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  tick tock tick tock notes about sunrises and broken doors and unfinished endings

  

  . they organize dinners where they swipe in their friends one by one ... and cookies and ice cream and leave the boxes in the kitchen, to the ... . and so the semester comes to an end. snow falls, first in tentative

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • December 27, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  our perpetual battle with the mit weather machine spinning arts needs a shaman

  

  during CPW fireshow. In fact, the last time we did not have a rain threat ... costumes soaked in sweat and tears and mostly rainwater. As wonderful as the ... the only one standing in the way of a dry and happy audience and the

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • November 15, 2025
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On Being the “Dumb” Friend and the freedom from comparison

  

  A lot of people at MIT were probably seen as the “smart” friend in high school–the one who excelled in classes, or juggled impressive ... else contained in so many past and future blogs*. I don’t want to talk

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Thoughts from the Dungeon One night only

  

  I’ve been stuck in the same dungeon in Metaphor: Refantazio for the ... the dungeon and fight the final boss in his airship. Then, the credits ... saw everyone else doing it, and then there was an email from Ceri in my

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  , visiting family in Delaware and New York, and traveling to Cape Cod with some ... room. We had a fire alarm go off in[annotation note ... for this summer being done, I haven't quite settled in yet. In fact, as

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Jebby Awards 2024: See All the Winners Here having fun with hyperlinks

  

  -called important people in the show business pass out little men and women to those who they think did a good job at making movies and TV shows in the year ... 've watched in 2023. Movies Favorite Movie That I Saw for the First Time This

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 1, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21M.712: Choreography — Making Dances theater arts classes >>>

  

  I'm taking a choreography class this semester! I heard about it in my ... excited to have the opportunity to create choreography in an academic ... in [annotation note="mit music and theater arts"]MTA musicals

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  [annotation note='I am writing this down in class-equivalents; MIT has a ... , I bravely forged ahead, conscious of increased workload in other areas ... [annotation note='a professional staff member who lives in the dorm and helps

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Links Sent to My Group Chat from the past month

  

  calendar of movies I watched in my freshman fall and IAP Cami: Another ... Cami: A link to ChatGPT Cami: A Twitter thread in which michelle huang ... thread about the first AI model, Shudu, who often gets hired in place of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  bottom of a sigh, when you can feel some structure in your chest actively ... ’m disappointed in myself. It’s a familiar feeling. That sensation when you ... hours a day, day in, day out. She was passionate about school. She had

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  account is themed around the proteins in gluten, which make me irreparably ... lie and say that was me. In real life, I am an opinionated, fast ... in my reservedness is a rare and mythical thing. Most of the time I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  Earlier this summer, sitting at a bar in Berlin, a friend and I made ... desire to stay in academia at least for a while yet. Hearing me talk, he ... read an article about you in twenty years." That caught my ear, though

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  dear kuya i promise this post is mostly in english

  

  , for older sister. kuya can also refer to any older male person. back in high school, for example, i called people in higher years "kuya", like "kuya reggie" or "kuya john dave". and people in lower years called me

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  compensation, newfound freedom in class selection Last April, I declared my ... really wanted to major in. Too many cool things at this school... how could ... much in that position.  But it’s weird though. It’s not like I have just

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  All the advice you’ll need for the next twelve hours not clickbait

  

  to handle, there's no shame in distracting yourself with things to do. Right now, it can feel like the most important thing in the world is what you'll hear in the next few hours. Your mental and emotional health are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  How does one write a first post? This probably isn't the way...

  

  —drafts that never made it past the first sentence and exist in a folder on his ... initial goal was a tad ambitious if not dramatic. With this revelation in mind, he did what anyone in his position would do: he spent hours on You

  • by kellen manning
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  'll usually respond, in my experience, no matter how famous"]acclaimed author ... gets thrown around a lot in the context of life, MIT, what comes after ... training, and there's no time to dwell on anything else except the feeling in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  's, and C's do."] ABC/NR. [/annotation] For me, it came in the fall of my sophomore year, shortly after I declared a major in [annotation note ... between being unhappy with and uninterested in your classes and just being

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  visual depictions of my summer i've been a busy, busy bee.

  

  ="1000"] Badminton[/caption] The Glass Palace in the Lalbagh Botanical Gardens in Bangalore was used to host flower shows in the 19th century ... ="aligncenter" width="768"] Part of the President's House in New Delhi[/caption] The

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 3, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  i mentioned this in my previous blog post about LA, but let me reiterate: LA is not a city made for walking. like, in any sense ... sleep in till 7:45"]i usually leave at 7:33 to catch the 7:51 bus

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019