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  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  lot of my friends also came out to me. By the time I graduated high school, about half of my friend group was out as queer. That was neat, at ... personal experience and from the experiences of some of my friends. As the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
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  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  the past four residents; I knew them even, and they were my friends. But ... them, email them, and keep going. The method's inspired from my time as ... . As I've noted [annotation note='See any of my posts where I do history

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
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  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  made my shoulder available for others to cry on. My friends have pulled ... into some of my graduating friends as I ran around campus taking care of ... everyone else"]pods[/annotation] were a thing. My podmates and I cried in

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
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  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  of an undergraduate college degree. My friend, who I love very dearly ... kind of an asshat, and it was a miracle that he and my other friends ever ... . Ripping them out totally backfired on me. I missed my family, my friends

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
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  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  around campus and making friends and everything else in-between. Indeed ... do with my life? In these cases, agency may feel more like a curse than ... privilege. One strategy that I’ve found useful in my quest to maintain this

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
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  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  trip to Cape Cod with a few of my close friends or walked home when it ... The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my ... getting my ketchup taken away and them dragging me kicking and screaming

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  a friend. Sam '14 has been one of my best friends since CPW - since ... to meet you! Dumbledore: Josh, I want you to meet my friend Anna. She ... my dream job. You learn and write about any area of science that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  the applications to. Through talking to my friends, mentors, and ... . Diana, my athletic supervisor and a dear friend who is an avid reader ... , and meals with friends I’ve made in clubs and in my sorority. 4pm

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
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  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  fall, I came out to my friends from high school through the long letters ... can’t write about being gay at MIT or about all my awesome gay friends ... amazing relationship with my best friend…who so happens to be the opposite

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
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  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  only a twenty minute walk), and my friends and I can be more spontaneous ... : “Definitely not in a big city.” I’d spent my entire life in a small town in ... it. Comparing that to my experiences in places such as New York City

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  so much work at once. The first comment I hear from my friends in my ... . My circuit design was only failing one of the online tests, which meant ... was refreshing, and I’d been staring at my computer for the last… well

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
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  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  of wood. My friends always asked if the bed rocked, or moved, at all ... House (especially House 4), hanging out with friends and psetting. My ... friends. That night, I visited my old room and saw that all of the stuff I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  [annotation note="and rants from my friends"]experiences[/annotation] i saw the ... friends, i saw how my work suffered because of these choices. yet those ... . whether i chose sleep, or work, or my friends, i’d always be “missing out

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
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  ten reflections on mit

  

  had an answer to my friend’s question, I think the question of “what do ... . During my sophomore year, a good friend of mine who was one year older went ... where I’d like it here. I talked a lot that summer to my older friend

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
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  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  engineers everywhere that the cameras on my 2014 smartphone and my 7th grade palm pilot are equally potato. This is a picture of my third apartment ... Square. My lifestyle has changed in ways subtle and profound. For example

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
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  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  show my friend, who knew how much I adored that book, and with what ... a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the desk worker, who put a big squishy brown envelope in my hands. I read the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  Boy oh boy, what a summer it’s been so far. For the first time in my college career, I’m spending my summer working in [annotation note ... washes the Austin heat away, and it becomes pretty soothing. My roommate

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
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  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  .Xiaolu Hsi, my wonderful ADHD friend Zoë Redstone-Rothstein ‘17, and countless friends unconditionally affirming my place here, my last semester at MIT, I ... place. I love my friends who have patiently pointed out for years that I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  elsewhere, if only for a few hours; one where a weekend trip with friends

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
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  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  friends wearing silly hats. Go on Nerf fights. Spend hours wandering ... 't stay in MIT forever. Talk to all your friends about how you can't stay in ... internship. Celebrate by playing board games. Tell all your friends about it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021