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  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  're in? Coming back to Valenzuela, my hometown, feels especially painful, because my head is imposing this map that the territory does not follow ... mismatch from what you remember. Every time I've come back to my hometown I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Things That Made Me Happy (and Sick) It’s me and my infection’s TWO MONTH anniversary!! 🎉😍

  

   I survived my first semester at MIT, and it was hella dope. I can ... living my life at such a break-neck speed that I haven’t really processed my experiences enough to come up with some deep analysis of my semester

  • by Powers '23
  • January 4, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  This past week was probably the worst I've encountered at my time at ... I'm surprised it actually happened this late into my freshmen year. I ... comfortable around my peers. I didn't really know if I was going to find a group

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  of itself, but preparing for that one exam--and finshing up my other assignments for my other 4 classes--was another beast entirely. I thought it might be more fun to show you my week in pictures (mostly taken from my

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 2) Where the music is richer.

  

  artichokes. 2. I love my "Spanish family" in Madrid. 1. I love Madrid just because of the way it is. My Last Two Weeks in Spain, and Thoughts: Doing ... paso, you adjust to the lifestyle. I spent the eleven days between my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  recuperation from, my oral presentation on GFP for 10.28: Saturday: Scored free ... never fade. Sunday: After a long, long, long desk shift, I was greeted my ... wanted to drink something with a taste, I opened one of my like 50 cans of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  By the end of my freshman year, I was convinced that I had not learned anything in my classes at MIT. By the end of my sophomore year, the ... often than I should've for my math classes, I did not participate actively

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i don’t know where you’re going but do you got room for one more troubled soul?

  

  just a semester of my undergraduate career left, it's hard not to. Every second of my time seemingly is spent thinking of what will be and I've found it hard to stay present. I've been enjoying my time in Madrid

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  months, and 21 days"]minute.[/annotation] My blogger avatar hasn't changed ... a personal time capsule, immortalizing all my worries and hopes from ... , 2016, I left behind most of my remaining earthly possessions and hopped

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  of my thoughts without any exciting MIT anecdotes or events. I feel like my thoughts can be pretty weird. Maybe people mostly come to these ... to hear the ramblings from the inside of my head, maybe they won't find

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane

  

  When I started my freshman year at MIT four whole years ago, senior ... 't sure if I was going to make it through my first semester classes, yet ... and all I could do was make sure that I was bringing my best in that

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 10, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  that would determine the entire course of my life. I thought that if the ... ended up going here, things after that would simply fall in place. My ... many, many, many more. My life as a college student has pretty much been

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  keep me busy. I'm taking less classes. And yet, I feel like my brain is ... of the #pandemiclifestyle, partially because it's my last semester and ... 't enjoy academic learning as much as my peers. Don't get me wrong, I love

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  using the regrade request feature quite a bit. My pset buddy for 6 ... 've analyzed these regrade requests. I examine what the my requests and the graders' responses looked like, my success rate, and more. i. What were the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Battle of the Boot storytime with Yuliya #1

  

  I was ecstatic. An educational video I had made for my IAP class was ... ceiling of the Simmons auditorium and display my work of many days. There ... past the rows of viewers. I donned my best cardigan and favorite boots

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 23, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  Japanese suburbs. Combine all that with my winning sense of direction and you ... train to look for my house. A woman helped me carry my luggage up two flights of stairs from the subway, then looked at my map and declared, "I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  It’s official: my blogging hiatus has ended. It has been a crazy ... drafts, second drafts, third drafts, galore!), trying to finish up my ... my research (2 poster presentations + a lab presentation), writing

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  my German dorm for this summer, laundry costs about half a euro per ... our plight. Sam: "Yeah, I really need to do get some money on my laundry ... children. And now it's time for a short story about my hair. Sometime around

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  where I remain silent adds another weight of guilt onto my back and I ... little more critical of what I post. I've been rereading my old blogs and there's such a spark and pep in my voice when I write, a passion and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  ways in my life that I've used task management, especially for goal ... other than maybe keeping a list of to-dos in Google Keep, or my ... setting is for the summer. During my summers, I always try to set some

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020