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• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  we had learned in that unit. Kanji characters and hiragana were still swimming in the back of my mind as I scootered across the bridge to my test ... interview in Japanese conducted by my professor, where a partner and I were

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  there. When I returned, I was surprised to see someone in my seat. I ... . In the process of him sitting in my chair, the seat flipped down and ... breaking it, and offered helping in any way he could. I was baffled by the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  I’m not hosed I’m no longer neck deep in school work, and I finally ... nothing in particular except think about all the things I need to do. They ... of being reasonable and going to sleep, I’m going to write this in one

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  happy singles awareness day

  

  ’t interested in getting involved in anything romantic with anybody at the moment ... up in person and talk about it,” I messaged him. The next day, we ... interested in dating anyone right now. I’m so flattered and I seriously

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  only allowed to be at home or at friends’ places or in public spaces like ... , except i suppose they’re also allowed to be in the office. but when you ... leaving school, to stay in the world of academia with masters degrees and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  I hadn't been sick in years. I mean sure, I've had the occasional ... Vaporub type of sick? Not once in the past ~seven years. Then a few weeks ... that I got it. So what do you do when you're sick in college? Honestly

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  i am in the tenth week of my summer job and i can remember how the ... together and passing faster and faster, like sand in an hourglass falling, a ... camps, every semester of college, group houses in new mexico and alaska

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  cells exchange their water in the matter of milliseconds. Proof?" The Science Problem: How fast does water get in/out of cells? 1:31 am: I ... : these physicists have modeled some perfectly smooth aquaporins in a vacuum

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  almost threaten the math major domination"]now we're all majoring in ... thousand stairs, you could visit me in my gremlin cave, which is technically ... multimeter in my backpack. Why wouldn't you have a multimeter in your backpack

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updating my blogger bio because its no longer accurate

  

  A couple nights ago, while my friends and I were wasting away in ... realize it’s pretty difficult to sum up a personality in these brief ... jordan 1 guava ices in a 6 mens since they only offer it in a 7.5+ mens

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

  this is fine some thoughts at the end of the semester

  

  it. All I want to do is lie in the sun and read a book, but... finals ... being on campus, and my freshman year in general. I don't really have any coherent thoughts, yet. But in this moment, I feel a lot of resentment for

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  —how have I changed in the last year? I suppose that I'm more confident in my ... calling myself a writer, and that I've become much more interested in ... , though, I find glimpses of my past, and it brings me some clarity. In 2018

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  happened in Atlanta recently. I’m heartbroken as an American citizen, but also as an Asian woman. It feels like a brutal knife to the heart in a year full of blades. If you are interested in supporting the victims

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  pathways where do i go from here?

  

  since I was last in that room."  "it's been a year since..." in the past ... restored even when we're back in-person. i'm at peace with it—i've had a year ... the rest of my years at MIT. right now, i'm living in a house with six

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 23, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Talent Show ua innovation gets lit

  

  In mid-November, a [annotation note=undergraduate association ... possibilities digital events offer compared to in-person ones. First years Favour ... . It was originally intended to be an in-person event, but the committee

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  even in normal times, from anecdotal accounts. In these 'unprecedented ... artiste in the first week of class (Jorja Smith😍), where we watch Shakira ... in line. I honestly didn’t think I would get through those two days. I

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  without planning it in advance"]happened to be on the same flight as a friend who had also fled campus for SD in March,[/annotation]so we shared ... -campus living in the fall that there would be a lot of restrictions. Things will

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds like home Quarantine songs, from my home to yours

  

  hoped to meet you in, but since I’m already stuck in a staring contest ... blotted by some cruel impressionist painter, my days in quarantine seem to blur together in a clumsy mess. Lately, I've been feeling a sort of

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  ’ve written about, there’s one feeling that I can’t quite capture in words. I grew up in Valenzuela City. Its longest and busiest road is Mac ... the most part, two lanes wide in both directions, devoid of trees, lined

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving Self-Quarantine 101 tldr; memes (haha jk...unless)

  

  so...for the sake of social distancing, everyone's trapped in their ... have a lot of time that we don't know what to do with. in fact, in the ... surviving this lull in academics, but i've developed a few coping mechanisms

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2020