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  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  , much to my friends' entertainment"]the ice cream flavour they (try to ... ="shoutout to my friend andrew (findable at andrewwu.substack.com) who once again ... day"] the end of every year. [/annotation] I write one to my future self

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  I was just taking a nap on a couch in a random lounge and my friend ... anywhere with my friends made me happy, unaccustomed [annotation note="I call this feeling of wonder 'exotic suburbia', and my friends make fun of me

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Every August a million small moments

  

  telling me that everything was going to be okay. None of my friends ever ... the time, MIT is not at the forefront of my mind. I've got code to write, planes to fly, trips to take. MIT isn't my turf anymore, and I

  • by Piper '13
  • August 30, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  pathways where do i go from here?

  

  few weeks, my friends and I have been talking about where we were a year ... friends from my floor in Burton Conner. we've lived here longer than we ever ... . I'm scared about growing distant from my floor friends, especially the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 23, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  stare at my phone for an hour to have a conversation with a friend. Beyond ... like, socially. And no matter how I try to frame it in my mind, making friends online has been hard. And exhausting, and kind of depressing. This

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Events

  When Friday Arrives… A glimpse into my social life, among other things.

  

  paper for my humanities classes (remember Arrowsmith? yeah, it's on that ... forward to this weekend. Earlier tonight, a handful of friends and I went to ... .) After Dramashop, the aforementioned friends and I headed over to the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  The Abominable Snowman If you can't see the Yeti, make the Yeti.

  

  skates, and a team of friendly tourists. My friend Julia '08 shares her IAP ... hitting Boston, I called up my friend Dan '10. "Did you hear about the ... for help, and ran into my friend Marie '11. While I was off rolling the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [liveblog] presenting at the Open Sauce maker expo! built a funky microscope with my friends

  

  Jul 20, 2025 at 11am My friends (Asal V. ‘25 and Isaac L. ‘25) and I ... broke my leg. (don’t worry, I’ll walk again in a few months and be fully recovered in a year) More on this later, maybe. If you want to sign my cast

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 20, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Woot! My t-shirt is funnier than your t-shirt.

  

  exciting. Whether it's postcards from friends overseas, care packages from my parents, birthday wishes from my sisters and grandmother, or even things I ... of getting mail. Well, for one, I wanted something to take my mind off

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  disheartening, to say the very least. I look around at my friends like Aiden and ... notes in LaTeX because my friends have been getting on my case for not ... vacation. But then my friend sent me a tweet from none other than the ever

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Trip to Princeton U Taking advantage of the three-day weekend by taking a trip to Princeton!

  

  my friend, Maria '08, to visit one of my best friends from high school ... -be climber: Later that night, I saw my friend from elementary school who is ... (!). Anyway, after an hour my fingers were trembling and my arms felt like

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  floor-bed and find my friend has sent me sad poetry, nostalgic filters and ... lot more time on my hands than I was used to. I went to one of those ... when I got to MIT. I took 72 units my sophomore fall (counting Unified

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  fragments instead of blogging (for a whole damn month), I...

  

    sang anime karaoke with my ‘13 friend in Chinatown and also talked a bit ... , i found myself reaching out to several of my old friends (mostly ... it happened again. after finishing my second round of midterm exams

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 16, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  out of my shell and made a new friend. Fred, as it turns out, is a ... , and rapidly decreasing) degree, and my composure will vary drastically ... ), but it does get frustrating very quickly in new settings. When I took my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  sets and early morning rowing practices. I’m excited to see my friends and my teammates who are also my friends, I’m excited for my classes, I ... first time! While most of my friends have been back in Boston for at least

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  left living right next door to some of my closest friends. 84 hours left ... off, my friends and I were squished together in the front of a U ... student.  I’m sitting on the floor of my dorm room, surrounded by boxes

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  moving out i'm leaving for a bit

  

  popcorn movies or quiet conversation. A friend once told me that my room ... done by a friend, an email from Petey about my CMS.400 final project ... down my room. My finals were done, and move-out day was tomorrow. I only

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  ! Wicked was definitely the highlight! As students, my friends and I can buy ... and dancing in the street (as you can tell from the picture). My friend ... don’t remember much what happened during my Pi day; I think I went for

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Time That which I do not have.

  

  my schedule such that not a single class of mine runs past 3:30 pm ... my weekend go?! Follow-up case in point: Where does every weekend go?! I'm sitting here, in my room, at my desk. It's nearly 11:30 pm on a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 7, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  both. Throughout my time at MIT, I've gotten to meet my MIT friends' friends from high school. "He's been my best friend since we were kids." "I ... 's me, the reason my friends at MIT will stop being friends with me

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020