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• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  of myself as "being in Boston" when I'm at MIT; now, I'm just "being ... a word without using it in the definition, I can only gesture at it and talk around it. When I first came to MIT, I would often pass by a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  ; consider though that for the first, I was only in elementary school, and for ... new kind of shock. I spent my morning and afternoon in lab at MIT ... square with only a few hours of daylight left which I hoped not to spend in

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  cleats on feet, smile on face thoughts on injuries and spring season

  

  it: I did! Since my injury in preseason this past fall, where a ... . When they told me I should start wearing a boot, just in case, I couldn ... weight on the foot for three months. Nevertheless, I was in a boot for two

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  heart soaring. I’ve suddenly found myself busier than ever. In the past ... until a month ago. Whenever I thought about career stuff, I would freeze ... on, but when the direct funding deadline passed and I had nothing in my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  dishonored him by stepping on his sneakers in a crowded auditorium. Why do I ... without the help of another living mammal in 1966... less I digress.) In my ... of them in all of us. I will end this with just a few conclusions

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  ? How would my life be different if I didn’t do crew in the early mornings ... in. At the same time, this new independence has been exhilarating. I ... asked ourselves at some point in our MIT adventure so far.  And I assure

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  my room an evolution

  

  I had a vision. Every year, my room would have a different aesthetic ... year, I lived in a double in New House. My side was colored yellow and ... green as its fitting complement. I leveled up in many ways. I got throw

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  When I was applying to be a blogger in September, one of the first questions was about why I wanted to be a blogger in the first place. Amidst ... , I answered (in 250 words or less) that [annotation note="i don't think

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  models in hand. I’m walking around today too. In Cambridge. With a backpack ... past three years of my life. And in the blink of an eye, I’ve gone from ... inexhaustible variety of life). Floating in Nostalgia   I honestly can

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  or aggressively annoyed in this class than I would like to. When Mihir ... holy of days), Leo and Athena were sitting in ML. I don’t remember all ... ’t due for 2 whole days (!!), so I was in no particular rush to finish

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  I read the news today Oh boy! I hope that you're as excited as I am.

  

  power of two!" you would be offered automatic admission. I hear that we ... beautiful mathematical problem of the millenium in 2003. One of my friends ... Hypothesis if it is actually false." Last year I wrote an entry on a one

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  good in red. yeah, maybe. some change would be nice, though. i don't know ... novembers that make you remember, something in the sudden, bitter cold. i ... see my breath misting in front of me. when i looked up at the sky, it

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  pset was due, we had our only exam in that class (Sustainable Energy). I ... freshman year: "Considering my track record in math, I figured I'd need ... important message in what I hoped were large, friendly letters." This quickly

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Circles, circles, circles week to week to week

  

  that anything in particular triggers it. I'll be sitting in front of my ... , filling my body like helium. All the energy would leave me and I'd lie on my ... class I have to go to. When a friend was sleeping over, it started in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  floor of McCormick Hall in Room 239, where I stayed my freshman year, is a ... about my laptop that I had left back in my room. My assignments, carefully ... mom used to say that I’m directionless; not in life, but by foot. I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  honey thing. “I would never even consider going vegan if I lived in Paris ... -year-old in 2024. What a simple story I would tell years later. I went to Paris ... on a train to Berlin. In a few days I would bring the Fujifilm

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  the things i hate and what they say about me

  

  the only complaint i could come up with was that sometimes they would ... ’t hate the inherent prejudice in anti-asian sentiment; i hate when i am ... , and so i would go as far as to say that by choosing to take everything

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 9, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  mean time. i'm in the united kingdom for the first time! i just came back ... incredible[/caption] i'm here in Southampton on grad studenting business. it ... i will never be a student again, that there is a world in which in 2

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  culture was. I remember thinking that I would participate in it — I wanted ... it now. I’m living in it. That glow is strongest around EC. It’s in ... went before I gapped, except that then I did not realize how much I would

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  times over winter break, but I wasn’t particularly getting anywhere. In fact, I wasn’t particularly interested in doing a whole lot of anything ... break. I’ve been telling people that my emotions this semester would be

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013