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  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  that a glass wall in my head shattered, because up until then i hadn ... walls have i been trapped in without ever realizing it?  there are rules ... feasible?  there are other moments where i lose myself in work. lately i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  In late May, I wrapped up my second semester at MIT and moved back ... these days. Adapting.   . . .   I grew up in that house, but ... in Iowa that had barely changed since I left it, and my old friends

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  is setting in, I always told myself, "If I could do this 100, I can do ... never cracked a 6:30 mile in high school - I did enjoy the meets. My goal ... fast as we can, do you think we will make it" - running, no doubt I used

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  three years; we broke up this past January. Even though I'm still young in ... can offer guidance. But sometimes I’ll see a Linkedin update about ... birthday today. Starting in 2019, I’ve always thrown a birthday party for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Night Vision Funny how "photo"graphy throws you into the dark

  

  -consuming -- I can’t actually think about nothing when i’m trying out specific techniques to make what I see in my head manifest on paper. It’s emotions ... going to the darkroom because it’s “therapeutic”. I can’t exactly disagree

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 8, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Back From The West Coast ...with thoughts and conclusions on the recent serious posts.

  

  Hi everyone, I am back in town after a crazy day of traveling across ... right place. "....", I would really like to try to help however I can. I ... someone who can. All, I am sorry to have to remove or edit parts of that

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

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

  

  . Fooooooood. I feel that most places can claim some sense of pride in their food ... with cowboy hats:   I step outside and breathe in the toasty evening air. Hot like Vegas (where I flew in from), but much more humid. I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  a lot of cool stuff to show off in the near future. I didn't think I ... I'll get use to it in the future, but it's pretty weird. I'll keep ... know that I love video games and making video games, so naturally I

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exploring the newest innovations in dessert technology A trip filled with enough desserts to satisfy anyone's sweet tooth!

  

  How many desserts can one consume in 2 ½ hours? Five MIT students ... consumption of an immeasurable amount of calories. (OK, Dad, I know you hate when I fixate on food, but it’s all in the name of science.) We began at

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  once in a while I get questions about what you should pack before heading ... working to optimize what I carry, so this is a work-in-progress and (2) that ... .  Instead of having to ship my laptop off to some Dell warehouse in Texas, I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  FINAL TERM ATTACK Like a black light attack, only it's not like that at all.

  

  of stairs in the Haus when I ran to look at the Rocko's Modern Life-inspired mural of a sad crying clown in an iron lung. Oh, and I was singing songs ... remind you that I am getting a degree in June. It is my final term here, I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  . Classes are done, grades are in, and I’m beginning a senior-year road trip ... today. (In fact, I’m starting this post on a plane from Boston to Las ... . This post is hard to write. Not in the emotional “I’m not ready to say

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

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  closest elementary school friends nor I can remember the silly acronym that ... scenario in which I’m hanging off the edge of a cliff, tall enough that I ... -long void in my schedule or when I don’t have club badminton practice. But

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  instance, i’m fluent enough in math and cs that i can more or less understand ... they asked me what i would want to become a magician in, and for a while ... understand what goes on in wet labs and mechanical engineering eventually i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  .'"]childhood.[/annotation] There's usually food in the house, laundry doesn't cost $2.50, and I can take long showers. I can watch cable TV on an actual TV. My car is in the ... chewing gum. Then again, in high school, I also [annotation note="energy can

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  and hours.  I've mostly focused my research in the past on biodegradable flame retardant plastics, and I was actually chosen as a finalist in a ... decision admissions results came out for MIT!! I was deferred back in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  can happen if you just feel it in your bones. I for one see shapes that ... exist, I can confirm). It is the one form of art where I am perfectly content being nothing but a spectator. I think we can all agree when I say

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  pursuing a Ph.D. in quantum information next year! probably because I haven ... some of my thoughts about my time in college and what I’ll do after for ... . specifically: why I chose to major in physics and mathematics how I decided

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi on Pie So much pi[e].

  

  dishes). I want to share them with you, to the extent that I can share 1 ... ’re curled up in the kitchen watching Veronica Mars, and when I’m done with ... which here means “falling asleep with my laptop open.”) I got in on Pi

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Check the Mail Pyramid!

  

  sent in my scores awhile ago, but I still don't see them on My ... , if I were in charge of mail I would probably not process anything just ... skills. BUT - I'm NOT in charge of the mail. Our processing

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 2, 2013