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  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  Growing up, I loved to mock tourists. Precisely, of those who would ... . On campus, furry animals like squirrels and bunnies climb up the trees ... ="225"] Picture taken: 08/31/2022[/caption] Growing up, I had no pets

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  : up/down, left/right, and forwards/back. The number of these directions ... metaphor will come through but this is the set up. When I was at my most ... . When I brought this up with my friend, he said (understandably) "what the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  responsibilities. Unsurprisingly, this ended up being a bad idea. I finished out ... care right is an excellent gift to myself, whether that is waking up ... got to the bus stop and looked up a bus schedule to see that the next

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  at 11:59 PM on Saturday, and I was up the next morning at 10:30 AM to ... semester had even started. Last fall, I overcommitted myself by signing up ... , which I feel does not really match up with a person's image of a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  city is so hyped up. The reasons other people seemed to have for loving ... long finished, setting up a folding table in the tiny green space in front of their walk-ups and playing music together. People say New York is

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  meche and a fantasy writer, seemed like a perfect thing to pick up. So I ... ’re certified in the IAP class, you can show up for open forge whenever you like ... and effectively while it’s hot. Also, showing up in cotton shirts

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  , Tucson drives, and Boston, among other things, rides the metro. I grew up ... riskier, because an opportunist bike thief could easily drive up in a [annotation note = "not that such things seem to exist in Copenhagen"]big pick-up

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  into a pretty turbulent time, then April and May bringing the usual ramp-up ... more. And because I was finding it difficult to start up again, here's a ... 's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and am planning on picking up a bunch of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  month since I last went to Dumpling House. I was meeting up with a group ... ENT clinic to set up an appointment. It took fifteen minutes to relay ... depressive symptoms haven't come up for months now, I said. I'm genuinely

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  remember me on family

  

  just calling up my grandparents and telling them how much I love them. A ... my middle school and high school life was getting picked up in my ... projects, comforted me when I cried, put up with all my temper tantrums. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  subject of what we learned at MIT came up. Now that this semester’s over, I ... problems — but in the end, we did end up solving many of them. I can ... ). But that’s fine — I can just look up the relevant theorems when I need

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  memory has been broken, and it's up to us to piece it together from the ... 've probably picked up that a big part of what people love about MIT is the ... mess up one part or another. But it's not really tennis, itself, that I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  bit of a stretch, because I’m still catching up on the lectures for 8 ... quickly gave up on the ASE’s, figuring I would be better off just taking the classes on [annotation note="my year is allowed take up to 4 classes of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  responsible for setting up our major publications to print (like the Affording ... every designer knows, it’s not a rebranding if you don’t mock it up on a ... . Though we ended up going in a different direction, my earliest plans for

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  straight up wouldn't be allowed back,[/annotation], etc etc. So much stuff was going on in this time that I straight up don't remember because it ... past few months that have mostly not ended up happening. And that does in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  many thoughts head full

  

  .01L lecture, I would wake up at a crisp 8:30AM, wash up, eat some ... days of IAP where I felt a little less than human. I would wake up at 2 ... , watch some movies with some friends, and stay up until some ungodly hour

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  from getting wound up. But now I find myself almost fully unwound. My ... 't have Space Bags to help me clean up this mess. Too many time commitments ... dread of realizing that I had to drop a ball. Drop the ball. Give up

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  There is a bench it’s a nice bench

  

  friend from Harvard who was attending Hack. He’s lining up for lunch with the rest of his team. And we talk, for a bit. But he is soon swept up by ... rising up from the sea of trees. For my FPOP, we had an activity on top of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  break you down and slowly build you back up again. MIT is not the military ... . Second semester, D's and F's do not show up on your transcript, but A's, B ... up, piece by piece, pset by pset. I am slogging through the thick

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  8:00 AM wake up. check my clock and go back to sleep. 9:00 AM actually wake up. i take a shower, stop being naked, and am ready to head out ... late today, so i don't start checking emails until now. i open up and

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019