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  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  definitely thinking about how to graduate on time if this was as seriously awful as I felt in the moment. But it wasn’t. And that’s a lot to be ... combinations of classes I could have chosen to take all at the same time, in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Beantown. sketchbook showcase!

  

  nothing else in it, so I decided to fill it up with things that I've seen ... , Alchemist, Simmons Hall, Stata Center[/caption] I get this urge to keep every ... and topics in STEM, it gets exhausting when you're getting [annotation

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  taught him how to get it on his Mac, which might have been a mistake ... in love with it. Not to the point where it was what I was thinking ... able to enjoy things without getting obsessed the way I used to felt like

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  i’m catching up a blog about all the things i wanted to blog about but couldn't find the…

  

  couldn’t get myself to blog about because staring at screens hurts. So here ... Designers, this semester and I’ve been very grateful to have scheduled time in ... chance to say goodbye to in Cambridge when we left campus. Here’s a list of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 20, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  A lively Dead Week what i've been up to

  

  I'm given to understand that at other colleges, students actually get ... year struggles, I feel like I'm starting to get the hang of this whole ... groups get together at the end of the semester to schedule next semester

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  to how someone confronts failure. The goal of high achievement is to ... " is a common buzzword nowadays, but it's a good way to describe how I ... point in moving any further. The universe seemed to be telling me that I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  work // life trying to figure out the balance

  

  garnet unfuses to ruby and sapphire in steven universe, how they were a ... seems like i have to install or [annotation note="in the git sense ... "]we[/annotation] go out for lunch, and we the interns get treated to ramen and

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 17, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  objective: "Get to the top of this wall, in any way possible". This flavor of ... get afraid, and have to cope with risk and the limits of safety and your ... getting more and more tired and a fear of slipping creeps in on me. I squirm

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  telling the tale some thoughts on acting, change, and meaning

  

  how to portray emotions like loss and worry in a genuine way. doing this ... really happen, but we want to treat it as if it is, because that’s how, in ... to Hell, Hadestown in a song that introduces the cast of characters

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 3, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  to theorize about what you would do in certain situations or how your body works or how you respond to specific emotions, but most of your ... behavior in a given setting is to experience that setting i liked that

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

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  you're finally going to take that shot and how magnificent it's going to ... that obstacle down brick by brick, go the extra mile to get around it, or climb to great scary heights to get over it, it will be worth it because

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  basement. I went to get water and two people were switching shirts in front ... 've been thinking about how it's okay to be in different spaces, especially ... you get to MIT. I've seen how this is true for some. But for me, the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So @mitblogs_ebooks exists 'as you might know, i am a full time internet'

  

  actually did. Here's how: First, I wrote a crude but effective scraper in ... line to a text file. Then, I cobbled together a tweet generator in Ruby ... , rolls a D20 to decide if they should be SHOUTED IN ALL CAPS, and posts the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  friends, put them in my life for a day, and get them to think about it, they ... 't perceived, and broken down to its component parts. in a general sense, maybe ... to see the gestalt, please look at this. in this sense gestalt and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  see how I didn't need to squeeze everything in as soon as possible. You ... side, I had the option to work at a startup in Cambridge called Geo ... opportunity to develop skills in the field of electrical engineering and it

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  ’s similarly unfair how only 25 people get to take that class each year, how more ... lot of my friends in industries like big tech or finance openly admit to ... fulfill me in different ways, and i need all three to be really happy me

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  Context: I wrote a post in March called "I Moved to Maine" . You can read it if you want, but tl;dr: when COVID hit I went to live in Maine ... in with my parents. About a month ago I decided to go back home for the

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving Self-Quarantine 101 tldr; memes (haha jk...unless)

  

  have a lot of time that we don't know what to do with. in fact, in the ... high school. wild... i can't speak to how other MIT students are ... changed SO much since then. at MIT, you don't really get time to read unless

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  get in to, like video games, but I doubt that I will, because even if I ... started to get shin splints, which, scientifically speaking, is when your ... didn't notice how gingerly I walked. Eventually I went to MIT Medical

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  otherworldly...I can't imagine reading at this point in time; I managed to get ... , in retrospect, and I hope that I'm able to participate in at least one ... can't believe how assertive I was, how eager I was to experience new

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020