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  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  the same man. Exercises in Style (60k words). I've written about this ... ensue. Doesn't that sound familiar? "It's safe here. I can shoot things. You're totally safe. I can hit stuff." The Loser (16k words). Content

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  That’s right, you’re sick Thank you, nurse, for stating the obvious.

  

  - you can up the Sudafed to 2 30mg pills every six hours, and I suggest ... while I ignore the box o' meds under my bed and see if you can hook me up ... 's anyone who's ever been fine, it's me. See, I have not been sick in over a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  teaching the art of jewelry making to eighteen Sri Lankan young mothers in a shelter for raped and sexually abused girls. Her original plan was to ... foreigner who did not even speak the language. “I wanted to remedy this

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  some point it seemed possible. I kept pilling paper after paper in the ... spent with people that mean a lot to me. I can't make an in person ... I felt in myself when I had to drop and retake courses. I remember

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  Guest Post: Where to Buy Food: MIT Groceries Guide Because eating textbooks gets expensive.

  

  buy most of my produce here. Since I live in East Campus, I have enough ... 's blog Food Parsed on August 31, 2015. Buying your own groceries can be ... can save time and money in the grocery store. Know how much food costs

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  to intimacy. Yes, God, I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to ... , recording—all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  let yourself rotate under the stars. On a good night in Boston, I see ... Hermes after being raped (surprise surprise) by Zeus. She is also, in case ... . Class of 2014. Hometown: it's complicated. I was born in Singapore, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??

  

  the ridiculous amounts of free food I got this week. In that particular ... number in the lottery, I'm in an excellent double with the view of the ... This morning I got a frantic call from my mother. MOM: Is it true

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  to tell, and it was one we can all relate to: the story of falling in ... problem of dirty and disease-ridden water. A “pill you put in the glass,” a ... . Companies and universities are getting in on the game. I’m glad to know that

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  January 12 Hostel Colonial House, Quito In retrospect, I do not ... with his head in his hands. Alarmed, I stopped some French backpackers ... lung capacities can hike to the Pichincha volcano summit, which is at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  I guess there are some things in life you can’t control. For me (and ... with joy. I live here now, right in the middle of if this beautiful ... Picture this: me, three water balloons in hand, running across

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  I can't sleep when I need to sleep in the furniture I need to sleep in ... not sound like an ass in doing so. I've got them all written down, and ... didn't have them in the earlier part of last year. I'm moving to a new

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  take, and I agree with pretty much everything in this article, but I ... believe that this is untrue. I can attest to the fact that I definitely don ... the end of the world (I remember getting a fifth week flag in 5.111 and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  time of my life – outside in perfect 75-degree weather, the one jacket I ... the most difficult concepts taught in 8.01 (Physics I: Classical ... I’m on a train right now, speeding away from Darmstadt and towards

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  The Abstract The adventure density has been high

  

  of Ecuador. Theories about why I was in Ecuador? Study ... malaria pills, and woke up to the sound of a cacophony of howler monkeys. I ... I owe you an explanation for my absence (and you'll get WAY more

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  've been dancing...unofficially...for much longer. as I've mentioned in ... that I have at least 15 new dance videos in my subscriptions every day ... choreography?" ...and then I choose to watch the videos that fall in the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dies Irae Quantus tremor est futurus!

  

  't really talk. I guess they assumed that the kind of person who would buy ... John Harbison is teaching the undergraduate class 21M.304: Writing in Tonal Forms II this term? Just a thought before I get some sleep: I made

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  distinction is used for wordplay, though. In Tagalog, I can think of at least ... parts of my identity, like Tagalog. In the post, I also mention OPM, an ... .']concentrate[/annotation] in linguistics, I thought it'd be suitable to talk about some things I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  roommate (from freshman year, mind you) and I lived in the same room freshman ... willing to forgo this summer so I can get to MIT as soon as possible. I can ... would happen in my life between then and now. I changed my lifestyle, my

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  little more than 10 books as I’m in the middle of reading an eleventh book ... vulnerable topics such as rape, immigration, and insecurities. I loved that ... note=" or at least can be a quick read. I think I read this at a slower

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020