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  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  sidewalk with a metal pipe. I’ve consumed an inhumane amount of boba which ... casually stood in an elevator and spoke with a co-founder of AirBNB who was ... we don’t want to. So with that, I’m going to try my best to give you

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  all started last Friday when I woke up with a sharp pain in my butt ... doctor took one look at me and diagnosed me with [annotation note="This isn ... "]general butt pain[/annotation], telling me to just live with it for [annotation

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  older brother didn’t have the patience to play chess with me (I had a ... camps (?). I abhor Tractor, with a burning passion. It’s mildly ... realized with a shock that his dig had hurt. It was as if the statement had

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  nightfall, ekeing out spray-painted trail signs with our headlamp. We ... on for miles with no interruptions. The path is secluded from the road with its rush of cars. I'd forgotten how quiet the desert is.  I was

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  story which could be improved. Finally, the author came up with a few ... , there were many days I simply felt too tired to deal with the stress of ... ="alignnone" width="220"] Celtic harp, traditionally played with fingernails (though

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  dimension of time. Some might disagree with this notion, given that time is ... . When I brought this up with my friend, he said (understandably) "what the ... space, continuously growing, and changing, and evolving with you. You may

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Lessons Learned from (Watching) D&D thank you brennan lee mulligan

  

  CollegeHumor. The show has multiple seasons, with each season being a new D&D game with a usually familiar cast, with the occasional guest stars here and there. And I. Am. In. Love. I've always had a fascination with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  becomes a kung fu master, living a glamorous life replete with red ... sandy mountain ledge, a lesbian with hot dogs for fingers.  My younger ... admitted high school seniors. He stayed with me for one night before crashing

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  I ate dinner at Dumpling House with some friends. It's only been a month since I last went to Dumpling House. I was meeting up with a group walking from the west side of campus, so with me living in the east side, we

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  still find myself wobbling around with reservations and an unsure aura ... ever and spent time with my [annotation note="In Greek life you typically ... acquainted with Greek life and you can continue this family line by getting a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  the river On its bridge with wooden piers, Like the odor of brine from ... -internship was only 25 hours a week, I found myself with a bunch of extra time to ... MIT. I've kept up with people and even found time to do some additional

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  's filled with. MIT, in my experience, has been filled with essays and exams and psets that ask you to grapple with concepts and apply known things ... i wrote this post! current readers, if you need help with writing, i

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  about my relationship with poetry over the years. Here’s the earliest ... nights and shooting stars The sky swallowing up all worries with deep ... had to be even-ish, every line had to start with a capital letter, it

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  any kind is being comfortable with the fact that most things you make ... new brand was complete with a refreshed logo, new color palette, and a ... MIT at the grocery store with one of these bags. [caption id

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  . I wrote this blog to capture the memories I made last summer with my ... hours each week in office hours helping students get familiar with the ... was really happy with her answers, given that I was also a freshman girl

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  Admittedly, I’m not the best at keeping up with people. I’m pretty ... answered questions from AskHole was with fellow blogger Kathleen, and we had ... interesting discussion with her, and we’re hoping to do it again sometime again

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  with). Personally, all that time spent inside with people and Vietnam ... . Around this time last year, I went to MIT Medical with some kind of GI ... finish [annotation note="now that I'm done with these, I can stop

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  July and were comparing schedules; we, even with the combined power of ... who may feel the same way! At MIT, each semester begins with ... Day is the day where pretty much everyone has to meet with their advisor

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  made the biggest rookie mistake ever. I made eye contact with someone ... with the woman running the booth, I realized that this company might not ... you can bet I’m keeping sharp over the summer by racing sailboats with

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  with after CPW, having now lived through 3 CPW’s. Hopefully, those who ... procrastinating on this. Feeling #1: Everyone seemed so comfortable with themselves ... with the culture and people. I didn’t meet anyone that I immediately

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018