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• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  reading won’t be about why I took a gap year but, instead, what I did on it ... went on a meditation retreat. There are certainly ways I can say it in ... this daunting year on. Also, thinking of my life as a whole, I found

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  's on the colder side. i pulled out my pink puffer jacket from the closet ... 's going on. it's a good pace for me, and my notes for this recitation are ... glasses fall right off my face. people who try them on have told me they

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  17 Ridiculously Useful Tips Every Blogger Should Know i am the entire circus

  

  conversations with random people Chances are you've given up on your artistic ... satisfying to work on bigger problems than smaller ones," he replied. "Yeah ... important to be cautious about the moves you make on the board." "So you fill

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an album a day the only new year's resolution i've ever completed

  

  . having rediscovered my love for reading, I decided to embark on the ... more than once, anyways. that's why I can reflect on my year of music ... studying or psetting, since it's hard to focus on what you're hearing if you

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  more day, and she said yes. So I flew home on the 23rd. On the flight, I ... immediately afterwards, I went home to Next House to pack my carry-on and leave ... another person enough to say "I can't do this on my own right now," and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  on grades...the most I've ever taken), so I opted to stay on campus instead to meet my deadlines and work on projects I've been dreaming about ... too early, but I love the aesthetics: children in knit caps, sunshine on

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Video games I’ve played this semester trimps, mother 3, hades, and vampire survivors

  

  the gameplay, so for the second half of the game, I turned on some ... Quest IX as a kid and finding it hard.) I want to put on the record that I ... it's grinding, turning on the cheats, or watching a Let's Play instead

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  could get my hands on. I loved (and love) learning with every fiber of my ... about was the searing heat of the tears on my face. You can’t really see ... blossoming grief in my chest had worn off, [/annotation]I began to focus on the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  tired and busy and tired and busy and tired and busy and

  

  from 1-4 on MWF and 1-2 on TR Do homework and sit with friends from whatever time until 4 or 5 Go to ZBT for dinner Go back on the van If ... slots for when I can do fun things, like that nice slot from 2pm to 5pm on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 15, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  excerpts

  

  has things from 2018 I still haven’t followed up on. Oops. So instead of ... -person graduation got canceled, 10 friends and I instead went on a road trip to ... night in Las Vegas, then… Pass through Valley of Fire on our way to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  eleven, not until you're almost twelve. That's the way it is.” working on ... accumulating in me as the days go on. but they’re more like rings inside a tree ... do things. take this post, for example. i’ve been sitting on this post

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  times. I went on boats and thrifting and kayaking and brunching. I went to ... . I also made my own hummus this summer and started snacking on hummus ... nice to go through the past and reflect on it from a better place

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  .00.']like:[/annotation] Last year, my education was [on zoom, hybrid ... have known me for a few weeks]. Who should I ask to write letters on my ... the last one: "Who should I ask to write letters on my behalf? And the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  play dough

  

  out and the thought of having random paint on my face always disturbed ... . On desks, on water bottles, on their face. It was messy. Most notably ... foreign. I was the kind of person that needed to dwell on something before

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  people who got tested the previous week all expired on Monday. The next ... address, takes the next printed sticker, puts it on a tube, and hands it to ... could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  hide and a place to seek from a list of 20 locations on MIT's campus ... Seek at MIT, mid-pandemic – hypothetically, I could stock up on masks by going to MIT Medical and then go social distance from everyone on Briggs

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  ,[/annotation] but before this week, my last post was made over one year ago on May 27 ... challenge because I never had the mental space to reflect on my situation. I ... , plus blogging"]far too many obligations[/annotation] and held on for dear

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  (quarter) slices of pizza from a place called Ernesto's on the same street ... ! i went on a cloudy Friday and holy SHIT it was fun. we started by ... my apartment to come chill on [annotation note="the lawn in front of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  disruptions, where we remind students to focus first "on taking care of yourself ... evaluate each application.  In a blog post on COVID from early March, we ... learn on your own at home.[/annotation] I want to reassure you that we

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  I wanted to write a comprehensive post on my experience with being a ... undecided on a major, I just knew I wanted one. TL;DR I'm basically a pretty ... out internships on my own. I mainly just Google'd some generic phrases

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020