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  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  In late May, I wrapped up my second semester at MIT and moved back ... up my things, deciding what I wanted to keep and what I wanted to throw ... as my childhood home transformed before my eyes, shedding its former

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  Most of my work has been low stakes. When I work on programming ... something with my friends for fun. When I'm writing for the admissions blogs ... vision for where it's supposed to go. No one does code review on my commits

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  My high school life was a cycle of home, school, and church. My ... my friendships were limited to class time and extracurriculars. I centered my self-worth around academics and college admittance. So, imagine

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

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  at 4 PM, my apartment’s heaters start to kick in and create a truly alarming amount of sound, and I begin to oscillate between my desk and my kitchen, somnambulant and predictable in my unending search for caffeine

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  in remembrance of the body affirming the mind–body connection

  

  actually felt my body. i felt my muscles wrapped around my arms and legs, i felt my feet in contact with my slippers, i felt anchored, i felt grounded inside my body, i felt its shape around me. i've spent long enough

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  wistfulness. It occupies my thoughts as a mere figment of my past; when I think of the light filtering through the pink curtains of my bedroom in the ... evenings I’d spend splayed across my couch with a book, I feel as if I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Places I Became Human Hey guys, I think I'm back :)

  

  I kept my composure until I didn’t. Nothing in particular triggered ... I found myself with my fists clenched against the wet tile wall, ready ... through my fingertips. I’d broken up with my partner of three years from

  • by Powers '23
  • November 21, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  Four days after I returned to my home in New Hampshire after the ... decided that I would absolutely lose my mind staying inside all the time ... my parents, the only form of exercise that really occurs at my home. I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  “This isn’t goodbye, this is see you later!” I told my family as they ... kidding! I still called my mom whenever I was sick. I still talked to my ... .   It was Friday, October 25th. My family was coming at 10am. I knew

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  live."][/annotation] I’ve always wanted to dye my hair but not damage it ... showed as purple. The downside was that there was a lot of transfer; my shoulder was silver/purple/orange for a few weeks and so were my chair, hands

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  parallels or juxtapositions in one sitting at flour cafe

  

  celebrate. last spring, i was emailing my advisor telling them i felt lost ... fall i was in an engineering class that pushed my brain in satisfying ways that validated my place here. this spring, i am in an engineering

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 26, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  things i have done since leaving school but only in the ten hundred most used words

  

  ~~~ cut off all my hair moved to city where the sun is out every day ... friends drank at bars decided that black is my best color played outside in ... people with long sticks ate so much good food. sometimes even made my own

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 19, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  refreshing to make memories that are anchored in places beyond my bedroom. I ... -res pics of campus and either my last memory before the pandemic or a notable memory there.  Kendall Square This view reminds me of my desperate runs

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  In high school, I neglected many of my personal interests to make ... would sacrifice my time now to get into a good college and then pursue my ... -off because shaking off the mentality of 'if it's not on my resume then it's not

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  amazing. I wrote this essay during my freshman fall here at MIT and thought ... post that connected the bed to the wheels. Fluorescent lights flooded my eyes, and I couldn’t think. My heart was pounding, and I felt slightly

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s for dinner? The joy of cooking

  

  not I like this new development in my life. I’ve always been a big ... kitchen facilities that were available in New House to come up with my own ... I made some of my best friends, and where I got to use a bit of my own

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Whoa…You’re Old Bryan returns from the crypt of grad school

  

  this thing in a really long time. Part of it came from my own thinking ... undergraduate, and the other part came from me forgetting my password, but fortunately, I remembered my password today and given the start of a new school

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  This will default to miscellaneous Finishing this blog entry was my biggest accomplishment today

  

  . Then I took a nap. After my nap I fixed a rip in my pants, hooked up some ... to actually do it, and video chatted with my grandparents in China ... feels right that next semester is my last. It's a funny thing, one minute

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Over here things are different. Life is about the same.

  

  snowstorm outside my window. So I sat in bed for an hour watching it. The ... my birthday. Then sophomore year I had 2 finals on my birthday. Junior year I turned 21 the day before my 8.05 final, studied til about 4am and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  ADITL My wednesday.

  

  begins to buzz. Play hide and go seek with my alarm clock for twenty ... . My breakfast. My best friend telling me I'm crazy because I'm taking a photo of my food. 8:55 AM - Arrive in lab, unload my stuff at desk. I

  • by Bryan
  • October 12, 2006