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  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  ’s recommendation"]the fancy desk chair I’m probably going to buy with my tax refund ... more classes to graduate, exactly enough to be a full-time student, and I ... ’t go to rowing practices. This means my UROP is my main organized

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Perfect weekend Sun, fun, and Plymouth Rock.

  

  said, "[Totally inappropriate four-letter word]! I have to go into lab ... reservoir of parental TechCash money, and I actually have to pay for all my ... . After leaving work, I walked home along Vassar Street listening to "Summer

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  Every year, I try to set aside a chunk of time to reflecting on the ... was a really fun exercise to do because I genuinely forgot that so many ... Screening of EEAAO - March 27 Springfest 2022 - April 30 Flight to SF

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  in remembrance of my sticker collections for stickers are vessels for stories

  

  that exclusively does corporate swag, so if I wanted to buy one, I'd have to buy 500. I've also asked several hallmates to let me see if their ... Many months ago, I broke my water bottle cap. I tried to find a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  , just to gauge prices before actually buying things. Then we roamed the ... ="108229" /] In honor of holiday meals at home, I want to share a holiday meal away from home. Aka, it’s finally time to post my (extremely belated

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  wants to be like, "Oh my god, I can't let other people know that I have ... love my favorite pieces of media. Turning to fiction for comfort has ... last year. So it's because I hold these things so close to my heart that

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  Somedays, I check to make sure my diploma is real and I didn’t just ... of the cruft (for now 😳), I wasn’t too sure what to write about. I don’t have some great life wisdom to share or huge post-MIT takeaways. Or

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  ", leading with a question like "what does it mean to be you?" or "what ... essays, splaying my life story to strangers in interviews, and thinking about abstract concepts like "fit" and "where I really want to go". In

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  taken, it's important to discuss what those random string of numbers we ... notoriously difficult(relative to other freshman classes), 8.01 has a bonding ... , Senior Lecturer Peter Dourmashkin puts forth extra time and effort to make

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  fashion conventions in Las Vegas to buy the season's latest looks. When he ... Cross student going to M.I.T. in the Fall By Jarett Henshaw Published ... accepted into all nine schools he applied to including Stanford, Harvard

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  dear kuya i promise this post is mostly in english

  

  side of the globe. i remember having to buy special overseas credit so ... , for older sister. kuya can also refer to any older male person. back in ... , daily highs are 35 degrees. during the rainy season, from june to october

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here

  

  weird to just keep wearing some of these shirts around in your post ... carry a lot of good memories with them, and that it might be nice to do ... blankets out of old MIT shirts, but the idea first occurred to me as

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 27, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  I'm currently on a six hour flight back to my sunny, warm, and ... slightly outside of that: Norwalk, California.) I'm really excited to be ... home is actually my mom's secret surprise to my grandparents. Over the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT What?!? The Long and Illustrious History of the MITMB, as far as Kim knows.

  

  ;p></p> <p>For some reason, people are often surprised to learn that MIT ... , we often just pull out our ID cards and read off of them to avoid ... also on the new football team as well, and gave up his halftime break to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  , asked if I wanted to buy anything from the table. I smiled back, and told ... , locked my door, and remembered to buy eggs. My mother is proud of me. It is ... remembered to buy eggs” But she is proud. See, she remembers what came before

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  _grid images="99620,99621" /] Nine days of spring break: what to do with them? I ... 35-year run. So, we booked tickets and set on going to New York to catch the production in its final days. That was all we planned to do. But

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  anything specific I wanted to buy, so I grabbed stuff at random, which turned ... instant mood booster. My podmate asked if I wanted to attend our 18 ... to Killian Court. We set up next to some trees on the right and figured

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  my teeth, and stumbled across Memorial Drive to the boathouse. At 6:30 sharp, clad in sunglasses and head-to-toe rain gear, I yelled at my teammates to start warming up. By 6:50, I would be perched in the coxswain

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  having to explain how MIT works to curious 24s has made me realize that ... . So, I decided to make a blogpost of things-I've-had-to-explain-to-non-MIT-people-a-lot so that when YOU are asked all these things, you can just link them to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought

  

  Being a college student in a dorm means finally having to decide how and what you want to eat for the next 4+ years. For some, it’s as simple as picking which dining hall you want to go to. For others, it’s a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 6, 2016