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  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  leading up to my flight to London were hectic. I was graduating, so along ... over. Then, I had to pack up everything that was left in my room, and I ... was asleep for the first half of it. But when I woke up, the English

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  recap of everything we’ve been up to this past year. Spoiler alert: it ... the right fit for us. So as we wrap up our first full academic year of ... up to—and what’s still ahead! WebinarsSTARS@MIT hosts several webinars

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  flips the story on its head in a totally unexpected, fucked-up manner. But ... which I don’t think about other people at all. Though I often end up ... dialogue as Into the Woods. I fucked up more than once. So although I loved

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  -worsening plane anxiety. We were going to go down as soon as we went up, I was sure ... , drawing floorplans, taking photographs, writing scripts, setting up ... picked up begrudgingly in 2020 when the gyms and world closed down, is now

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I love musicals! Wicked just dropped and I am LOSING MY MIND

  

  Wicked soundtrack with my THX speakers cranked up to MAX bass. I am AMPED ... ’t living up to the sacrifices they had made. “Breathe” captures that exact ... , something profoundly human. In that shared moment, we all show up, gathering

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 29, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown, Friendsgiving, and the Erosion of Deep Literacy

  

  say in this post, but I think it can all be best summed up with “I love ... out a DVD and starts up “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” on DVD. I had ... never gives up. His ragtag group of misfit friends embark on everyday

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Baseball!! a blog about baseball and internet games and embroidered hats and New Zealand Indie Rock.

  

  just a silly little baby that [annotation note="When I showed up on the ... held up with midterms and only finished this post today. "]September 23 ... come up with a better way to make seats that don’t pool water and drench

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 4, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  here’s everything i thought about in 25 minutes an uncurated and somewhat meta discussion on anything and everything

  

  speed for the entire 25 minutes i should end up with like a 3750 word blog ... !!!"]assuming no fatigue or pausing to think[/annotation] i would end up with 3750 ... 'm not so sure why i beat myself up about this before i even start writing

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • July 16, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  , 2020, just two days after I had packed up my dorm room and left campus ... Delivery seemed less and less likely. MIT ended up only inviting seniors (the ... . My rings arrived in the mail on June 1, 2022. I opened up the package

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  this overwhelming feeling creeping up on me, this slow crescendo of ... impossible to think, or to make any useful decisions at all. I wake up and feel ... , that there were simply crises constantly sprouting up around me. One

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  teaching web.lab aka what i spent all of january on

  

  for the first time, because you know questions will come up over and ... hours. get to know the teams that show up to OH every day. convince the ... the sponsor lecturers happen to be your friends and catch up with them

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  toilet seat up. They'll never wash their dishes. They'll leave the door ...  respectfully and as soon as possible so you don't build up resent and anger towards ... doesn't clean up after themselves. Negative feelings and isolation are

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  the set-up of a physics problem to me, and I remember being awed by her ... ” and immediately drew it up on a whiteboard. He pushed me toward the ... nearly all of them because I was too busy. I wound up only going to the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  girls just wanna have fun when u gonna live ur life right?

  

  Friday to Tuesday. I found myself picking up a book, Red, White, and Royal ... up the presentation, there was a part of me that ached for that same fervor again, the very same one that had me up reading Larry and Ziam

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  've gone through the college application process, which meant shoring up all ... process, how was I going to put up with several dozen more? It tends to be ... , but these aren't things that are automatic. If I grew up in a different

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  because they know you can handle the rigor and are up to the challenge. And ... struggle a lot. And, in fact, I ended up struggling way more than I ... 've stayed up staring at code because I just didn't understand, or days where I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  excited for everything that I have lined up! This sort of breaks down into ... offer lined up while all my other friends did. IAP rolled around and I ... overall went pretty well, but I didn't want to get my hopes up since I had

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  have no idea how this post ended up being even longer than my Splash post ... understanding, all of these teams are still friends who meet up once a year to ... ,[/annotation] or Up Late. I feel like there’s as much rich history surrounding Mystery

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  !" DTYD itself is held in mid-April, but the weeks leading up to it are full ... note= "clearly, my class has a lot to live up to..."]a 3rd.3rd meter tall ... someone show up in a suitcase: [caption id="attachment_49865" align

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  saw that a motor drives up and down. You hold a piece of wood and push ... and a circular saw. I found it fun enough that I signed up for Maker ... answered this safety quiz online, signed up for a training slot (which was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019