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  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  . i hope that you can find solace or hope in some of these words ... come and the leaves come and they leave and i stand by the tree where you ... cry or laugh & i would put my hands in mud to make myself last &

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  ways of saying goodbye joint post with CJ '23!

  

  's laughing in the background So this is how it ends I promise to never go outside again from waves: I watched my wild youth Disappear in front of my ... get the feeling that I'm right where I belong Why am I the one always

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  withdraw from MIT entirely and become a hermit in the woods -- surely I can ... pretty well on the psets, where I can look up what terms like "marginal ... the five stages of grief: i. denial in which I wake up, horrified

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  ’ve been better. II. Growing up in a place where I did not have many ... catch up. I feel like I am constantly running in a race where I am doomed ... I. eulogies are beautiful but  can we talk about leaves before fall

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  . "Kith, I disagree. If you get in, you can handle staying in, for the most ... I do here. I love my UROP. I can't imagine how my college life would ... -bagger - I've dabbled in computational, systems, cognitive, cellular, and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  responsibilities, I missed a critical time in my youth where I could have molded ... When I think about my earlier angry tears, I can’t tell where my anger is ... myself I have other skills I can bring, and I’m at college to learn.   In

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  The train in Spain is ungainly, take a plane I'm an MITblogger, get me out of here!

  

  work with Amtrak and studies in Course 11, I think I have a job for you ... 'm glad that we ended up going. It's unlike anywhere else I've seen in my ... actually a recurring motif throughout the Passion Facade, although I can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection begins Picking the Class of 2010.

  

  occasion where we can't reach consensus, we put the application back in the ... , undoubtedly, make selection even more difficult this year. I can tell already ... for in MIT students, we can usually reach consensus after a bit of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  buildings east to the Media Lab, where I will spend a year as a graduate ... the University of Massachusetts, where I wrote my senior thesis about ... classes in the Comparative Media Studies program. They were really hard. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Setbacks head hurty

  

  dream where I found out that Season 3 of The Bear was going to take place in the middle of Siberia. I woke up, tried to study, but ended up lying ... and the unfortunate effects it can produce. I'm going to make a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  ” — where I’m stuck in my current location and Dylan stares at me menacingly ... ="electricity and magnetism"]8.02[/annotation] [annotation note="where I am really ... note="in fact, I started this blog to avoid reading it! but it has now

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  . Coincidentally, [annotation note="I bet she can rotate cubes omnidirectionally in ... “@Andi you know how with ultra hand you can rotate objects in 45 ... of enemies in seconds. And the fact that you can build functional

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  .org/blogs/entry/thirteen-things-to-do-over-iap-1-5), I spent the first half of IAP in sunny California where 50 ... convenience of all the labs in the vicinity. It's where I got my very first ... anymore), so now in an effort to get this post up, I'm just going to wing it

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Boston’s Climate Strike youthful activism

  

  . I managed to squeeze some time in to go into Boston in between picking ... community events in the morning, where people made signs and other art at City ... - what I - hoped for. I had felt the despair sinking in for months now

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The City On A Hill The "M" of " MIT"

  

  People often find it shocking when I say it, but if MIT was in ... Illinois except directly in Chicago, I'd continue to suffer from my high ... remembered what it was like to live in a place without public transportation. I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  knights from London to Bristol, where I currently reside in a castle. I ... I’m currently in the exotic land of England. Over a week ago, I flew ... Initiatives. Through MISTI, students can either participate in internship

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT has a radio station!? [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Yes, it's true!

  

  . Ever since I stepped foot in the station during CPW, I knew that I wanted ... air and sometimes I invite friends to chat on air or just to hang out in ... airtime, an hour of freedom. I can play any songs or pieces I wish, the sky

  • by ARTalk
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: I’ll be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend and so will other people from MIT

  

  , where I'm giving a talk about maker portfolios in our admissions process ... might be more useful, so I'm going to try to do it when I can. So: right ... similar talk those I've given at Maker Faires in the past, but new to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to ... accidental habit (picked up in a small town, where I really did know most of ... , recording—all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  crazy party weekend from 2019 to now

  

  when i attended cpw as a senior in high school, my favorite events ... perform for around ten minutes each in high school i watched the ohms sing ... i’d ever heard, and the chords in the climax of permanent some three

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 18, 2023