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  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  that they can give me whatever questions remain at the end of class - I ... straight and lean forward to listen to me. They raise their hands, don't shout out, and aren't disrespectful of each other or me. They laugh at my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  A week ago today, I turned 20. It occurs to me that something weird ... insurance company asking me for my retirement date. ^ Um...that was pretty ... astronomy club. That night, French House baked me a cake, threw a squishy

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  Layla, for sending it to me and knowing i would love it ... for college"][/annotation], I'll give you the feeling the movie gave me: as if someone was shaking me by the shoulders, urging me never to take

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  tree branch swaying a tad too little in a gust of wind. Without me ... it off as me being tired (it was a Thursday evening, after all), went ... primed me to expect hair to act like it does in Pixar movies). Car tires

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  get to the parking garage, and my rental car agent greets me with a ... . Felt made for me. Felt right. It made me look forward to a hot girl ... nibbly little step. This job made me have a deeper appreciation for not

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  . For the first time in a long time, I let a friend see me cry - not ... immediate response was to advise me: “don’t pull it out!” I understand why ... looked eerily similar to my mom. Over winter break she showed me a picture

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  me, I won't review the past year on here, but I made a Substack post about it. Someone asked me today what my 2023 resolutions were, and I ... ? Especially since I'm still in undergrad and so much of my life is ahead of me

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  styles, cultures, etc. suit me best. I had the least amount of imposter ... . My parents, in all their fear and love, were always there for me in that they’d drive me to places I’d want to go. So, I didn’t feel a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  this blog the week of December 22nd, 2020, and it has taken me all this ... made me have a love-hate relationship with Zoom since it makes me quite ... a toll on me. My only chances to talk to people outside of my family

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  SO SO SO MUCH. WHY….. why am I still doing this? I think a younger me ... black lives, because it just made sense to me. I thought rational thinking ... , and part of me feels this is how someone wants things to be. Just… get

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  quick thoughts to keep up my new years resolution

  

  class: [embed]https://youtu.be/s1CDgNTB5tc[/embed] Please don't roast me ... has shown me that 6-2/6-3 is a field I can enjoy and explore. I ... ..half-assed coding experience. It was basically a lot of me complaining about code

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Public Statements

  The Class of 2019 Graduates from MIT

  

  . For me, and for you too, that time has both seemed too long and too short. If you're like me, when I was about to graduate from grad school at ... , and why you are. Personally, it took me a full year after commencement

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  each, sending them out to whoever I believed would give me honest ... ’t swim there RIP) and I had this image of me lounging by the California ... me with a group doing a UROP and they accepted me.” That must

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  half-asleep. It’s been a while since a movie has kept me up past my ... with me past a good night’s sleep. Hichki (which roughly translates to hiccup in English), however, has had me scrambled in thoughts for days now

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2020 Ring Delivery we got our brass rats!..time to drop out? (also many photos)

  

  taking this exact picture and me looking at them and thinking that that would be me in a year. Well, this is that me ^^^ from left to right and ... , Austin W. '20, Sandy W. '20, Nia M. '20, Karen C. '20, me! from left to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  five classes or four classes plus a UROP is a reasonable workload for me ... , and that’s new for me. I’m sick of it. I don’t think this is something that’s unique to me. The middle of the semester is a perennially bad time

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  ” a bad thing--who wanted to be a girly girl??? Not me! I was rough and ... I know, would have me help her take apart computers, and in our free ... a dress to an interview or to work will make me seem too feminine to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  gathering with a banner welcoming me to Louisiana. At second glance, it turned ... ) Houston is Inspired I can’t figure out what Houston reminds me of. The only ... my brother and me. This was our first time doing Family Weekend. I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  Mall, and exchange my tickets. A man says something to me ... , took a gap year after high school when his family moved here. Asked me ... , that makes me feel old, I’m only 21! How old are you?” “19.” “You taken

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  applying to MIT. I went to an ordinary public school, and they prepared me ... school taught me how to fail. All those B’s (okay, B’s are really not that bad, but high school me had thought so) taught me that failing has a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015