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• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  trigger warnings for mentions of depression, EDs, and anxiety I don ... increased use of social media. For example: [caption id="attachment_47700 ... ..."]my skincare routine.[/annotation] It's been doing wonders for my mental health

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  , of course, won't make things easy for you, but I hope that some of ... , brace yourself for lift-off or landing. Get to know your professors and UROP mentors. The best way to treat the Impostor Syndrome for me was to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  for every major. Most of this was out of curiosity and [annotation note ... possible class schedules for colleges I didn't even apply to. Something about ... credits for your major, [annotation note="General Institute Requirements

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  4AM and cry for no specific reason, traitor tears leaking through my ... . What I didn’t realize was that, in the process, I forgot to do things for myself, by myself, and with myself: going for a walk, decluttering my

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  I originally registered for 60 units of classes this semester: 18 ... Listener. I registered full time for all four, half convinced I would drop ... for first time teaching assistants in ESG(the Experimental Study Group

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  response was No." Obviously, I don't know for sure if this is the true ... . For example, I would probably reject anyone who asked me out if they ... reason for rejecting someone. But it would just be way too awkward to date

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  semester, maybe three, which for me is probably an all-time low. Of course ... format for blogs, and that I would resort to them often.  The reason I like lists so much is that they are perfect for dumping all of your thoughts

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  ." "got a long day ahead. mondays are stacked for me." after 99 seconds, i ... is the lecture for 6.UAT oral communication. this is an unusual class ... activity we did for the class was "introducing ourself" to our smartphone: we

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  was ever mine. for example, a rather common one is i will only say ... productivity. and this assumption was consistent with many of my values - for ... would be equally self-consistent. for instance, another vincent that doesn

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  back home to New York. I took my last final exam, for [annotation note ... had brought me a blanket from my room and some tea for the rest of the ... syndrome, for the whole world to see, while on a train to New York"]taking a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  remember me on family

  

  grandparents' dingy silver car and bracing myself for the nervewracking car ride ... ever so crowded 5 freeway. My grandparents really did everything for me. They cooked for me. They did my laundry. They helped me with school

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 1, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  next few days I used my laptop for my morning alarm instead of my phone ... , Alexandria, and she said she could pick it up for me, and I thanked her ... for its front desk, it was only one of the packages I had ordered, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  you are lucky ducks."]we all[/annotation]prepare to hunker down for ... before and preparation for things that will happen the day after. After ... , but it lets me call my parents from 10 to 11 before my house gathers for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  responsible for setting up our major publications to print (like the Affording Your MIT Education book for SFS, and the Application Guide, Best of the Blogs, and Make History poster for Admissions), designing the admitted

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  for the first half of the summer had only one real “deadline”, and that ... and my PI was in Eastern Time. Studying for the GRE was also very self ... 's also nice because I get to do things that I wouldn’t have time for

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation ... [annotation note="And I came anyway. I figured college is for personal growth as much as it is for academic growth and fun."]my sheltered high school self

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  I’m Graduating Early??? [NOT CLICKBAIT] also: the unification of course 7

  

  occasion is scheduled for June 7, as it is traditional for MIT commencement ... pretty cool for a few reasons: IAP feels longer since we don't have to register for spring semester until the first week of February, we get a 4-day

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  this class did not start out well for me as all I had from high school ... that scary mathematical jargon for the first time. The fact that I have ... being chose the best possible conditions for the world to exist as we know

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  relaxation and down activity, I'm not entirely sure I’m ready for that). And ... -style hall that the idea for 8,726,400 SOS first sparked. Since then, seeing it ... satisfaction is. The answer I’ve found for myself has to do with intention. You

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  failed for 21 times (...I succeeded on the 22nd try) I guess I don't have ... freezing cold) - and how scared I was at beginning this class for the last ... - where bio majors do a research project for the semester right before

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011