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  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  , acronyms). Later, at my dorm, a couple of my friends will squint at the ... is my eighth Reg Day, although I only count seven of them. It’s also ... will need to hear it more than others. My name is Chel. I left MIT

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  . One of my best friends Ami G. ‘14 is out to find yellow paint for the ... stacked on each other, full of stuff my dad and I had bought my last week home on 2 am trips to Wal-Mart through empty dark streets in my pick

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  tell you about my life after MIT.  But in order for me to properly tell ... some of my old entries- like the very first one.  How did I introduce ... that I didn't belong here.  In my second semester, I struggled a lot with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  's the only time a year I get to see many of my friends in-person, and I ... believe in. Free as in what? When I asked one of my CMS friends about this ... Sciences.']my CMS hat[/annotation] on and think about the Mystery Hunt from a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
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  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  Most of my conversations back home seem to begin with this question ... . False. I found my limits - pushed them, broke them, flailed about, and ... would have preferred to sleep, and had a mini emotional breakdown in my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
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  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  couldn’t just afford to go to bed. Coffee became my new best friend ... holds my traumatic adjustment phase. Determination to push myself further than ever before, in the form of taking five classes in my first semester

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  depression note: This is a personal account on my experience with anxiety and ... me to talk about and has affected me for a while. My mental health ... of many things. Quarantining for COVID in the safety of my room has

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
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  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  conversation. A perceptive friend of mine from Tufts University made the mistake ... tears. Perhaps there was a time when my brain's toolbox included a robust ... coordinates of the salt are not within the domain of my arm. Spacetime

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  contributions that international students made to MIT as outstanding friends ... of his old friends [had] been without a hearty invitation to visit him in Constantinople.” Alas, Nicolas’ friends never got to visit. Nicolas

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  A lot of different people have been asking me about my prospective ... sophomores already taking grad classes. Friends who spend their leisure time ... feel just peachy about my life choices. Several months later, I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Your friendly neighborhood webcaster ignore if you can time travel within your own lifetime

  

  will transition from “the whirlwind adventure with my new classmates into

  • by Dave McOwen
  • March 25, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  one. one of my coworkers, john, lives on a boat. last sunday, father's day, john invited me and two other members of my team, joseph and claire ... you can't." two. in my continued adventures with the american

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
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  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  towards some inevitable death. Game over. I handed my poker chips to a friend, grabbed two cups sloshing to the brim with milk tea, and left. The summer after my freshman year at MIT, I wrote the following on

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
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  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  my parents or friends. Things like "I just got back from my 5 ... , with unambiguous and precise meanings. But to my friends and even, to some extent, to my parents, it's like I'm talking a foreign language

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  lie), dance practice, MedLinking almost everyone on my hall for some ... they easily approachable any time of the day? (cz in my high school, we ... everyone knows mine! And the whole finding friends, being without family, all

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  . Harvard, of words. Even PHIL 179 becomes HAA.2457 on my transcript. The MIT ... the world). I have access to it with my Participant Harvard ID. I ... approximately twenty hours, or about seven weeks of three-hour visits. My

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  dinners with friends my wallet is crying

  

  didn't spend writing i spent eating dinner with friends! on tuesday ... live in my room in east campus, but i'm trying to spend more time in et ... square. i have fond memories of eating at gyukaku with a friend group from

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  Hello old friends. The blogs are turning ten years old today, and ... celebration. The invitation is a complete honor. It's great to be back in my old ... you guys probably don't care. (Thanks.) Inspired by my own 50 Things, I

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
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  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  friend.” I don’t say this to fault my classmates, it’s just the way things ... students were black, I was often the only black kid in my class, given that I ... have become integral to my growth as a scientist, a dancer, and just as a

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  about the bathroom closest to my room. The 2E Bemis bathroom has two ... start with my favorite episode, the Hugo-winning “The City on the Edge of ... Brianna C. ‘11. The Hitchhiker’s Trilogy is one of my favorite series and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014