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  i don’t know how to comfort people

  

  i’ve learned that people here rely on each other. in a greuling academic environment, you most often turn to the people around you for support. people here are so painfully…

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 22, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante

  

  A few weeks ago, I was reading Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney and someone asked me what it was about. I said that I wasn’t sure, but if I had to…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  occupy my time. This trend continued at MIT (what, you mean MIT students ... , cough cough, a concentration is a major. At MIT, though, it's 3-4 classes

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  waiting for them: i muted keywords like "mit" or "decisions" from my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  some friends over iap (aka january at mit). one of the more awkward

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  bored in iap maybe i should've signed up for something

  

  winter break is nice and all, especially when it runs over into iap and i have nothing much to do. but with nothing to do, i’m getting kinda bored. so…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  graduate community at mit econ before this year, but had seen lots of faces

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 18, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  ), with its vast exhibits that I barely got to see half of. With my MIT ... actually went to [annotation note="the MIT Z center, a.k.a. the gym"]the Z ... section of the city. MIT exists in a sort of bubble, and it's so easy to get

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  difficult to choose MIT. But lately, I dawdle. My calendar is full of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  .nano pixels developing a love for pictures, reverb

  

  the section about the MIT.nano courses offered over IAP. At this point

  • by Waly N. '24
  • July 2, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  well, well look who's inside again

  

  Tok where some people commented about how MIT has no real social media ... surround it and MIT has next to nothing. I felt a twang of? jealousy? Anger ... the ups and downs of MIT (and really just the life of a college student

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 11, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  prefrosh about MIT and making college decisions. We talk about the ways we ... units of classes and survive. As a wise man once said about MIT and the

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

  list of things that refill my will to live things to do when i don't want to do anything

  

  . actually, fun's barlights going into an empty mit classroom and thinking

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  hope springs eternal a warm feeling

  

  It’s a beautiful day today in Boston, and looking out the window at the Charles River, recently covered in snow, I can’t help but feel anything but a kind of…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  some small distractions to help with many weighty things

  

  there is a LOT going on in the world right now -- perhaps most prominently for you, oh reader of this post, MIT EA decisions (which come out tomorrow/Saturday at pi time). but we're not going to talk about any of that

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  It’s Wednesday night. I have about 84 hours left at MIT. 84 hours left living right next door to some of my closest friends. 84 hours left to stare out at a skyline that looks back at me. 84 hours left of what

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  time, for each of the last several years while I was away from MIT

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  Today I found out that the Friendly Toast in Kendall Square, the location closest to MIT, is closing permanently :( Like many others, I’ve forged plenty of fantastic memories of the Friendly Toast. It was my go

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  i visit Cape Cod and discover the most beautiful beach on Earth

  

  i had a magical long weekend. a fellow rising sophomore friend, her boyfriend, my boyfriend, and I all rented a Zipcar and drove down to Cape Cod to spend the…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 24, 2020