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• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  see my breath misting in front of me. when i looked up at the sky, it ... all the topics in your classes line up, and it's like wait, i've heard ... stuff gets brought up in [annotation note="Cell Biology"]7.06[/annotation

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  all these people going up these boulders several meters up into the air ... a bit and try to place myself better, but end up just standing there ... climber next to me what to do, and he goes up onto the wall. I watch him

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  you mess up, you’re screwed, no matter what. Mix that with high achiever ... reason you’ve made up to justify that. It’s hard to say with confidence ... belt all at once. I straight-up failed a class in my fall semester that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  -five blogs. Although I can still bring it up in my mind, the MIT that the blogs ... possibly get back up again -- and where someone reached out a helping hand and pulled me up. All of these experiences are the kind that shape a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  and part 2 to get up to speed if you haven’t already. We spent most of ... . Unfortunately, we ran over time so often that we ended up behind schedule by about ... could feel the excitement bubbling in the air as I lined up in the hotel

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  slow burn you and the void

  

  ball shatter. To remove the fear of messing up. You could crush that ... machine and grip the welding tip in hand, mask up, eyes exposed, the void rushes up through you. You could hit the pedal, shoot electricity into the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 6, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  project of their own to bring up, too. Some will go to protests with me, and ... wandered away from Allston and eventually wound up at an MIT frat’s barbecue ... community, with so many social pockets, feels closer. I caught up with more

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  crazy party weekend from 2019 to now

  

  and western music classes, searching for and finding and mashing up ... up for whichever classes you want as a high schooler i liked firehose ... problems like procrastination and delegation or regularly end up in

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  the five stages of grief: i. denial in which I wake up, horrified ... support systems, and I want to curl up in a ball and demand "why don't I get ... frosh and they screwed up then and I am not just [annotation note="to be

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  literal. I've never been in a classroom where students would get up and walk ... formally categorized as "disabled" and end up struggling silently due to ... students to become like me. There's also the aspect of knowing that I grew up

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  Activities Midway or on Instagram. Arcturus is revving up recruitment this fall ... (@audsphotography).   Amber: Yo Audrey hi what’s up! :D Audrey: Hi hi hi ... next year? Audrey: The month leading up to it during the summer, it was

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  rushed on, I found myself enjoying poetry. I signed up for Advanced Poetry ... two months of summer soaking up new experiences.  [caption id ... would begin with typing up the poem I’d handwritten the previous day

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  on thursday morning, i woke up at 9 am, after only six hours of sleep ... . i'm bad at asking for help from others when i need it, so i end up not ... after half an hour. that was out. i decided to catch up on watching anime

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  , two recitation sections for one class, and I signed up for like four ... like sorry dude, I'm not showing up anymore. And it just makes me wonder ... ability to keep up will grow along with them. What really makes me feel

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  . Flour Bakery's got little Valentine decorations strung up around their ... living there last spring. Rui and I have a tradition where I go up to her ... similar music tastes, we ended up talking about Taylor Swift. I'm a newer

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  semester has officially ended and I can happily say I've wrapped up the most successful MIT semester I've had to date. I've gone through a series of ups and ... semester and take three HASS classes and only one technical. This ended up

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  excerpts

  

  has things from 2018 I still haven’t followed up on. Oops. So instead of setting myself up for failure by promising myself full blogs about ... , then… 2 days in Los Angeles, then spend a day driving up to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  and women long dead. A few weeks ago, I was up late reading a debate via ... catch up on sleep over this break but I traded it for social time ... heroes who tear up cities as they secretly fight crime will not stay secret

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  I clam up whenever I'm asked to talk about them. They're too important ... life. If you made it past everything up there, congratulations--now I ... been into any Chinese entertainment or media, and growing up in white

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  I was at the park near my grandparents’ place today, picking up ... up. We walked around the park that evening -- in Tucson summer ... university. Now we can tear up the town in my orange minivan, but we still

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021