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• 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
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  fall, and of 2019; I regret the dates I was too tired to go on, the team ... where I missed cheering on my friends, the texts and FaceTimes I didn ... have no class on Fridays. I'm going to spend less time on psets, at

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  with what's going on in the world becomes something extraneous and not ... ’s going on in the world i am. i used to be so caught up with everything, but ... escaped the bubble on a few occasions:    camping trip!  the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  architecture/woodworking/crafts nerd, I knew we had to go on a tour; I spent the ... loft designs I scribbled on a napkin in the car on the way home. Six ... on that napkin, and later on graph paper, I drew out cloud lift lofts

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  a brief respite finds me on the second floor of [annotation note="MIT's main entrance, located on 77 Mass Ave"]Lobby 7.[/annotation] i let my ... , returning to my dorm, and sleeping, but a desire to commit to the events on my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  , right when the application came out I jumped on it and was like, “I ... period of EXTREME STRESS, I finally submitted my application on Oct. 31 ... made (or think you made) on your application. This is normal. It shouldn

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  on Reddit that had a lot of really good questions about 6-3 that I didn ... based on enrollment, it's lopsided towards 6-3: based on the same ... 'm describing them based on the semester I took them, and not the most recent

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  a few oddball private schools thrown in there. Nothing on the level of ... up on making the deadline and was certain that I had said something ... painless in retrospect but I was a little stressed about it. On the ninth, I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017