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If I had a penny for every time I heard someone say, “this year went by so fast,” and other phrases of the sort, I would have a lot of pennies in the month of December. Piles of them. Every single year. But as cliché as that line becomes in the last few weeks of the last month, I’ve started to feel the weight of it a lot more recently. In some ways, I feel like I’ve aged enough in a year at MIT to have gray hairs coming out of my scalp, but in others, it feels like January started last week. And as grateful as I am for being where I’m at today, realizing how fast a year seems to go by now compared to how it felt in high school has made my pursuit of doing everything feel even more dire. That feeling of not having enough time to do the things I wanna do has become so commonplace that I often forget why it is that I want to do so many things to begin with. As a result, there have been many days when I find myself stuck trying to figure out the best way to do as many things as I can (Alli

Wanting to Do Everything by Richard O. '28 And Deciding What Parts of Everything I Can Do December 31, 2025 in How to Human , How to School If I had a penny for every time I heard someone say, “this year went by so fast,” and other phrases of the sort, I would have a lot of pennies in the month of December. Piles of them. Every single year. But as cliché as that line becomes in the last few weeks of the last month, I’ve started to feel the weight of it a lot more recently. In some ways, I feel like I’ve aged enough in a year at MIT to have gray hairs coming out of my scalp, but in others, it f

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