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• Blog / MIT Life

  making meaning exit right in 0.1 miles

  

  build a phylogenetic tree that helps me analyze how similar the protein ... supervisor. me: i've been running it for A While now and it's on iteration 700 ... personal issues that left me in a general state of "I don't know what's going

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 30, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  , aka a January term but ~quirky~). For me, my senior IAP was an ... to see what changed for me and what didn't. Here are some things I did ... into the semester as psets tire me out, but I'm hoping to hold onto it

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  my friends, they pointed out to me that even if that is true for most ... come roaring back to me. Over IAP, or the summer, I always end up ... me?) where everything is so blurry, and you're moving so slowly, and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  would drop me off at the gym and i would run laps around the track, and every time an adult passed me i’d tense up and brace for the possibility that they tried to kidnap me. i spent most of my childhood distrusting

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  . That's what really gets to me. Clearly, there's half the class out there ... I just forget that. But it's moments like these that make me really ... the idea of switching to 18C. In particular, let me quote: Though 18C

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  , comes from repetitive motion (like typing). For me it shows up as pain in ... run, and more to do with running being my one thing that didn't hurt me ... motions -- might make me stressed, so I assume I'm just lazy. I like the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  class, which used to motivate me to wake up at 9 am, now inspires only ... . that feeling is gone... so i guess this all has made me realize that ... " goal-setting didn't help me adhere to my goals. i did, however, discover

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  lack motivation. I lack a creative outlet. Even though it’s left me sick ... , which scared the hell out of me when I didn’t get admitted to other ... -dimensional than most media gives us credit for. It makes me sad to think how many

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  ; What is a Muslim? “To me, being Muslim is not something that is ... often time people get to know me, and then learn about my Islam due to my ... . I was worried how people would accept me. I was different, and I was

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  .007 final competition intact. Rip. It hit me that I never in a million years ... only course that 100% didn’t interest me was...course 2. Funny how that ... me changing my mind.  One was the simple fact that I had a long time to

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  . I got a JOB here, people! In Admissions. Me. An adult thing. Here! The ... . What a world, amirite? Except it took me so stinkin long to come back to ... sooo...). So, allow me to reintroduce myself, via this year's blogger

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  looked at me and said "Hey! You gave the talk, right? About the pul..., uh ... , and loves physics and astronomy; he told me all about black holes ... "accretion disk" makes me very happy) and planetary formation. He picked up a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

  research projects pitches. And then it comes to me, and I raise my hand, wave ... Internet has come to visit me!" Which might be my alltime favorite way to ... , who at the time was a professor at MIT. He wanted to interview me for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  , was much much harder than MCAT passages I'd seen before, which left me ... that day though, I had a surprise waiting for me that cheered me up ... . Also, practicing with PR questions definitely gave me a little more

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  more infuriating than that, only took me up the block. To get an idea of ... cost me $3.60. I got off, ran through the station, and asked no less ... subway had dropped me off. Dripping with sweat and fuming over that kindly

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  So Long, So Long, Front Foot Leads the Back One Go on, and it won't be too soon...my Texas road trip (Part 1).

  

  authentic Mexican food (which I know many would yell at me for not doing), but ... into the shower, allowing the hot water to wake me up and wash the previous day off me. Feeling refreshed, I get ready, pack everything up, and

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  's different, but there are a few key reasons that most affect me. 1) Campus ... to find ways to occupy my time, they found me. Trips to Boston, chillin ... somewhere between 12 and 1 and get up at around 8. It netted me a good amount

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  me. The cry of the small child in his arms yanks me unpleasantly back to Earth like Floo powder. The babies are after me, I think, as my ... 's questionably-colored carpet. I don't know what it is about me and public

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  jones - blogger alum?!?!?!? did you really have to remind me? Can I at ... with because they still remain to be very important to me. One of those things is this blog. I can't tell you how many people told me not to apply

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  Here is something that always makes me laugh: My sister (a Harvard ... with nothing to write about, but then Sam wrote me an angry email demanding I finish this post in which he addressed me as "kamber", and I knew

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007