... than both the places I stayed at this summer, even though those times

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  was in high school i never felt really sad when the seniors graduated ... taking a gap year; so i would be around the area, you know, i’d be seeing ... all the corners of the world. and i saw many of them, for what will

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Signs of Life communication in a covid world

  

  In the past few months, communication with each other has been sparse ... them know how we’re doing now that the semester is over, a text message ... interactions with strangers are at an all time low of impersonal. Gone are the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  The weird thing about quarantine is that I'm actually being better ... would be reluctant to go seek out the company of others since the ... to capture is ~the deep talk~. Most college students have experienced

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted

  

  YOU GOT IN! Feel free to drop a note yelling in the comments below, but also, and more importantly, to go celebrate with your loved ones.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  Today is August 31st, the final day of REX, but I’m writing this from the comforts of home in Seattle, more than three thousand miles away from MIT. I’m slowly getting ready to go back to the firehose; I’ll be on

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  career fair haikus this post contains your Daily Value of sodium

  

  🎶Will the stars align? 🎶 🎶Will my interviews go fine?🎶 🎶Will the ... the large crowds Stand in long lines for your turn But this ain't Disney 😤   I approached the stand  $old my self, car, home, and soul To

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 28, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Here’s a Plan let's burn off the pi(e)

  

  Pi day is almost here, when all the hard work from both applicants and the admissions office comes to fruition. Breathing is hard right ... hitting the gym? Besides, after this humongous pie I'd say it's time for a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • March 9, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  FUN Form FAQs U is for Ukelele

  

  Happy New Year, beautiful people! Hope you all enjoyed the holidays ... forms… the February Updates and Notes (FUN) form. tl;dr: the FUN form is ... obligated to fill up the form—it’s okay if all you’re sending us is semester

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / Hacks

  C-Sail Jack Florey really went Captain Jack on this one.

  

  This might look like a regular old picture of the Stata Center on a ... 't get it: the Stata Center houses the Computer Science and Artificial ... the punny hack.)

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2017