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  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  don't talk to my old roommates a lot. when i enter McCormick, i still ... chalni hai aur roh par bhi chalay hain[annotation note="Translation: don't ask from the beautiful, of the suffering of this separation OR don't ask

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  ="if you don't count creepily drawing classmates during boring high school ... ' sketches, the ones that stand out to me don't necessarily copy the model ... when something is hard to control, you simply don't. Instead of trying to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  only what I need to do tomorrow. I don’t have too much bandwidth to stay stuck in the past, and don’t spend too much time worrying about the future ... to me like being parented by upperclassmen. The freshmen here don’t get

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  could race into the future, I could keep looking ahead. I just don't want ... energy and innocence of the freshmen, I don't actually want it. I'm sad ... graduation. Where did the time go? For the first time in maybe ever, I don't

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  ." "Are you a monster?" "The very worst one." "You don't look like a ... 'REILLY: Ready. CHICO: Ready. LUCK: I don't want to be here! LEE: Ready. ADAMS ... anyone who creates things. While it is technically true that “guns don’t

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  . I don’t consider myself particularly brilliant, but I’ve always ... doesn’t come naturally; it’s that I just don’t enjoy my classes very much. I just… don’t like coding, and no matter how much I want to be

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  don't think she's pregnant, I think--" "Yes, so I told her about the ... walkable. I don’t need the subway to get groceries, or go shopping, or even ... back to. I don't know where I'll be this time next year or into the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  isn't meant to be an "Oh non-MIT people just don't get it" in a snobby ... people around me are people I love and cherish, they don't understand that ... and I deserve every piece of it. I don't quite remember how I pulled

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  first." At the end of all my babble I don't even know what I've said. They ... 'm not sure if it's possible to understand a thing I don't think I actually ... wake up with the revelation re-formed in my mind. I don't know if it

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  never enough.   it’s not that I don’t encounter creative work I have every opportunity to blog more that I don’t have the wherewithall ... ; I like how full every day is. I don’t believe in rest. but I wish

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  people to train with, and we don't have the culture of lowkey peer ... semesters, but I still don't know what's best. if I commit to Mocha full ... ! so many considerations! why can't everything be simple!!! I don't know

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  about whether i'll actually have meaningful experiences in EC if i don't ... maintain friendships with people who i don't see on a daily basis. ahhhhhh ... have two years left year, so i want to make the most of them. i just don't

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  telling us they don't want to join DPhiE. They hadn't even talked to us, yet ... sorority or spend a day with them which is really rare. In fact, I don't know ... members and hopefully will be welcoming so many more tonight. I don't quite

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  I carry, and the way that I walk into spaces I know, and ones I don’t ... fix (namely to use masking tape on objects on the wall you don’t want ... cupboard above my sink (I have a sink!) is broken and I don’t know how to fix

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  license. I feel pretty good about my fight scenes, but I don’t actually know ... be waking up earlier, running in the morning, so that I don’t miss so ... , a lot of shoes to fill. I don’t know which ones fit me, yet, but I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  hard as MIT, and I don’t think anything ever will. 14 ... an economics PhD, I don’t just want to look at things from an economics ... — anthropology, sociology, education, philosophy, … — to make sure that I don’t

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  , even if you don’t actually take it, because you can guess. You’ll get a ... leads you. One. Don't look: what's the color of the floor in the room you ... head. I don't want to know what it looks like now. Two. Two nights ago I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  I don't really watch a lot of shows because they require a lot of ... , but also I'm not really sure if I want to any more since I just don't ... I don't quite like journalistic/news writing as much as I thought I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  ice cream party. C - Quote I Don't Understand Our group of six people ... people who know tons of neat stuff that I don't. ^-^ D - Other Quotes ... -motion animated movie. Miske is, uh, a guy we know. (Does he read the blogs? I don't

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  pset took forever.  And, come Saturday, this essay.  I don't know if it ... I don't want to cheat myself. Anyway, on Saturday, I woke up late and ... don't have time to care this much, and I forget how good it feels. In

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020