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  Two Sides Of The Coin… For Us Too Watching the people who didn't get in receive their letters is as heartbreaking for me…

  

  letters is as heartbreaking for me as any acceptance letter is happy. And ... 't get me wrong - I am *very* happy for the folks who made it in. They help

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  , then I can’t go to event A tomorrow, which will prevent me from doing ... ’ve realized that thinking too much makes me forget about what it means to just ... touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions.”    For me, I

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  funk. A deep funk. It took me awhile to notice. A few long months.   feels like it snuck up on me like — ha! — got you   ... okay and *deeply* grateful for the people that supported me through my

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  have made me think a lot about what it means to be and do good in spite ... . the foreword by ross gay was enough to dissolve me into tears. i did a ... much people care about each other, and that alone gives me the hope that

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  , was also free and thus tasked with giving me a tour of Figueres and the ... myself out of my comfort zone often gifts me with a clearer vision of who I ... recollection of the version of me that was mortifyingly shy for most of my

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  a text convo on failure and other stuff i guess

  

  ']sunrise[/annotation]happening? 7 terrace ❤️​ to “ 7 terrace ” Do you want me to wake you if you ... (s) accept me Valid Thought you might enjoy this meme ❤️​ to a photo Lmao That ... 😭😭😭 Yeah 1 week. 005 and that's it We gotta pass bro Watch me

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 12, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  really happened to me before. Preschool through college, it was kind of ... realities really could be me in a year. And as I continue this whole process ... St. Louis, and she asked me something that really stuck with me: “Emi

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  ="or sherbert, if you’re me"]ice cream[/annotation]? What about the power of nerf ... didn’t take me very long to figure out what my project would be. When I ... concussed to prevent a reinjury. He told me, “Up to you, I’m not entirely sure

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  the bridge that sometimes detects me as a moving entity. My record on my ... window, but my daily schedule forces me to face the elements. In the early ... I am and does not detect me as a moving entity despite walking at a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Events

  life, with the brass rat we're halfway there????????????

  

  separately but not together. No one warned me how chaotic timing would be ... . '25, caitlin o. '25, isaac l. '25, me, daina n. '25, asal v. '25, and ... the Brass Rat elicits three main things for me: (1) a regular fondness

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • August 26, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  [/caption] when i saw hadestown in january 2020, it hit me like a train with ... myself into doing it"]sucker me[/annotation] into auditioning for Next Act ... . [annotation note="imagine me surfer shaka-ing here. this is the single word that

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  list of things that made me feel grown up included: renting a room ... my parents used to worry about that for me. I guess that's why I ... about it I kind of don’t want to be a grown up. Let me be a child and let

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Untitled Pigeon Post 🐦💕

  

  eventually made me cave in. “Okay, fine! … but just one page.” I closed my ... physical abilities that fascinated me, either. I was intrigued by their ... -mputer.[/caption] I thought that going to MIT would force me to quit my pigeon obsession

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  Even as a kid, school never fit right for me. I recall my third ... the shirts. It was so fun. It made me wonder, if I can make stuff like ... decision propelled me into higher-level math classes which eventually spurred

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  writing gary wang’s wikipedia page why did I fill out the wikipedia page for the ftx cto?

  

  entirely sure what compelled me to make a Wikipedia account and add more to ... questions for me about what an MIT education should mean, what ... computer science double-major. These are really interesting questions to me

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  rush wilg bunnies inside this blog post

  

  was important to me, but I didn't want to stay on the mandatory meal ... talk about what WILG means to me, I would say something like: it is ... time, I thought that WILG gave me close proximity to people who were very

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  living with me on 5w in EC, and got to freely wander around the Wood ... .” Sometimes they do a sad little half-squat and then meow at me resentfully when ... . stealing in that PUF used to scream at me if I didn’t leave an arm outside

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  It Lives. can i be nostalgic yet?

  

  walked on Mass Ave, waves of familiarity and warmth washed over me. These ... feet walk for me, as if the schoolgrounds themselves were showing me the ... 's finally in my grasp, like I finally understand what makes me tick, the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  professional life. older people keep telling me that youth is a blur, that years ... presuming how my life will go and for giving me unactionable advice, i think ... — and it eludes me. I’m already on a moving train. This is the great and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  ask me questions i often pause for a while to think before giving a ... factor might be that the presence of other people forces me to think at a ... theorizing quite often (of course this entire post is just me theorizing some

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022