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  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  ="1000"] Highlights from my schedule for the past 3 weeks.[/caption]   ... , school, and everything in between. Even after pairing down my activities ... breaks, where I can catch up on my life, focus on myself, take a moment to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  have no friends? What if I hate my job? What if my roommates don't like ... the rest of my life now? But on the other hand, I know that this chapter of my life is done and that in order to grow we need to put

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  communications sections. I was told later that day by my roommate that I didn ... back at how much my life has changed in just twelve months. It has, by far, been the most exciting year of my life to say the least. Last year

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  I didn't even know we had suitcases big enough to pack up my life and ... heavy and shipping would cost me my soul. Other than that, it's a good way ... piece". My sister and I imagined early introductory conversations going

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  my teachers from high school. I wanted my old room-mate back (my sister ... manageable, because I had seen much of the material in high school. One of my ... breakfast, nearly fell asleep in every lecture as a result, rushed from my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  getting my two roommates sick and being annoying with my incessant melodrama ... something, and I hate having to just suffer without immediate solutions. My first couple months at MIT have tested this patience immensely.  My second

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  towards the end of high school, my friends and I would religiously check the ... unphotogenic). Blurred for your own safety. (Just kidding, my boyfriend doesn't know how to use my camera.) And although I had a lot of fun sitting with

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  I’m sitting on the floor of my dorm [annotation note = "I am actually ... . I’m surrounded by pamphlets, business cards, cute bookmarks and ... from a corner where the wall is painted black to a corner underneath my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  One time in Boston, my roommates and I were studying outside near ... inspired me to fix my own somewhat broken trapeze, and I'm really happy with ... upside-down and climbing the ropes, and training my body to balance in the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  roommate and I pausing for a shot before Career Fair. And my emails are ... my summer travels -- I was home briefly on 3 separate occasions (my ... , Detroit for a competition, Chicago to visit my cousin at residency, and NYC

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  with my roommate. I suppose that happened in the first half of 2014, but ... I’m in my Uncle’s home in Virginia, typing the word ‘word’. And now ‘now’. And at this moment, ‘moment’. My throat predicted that truly awful

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  procrastination, which demonstrates how dire the situation was. My roommates were on ... If you are reading this, it means I am successfully on my way out of Boston after surviving my first MIT finals season. The verdict? Lukewarm

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  Italy, and my afternoons to hang out at cute coffee shops. And don ... immersion. For example, my start-up’s Slack channel and some of their variable ... -win-win to me. Shameless plug: You can read a story from my time here

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  couple of meltdowns. I counted on my roommates to help me chill out. I made ... the weekend drawing, cutting, and gluing together my first project for a ... upstate New York with my geology class, 12.001, and went to Maine with forty

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I who have nothing Darling, 'tis I who loves you.

  

  ? So, six cents. Six cents and a snoring roommate. I mean, I could use my ... princesses a few hours later. So this will be my last MITblog entry from Europe. Probably forever. I'm just chilling here in my air

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  BLÅHAJ: the Internet meme, the trans icon, the world’s favorite plush media analysis on the Swedish shark’s rise to prominence

  

  awkward and silly. Baby Shark is cute and promotes intergenerational family ... ocean.” The virality of cute shark imagery isn’t surprising when ... cute plush, Blahaj defies gender norms and thereby allows many trans

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  “get to know you” forms for roommates and advisors and whatever other MIT ... beginning!! We were going to college!! I obsessed over my answers to every ... my subconscious subscribes to"]hobbies[/annotation] are DEFINITELY NOT

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  Killian court with my East Campus compatriots by my side. I’m smiling, I ... noodle I shift my weight to dodge the blow... but then I’m on the ground. I try to stand, but the second I bend my left leg a horrible pain shoots

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  stairs nested with hairpin turns. Ectoplasmically, my roommate appeared ... nature. I stashed the water in my assigned kitchen cabinet back at Random ... can't remember.), lost a pirate battle, had my lower left quadrant

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  is my definitive ranking of all of the thesis defense posters I've seen ... favorite. [annotation note="I had a long back-and-forth conversation in my ... one was just a little bit plain for my tastes. It actually stood out

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019