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  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  sort of felt like I just ran into people as I went about my life, and ... with all my friends, particularly my close friends, I realized that yes ... consider my closest friends I sometimes see much less often during the week

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13 Concerning the half I spent in Cambridge

  

  with squishy sofas and bunk beds for sleeping. My plan for the last two ... others, attempting things on my own, doing drills, and talking over ... ’ve been spending a lot of time in the bunk room this IAP, trying my best to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  In my last entry, Meagan said, "Anyways, could you please do an entry ... . :]" Yeah, sooooo, I'd love to, but see, most of the words that my new Spanish ... have no idea why. Also, perhaps one of my favorite Spanish words ever is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!

  

  claim where I met my first MIT friend, Shubhi. Although I never saw her ... , while waiting for my MIT decision and even after it, the chatroom provided me with my daily MIT fix. We laughed, we cried, we made fun of Harvard

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  basically every moment of every single day of my life, and spent every mile of my marathon training basically just dreaming about what I would say to ... and Barrel is about a 30-minute walk from my dorm. For those of you who

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  wanting to return to physical media, things i can hold in my hand and feel ... accessing my favorite pieces of art in digital space. i flirted with ... bee movie (which i got for my birthday in first grade). i liked flipping

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gala a premiere event celebrating fashion, arts, and culture

  

  access to the magazines—in my experience, many more people were talking ... , so I was a bit out of my element; even though I'm a dancer, I felt like my body was not cooperating. I knew it would take quite a bit of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  I took two classes at Harvard! I wrote down my first impressions, and ... be in a space where I could see my impressions of my peers’ work ... the writing.  This was also my first explicitly genre-focused class. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  knot again my spread for Infinite Magazine Issue 9

  

  incoherent ideas floating around in my head – something about broken things ... something along those lines to my friend Bukunmi, because she showed me the ... . [caption id="attachment_72802" align="aligncenter" width="768"] my slide from

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 20, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  event was my weekend trip with some EC friends to the Harvard Museum of Natural History. When my friend asked me if I wanted to go along, I said ... 't that great". I said sure to my friend because doing stuff with your

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  This is my third year doing this; see the 2019 post and the 2020 post ... 'm kinda ashamed that I'm faking my way through the humanities requirement by ... a kind of breach to it, I think. You could say that my writing isn

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  eternal dissatisfaction wish i could write more, care less

  

  one here is one of my tiny struggles over the past few weeks, and it mostly centers on feeling good about my output. i've talked about my ... summer i hit my ceiling of the amount of things i can work on at once that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 12, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  /no record, ie I can afford to take the time away from studying for my physics ... of Ancient Greece, which is my [annotation note= "CI-H/CI-M classes ... revisions for my writing class to do Wednesday, and on Thursday I had to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  In August I celebrated my four year [annotation note ... times, the only other set of eyes that see my projects are Kellen ... see what I was working on from my obnoxiously large monitor. For the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Exploring Classes a guide

  

  Resources firehose.guide [image_grid images="56074,56078" caption="my chaotic ... or years. CourseRoad [image_grid images="56082,56084" caption="my ... trajectories of my life at MIT. My CourseRoad shows at least 25 saved roads

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  't for cross registration, I might never have met some of my best friends. I wrote this blog to capture the memories I made last summer with my ... (in my case, neuroscience). I clearly remember [annotation note

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  spring! semester! so apparently i'm doing a lot of random shit

  

  We're well into Quarter 3 and my first midterms are quickly approaching, so to procrastinate for them, I’m going to talk about my spring ... ever since.   This class definitely meets my expectations. I haven

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

  into my head when I was twelve, that it wasn’t safe, that it was ... . It was far less scary and far less complicated than it was in my head ... buildings[/annotation]. Part of my role involved confronting people, terse

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  It’s Nice to Meet You Finding my confidence through inline skating.

  

  the inline skate community, one of my first images of a “rollerblader ... until I got to MIT my freshman year. I got a pair for $25 with kneepads ... seemed very friendly and flat with bike lanes. My first attempt ended with

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • March 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  which (especially the second one) had the overall effect of lowering my ... an electronics class, or simply gotten ahead in my requirements to graduate for my Mech. E degree. I probably would have had a better academic

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017