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• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  shuttle to take me to SFO for my red-eye flight to Boston.) I'm really kind of glad I'm interviewing for graduate programs this year while writing ... information I can ask students and faculty in the graduate programs to which I'm

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  against my will. i keep insisting that i’m in my cool color era, my green and white and blue era, but i’m shuttled back to red every time. i tried ... i'm a lot happier than last november, or two or three novembers ago

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  , but I'm glad to be back. Bryan: Cool. Friend: Weren't you supposed to have graduated by now? What happened? Bryan: I'm actually starting grad ... if I'm cool enough, I can become an MIT Lifer (you just found out one

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  here’s everything i thought about in 25 minutes an uncurated and somewhat meta discussion on anything and everything

  

  whole entire school year), so i’m going to set a timer for 25 minutes ... typing. i’m pretty sure my blogger bio says my words per minute (wpm) is ... thing with me and math is that it’s not necessarily as if i’m bad at math

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • July 16, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  's a lot going on, you know? and also, overall, i'm a lot happier these days than i was before. which is a good thing! i'm writing this directly ... to? good question. right now, i'm sitting on my chair in a weird

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  .[/annotation] It makes me ridiculously happy – I'm glad that people find my space ... some sort of giddy, unstoppable energy. I'll be honest: I'm jealous of ... "]two.[/annotation] Because where am I? I'm starting my junior spring, which means I have just

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  interesting. EVERYTHING. I’m exaggerating, of course, but only a little. There ... interesting things in the world, and I’m feeling lost and confused in the best ... vaguely in order of decreasing personal importance: Physics. I’m taking

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

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

  

  find that I'm blindly optimistic about classes on the first week (see: 18 ... , but I'm still really nervous. 6.08 is meant to be an introductory course ... (!!) UROP interviews tomorrow, as well as my first day of CMS.100, which I'm

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

  i don’t know how to comfort people

  

  then i realize i’m not helping by keeping quiet, so i desperately think ... confide to them your sadness, and i’m unsure whether they trust me yet ... little bit. what do i do next? i always get stuck at this part because i’m

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 22, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Questions from Beyond one last blog

  

  first is I’m three days away from my first day at my [annotation note ... in the first reason. I’m less than three days away from my starting my new job, and I’m kind of nervous. Well, kind of is KIND OF an

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Makibaka! Huwag matakot! black lives matter! junk terror bill!

  

  cared about one more than the other? Would it be bad if I’m not caring ... normally would have if none of this was happening, harmful? Is it bad if I’m not doing enough, if I’m not talking enough, if I’m talking too much

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  staying in touch people are great <3

  

  i'm taking this course called "The Science of Well-Being" on Coursera ... me nothing but grief?? but i'm really enjoying it now. the majority of ... social relationships. since i'm not capable of striking up a conversation

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  . That being said, this is definitely the semester in which I think I'm going to do the best that I've ever done at this school, and I'm super ... three parts. Classes I'm super excited for my classes this semester (and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  Press right now. I think I'm just intimidated because it was something very ... collaborative places I've experienced and I'm eternally grateful that I don't have ... GOD I'm so tired of trying right now" area. And my family, who knows

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  behind? And so I begin to list things out: I’m taking all the knowledge and experience I’ve gained through the last four years. I’m taking countless ... them. I’m taking friendships and connections, and my half of all the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  Better Next Semester Cats So let's take this one by one. Mighty Mugs I'M ... whole foods, and went home. It was an awesome adventure, and I'm so ... !! Cocktails 101 I'M GOING TO MAKE COCKTAILS! I'm so excited! This is a class

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Good Morning, Sportsracers! *erases introductory post draft for the umpteenth time in the vain hope that he'll stick…

  

  , I'm Danny; I'm a senior majoring in physics with CS classes sprinkled ... times in the past, by the way.) I'm weird, in case that's not clear ... post in one piece. I'm sitting here in my room playing ze frank's "An

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  , I'm awake before the sun has risen fully: I'm living at UPenn this ... &J sandwich orrrr I decide I'm too lazy to make my lunch and that I'll just buy ... as a general overview, I'm working in Merck's vaccine division this

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Healthy reflections… I never know what to write here.

  

  I’m sure, as busy students with many simultaneous responsibilities ... of things I planned to accomplish this IAP. And now, I’m going to ... (ABC’s) for the 2nd semester. I'm going to grade my IAP. The following

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 31, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LIFE! is my favorite entry title.

  

  out the intro: I’m a freshman @ MIT, trudging through endless piles of ... that I’m feeling awfully normal about it. Perhaps about the fact that I ... how I imagined my first test here. I know I’m really slow at math, and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 2, 2009