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  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  skimming over the topics in my head: “zZzZ….OMG calc test tomorrow!....what’s it about?….oh! that’s right, infinite series.”*Back to sleep*. That’s ... , and I made A’s and graduated in the top of my class. I never really

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  family was “The Game of Life.” It’s a bit like the mobile game BitLife, I ... WRONG NAME for the last YEAR. apparently it’s actually called a life TILE ... money is just game mechanics–[annotation note="there’s definitely a

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  and a million other things. the stakes still feel high, but it’s also ... -22-year-olds in cambridge it’s a house in sf with people moderately ... better care of my physical health, and so on it’s obviously not true that

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  a text convo on failure and other stuff i guess

  

  ']weeb[/annotation] 🤭 I’ll probably be in DC or cali this summer Depends on what program(s ... 's what it feels like It’s almost over thank fucking god I need a break ... semseter] burned into our brains ” 😂😂😂 Let’s be so fucking for real [We

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 12, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

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

  

  [annotation note="21G.S55: Japanese V"]class.[/annotation] I woke up early that ... changing the kanji’s meaning entirely. I translated vocabulary and long ... 1830s, navigating racial and colonialist tensions. The setting aligns

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In the Music Cubes, no one can hear you scream…

  

  -hand last week, and it was pretty mindblowing. That’s right – the Music Cubes ... much of MIT’s brutalist architecture, the exterior doesn’t exactly scream ... the one I know the least about. As far as I can tell, it’s just one

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 25, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  cleats on feet, smile on face thoughts on injuries and spring season

  

  partially torn ligament in my right foot, it’s been a physical and emotional ... do it – and it’s already a dream come true. Putting on the practice ... passing and dribbling. But here’s what I can do: I can run now. Not even

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  GUYS IT SNOWED!! yayayayyaayy

  

  refresh the registration site over and over until 8:00 am hits. It’s the ... ="94978" /] And ok, it’s not a lot of snow (as my parents so kindly informed me ... ="aligncenter" width="300"] before you say anything—don’t hurt my snow angel’s feelings

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  My Summer in Japan Tokyo, Spaceships, and Lots of Ramen

  

  working on ispace’s Mission 2 attempt as a part of the [annotation note ... to a mind-boggling temperature to mimic the sun’s heat and then shook ... (or JAXA, Japan’s version of NASA). Here is where the 2-meter

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  group has a piano keyboard, and I’ve downloaded MuseScore. It’s my first ... . I became interested in songwriting after listening to Olivia Rodrigo’s ... internalized misogyny, by other people’s expectations of who I was “supposed” to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  friend’s life to be as good as possible, for them to move past all their ... have friends who will be forgiving of my past, and that’s why i feel ... suggest that i’m immune to jealousy now. there’s a popular model of the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  simply gotten the grades and graduated with degrees. It’s not a particularly interesting struggle. It’s not a heartbreak immortalized in song lyrics, and it’s not a grief that demands witness through eulogies or

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  responded to my email minutes after I sent it and told me to go to S^3, but here I was nearly a full day later after S^3 had closed for the weekend. So I set a reminder to drop by S^3 the following Monday, and stocked up

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  [Guest Post] The Alleyway by Isabella Y. '24

  

  favorite side of the house. Well, there’s only two to choose from, and the ... rats scurrying from dumpster to dumpster. There’s a different sort of ... ? iii. My favorite view of the back is from the roof because it’s no

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  ’, whenever aang enters the avatar state we see all the past avatars? that’s ... every experience, i don’t think it’s possible to say no to trying very ... student told me the avatar idea wasn’t stressing them out, but it’s a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  actually come up with the most accurate answer on the spot. there’s probably ... they like skiing because it forces them to confront reality - it’s easy ... natural human behavior in the same vein as anxiety; in addition, there’s

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  does that matter? You’re here now. me: but there’s people who can do ... it. it’s just that...i don’t think i have the skills to pursue STEM, y ... friends down aaaaaahhhhh inner voice: That’s a lie. You solved a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  doing another conversational-style joint post? CJ: There’s literally no ... Hunt is the title of this blog post. The author’s an MIT alum whom I know ... knowledge of MIT’s campus and all its many quirks. Their blog also has a lot

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  goodbye” kind of way. Rather, it’s hard in the sense that I don’t know what ... choosing lives is built on the idea that advice comes from one’s own ... go through life, or that my writing has helped you understand what it’s

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  . But now that that’s out of the way, hi hi hi! Last week, I finished up ... unknown scientist who’s already published a few low-key papers in your ... 2, Cold War). 8.225 is a physics CI-M, meaning that it’s reading- and

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020