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  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  uncomfortable detail the feeling of staring at an blank computer screen with facts ... be honing my laying-motionless-on-a-sofa and stuffing-my-face-with ... this past semester, I thought I would close the year out first with this

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  I've had my fair share of time with roommates and friends in the past year and I've learned a lot. I lived for the first time with friends in a ... . Then that following fall I lived with four people including myself in a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  friendships, or be friends with more people, when they feel too isolated or ... some of them happened to be people I really “clicked with”, and we became ... with all my friends, particularly my close friends, I realized that yes

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  've also known this friend to be pretty honest with me, and in the past, he ... shared a name with my brother (this scenario hasn't happened yet; like me ... photo to show solidarity with those affected. Soon, my entire feed was

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  as a lifeguard. I'm not kidding.) But then today I was struck with ... really just move on with my life already. I hope no one minds. =) Okay, so ... like 16-20 students each) and they are tasked with some pretty big

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  share with you guys. I had a bunch from Sadoway's last 3.091 lecture and ... files at the moment and I'm too lazy to really search for them, so I ... , of waverip.com and tecker.com I was curious as to what was up with your

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ★★★★☆ Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023

  

  ]: Hangers I like fashion, so at home my closet is filled pretty tightly with ... need something to bring with you into the shower. This one is nice—it has ... digital & on a lit-up screen anyways), but it does serve its purpose

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  playing video games, i'm not even playing board games or eating with friends ... movie screenings, parties and mixers and other dinners—i'm sure i would ... with a lot of family issues, i was living alone for the first time, and i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  't be able to catch up to these kids and as a result, coming in with no ... way more fun than I was supposed to. (Hanging out with friends in my ... time. Don't tell my parents.) Over my four years, I sang with an a

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  , and I’d had a really long day, but with every step I took, I felt my ... overcame some of my fears. I'd been meaning to start the UROP search earlier ... , shrugged, and thought I'd give it a chance. I chatted with a few people. I

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  dark oak paneling with each stroke of my paintbrush and becoming ... stagnate with an old version of myself.   . . .   Painting is a ... memories of the podcast coalesce with my memories of the Iowa house. I think

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  something with my friends for fun. When I'm writing for the admissions blogs ... criticism about me. This difficulty with taking criticism goes beyond getting ... with my writing or programming or whatever, rather than just writing it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  )"]oír[/annotation]) and listen (escuchar) with different verbs, and you see (ver) and watch (mirar) with different verbs. I can't think of an appropriate transitive ... "]almost[/annotation] a brute-force algorithm. Some of you have emailed me in search of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Adonde? Excuse me sir, I seem to have misplaced my pants.

  

  Tube. He searched for "Improv Everywhere Best Buy" and showed me a hilarious ... asked about your bare legs, you simply respond with "I didn't feel like ... to be on the same platform at the same time, along with a piano player

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  have had with many other international students at MIT, heavy with the ... throughout the country for the past year, with intermittent internet shutdowns ... form, with people jumping in to say, “that’s not true,” or “but also this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  process. Dozens of you wrote in with wonderful, funny, and sometimes ... my application to MIT with this deep philosophical outlook and soon ... wasn't educational, it just had nothing to do with learning about who I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity What were you doing?

  

  that my line of sight was no longer perpendicular to the laptop screen; I ... still red, etc. What the heck? The obvious next step: look at the screen

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  insisted we come up with a name. The three of us-Sathwik, Rohan, and I ... January. Shirts, caps, jackets, water bottles, all branded with the company ... that I'd be okay with whatever choice they picked, as long as they were

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hosed life the last few weeks

  

  semester except for the occasional iced coffee with so much milk and sugar it ... state of business, stress, and exhaustion; swamped and overloaded with work, with no end in sight; essentially attempting to drink directly from

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 20, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought

  

  ’s start with some classics. The Food Network, or more importantly, Netflix ... thing to cook or cook with, plus or minus some unique spins. While you may ... it on the screen, you can definitely pick up a bunch of cooking skills

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 6, 2016