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the end of a semester at MIT is a time of juxtaposition. it is a time of delight and sadness, of triumph and melancholia; it is a fast time and a slow time; it is a time of midnight doomerism and late afternoon euphoria, of frivolity and sudden fatalism and jubilation alike. and so the semester comes to an end. classes hold their last lectures one by one. many people realize that they have far too many dining hall meal swipes left. they organize dinners where they swipe in their friends one by one, sometimes twenty or thirty or forty friends at a time. they return from the dining halls bearing styrofoam boxes piled high with sandwiches and pasta and cookies and ice cream and leave the boxes in the kitchen, to the gluttonous delight of all. and so the semester comes to an end. a handful of people are graduating or moving out. when they realize the inevitable — that their worldly possessions will never be crammed into a handful of moving boxes — they begin to sell their clothes and furni

tick tock tick tock by Boheng C. '28 notes about sunrises and broken doors and unfinished endings December 27, 2025 in Classes , MIT Life the end of a semester at MIT is a time of juxtaposition. it is a time of delight and sadness, of triumph and melancholia; it is a fast time and a slow time; it is a time of midnight doomerism and late afternoon euphoria, of frivolity and sudden fatalism and jubilation alike. and so the semester comes to an end. classes hold their last lectures one by one. many people realize that they have far too many dining hall meal swipes left. they organize dinners wher

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