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  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  TV while at MIT was unheard of... when i went home, everything changed ... up at 9 to sleeping at 4 am and waking up after 12 pm. and i'm not ... feel the need to...i'm basically a weeb hermit at this point. the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  -related insights and expectations I had collected during my first few days at MIT. I did not know much at the time. I was absolutely terrified of what the ... ’t know if I was going to make it. Today, I’m at the other end of the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  Steven T. ‘20, whose mother works at a salon. In the past, we’ve spoken at ... our own safety when someone could storm into our lives and open fire at ... workers at spas he frequented--leans into the hypersexualization of Asian

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Tier Listing My Classes i may have got this idea from tiktok

  

  I mentioned this in my last post, but I'm graduating soon! At the end ... memeing. On the brink of graduation, I'm able to look back at all the ... 's approximately what the tiers mean in my mind: S: My absolute favorite classes at

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 23, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  year, and all my competitions got cancelled, and I’m quarantining at home ... to August, and I’m about to start at the Zoom Institute of Technology ... an effort. At a particularly low moment, I caught myself on the thought

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  highlights of a hellish semester it's OVER. IT'S FINALLY OVER GOSDAIUOSDSOIJD

  

  interactions at any hour, and my house this year, which we dubbed "soft house ... playing games at pretty much every waking hour of the day. shoutout to Wii ... only went on one. it was incredible; we walked along the beach at night

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 28, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  At some point during the semester, when walking to quarantine lunch ... Infinite technically has 5 levels. Here at MIT, we index from 0, so the ... there's normally nobody there at night and you can go as fast as you want

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  . Of course, I usually open youtube at times of great procrastination ... laundry at 1 am the other day (as one does, living between [annotation note ... at a reasonable time and not stay up until 4 am every day

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  . [annotation note="in sOuTh dAkOtA"]At home,[/annotation]the snow starts in ... which is normal for the season. Each storm brings at least[annotation note ... "]cold, wet rain,[/annotation]but no snow. At the same time, I was feeling a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  interesting to look at. I tried to pick things that are all relatively short ... mathematicians often embrace ideas that at first glance (and later glances!) seem nonsensical, or the way mathematicians often hold obvious truths at arm’s length

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  food diaries pt. 3 amazing restaurants around MIT

  

  Central for two months during the pandemic than I did during my ~6 months at ... of my time at MIT nearly enough. During the school year, the only ... corner of the Porter Exchange building. It's very unassuming at first

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Reflecting on the great memories of my freshman year ☀️ When life gives you lemons, share them with others >:) ☀️

  

  at your application and make a decision regardless of your household ... amazing and smart people. However, my experience at MIT has been more ... international student at MIT and tell you about some of the most cherished

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  .A.V.O.R.I.T.E. In a busy week, I’m there at least once a day: The prices are ... at a restaurant here in Cambridge! This might not be a big deal for some people, but it means a lot to me. Back home, I was a "regular" at a

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  ="aligncenter" width="300"] a screenshot of HEAVEN[/caption] look at all that white space! look at all that unstructured time! granted, [annotation note="when i'm feeling motivated, i go in to lab at around noon, leave at 4

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The World Has Many Trees climb all of them!!

  

  't scary. But, as we grow older, we learn how good it feels to be the best at ... intended to major in here at MIT. [annotation note="Of course, it makes sense ... at some subject, then you probably like it a lot, which is important in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • March 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  lot of new people. And when I look at my experience last year overall ... , just relax at home, study Japanese, etc. But luckily, again, I told the ... head-start on my x-term! :D I'm living at a place called Couch House in

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Around the world in 30 days ...ok, maybe more like I'm Traveling a Lot this IAP

  

  months. I spent one night at home, then drove down to the South Bay to compete at the 2018 US Championships. I came in with a nagging hip injury ... thru 12th graders with a partner, a Course 20 PhD student, at a gymnasium

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  when the guy at the counter stared at me with my armful of books and said ... physics! Speaking of that book, the writer of it just gave a talk at MIT last week that my friend and I attended, where we both sat looking at

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friday was a good day

  

  . (The first part of our day that made it a happy day wasn’t at MIT, but it ... make it at least 1 minute (!!!!). This made both of us super exited ... . And at the end, people from the audience began explaining very /MIT

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  be a tourist. It seemed like a wonderful idea at the time. How I looked at it then was “A free trip to Russia? Heck, yeah. I can totally skip ... to stay on top of my work.” How I look at it now is “I have made a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017