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• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  current world is not good enough, and we need to strive for change, and we ... only chunk of our existence that has not yet been determined for us. I ... platitudes about the future, except that they allow for laziness through

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  tanked my mood for the day. These classes were exactly aligned with my ... rendered most of them inaccessible for almost two years anyways. But alas ... later for my 9 am class on the first day of classes. I was beyond tired

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  the trip; I have some plans for the layover at Union Station, but we ... good at sleeping on them."]spent my entire life training for this moment,[/annotation] or because my standards for “slept well” are incredibly low. I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  was expecting. "Um . . ." I wavered. I hadn't prepared for this ... . Well, first I lowballed myself. The suggestion I had given was too low for my ... my reservations—I thought it was bad form for them to ask me how much I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Concert / The View

  

  LOT. Just as you would wait at Disneyland for two and a half hours to ride on Space Mountain, I wait for 8-12 hours to get front row at a ... nothing they could do, so I luckily found replacement pit tickets for $80

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  data diaries inspired by Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec's "Dear Data"

  

  in a crowded coffee shop for a few hours. Conclusion: As expected ... of Cambridge St. were blocked off for vendors to grill and smoke their ... protein to get my first strict pull-up, so we split a ticket for sampling 10

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  in transit where do i go from here?

  

  really be? I miss my old self. I miss sitting and reading for pleasure. I miss spontaneous trips to diners at 3am. I miss feeling excited for the ... other and tower over me, daring me to shirk them, just for a little. See

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  pillow to the second it hits the pillow again, I am moving. For the sake of ... mediocre. 6.009 Fundamentals of Programming. I have Stockholm Syndrome for ... for CMS as much as I expected to. We debated for an entire ninety

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  time alone, which is why when all my friends left for the holidays, it ... book and painting a Christmas present for my sister as i watched anime ... choreograph dances for multiple hours a day, make art, and spend hours listening

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  a season of secondhand joy on mudita and vicarious delight

  

  swipes per semester. for many people, this number is too large. and so this ... . food, in general, is a nice way to express care for someone else. there ... house teams put up snacks in dorm lounges for people to take. friends bake

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

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

  

  ="It's kind of scary how quickly your belongings multiply after living here for ... plant, a pepper plant, and an english ivy for company a Cricut, sans mat ... embroidery floss! in all sorts of [annotation note="I have a weakness for color

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

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  It's Sunday. I've had a particularly draining week. For the sake of ... for it, so it is going to take me more time than most. Hmm. Do I have ... . Enter WashLava. WashLava is the app we use to pay for loads of laundry. I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  i’ve joined a sorority and what that means to me

  

  dorm life and all of that. TLDR: I did continuous open recruitment for ... , I did continuous open recruitment once again for Delta Phi Epsilon and ... 'm writing a bit too casually and uncensored and I'll probably get backlash for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 21, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Knitting and Playing Tetris Through the End of the World guest post by Salma Islam

  

  realized I wouldn't be seeing my friends for a long time, knitting has always ... Intensive in the Major (CI-M) is a graduation requirement for all majors, usually taken junior or senior year. For course 2, 2.671 is one of them then

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • April 17, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult

  

  'm finally here to enjoy all of the great things it has to offer! For all of the Trader Joe's lovers out there, you are in for some good news! The ... down dorm row). There are a few other nearby options for groceries as

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 30, 2021
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  -tier because I either didn't particularly care for the class format, or the ... that I just didn't particularly care for or find applicable...or they ... looking back, I'm grateful for a lot of the classes that I took, or was

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

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  ’t hard: we cook for each other, which means that dinners are vegan, and I ... ."]September first.[/annotation] I’m kind of surprised that this has worked for me. I ... can make up for it by eating a lot of beans and eggs (and sometimes fake

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  . For the past couple of years, I've used an app called Sleep Cycle to ... up early for school, took a nap after classes because I was too tired to work since I'd stayed up late, vibed for a few hours, then had to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  setting up a house will it take an entire semester? stay tuned

  

  . We had some people come in the day after, so we rented a UHaul for the ... disarray for two weeks, but we decided to move its furniture around once we ... initiative and hop on Craigslist to look for one. As for my own room, I have a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  show's been around for like over a decade soooooooooo, y'know, there ... villain for the first two seasons, falls very ill after freeing avatar Aang ... , and as time goes on, it becomes easier and easier for Zuko to listen to

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020