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• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  , recording—all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in ... to intimacy. Yes, God, I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  i. The days wheeled past like a flock of starlings, and suddenly 2021 is two-thirds over. To celebrate the newly abandoned month, I play august by Taylor Swift on repeat. As I grow older, I find that Taylor is

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

  Memories My first two months at MIT, all wrapped up into one post.

  

  lecture, I realized that I’m more than halfway done with my first semester ... could the past eight weeks have gone by so quickly? I can still remember how I felt when my plane first landed in Boston - when I walked onto

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  this spring, i am doing a study abroad semester at Imperial College London. what this means is that i have been away from MIT for a little over ... for the fall semester. i decided to do this for a lot of different

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  faith in the future

  

  I don't even know myself at all I thought I would be happy but now The more I try to push it I realize gonna let go of control In my AP ... wrong; emotions can be experienced before we think about them, but I think

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  and the most pleasurable month of the academic calendar, but I don't agree with either of those sentiments. I like to think IAP is a sort of ... that Cambridge is a strange place to host a purgatory. I suppose I never

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updating my blogger bio because its no longer accurate

  

  A couple nights ago, while my friends and I were wasting away in ... someone read aloud: My name is Cami. I'm a lil bi filipina girl from LA county, from a city about 30 minutes outside of LA called Norwalk. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  blogger tag yourself: quarantine edition favorite hobby? looking in the mirror and wondering if i'm real

  

  if i didn't tag myself as, erm, myself, i'd probably say i'm Afeefah. damn, i'm always working in bed and it's SUCH an issue. who are you? let us know :)

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 1, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Graduation Picture Book Photos from graduation because I've lost my writing skills (~23 Pictures)

  

  I decided that since I still cannot write intelligibly in order to summarize what four years of an MIT education can do for you, I'll just post some pictures from graduation until I process everything.

  • by Bryan
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  (So honestly, I wrote this emotional post about my first year at MIT ... , and posted it while I was on the plane, so basically Sam is a big ... ) posting it when I had no wireless. Not cool, Sam. Actually I went out for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  I've been watching a lot of chess. Watching, not playing. My eyes ... square, devouring and moving forward and moving back. I quietly trace the ... gets what, who ends up on top at the end of the day. I've been listening

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I have the best girlfriend ever Gifts at MIT rock.

  

  I bought a new mouse on woot.com the other day for $13.37 and I must ... inquired "Where's your mousepad?" "Well . . I don't have one. . . but look, it still works!" A week later, after I had totally forgotten about

  • by Snively '11
  • December 3, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  Back in September, I wrote my first blog. I called it Things I Know to Be True. It was meant to be a simple introductory post, and I suppose it was, but I also wanted it to act as an anchor. I told myself that

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  Since coming here, I've had two items at the top of my bucket list. #1) Graduate. #2) Paint a mural for The Borderline @ MIT. I got to ... that's been fine with me—this is my first academic year where I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  friday before the last one, i received some bad news. one of my close ... has been trying to get back up on my feet. i like to think i’ve been ... ’s probably not a lot, and i’ve had friends who’ve gone through more. but i like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  This school year was pretty terrible.  I don't think there is an easier way to put that. I wrote about my first semester in my post called Sophomore Slump. My second semester was a little better.  I took classes that

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  When MIT Gets Tough, CAAAATTTT Everything was terrible, and then I cat

  

  I GOT CAT I GOT CAT I GOT CAT I GOT CAT I GOT CAT I GOT CAT This past weekend, I rushed my mom and sister to come visit me at MIT because I was feeling particularly stressed out and at a loss for how to deal

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Knock On Wood Can I Graduate?

  

  I promised I'd never pull an all nighter....my thesis is due tomorrow. We'll see how close I stay on that contract. More updates coming soon as the night progresses. 2:13 AM I started rocking out in my Athena

  • by Bryan
  • May 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  I failed an [annotation note="probability and random variables"]18.600[/annotation] exam last week. At risk of sounding dramatic, I don't even need to wait for scores to come back to know I failed. I definitely failed

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  Hi, hello. How are you doing? I haven't been in the writing mood as ... something I looked forward to every week and I seemed to be teeming with ideas ... where I remain silent adds another weight of guilt onto my back and I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021