Dominik’s Blog

The last two weeks have been hard-core, with pretty much non-stop work between exams, projects, labs and problem sets. At long last they have ended.

It’s worth noting that I’m not very good at blogging while at school :-/ Most of my entries tend to be reactive, in that I’m posting my thoughts and feelings in reaction to something i’ve read/seen. My content consumption of non-class related content is pretty small — I’m not reading three or four books a week like I was over summer.

I find myself with mild regrets, over these past four years. How things might have gone differently. Romantic possibilities missed due to overanalysis or overcaution or overidealism. Are my undergraduate years coming to an end? Somehow my life has been nothing like what I saw in the movies :-/ I didn’t meet anyone whom I started a company with, I haven’t found anyone with whom I’ve fallen in love… four years have passed pretty much, and life goes on, much as it has, save I’m older and wiser.

That said, I’ve also not gotten drunk, never actually been to a club in Boston, gone to all of one formal, started and stopped ballroom dancing three times… hmm. Classes have gone well all my college years, and I have a large set of friends, but there isn’t really anyone on campus I’m close to, who I see/talk to often.

I wonder if that’s typical, if what we’ve seen in the movies of groups of tight-knit friends always hanging out together is nothing more than a myth. If at MIT, everyone is working solo pretty much, ‘cept when they work together on psets, and everyone has his or her own interests at heart, and groups of tight-knit friends that always do things together are mostly just a movie myth.

And yes, I’m whining that my life isn’t as great as it could be. I’m 21, I can buy w(h)ine. Horrible pun, I know.

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