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  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  enjoying a beautiful day outside or reconnecting with my friends? No more. No ... , whether it is calling my parents, calling my friends and telling them I love ... In my blogging folder, I had a draft post that sums up my senior year

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
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  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  with my friends, spending as much time as I could when I realized that ... during our sessions. These are the feelings that my friends ask me about ... is not real, because I can sit in front of my text editor for an hour

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
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  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  elsewhere on campus)! I'm going to try to pop by some events that my friends ... filming randomly with my phone, but I hope that I'll get more comfortable over the course of the month and gradually show more bits of my life

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  restaurant like a lot of people my age. I’m lucky I had a friend who was the ... ’m lucky my friends patiently coaxed me out of my socially anxious shell so I ... memories have been drinking tea and talking with my friend at Brown, believe

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  general). One of my best friends, Irina, jotted some of it down and turned ... family, and forwarding Anne Hunter's jobs emails to my alumni friends. I ... something close to complete control over my time, and any given day's workload

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  the most. Each of us is paired up with a Teach For America teacher; my ... fewer go on to college. School. Otherwise known as my second home. I ... student looked at the coins in alarm. I continued my little improv act

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  sophomore, my friend Carl '07 introduced me to a cute curly-haired aerospace ... . When I was an undergrad, I UROPed til I dropped, participated in my dorm ... lie. Our friends had come in from jobs and graduate school all over

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  , five years already!). After my high school graduation in 2011, I decided to take a gap year. It was strange, most of my friends from school had ... I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  This is the way my hiatus ends This is the way my hiatus ends This is the way my hiatus ends Not with a bang but a vaguely-poetic angsty ... bit of momentum fueling the blogging part of my brain. Here's a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  favorite directors, and met the people who are still my closest friends today ... a huge house with four of my closest friends. There was the life when ... -month long roadtrip around the country visiting my sister's friends, filming

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
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  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  bootcamp and lived alone for ~3 months with a job and a nasty commute - my ... 'm introspective to a fault and end up writing overly pedantic spiels. On my 6-hour ... cleaned up my ideas and added some formatting, and thus this blog post was

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  Stephanie Lin. Read on! <3, Hamsika --- My name is Stephanie, but mostly I go by stephlin, steph or “yoooo.” I’m currently finishing up my ... .20 (Human Physiology) when my email came, so I had to refrain from making a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  . Recently, I’ve had one of my friends be my accountability buddy and that ... don't see these people regularly. I made my best friends in college and ... son. I go on vacations with my friends from college and grad school. I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
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  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  friends and my food and my family. Thankfully, MIT was a good place to be ... with my family and friends to June 19, I’m realizing again that after a ... The week after my semester at MIT ended, I was accompanied by this

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
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  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  of my closest friends here on campus. So here are some pictures of the ... of them and my friends right before we started.  2 hours later. 11AM ... So about a week and a half ago I handed in my last final in Johnson

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  you read my responses. Friends change, it’s true, though I resisted ... still tell my friends about that conversation. I can still use it in ... , some “friend turnover” is unavoidable. We’re all here for a limited

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  'skills' section of my resume, so it doesn't look so empty?" Other Freshman: "I made my first resume when I was six; I knew eight different programming languages by that point, and started my first company while in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  is my friend David K. ‘16. He brought a giant teddy bear friend to all ... , my friend took me to the mall to cheer me up, and I remember singing ... were accepted. The rest, like me and one of my good friends, were

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  , as of 8:23am today. 560,719,327 a few minutes later, because a friend came into my room who had never seen it, and I had to educate her. For

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  was when I thought about how much I complained to my friends about how much I hated myself, versus how much my friends complained to me about ... spent my time studying and meeting people and making friends. To know the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021