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  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  and it passed; it wasn't really remarkable. i wrote a paper for 24 ... thursday, so that meant i had a whole week of nothing, because i wasn't going ... i didn't know. with everyone gone, it felt closer to how i felt when i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events

  

  backpack is the max reasonable load, especially if you don’t need to bring a ... ’s roommate is also hosting someone, so don’t bring a full-sized suitcase unless ... the weekend—anything from cups and t-shirts to books and toys

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A World of Pure Curation an interview with holly h. 18'

  

  you ask. I couldn’t think of what to call it, and so it became desperate ... couple of people were like “woah, hehe,” but nothing too exciting. I don’t ... . Maybe some day. Holly: Yeah, I guess. I hope. I don’t know. I don’t want

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  like to talk about my major a lot, but one thing that I guess I haven't ... for those who aren't quite sure of what to do, I would suspect that the ... best known as an engineering school, so it makes sense that economics isn’t

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  can’t believe I graduated from MIT 10 years ago! Each time I am lucky ... of where, when, and with whom your interview is with. 1. Don’t wait ... , and I don’t hesitate to include that in my interview report. Remember

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  …and which lay the smackdown on my morale for a couple of months. I couldn’t ... potential." A writing tutor?! Again, I was stunned. I couldn't believe it. He ... appointment with the tutor, but that would be a lie. I didn’t even look up her e

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  someone. Yeah, sounds cool doesn't it? I can teach you now. Ready? If ... gloved hand, of course), that glove is now contaminated and can't touch ... something. I didn't bring my camera, but only because I knew Bryan would be

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

  note="ice cream is so meh why wouldn't you eat a cookie instead ... passion about math or whatever. But you enjoy it, but who wouldn't? Things are easy for a long time, and you don't walk around telling everyone

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  getting back in the groove 🎵groovy groovy🎵

  

  saying that didn't feel like dramatic enough of an opening. I wanted it to sound like an old nursery rhyme or something, but I also didn't care that ... doesn't get more useful it might be an "Aiden goes to lecture when he

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 3, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  couldn't afford all the hostels along the Kerry Way, I was so afraid of camping. I didn't really know the territory. I would definitely not camp ... ="225"] the sheep are blue![/caption] I didn't see any routes on Google

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Events

  dtyd weekend all party, no planning (for once)

  

  freshman year. it was insanely fun. on Saturday, I didn't have any time to ... than a dead audience"]didn't cheer for us[/annotation] and we had to hype ... performed at 7:15, we were quite late. it didn't help that Bhangra costumes

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

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

  

  translates to used cars — some are cheap enough that doubling the price wouldn’t ... cut you off. Bikes are parked everywhere. People don’t lock them to ... doesn’t seem to happen often, and the freedom of being able to leave your

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

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  's different. i don't feel as comfortable inviting someone to play board games ... , because they don't like the same things i do, or because they need to go ... learn. on weeknights, the ones where there aren't any volleyball games or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  that go twisty twisty and stretchy stretchy. The thing was, I didn’t ... didn’t feel like I would dislike the content of 2.001 that much. I wouldn’t ... child. Well, I was right on some things! I actually didn’t dislike the

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  couple of friends, but i don't think people understood that i thought we ... a pleasing "i don't need you to be successful." and with every accolade i added to my list i couldn't help but hope that you saw them, too

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  ). Content warning for domestic violence. This isn't a short story, but I think ... a kind of breach to it, I think. You could say that my writing isn’t ... this wasn't even assigned reading in class, it was just mentioned in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  conversations with friends so many different ways to feel lost

  

  but it's weird cuz like, it doesn't fully feel like home anymore it ... time to be lost though right m: yeah! i don’t think ill actually ever have direction again i think most people don’t maybe direction is kinda

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 21, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  computer, and a wireless pen with six adjustable tips. There wasn’t a screen ... this time, LED tablets were either extremely expensive or couldn’t ... "]near-zero.[/annotation] Plus, I didn’t bring my drawing tablet with me, and my [annotation note

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  many thoughts head full

  

  Raymond and Aiden, two absolute saints who are basically the reason I didn't ... , and while I didn't mind this that much because it was nice and cozy and ... , just to repeat the whole cycle all over again. I think IAP for me hasn't

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

  breathing in and out

  

  in every direction, eventually reaching manila. you couldn’t drive very ... the air, an engine breathing out the exhaust gases that it doesn’t want ... sounds like: there aren’t regular classes, but there are lots of activities

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020