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  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  to get disappointed when reality doesn’t match up with your dreams. you ... ? you don’t have any friendships that have lasted longer than three or ... you're still hurt, aren't you? it's a familiar ache in your chest, the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  syndrome this summer, and I can’t tell if it’s because of the team I worked ... spring semester, but more importantly, I felt stronger. I realized I wasn’t ... that they’d drive me to places I’d want to go. So, I didn’t feel a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  In my last blog, I mentioned that since the spring semester hadn't started yet, that blog wasn't being posted too late. Unfortunately, now that ... pervasive struggles during the fall had to do with finding motivation. It wasn't

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  I am very tired. And I don't think that I'm ready to go quite yet ... , they don't really mean it. They complain about hating school and hating ... 've always felt that I lack in comparison to other MIT students: I just don't

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  though—you can't live there for a good while, and neither can we. but although we can't seduce you with descriptions of our mice-infested suites ... going to separate us, and COVID certainly won't either! you may be wary

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  , therefore doing the bare minimum and using PNR to my full ability. Now, I don't ... prepsets for this week in class, skimmed over pset1 (which I don't know how ... didn't blog last week. You can see some of our 8.02 nonsense here

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  've bought my plane ticket home, but I haven't bought my plane ticket home yet ... my own. It's home. This is our place, we make the rules.  What I didn't ... ; unlike "home", here I cannot define the difference for you, because I don't

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  honestly this whole semester, which is why we haven't been blogging as much ... great, because lots of tests aren’t fun. But because this test is so late ... certain chaotic charm to it, don't you think?  [carousel image1

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  but her emails how to assert?

  

  brass rat in January and haven't started the process to get it replaced ... did it. The Vice article arrived at a different conclusion that I don't ... . According to my own personal [annotation note="p a t h o l o g y

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  ? It's definitely wasn't the first (or, unfortunately, the last) time ... the only host of America's Next Top Model and RuPaul hadn't purchased HD ... , neither had attended college themselves and couldn't be as helpful as they

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  semester doesn't start until February; instead, we use January to do ... TM, which I wasn't expecting as much as I should have been, but that's honestly a bonus (living in EC means I really don't get much unintentional

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  requirement was, in fact, one of the top reasons I didn't comMIT till late April ... be a great resource for quelling such fears!]  Now, Biology isn’t ... change when you come to MIT. Maybe you won’t be that person who went from

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  if those deadlines hadn’t been postponed. The second part of the semester doesn’t look like it’s going to be any easier. In fact, I got some ... . I feel so task-focused that I can’t enjoy the present. I’ve been

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  I can't wait to tell you why 9.24 and 9.26 are awesome, so here goes ... quotable moments: “Excellence can’t be bought, but it can be paid for ... wouldn’t believe some of the things researchers can do nowadays, such as

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  actually NOT taking this class at MIT, because *sigh* MIT doesn’t offer ... , and Wellesley – which covers the bases for what classes MIT doesn’t ... actually registered, because you don't want to miss any important information

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  Area but didn't meet until we got here! Our group chat is also more ... known as "team rocket." We've kept our group chat going ever since. Nan T ... . Throwback to Orientation! Still haven't gotten around to eating cheesecake

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  When You Yourself Are Far Away Donuts, used books, and some wonderful/terrible recipes you need not try.

  

  we, um, don't). They are a half-hour walk from MIT, by 3 pm or before ... -so-distant horizon, and from that distance they don't look like they are separated by 0 ... recently sharpied a dot under the dial we hadn't done it yet. Peel three

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  cream. But I can't complain--I've had more than my fair share of fun this ... surreal weekend. It was my first time in the South, if we don’t count Los ... an entrance fee, so I didn't stay very long. Some other things I saw

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  for my number too, I didn’t give it to him. We talked some more, laughed ... . He said, “yeah, I don’t do a lot but just once in a while you know ... don’t make you grow up any more than wearing a suit does. That was a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  lectures and Disney movie viewing. They didn't just decide to make burgers ... represent. Who wouldn't want to become part of a community that so generously ... incentives. Fraternities don't really need to invite girls, but they do

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015