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  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 ... was not ready for it.[/annotation] The intensity of the weekend didn ... of my parents had raised chickens before coming to America, so the

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

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  with a group of friends and acquaintance from MIT instead of moving back ... school and high school– I liked to think of things in term of absolutes ... always feel like this, you get the idea. One of my favorites of the blanket

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  internships, travel, stay on campus or any combination of the above. So since ... 't really on either of our minds. And we were lucky enough to be in a position ... decision to take a break. We took the time to decompress from the rush of MIT

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  -absence of productivity - three things I have not experienced consistently in a ... research at a tiny university on the outskirts of Mexico City, which was a really cool adventure. My research internship was part of our MISTI program

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  soldiers, barroom regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening ... danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives ... walk freely at night.” from The Journals of Sylvia Plath I am in New

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  A little while ago, I was just heading out of the bathroom on my ... room, shut the door, and stood behind it for a couple of seconds. A moment later, I heard the sound of approaching footsteps. The door swung

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  Have you ever had your car pulled out of a parking lot muddy field by ... 's kind of fun to sit in your car while it wags around, a tractor's tail ... along I-81S past a flurry of state forests. We made a quick stop in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  Random Hall has six types of rooms, discernible by the last digit of their room numbers. Each of the four floors is concentric with the shaft, a rectangular hole through the center of the building. The dorm

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  to many of you. But it's true) Being a nerd, I did nerd things. I read a lot of Star Wars books. I wore a fanny pack in the front with extra ... Physics of Baseball. Also, I went to nerd camp. In 1998, when I was about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• 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

  

  semester - and also, I've mastered the art of changing out of a suit in a ... much to say in this entry other than to give a brief update of how my ... of my life. It has been a time of epic failures - but also epic

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! (2010 Edition!) yay pictures!

  

  Dear Internet, No, I am not dead yet. I had a lot of great food in ... pictures and stories of groupwork: From Louis, '14, New York City A photo from Peru after 4 days working to clear the yard of bricks, hills, and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 2) The dog days of summer.

  

  Continuing my last entry with even more tales of what my friends and fraternity brothers are doing this summer. Lawrence Barriner '11 (Course 6, of Skullhouse, formerly of Senior Haus): "This summer I will be an intern at the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 30, 2008
• 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.

  

  The MIT Class of 2013 has officially arrived! With this day upon us, we conclude the series Introducing the Class of 2013. Merritt '13 ... : June 1, 2009 "There are components of people and components of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Residential Life

  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  , October 14th at our Heads of House’s cabin in Concord, MA. As we drove, I ... unpack and set up our beds. We got a tour of the cabin, and then three of ... way, we saw the shell of a blue car, and we chained together clover

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  prepare for my 4-year journey that will probably include a lot of late ... preparedness for this next stage of my life. More specifically, the independence ... yourself - at least it did for me.    Probably like most of my peers

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  memorial for a dorm goodbye east campus (for now)

  

  need to have some sort of memorial service to commemorate the death of east campus and the death of this room in particular 62h306 today i remember the people who lived in this room before me of the several dozen

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 6, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I went to TwitchCon and met so many people!!

  

  Back in October of 2022, I flew from Boston to LA and drove two hours ... 'm a huge fan of streamed content and consume a lot of it! Games, IRL ... the streamer world because I find the notion of livestreaming

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 3, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  welcome to new york went to nyc & all i got was this blog post

  

  "Welcome to New York" as the musical version of a peppermint latte. It was ... to name the feeling of cool tenderness on my tongue, my entire mouth aware of itself. Maybe New York was like that too, full of feelings I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  forbidden gatorade cell media looks tasty...

  

  media is, in fact, drinkable. It comes in a whole range of pink colors! It ... anecdotal evidence. I haven’t tried many of these, and you should try none of ... significant ingestion hazard under anticipated conditions of normal use.” Our

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  this is fine some thoughts at the end of the semester

  

  I'll be honest, I lost track of time somewhere around the end of ... surprised at it being April, now, it's the middle of May, and it seems like no time has passed. At the same time, all my energy from the beginning of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • May 17, 2021