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  dumb little poems and such emotional support procrastination

  

  material enough i can’t wait for the semester to end this course is too damn rigrous i hope the exam curve is generous i know i can’t keep playing ... eyes Tell me what you truly believe Yell so I can hear your words Because

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Astrophotography Courtesy of 12.409

  

  . One evening, I had my head in the sky for SEVEN HOURS straight: one hour ... Observatory. There, I sat outside in the snow, huddling in six layers of ... to find the Beehive Cluster using a map (that I read in red lamplight

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Non-Blinding my junior year(s)

  

  that I need to put in this work now for when I apply to schools this ... . This is high school. --- Four years later at MIT, and here I am, in the ... 's kind of tiring. But when I look at the list above, I can't imagine

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  I hadn't been sick in years. I mean sure, I've had the occasional ... that I got it. So what do you do when you're sick in college? Honestly ... off the bat I can't just excuse this PSET, I don't have the power to do

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  entry was originally titled "Trimalchio in West Egg." About a month ago I ... summer. I was really puzzled by the last line, in which she said she couldn ... to see what she's talking about--even though I live in a dorm with two

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  finally took the swim test! Yay, now I can graduate. In a random bit of ... : 6:45 AM -- Arrive in Boston. I actually sort of slept on the plane ... somewhere in the neighborhood of $30, and I had already spent $30 at LAX last

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Monday Fun @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  this, which is pretty awesome. (I feel like this may have been posted in the blogs already but I can't find it, so sorry if it's a repeat ... accompanied it said simply: There's no one in the driver's seat. Just a guy in

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 18, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas in December and July

  

  the past eight years I've been in Boston, and we've never strugged to ... I'm back at my parents' home now (watching reruns of Buffy the Vampire Slayer), after spending a wonderful long weekend in Boston with them

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  a constant in my life for as long as I can remember, and added ... own right, and I was also taking solid-state chemistry in an effort to ... -based math, and it culminated in a project where I got the chance to listen to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  Engineering) a year and a half ago.  The most valuable lesson I've learned in ... semester off and accept a 6-month position in Apple's iPhone Product Design ... your own things that other people can use." - steve jobs   I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  ? for example: in confronting the self, i discuss how my feelings of ... i am today. in lies in mit, lies about mit, i talk about the duality of ihtfp, how it can both mean "i hate this fucking place" and "i have

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  something was probably wrong after I had been sitting alone in the x-ray room ... the results. Oh well. Next, I spent a week in California at my first ... and was full of ambitions to write all about my time in China. I guess I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  to New York City with me. there's also the fact that I'll be in Africa this summer; I'm interning in Cape Town through MISTI, which is both ... 's associated with moving out of Boston (potentially) forever. I can't count the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  vibe check i'm basically living at MIT again

  

  , so I'm about a 10-minute walk from campus. I'm staying in two adjacent ... can hang out with anyone at any time. I realized how much I took this for granted once I left MIT, so it's wonderful to be back in this kind

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  Whenever I try to think about the last year, it doesn't feel real. In ... ... exist in spaces surrounded by people. I wrote something similar back in ... what in-person campus life is really like. I run into people constantly

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  My Favorite Spots in Cambridge/Boston well-trodden and well-hidden alike

  

  Park after shopping in the CambrdigeSide Galleria Mall, but I like going ... (wonderful) [annotation note="my boyfriend and i walked in a random direction ... ,[/annotation] but I'm [annotation note="that's amoryyyy"]in love with

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  , April, I had to hunt elsewhere (we're moving to a new building in October ... Thursdays, I was the sole representative of the project in attendance. So that ... Sheng passed the question on to me. And I got to answer it in the middle

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  seniors and juniors, so my sophomore friend and I did not get in. So I was ... material, and she helped me understand that what I am going through in the ... like I learned a ton in the class, and I have accepted that there was no

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am Treasured :) Graduate school visit #1 (Updated)

  

  Mission Log 3042007 It's 6 o clock in the morning, and I ask myself ... onto the floor below without awaking my roommate. I put my contacts in ... departures, I realize that I can make an earlier flight, so I do the "My plane

  • by Bryan
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  , because I wanted to jump back up in the sky and say, no! I can't let go let ... just in different hues. I've been traveling for the last month around the ... over and over. And sometimes I would look at myself in the mirror and

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025