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• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  On New Year’s Day, I got a tattoo of a saguaro. Saguaros are massive ... being New Year’s, most tattoo parlors were closed. I joke with my friends ... getting New Year’s tattoos. It’s called Sacred Art, on 4th Avenue, which is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  Tila patay na ang diwa My soul’s run out From trying to be Like everyone ... failure of a person. And I get it! It’s literally just my first year here at MIT. It’s not as if all of my friends are doing something, because

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  what’s next. It’s literally “a” and “new”. A new… what? You may be ... [annotation note='Listen to Rose-Colored Boy by Paramore. It’s so good ... Lobby 10, from flute ensembles to juggling acts. It’s funny watching

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  extent to which I ended up adopting my friend’s terminology into my own ... about their GPA yet. Biking to McDonald’s at ungodly hours, starting a ... “it’s fine, it’s PNR.” My upperclassmen friends would decline our

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  are wide, and the cars all know who’s boss. It’s fantastic. Except when ... whole herd of bikes[/caption] 8:15  I found the bakery! It’s a cute ... . I am an engineer now. It’s lucky I remember what a semi-colon is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  cw: harassment (noted before the section where it’s mentioned, skip ... ://open.spotify.com/playlist/7xU2HMnvRcLsGDOwcq7hQI?si=a110f5fbcd514711 “What’s your favorite type ... . The screaming kind’s pretty cool.” Last week brought me to Copenhell

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  Hi there, it’s been a while! Over the next few weeks, I’ll be ... ’t seen most of the United States. My cousin’s getting married on June 30th ... Santa Clara, from June 26th to 29th. Here’s (most of) my planned route, in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  collaborated to make this post a reality- hair’s to you! (ha, ha) [intro ... like I was bald. Everyone laughed at the time…I guess the 90s were ... unruly and fit with my general comportment. Here’s a picture of me from my

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  thousand times since I’ve arrived at MIT, but it’s never phrased exactly like ... ’ve been marinating this post all semester, so it’s always sort of been at ... these blogs, does not. So for Mom V. (<3), here’s a crash course

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  . Also, since the Hayden library is for the MIT community, there’s a much shorter wait time on popular books! Here’s my reading list for this year ... class is called Crazy Rich Asians, and it’s a detailed, dramatic plot that’s

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  quotes as we go through finals week. “It’s okay to understand that ... .” -Alissa Borshchencko “[Let’s change] this whole attitude of one-upping each other ... ’ and somehow that’s good. No, that’s terrible.” -Alissa Borshchencko “I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  easy for me to recognize why I tend to overthink a lot - and it’s because ... to remember that life is not absolute. It’s dynamic. It’s beautiful. It’s unpredictable. It’s crazy. It’s amusing. And it’s always changing. There

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  last term, and the term before that, and also everything that’s happened ... will not cut it for today. It’s a pretty quick meal, and I run into a few ... ’t know what half the variables mean. 1:00 — I go to economics class. It’s

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  I don’t know where I’m going to be a year from now. That’s never ... think one year into the future, and there’s a fuzzy semblance of what my ... year into the future, and it’s a crystalline, pure nothing. Or maybe

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / CPW

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

  

  that came from visiting MIT the first time.   Looking back, there’s ... time - especially traveling alone. On one hand, I think it’s really cool that in today’s world, you can press a few buttons on a screen, and in a

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  the mortifying ordeal of being known embrace the care that lies within you (my attempt to soothe pre-decisions anxiety)

  

  throw together a sort of last minute grad app to one of MIT’s [annotation ... , but choosing to apply is to make that decision a possibility.  It’s ... MIT’s early action round. And today, I’m [annotation note="it's due

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how i feel about ai-generated art from an artist's perspective

  

  a fiction writer that went something like, it’s so upsetting how ... this random guy in his mom’s basement will generate a Pulitzer ... by AI “written in Rona’s style” or trained on my publicly available

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 11, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  afterwards i think this is actually a pretty common bias. it’s closely related ... abstractions, which are usually pretty enjoyable to reason about; it’s only much later that you confront the reality of what it’s like to wrestle with a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  we fell in love in october that’s why i love fall looking at the ... weather patterns, until this fall. Maybe it’s because this is only the ... Childhood Cognition"]3 HASSes[/annotation] this fall! It’s not a hot take

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . ‘24 told me about their research this summer. It’s more that reading a ... skull this week and because I want to go do a few cartwheels on Random’s ... until I respond to all relevant emails in my inbox — and it’s kept my

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022