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  We Really Aren’t Kids Anymore avoiding the part where it all has to end

  

  angst, was ultimately the realization that time was passing. I would never ... on my wing of Next House, I would need to just make that happen. And ... , I was feeling angsty and wrote this blogpost about being a sophomore

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 9, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  ’m graduating in a few weeks, i haven’t stopped meeting new students here and ... interested in film and theater lately i’ve been coming to terms with the fact ... there really isn’t any reason i need to be working in stem. for instance

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Days My traditional end-of-summer recap post, in technicolor.

  

  that girl who sits in front of me in class. I also took out the trash and ... : Walking to work. I walked a lot this summer. Living in a place where public ... sneered. "I'm not going to go in there. They probably sprinkle weird brain

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  just got a lovely writeup in Technology Review. When I started that draft, though, I didn't have a grasp of how important Hunt would be in my life ... Not only the blogs' birthday—in trying to decide what to write, I

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  entirely sure I would have even been aware they won the World Series. Because ... 't too long ago that I was in your spot and- Wait a second. It actually ... classes now, too, since I promised I would at some point, and at this rate

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Movie Marathon, Pt. I Watch ALL the things!

  

  not. Oops.) - I finished my last MIT classes, I ate my last meal in the Simmons dining hall, I graduate in about a week...! ...But we will not ... 's Excellent Adventure, Looper, Safety Not Guaranteed, Midnight in Paris. But I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2013
• Blog / Events

  A sample of life in the past week A summary of a million events in 7 days!

  

  that if we got snowed in then they would send a helicopter =) Off we went ... I can’t imagine what it must be like to face such a tragedy, I think I can speak for all of MIT in saying that our thoughts and hearts are with

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  -person interview would be difficult. Of course, I prefer doing in-person interviews ... Maybe I need to get over myself - it's been six years since I was in ... Jones informing me that I was selected to be a blogger...BUT every once in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the Love of Darties and ChemE An audio journey

  

  -thing series that Petey started in the blogger days of yore. I didn’t really have a topic in mind to guide the conversation, I just wanted to see what ... I believe the saying goes “everything was all good just two weeks ago

  • by kellen manning
  • March 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Are YOU Up To This Summer? click me! click me!

  

  interesting you would like to say about yourself/where you live/what's in the ... know that, she, in fact, also just climbed a mountain (at 2000 meters ... pretty majestic! (she's the girl in the picture) Which got me thinking

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  the things that I most enjoy about my work in the admissions office is ... difficult to cultivate in their children. While I did ultimately answer the ... I have known for some time that my approach to things can be

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  student would: we improvied. By which I mean we measured a shelf, rounded it ... other things to do, and when I got back to the room around 12:30 in the ... So in Burton-Conner, you're allowed to paint your room under several

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  absolutely the right decision. I took three classes in my major this last ... humble about my test results. In 2.004 I was getting 90-95 percent on the ... didn't take it as one. My other scores in the class would be enough to

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  every way possible, every night I lie in bed, the brightest colors fill my ... My parents were born under kerosene lamps. In a place where monkeys ... playing in the streets blended with the crowing of roosters. The perfect

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  more people in a day than I would in a week of high school, I felt ... 1.5 weeks during which I really had nothing in particular to do. Then ... ™. I had to slump over in the Maseeh 3 bathroom at 4AM and cry for no

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  in the class, has been pretty chill so far. I’m sure I’ll be eating my ... about in an upcoming post. I got cooked to death on my last midterm but it ... semester, so I doubled up this semester in order to get on track to complete

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  assignments, I decided to take a break by traveling to Bath in Somerset, UK. I ... -10°C (okay, I know I live in Cambridge, Massachusetts so I can take the ... emptying garbage bins in the cold, when the sun wasn’t even up yet, I felt

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  last three weeks, since I'm pretty sure I won't get up in the morning unless I'm being paid to do so. When my alarm clock goes off in the morning ... voice in my head says, "I'll pay you $9.25 if you get out of bed right now

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  On Sunday night, I sat alone on a bench in South Station holding what ... ’t what I imagined my final moments in Boston feeling like. I expected there ... seniors, I had no final exams – or any obligations – in the three weeks

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  things i've been doing in the past week. it's truly felt breathless. i ... what things were like back in the day, the next night i'm in a hallway ... and i'm playing board games with friends and i'm in the z center

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021