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• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  a few weeks ago someone wanted to shoot a music video and needed a few dozen extras in the background, so they made a big group chat and ... years ago and hadn’t seen recently, and we had some pleasant conversations

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Circles, circles, circles week to week to week

  

  therapist asked me about when I get depressive episodes. And I said that I got ... computer doing work, and then I'd be struck with an inexplicable sadness, filling my body like helium. All the energy would leave me and I'd lie on my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  , shake it off, and remember that you will survive, even thrive, wherever you ... happy, and enjoy the small distractions of life. Graduating high school is a huge achievement and will still lead to new beginnings; welcome them

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  whiplash feelings from yesterday

  

  freshman year. you feel SURPRISE upon trying the food and realizing that it no longer makes you nauseous and has actually improved significantly 3 ... and there are no other drinks, so you buy a cookie even though you

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  a night in hannover one of the most chaotic travel experiences of my life

  

  This summer, I'm doing MISTI-Germany and living in Berlin. I've been ... , everything is close, which allows for easy travel to different cities and countries. I've had friends visit me from different MISTI cities and countries

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Questions from Beyond one last blog

  

  ="someone decided i should be a director. what?!"]new job[/annotation] and I was just ... new job, and I’m kind of nervous. Well, kind of is KIND OF an ... building to since I was 19-years-old and decided I wanted to work in

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2022
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  ’s ok…you can get up and immediately continue on…” - Guts (actually ... , shake it off, and remember that you will survive, even thrive, wherever you ... happy and never look back. We understand that this may be a difficult

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  bored in iap maybe i should've signed up for something

  

  winter break is nice and all, especially when it runs over into iap and i have nothing much to do. but with nothing to do, i'm getting kinda ... lot of blog posts that describe what iap is like, and while it's true

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  actual conversations i definitely had last night happy new year i guess

  

  work A: yeah and i bet they're saying to themselves A: look at these ... : what A: yeah and i stopped myself from saying that B: what A: i stopped ... A: right now we're just taking this walk together A: and then i'll end

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Listing It All Out you get a list and you get list and you get a list

  

  sofas and you are set! McCormick Front Lawn - all you need is a picnic blanket or a hammock and you are set. The big lecture halls (10-250 or 21 ... My Life 11.011 - The Art and Science of Negotiation 5.12 - Organic

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 29, 2021
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  elsewhere, and who write me, years later, to tell me how things worked out for ... I did here and here, as proof of what I usually say on Pi Day: If you ... make yourself. And if you spend the next few years trying to make

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things in My MIT Household that just make sense

  

  that my friends and I are in a sitcom. We refer to every school term as its own season, where freshman year was seasons 1 and 2, hence making ... bathroom apartment with Mariia, Raymond, and Emma. We're essentially two

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  One It's weird how we do so much that we don't stop and think about ... together in the TV Lounge, drink tea and eat snacks, and talk about stuff ... essays, splaying my life story to strangers in interviews, and thinking

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  start five minutes past the hour."]late[/annotation]anymore, and I know it ... scream past, sometimes five in a week, and my computer, hearing the noise ... ’m in Cambridge, reeling with a move cross-country and the start of the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  times. My normal routine is disrupted, the heat makes me lazy and slow, and I've left behind my past self but haven't yet entered a new one ... been in. (Coming in second would be the one between 8th and 9th grade

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  …[B]ut string dozens of great events together, and none of them would ... what was previously new is now normal; that the wonder and mystery of MIT has been taken out and replaced with routine. Of all the feelings I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a quarantine haiku generator purell and poetics

  

  hello! hope everyone is doing well. I made a quarantine haiku generator: get yours here.

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted

  

  YOU GOT IN! Feel free to drop a note yelling in the comments below, but also, and more importantly, to go celebrate with your loved ones.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  were going home for the holidays, and that I only knew six people who ... from the semester. And I was alone. My roommate left the Saturday of finals week, and by Christmas Eve, most of the people living in our hall

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  summer side projects a nonzero amount of them are final fantasy related

  

  super tired at the end of the day and usually just went to bed, but i ... "]UROP project[/annotation], but Unity was giving me too many issues and the tablet ... gestating for a while and learn some new things along the way. learning

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2019