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  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  crushed my laptop. He showed me my computer, apologized very sincerely for ... Admissions and Jeremy kindly let me use his office, which had a monitor ... me to post this email as a blog![/caption] Below is the aforementioned

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Semester of poetry

  

  enjoying the class and like how it kind of naturally allows me to set time ... 't really damage the end product but just bring me to a new perspective on ... letters on a page of this tome I opened that follows me everywhere – will

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  enough to lend me a book of more advanced origami models, which I slowly ... them was a big step for me in my origami design journey, and this ... crane), if you ask me. Dragon Designer: Jo Nakashima Sixteen

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  memorial for a dorm goodbye east campus (for now)

  

  remember the people who lived in this room before me of the several dozen ... anything else, is kind of a big deal to me this is just to say, i'm gonna ... made by dozens and dozens of people before me in a way it reminds me of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 6, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  It seems to me that we swath an imaginary future world in pretty ... attitude reminds me of the conservative attitude towards fetuses. Because it ... college in less than four years—ask me why I’ve been around MIT for so long

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  W.M.

  

  brackets like normal? Don’t even get me started on all the weird and obscure ... [/annotation],  “could you help me solve this differential equation, please?” I turned ... me a while to get used to all their quirks, but eventually, W.M. became

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  to me late yesterday afternoon: "what are you doing between 10-11AM ... begged another TA to switch recitation spots with me and confirmed my ... thought taking a picture of the snack table would make me look like a rube

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The CrimZone. there are 2 impostors at harvard

  

  a running joke between Fatima and me that started about a week before ... anxiety shoot up, but the lady at the counter was pretty nice to me the ... wanted to get a library card, came with me and we both got our cards fresh

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  upperclassman right now. just let me live my wee underclassman days for one last ... me to either take a hell semester or overhaul my Courseroad for my ... emailed back saying that the class was full, but then opened a spot for me a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  sharp and soft featuring: my favorite naruto moment

  

  me: do you think you’re a spiky person or a soft person? they clarified ... doing so with me because i seemed to have many elements of both. i ... , and also a little sad that none of my friends told me what was happening

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling grown up walking in adult clothing

  

  mentor's always asking me, as soon as one project ends, what i'm thinking ... learn this internship? and my manager asks me things like, what do you ... . thinking about these questions makes me feel old. getting slack

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  semesters, but (1) they were still mostly interacting virtually (2) allow me ... moved out of East Campus. Mentally, some part of me will always be there -- or maybe what I mean is, some part of EC will always be here with me

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  watched me do a lot of math about the amount of taxes I would have to pay ... been just placed in front of me because I didn’t know if I’d ever get ... happened because it gave me the financial privilege to be able to stay in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  back in east campus, the sequel jiggity jig (again)

  

  . thinking about this room makes me kinda sad. east campus is scheduled to get ... passed on anymore. it makes me think about how fragile oral history is ... spire that is a vibe. it makes me think about how it's so, so unlikely for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  reminded me that being happy and healthy is the most important thing in life ... adventure with me. Y’all are a part of my forever family.  To my blog family, thank you for giving me this platform to share my story and make my voice

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  reflect on my MIT experience, to talk about what was most valuable to me ... ’t working for me. Those kinds of introspections can’t be forced. They will ... graduate school to understand exactly what mattered most to me in undergrad

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  psychiatrist put me on a higher dose of sertraline. instead of taking one tablet ... 't get me started on the cp* discord. where am i living this summer ... me housing. unfortunately, this is not a normal summer. i was offered a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  pathways where do i go from here?

  

  days of my life are now a year behind me, and it's bizarre to consider ... situation especially bittersweet. for me, it's my former dorm, Burton Conner ... lot of fun. but it's still weird. my freshman year did so much for me

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 23, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult

  

  option. Or at least that's what me and my podmates discovered this past ... taste good and they don't make me feel guilty for wanting something sweet. Sounds like a win-win to me. Maple Leaf Cookies (these go super fast) I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 30, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taylor swift songs as applicants emergency evermore post

  

  , "Well, it's made for me" The kid who’s ready to figure out who they are ... on your truck tires Now I'm missing your smile, hear me out We could ... me? When it was calmer, skipping the prom just to piss off your mom

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 11, 2020