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  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  of my summer before college. i wasn’t really doing anything but also ... all kinds of shops, the preparation takes over your entire summer ... heavy.  my thoughts were torn between the excitement of what was coming

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  IAP stands for Independent Activities Period. For the month of ... . I asked some people what they were doing over IAP to show some of ... styles and also learn about the history of Chinese calligraphy. you make

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  my pocket. Both my hands were occupied holding the rest of me aloft, so ... "]was[/annotation] a Pixel 3a, top-of-the-line about four years ago, and middle-of ... about ancient in terms of repairs. The first shop I went to didn’t have a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  low points, but it takes a certain amount of humility and retrospect to ... didn't have them in the earlier part of last year. I'm moving to a new ... ignore terrible advice. I've gotten a lot of what makes MIT hard

  • by Ella T. '25
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  you & i will always be back then time is an illusion that helps things make sense

  

  , where he swore it was one of his favorite shows ever and insisted I watch ... of immaturity like farting and pooping jokes. But as I watched, I saw a ... reminding me a bit too much of our relationship. I only then started to pick

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  liked the house we already lived in, an old adobe building at the edge of ... occasionally found rusty nails, broken glass, and bits of pottery we thought were Native artifacts, but which in hindsight were just fragments of floor tiles

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  pictures of the places that were memorable to me in some way. Eighteen months ... than that was the emptiness of it all: lobby 10, 26-100, banana lounge. Too many locked rooms, too clean rooms, too many signs of lifelessness

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  the river On its bridge with wooden piers, Like the odor of brine from the ocean Comes the thought of other years. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ... from Kendall/MIT to Charles/MGH, is named as such because of this poem

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  In my freshman year of high school, my favorite teacher that year had ... of us a custom version of Dr. Seuss's Oh, The Places You'll Go! Every page contained one of our names on it, saying we were all traveling off

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  danced like animals in the middle of the dance floor. but times have ... if i'll be trampled and shoved in a giant sweaty mass of college students ever again, but god, do i crave it; the sheer liberation of dancing

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Write an Original Song (ex?)-emo kid gone rogue

  

  ; whenever you have a moment of free time, you're sitting there, jangling ... living in the middle of the woods anymore. You have no clue what you ... ’ve found a thing. Without writing anything down, you kind of just start

  • by Powers '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  fine clay particles of my life, and suspended them into a cloudy mess. It takes a long time for sediment to collect at the bottom of a liquid ... was more in-between, meant different things for each of my parents, and

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  the city, so i've had to rely heavily on the wheels of other entities, both private and publicly funded. here are some of the trips that i have ... longer because of the world renowned LA traffic, but it's a pretty reliable

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  Even while I was excited by the thought of MIT, I spent many years being intimidated: as a child, hearing stories of what MIT undergrads got ... ; and as a prefrosh, getting a glimpse of the amazing things my future

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  mystical fog of technological magic and innovation. I still decided to come ... , upperclassmen I knew from high school, and of course the academic excellence and intensity. I wanted to address some of the fears and concerns I struggled

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  what happens when i don't. The week before my freshman year of college ... picture lying in my aunt's bed, listening to my favorite song of all time ... the same song and suddenly felt overwhelmed by awareness of all the ways

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

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

  . The rest of the day promises no surprises. I’ll need to find food, wash off long hours of studying, check in with friends and fellow midterm ... of… ordinary. MIT is pretty great, don’t get me wrong. But now, when I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  hundreds, maybe thousands, of people, not only across campus, but among ... purpose of the blogs is, and always has been, to give MIT students a place ... students access to the interior lives of current students; a sense of what it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  one of my sisters (and friend I made before MIT through FRC), Erin B. '15 to write a blog about her experiences as part of the cast. This ... Vagina Monologues in my freshman year. An alum of my dorm was the producer

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  18th. Of course being that it was a long plane ride, I wrote some entries, read some books, watched some episodes of How I Met Your Mother (I ... long hold times on tech support, arguing, and TWO reformats of my

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009