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  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  immeasurable amounts of gratitude but didn’t know how to express it adequately. I ... I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about gratitude. That’s not to say I don’t spend time feeling gratitude; what I mean is that I don

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Turning on the Light A note to the MIT community.

  

  :45 last night warning me to stay inside, I couldn't really process what was ... head. MIT, the place that I call home, the place where I learn and live, the place where I felt safe, threatened by armed people? And all this

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Desired things a youthful aside.

  

  about my life here-- what I do and how I feel and what I learn. This is ... I just had the busiest, craziest summer of my life. I remember a ... received her advice. I folded the unassuming piece of advice once the long

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 12, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Media That Makes Me Feel Okay School's out! Time to get distracted :D

  

  (A quick note before I start this post: My intro would be kind of confusing if I didn’t tell you that I made the last-minute decision to move ... : anything that I put a "*" next to denotes a piece of media I would consider

  • by Powers '23
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  of video. I was definitely busy, filling up most hours of my days with ... feelings tend to sneak into my experiences at MIT, but I think I've found little ways to fight them off at this point. But, back to IAP. I wanted

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh the People You See *does a barrel ro-- I mean a double take*

  

  ) and down the hall. This took several hours, partially because I didn ... that I have a lot of crap. 20ish trips and multiple breaks later I had ... bedding (should I just sleep in my old room tonight or move all the bedding

  • by Snively '11
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  biology grad school admissions. I promise. 3. Susan asked how to stand out ... I'm so jet-lagged! And completely slap-happy! Yayyyy! Today's events: 6:45 AM -- Arrive in Boston. I actually sort of slept on the plane

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  how (not?) to concentrate a quick guide

  

  concentrate; fail Google how to concentrate Wikihow how to concentrate Yahoo Answers how to concentrate Bing how to concentrate You are the most knowledgeable in the art of concentration Write blog post on how

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • May 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  how the competition went. The next day, I went through the same ... I left for the 2017 Eastern Sectional Figure Skating Championships in ... Kansas City, I had a 6.006 (Intro to Algorithms) midterm later that day

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  record and primer on how I think about all this stuff: "Shut up and sit ... seem surprised when I say "work." I guess there's an expectation that, because I work at a university, and because there aren't any admissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  You may have heard people say, “I’m not _______ enough to go to MIT ... school – I was definitely of the “I’m not technology-oriented enough to go to MIT” mind-set. And last time I checked, this was the Massachusetts

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer scraps life updates

  

  's the title of the first chapter. That's how I feel right now. where i ... where i am The downstairs door is open; I can feel it because ... I am sitting, alone on the second floor of a brand-new cafe, with

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 30, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Weekend in Kendall Square I know I work here all week, but hey, it's MIT

  

  This weekend, as I was reading the Sunday Globe magazine like I ... cranking  (even when it's too warm out), I flipped to a big section titled 24 ... over my shoulder to see what I was reading.  "And weren't we going to

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of Class Sick.

  

  Classes started yesterday, which means I became immediately and violently ill the night before. I don't know how or why it happened, but for ... violent downward spiral hugging the porcelain god all night, and as such I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Just Because It’s 2/29 I apologize that this blog has nothing to do with MIT.

  

  : TODAY IS LEAP DAY! Leap Day, I'm sure you already know, comes from the ... . Anyhow, I just wanted to point out and celebrate the 5th Leap Day in my life. Going wayy back... (1988) - I was born on a leap year, but I guess

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fall Adventures a day in rhode island, maine, and boston

  

  My favorite season has always been fall. I love walking around campus ... during late September, I made it a goal to make the most of autumn[annotation note="A goal that was quickly cut short because I got sick :("]by

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Karma What goes around comes around.

  

  accepting it. Here's how things played out: I woke up on Sunday morning with ... assumed it was magic. I mean, how can you ground something and still ... I've never been one for actually truly believing in karma (what goes

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  On the Flip Side I'm a host instead of a prefrosh this year - but CPW has still been…

  

  place yesterday was Meet the Bloggers! I'd been told that it would be ... world ‚ô• I haven't quite made it to all the CPW events that have taken place so far, which is okay because I'm a host and not obligated to be

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 10, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The return of photos to my blog!

  

  I've been really bad about updating lately. It's that point in term ... a while since I put any pictures in this blog - I want it to be substantial, and I feel that too many photos takes the focus away from the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 2+3: Westchester County Part 2 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  considered "sleeping in." I got to sleep in yesterday. :-) Woke up around 8AM ... to come see me today - heh) but I did have a great conversation with Alison Burr, the GC at Loomis. I did my best to explain our selection

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 21, 2005