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  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  interests in college because I would have more time since I wouldn’t be in ... , I figured beginning to develop good money habits would be in my best ... In high school, I neglected many of my personal interests to make

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  reminiscent of the time in high school where i would overcommit myself in my ... all, really. i would fill the empty seconds in my day with audiobooks ... i'm currently in the midst of my second week of online school. things

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  University. I was thrilled, here would be my first chance to learn in an ... world. I remember the days when my mom would ask 7-year-old me what I wanted to be when I grew up and I would tell her about my plans to traverse

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  again. Definitely in the top three of things I’ve read all semester ... Dad is no longer whispering his view of it in your ear.” I turned to ... moment when I realized she would not speak, that she would sit there and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Makibaka! Huwag matakot! black lives matter! junk terror bill!

  

  I feel like I have stake both in what is happening here and what is ... party for dozens, he gets to walk free. In two different senses, I feel ... . People are being killed. And in two different ways, I feel powerless about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  my disappointment when I'm eagerly waiting for a huge storm to blow in ... would be the year we had no winter. And for a long time, it looked like I would be right. We in the outdoors club even called off our "Winter Circus

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / IAP

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

  

  back in time, I would high five myself, then say "don't wear your big ... , shimmying through little alleyways I would never have thought to enter in ... something was probably wrong after I had been sitting alone in the x-ray room

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  I know, would have me help her take apart computers, and in our free ... Lately I’ve struggled to blog, due to being in the middle (!!!) of ... younger, but I found myself facing more often in college, as I found myself

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  that dream. I would continue the simulation in my mind until I fell ... would lay there in bed, words and thoughts spinning around my head without pause. Often, I would simulate conversations with people I’d had that day

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  working in studio for five hours and I hate my life but it was awesome,'" he ... was past three in the morning and I'd just returned home from Studio 7 ... welcome my first final review in 4.112 (Integrated Architecture Studio). I

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  semester was a total blur. In some ways, I did it wrong. 5 classes and a UROP ... sucked in. Through my experiences last semster though, I was able to understand more about myself and where I'd like to go in the coming years. MIT

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Xanga Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part one.

  

  person. 21. My first kiss was in middle school. 22. I want to go to art ... for tests. 68. I believe in my God. 69. I hate food. 70. I have a ... have a crush. 79. I would love to travel the whole world. 80. I become

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The ratio of people to cake is too big.

  

  applications at home (Ducksberry), and in the afternoon into the evening I read ... world again. I had a great day of reading. The applications in today ... . I was wondering if my login account would still be available for use

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember

  

  provide updates on what i'm currently doing, or new and exciting things in ... , psets, eat, sleep, repeat. i fill the hours in between with mindless ... to a time in sophomore year of high school when it made me so happy i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  , have decided that today I will operate under the assumption that I am in ... pace. Your thoughts on Alaska are welcomed. - I actually was in Alaska ... neck muslces later I was boarding a plane to Seattle in a neck brace. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  gulped down the wetness in the air like I imagine a fish would if it, and not I, were in that spot on the sidewalk of dorm row. I shuffled into my ... knew they would be. I came to MIT completely unprepared. My background in

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  while and i'm really excited to finally be in it. i was a bit irritated by ... get a B i'll be stoked. 6.911 and 6.912 (GEL) - i'm in the gordon ... how i managed to slide in"]seniors[/annotation]. i'm starting to gestate

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  periods. I've been in love before, where love was 18 hour phone calls and ... across to the other side of the country. I've been in love before, where love was the twisting in my chest I felt when he looked at another person

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  summer tidbits a picture and annotations

  

  summary i would see in 'mission control' (swipe up with three fingers on the ... the rest comes out of my paycheck. TT i'm going to anime expo in LA this weekend, then visiting MIT friends in SF next weekend. i'm also taking a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 4, 2019
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

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

  

  wanted to eventually work with MIT's Game Lab. I thought that I would have ... a lot of cool stuff to show off in the near future. I didn't think I would really do much when I joined. I figured the first few weeks would

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019