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  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  Caroline P., but all my friends at MIT call me Powers (which is my last name ... name that no one at MIT uses for me, so I changed it.  Throughout high ... eyebrows at me when I told them that I ran as “a meditation on the utility of

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  Jones informing me that I was selected to be a blogger...BUT every once in ... ! (either way -- I'll draw it out of you anyways ;) but help me help you! :D ... with years of practice and experience. Trust me - it's not hard to tell

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  , who was willing (and had enough faith in me!) to give me a calculus ... the wedding, after the rest of my family left, she took me out to lunch and dinner, made me breakfast (despite my insistence that she really

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  audience as possible. Don't get me wrong: I love to sing. I'm no good at it ... hear me sing, but they're listening to me sing, and judging the quality ... didn't delete it, though. I let it sit in my inbox and stare up at me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Collections Simple

  

  around me, or even the opinions I have of others. I am currently taking 9 ... freshmen, which has helped me take a step back often. I don't even know what ... simply, which has reminded me about myself. If you know me in real life

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  activity reminds me of the mental motions to solving a math or programming ... getting more and more tired and a fear of slipping creeps in on me. I squirm ... climber next to me what to do, and he goes up onto the wall. I watch him

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  our lord 2022 -- many people have made fun of me for this, but it's like a fidget toy for me at this point -- as well as baking banana bread ... circles. Like most people, Call Me Maybe was my first exposure to Carly Rae

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  oh, the crash and the burn

  

  toll on me. So much so, in fact, that I've finally crashed. So I have COVID, but there is some sick part of me that is relieved that I have gotten it since it gives me an excuse to not go to any of my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  /disrupted], and my 11th grade teachers barely got to know me. I feel like my teachers know me much better in person, so I was thinking of asking teachers ... have known me for a few weeks]. Who should I ask to write letters on my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  keep me busy. I'm taking less classes. And yet, I feel like my brain is ... takes me a million times longer. I think that this is partially a symptom ... 't enjoy academic learning as much as my peers. Don't get me wrong, I love

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  me: is this my fourth semester? can you explain that to me? my mom: nope. can someone explain to me the passage of time? how to avoid growing old? can someone tell me how i got here, and there, and to all these

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  Picture this: me, three water balloons in hand, running across ... I guess there are some things in life you can’t control. For me (and ... me cringe, and this often works against me. I definitely didn’t shorten

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  The Aftershock In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be remembered for her big…

  

  how grief manifested itself in me. Instead, it was a tangled balloon of ... sometime before the New Year’s countdown. Thinking it was just to wish me a ... , Val, Kate’s sister, called me again, and I picked up. What followed was

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 18, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  (ExpressionEngine hates me) I decided to hold off on publishing until Wednesday ... down her back. Beaming, she asked me to sit on the far side of the room ... ; when I was three, my parents took me to the pool, and the instructor put

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  fall off beneath the plane is exhilarating to me. It makes me feel free ... sitting so close to me. I even love it when things go terribly wrong and I ... always feels like an adventure to me, and if there's one thing I love more

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questions and Answers Evan Broder is taking over my job.

  

  me look bad. =P I've copy-pasted all his answers into this post, in ... ...because i was thinking of applying...if someone can help me...please e-amil me ... . Evan replied: Karen- It makes me feel important to help answer questions

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  Spammy, I'm really hungry, not gonna lie. Make me dinner, Spammy." And ... knowledge going in, but ultimately this UROP taught me that me and chemistry ... hoping that nobody saw me, because the grad students in that lab were

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  cutting my hair for me after it had gotten particularly wild who didn't make me feel ashamed, and rather made me feel feminine and seen. Almost ... name here) perform. And I love this piece, don’t get me wrong. But it

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  , along with a yellow house that stopped me in my tracks. "that looks a lot ... picture i ever took on killian court was of me and the rest of the camp t ... and he roasted me for calling it "bubble tea" instead of [annotation

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept by julia p. '24

  

  it terrified me. In 4th grade, I started to get more anxious about my ... my entire future. 8th grade led me to my first big lapse of my eating ... ’t healthy or I felt may make me sick. I was pressuring myself to push through

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 23, 2022