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  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  Some Notes, because I’m myself:  Title is loosely based off of the Agust D song 어땠을까 here; I’m not usually one for lyrics, but these ones are quite fitting. I recommend, though, listening to Sorry-Grateful here

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  a tree. in my freshman year, i aimed to get my [annotation note="general institute requirements, classes we have to take to graduate. in this case, i ... my amazing first year advisor, adam albright. i was disappointed about

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  "Why did you come back?" "Well, I'm—I'm a queer Asian...person, so..." "You felt seen." "Yeah." Imagine a fish out of water. When I was growing up, I was always the odd one out. Growing up in South Dakota, I was

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  Some people may remember the sporadic posts that I made in this ... "]viral[/annotation] and some remained fairly unread, but I *think* that most of them ended ... it is. A map of all the places that I loved at MIT, color coded and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  top.  Since Reddit tends to cycle through content pretty routinely, I'll reproduce the post here: I'm a senior in high school this year, and will be graduating come June. I have had all A's throughout high school except for last

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  I am starting this post on Thursday, April 8, 2021, and today, it could be a little bit warmer. I’ve been sitting outside the Stud for about half an hour, eating my lunch, and the wind is getting to me. I could

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  things other than science, technology, or engineering”, and I would like ... alone here :) ) Before I had friends, I had books. For those of you who ... of you who were will know what I’m talking about. The universes within

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  last year, i got an email from sandy, the head of house at east ... , and i've unfortunately since [annotation note="this is a tangent, but i ... naievete and fomo until i met chris, who deletes almost every email she

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  So I was looking through some old notes that I was working on for this blog- topics to cover, questions to answer, stuff like that, and I came across a collection of things that I had written which can most

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  part of that process, I polled the bloggers on blogging features and ... they want to write but can’t have the blog be associated with them. I ... has. The earliest post I can find that was centrally "about" LGBTQ+ life

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  i. I visited my high school over the winter break. I came back to my hometown in Alabama during the second week. I was staying in Georgia with my ... that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  A few weeks ago, I stumbled across a Twitter thread describing the ... adversities she has experienced as well as her awards. I’ve read articles that ... of a permanent house[annotation note="To be very clear, I do not want

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  questions, but I'm trying to catch up now that I'm home, so please bear with me if I haven't written back to you in the past few weeks. This ... portray a certain pessimism that I've been encountering a lot lately being

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  For those of you curious about life after MIT, I recently wrote this blog to share some of my thoughts. I've gotten lots of love and feedback ... graduation). --------- A couple weeks ago, my friend pointed out that I had

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  One. I would use the blogs to process my feelings if I had any feelings to process. But the weird part about all of this is that I feel very ... ’s not acute. I haven’t shouted in the courtyard in frustration. I haven

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  for me. I think back to who I was ten years ago, at just 12 years old, memory a little worn away by time. I look at these years with incredible fondness, as a decade of so many Firsts that made me the person I am today

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  college career, I’m spending my summer working in [annotation note ... around the city. The one I frequent the most is called Barton Springs. It ... enough that I have to hype myself up to jump in. The initial plunge is an

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  -school-senior-me didn’t know how to answer. So I gave the only response I knew for sure: “Definitely not in a big city.” I’d spent my entire life in a small town in Missouri, and I enjoyed the peace, friendliness, and comfort that came with

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  I wrote this on my first day of classes this past Tuesday, and ... . My sleep schedule, I feel, is about 2 hours later than normal working professionals, as I feel like I can never wake up before 9AM. But today I have

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  I’m spending this IAP doing, among other things, five shifts a week as a Tech Caller, which means I call alumni, talk to them, and ask them ... separate post about why it’s rewarding. This isn’t that post. I’ve had a lot

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015