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  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  In late May, I wrapped up my second semester at MIT and moved back ... up my things, deciding what I wanted to keep and what I wanted to throw ... these days. Adapting.   . . .   I grew up in that house, but

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  just gonna talk about things i've been up to lately. fall is already ... courtyard for rush, and this year is no different. in fact, i signed up to be ... safety plans and looking up materials online. well it turns out being a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  investment. Please believe me when I say I barely know how to cook. Up until ... I ended up cracking the yolk so badly that I gave up and scrambled the ... , and takes time I guess? But I chopped up the chicken into pieces. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  way this feeling has. This sense of exhaustion slowly seeped its way up ... made. Saturday, April 17th, in the Morning and Afternoon I got up early ... took the T up to Harvard. We grabbed some takeout, as well as boba from

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  ~ next to my little blogger face up there. For the record, I am still ... school and up until about this last August, I ran. The reasons why I ran ... , three months away from blogging, two month of catching up on classes after

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  break catching up on internship work, and starting a new novel. Then the ... weekly readings, keep up in the textbook, so that unread chapters didn't pile up. Even so, I keep thinking that I can do this now, sure. I'm a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about coronavirus for free this fall the new subject will be broadcast to the public beginning tomorrow, sept 1

  

  Today is Registration Day, or Reg Day, the day that MIT students sign up for classes. I'm co-teaching an a first-year advising seminar on ... them signed up for a new discovery subject being offered by Course 7

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  @mitfgp on Instagram to stay up to date with all the fun things we’re doing ... what you came up with. Hope you enjoy! [gallery link="none" size

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  ): Decided I wasn’t going home Packed up my entire dorm room Walked through ... ’ll do my best. Shortly after we were told to pack up, I had to make a ... up over the phone, asking me to come home, and I remember telling her

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  thought about waking up at 3am in a panic because a [annotation note="or an ... of normalcy and keep up my routine of waking up at the same time every ... about packing my life up and heading back to New York. On top of that, I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello applicants, i don’t know what to say but i can try

  

  deliver. if love was the kind of thing i could wrap up in words and send ... nice or poetic or comforting, but the best i could come up with is this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 13, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

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

  

  of the day. I woke up around 10:20 and ate some shitty breakfast I ... up on Loop at 10:47 and from there we departed to the TEAL room (I actively shuddered as I had to type that out). We met up with Jordan, who was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  't still make my heart beat at an uncomfortable rate and tie up my tongue to ... probably would've spent five minutes there and then made up some excuse ("I ... it to do this? Make something up. "We should definitely meet up soon

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Fashion Free For All like the hunger games but we love each other

  

  opportunity for free clothes is an offer that should always be taken up. That ... stairs as we waited for the event to open up. [annotation note="sorry if

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 26, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Poetry from 5 AM This Morning Don't worry, I drank an entire MUG of espresso

  

  diverted my attention and ended up writing poetry! I used to do this all the ... until it’s dawn. I yawn over beat-up mugs,  Mismatched and attached to

  • by Powers '23
  • September 30, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

  construction projects. Fanciful monsters built up from wood and screws. Less so ... weeks, that a couple of undergrads working together could cobble one up ... are scary, that drills and saws are grown-up tools, a thought drilled

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine

  

  signed up for this class out of the blue, not really knowing what I was ...  projects. After the first class, I was sold. I even passed up an offer to skate in a ... opportunity I couldn't pass up. I took a leap of faith and was ready to be out

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So we’re actually *identical* twins which is surprising to absolutely ... no one

  

  Allan G. ‘20 are identical twins ….” At the time, and up until about 1 ... told they were identical. Here is a diagram to sum up the relationship

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 27, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  up to; as an applicant, seeing other applicants brag about their skills ... “buildy” culture (like the awesome, huge structures East Campus puts up in ... the wood up to our room (I am glad, daily, that we live on the second

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  down during 95º nights. Pro-tip: if you want to build up savings fast, up-and-coming tech scenes like Pittsburgh are the way to go. The cost ... system (error handling) didn’t know how to fight, and it was up to you to

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018