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• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  me and asked if I was okay.  “You’re always so bubbly but you’re quiet ... school, they would not match it to me. For the most part, I didn’t really ... extracurriculars or the people who sat next to me in class. I was the proud introvert

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unnecessarily long post on how much i like spotify why did i ever think iTunes was good

  

  the other indie bands that remind me of EC wistful, nostalgic - the description is “a playlist to make me cry” “im having a classical day” - i ... the songs and why they mean something to me. It was a very pleasant jog

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  ’s--to me, EC is a home, not a social statement. Like my internship: it is a ... research mentors are judging me—I told my research supervisor where I would ... “like me” at the lower rungs of a large bank: Learn to swallow your pride

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  me to do a Reddit-style AMA (Ask Me Anything) post.  I wasn't able to ... limited Internet access: (trust me, the lack of reliable wifi was by far ... ?" Whenever someone asks me about this I always remember Connie's post from way

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  brings me the most happiness is Camp Kesem MIT. Those of you who have stuck with me throughout my blogging career have heard about CK before. Those ... me about any details that seem awkward – it’s an awesome event, I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  out, would you believe me? Speaking Spanish started the whole thing. I ... since coming here. The professors obviously taught me something, but I ... - either by context, word roots, or just a gut feeling. Don't ask me how you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  entail flipping burgers. The only practical result of this for me, since I insist on denying that the future is rushing towards me at a terrifying ... led me to MIT and my ultimate hatred of anything math-related, or if I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Conspiracy and intrigue

  

  , was secretly in a plot to kill me and take over the ship! (Or at least ... trying to kill me. Actually, she was trying to kill a lot of people. She ... shot down herself. The plot line with Ash and me was sort of funny. I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a walk down memory lane in the form of albums

  

  you all through that with me. For a brief overview into my different ... to Sophomore Year: In the eighth grade, my mom introduced me to KROQ ... Disco - Best album is Vices and Virtues, don't even argue with me on this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 1, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this

  

  ="capitalism is a fucking scam and is going to ruin my life by stressing me out very ... characters give me FEELINGS World: How believable/fleshed out is the open ... , hereby 'defeating fate',  was too much meta plot device bullshit for me

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  Ke$ha phase...Run Devil Run really opened doors for me lmao). I ... YouTube for me to learn, so I started mirroring and slowing videos so I ... since creating my own dance videos was so fun for me. Over the years, I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  parents used to drive me [annotation note="bless them, it’s not an easy ... from me, taking the rest of my life with it. For some holidays, my mom ... ask the older women sitting next to me to hold my hand through my ever

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  time photographer friend Brenna got some cool photos of me posing like ... -carnitine, caffeine. But everyone around me was awake and cracking jokes. Spirits were high. Charm, like me, is from Arizona, and one or the other of us kept

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  instead, let me talk about some of the things I've been doing in the past month, and maybe this'll inspire me to write more. A new laptop. I got a ... different as Windows and macOS! My friends pulled me in several different

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  experiences that stand out to me. I present to you a brief highlight of the ... great because they accept MIT dining dollars, which, at least for me ... up on them as often as they did to me. To mollify my ensuing guilt, I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  . for me, four classes (one of which is secretly like 1.75 classes), doing ... more thing that was keeping me afloat (like cooking dinner, or going to ... energy to look around me and feel joy. but already the lists of things i

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  as our own personal Riri Williams, sent me a copy of a new video she ... sent my mom rushing into the room, ready to scold me. But when she saw ... , “Tonight! After dinner.” She beamed radiantly at me with her makeup

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  me when I was walking to class or sorting books in the library. Then I ... would be like my time at MIT prepared me for the wrong thing and then when ... , this would be your starting speed. If you believe me for a second and

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  summer free of academic worries had stripped me of the urgency that just ... made time for things that made me happy. Everything seemed to be going smoothly and the weeks slipped by me, leaving without my permission. I was

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  school semester, a stormy set of months that found me working past midnight ... would let me handle anything thrown my way. Last week, MIT laughed at ... much reflection. The reason the week sent me buckling to my knees with

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013