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• Blog / MIT Life

  On abnormality

  

  this entry to a small subset of the ways in which I am either unique (if ... graphs. If it can be made into an Excel spreadsheet, I have not only made ... stored it in my Athena locker. One of my more notorious quirks is that I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  , and physical touch--are fine, but love can be found in so many places ... products that I feel the immediate need to have in my possession: Sanrio ... icing. "I wonder if there's a pink food coloring deficit in the world

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  off half a tablet, i can just put the other half back in the container ... the only way i can convince myself to write anything for the past two weeks has been bullet points. lists in lists in lists. i wrote an entire

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Quick Update My neighbors are celebrating by firing guns in the air which is not conducive to…

  

  New year's eve here in Karachi. Assault rifle fire is really loud. I can hear the pings of bullets landing in the street. As long as the electricity is flowing and the guns are shooting, I'll be awake in the basement

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Whoooo!

  

  can in the next few months. Any suggestions for weekend travel while I ... ....well, "ashamed" is the closest word I can think of...of the fact that I've lived ... actually know anything about. Places I've been are highlighted in blue. (Also

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  test, which requires you to tread water for FIVE MINUTES. I can’t even ... dumb. I can’t swim. When I was little, I took swim classes at the ... ’m 6’ 4”. I can touch the bottom of every pool I get into. I haven’t been

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  would definitely do my PhD in, if I were to come to MIT for grad school ... work ends Yes! Can still sleep for X hours (+ extra 10 minutes if I skip ... research in Cambridge feels a lot more relaxed, and also because I

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  that’s kind of the appeal, if I’m honest – I can have other people read ... ="ALSO can I just say how pissed I am about daylight savings time I am now 8 ... ="ugh I love Rowena sm, I even went to a meetup with her in pre-covid times

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you do with a BS in econ? Answering Karen's question about my degree

  

  knowledge Have earned me this useless degree I can't pay the bills yet 'Cause I have no skills yet The world is a big scary place But somehow I can ... program in economics (either Masters or PhD), though it can also be in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 9, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  with such excitement that I can't help but be excited, too. In high ... some, I feel as if I've finally learned to love in full. I can think of ... periods. I've been in love before, where love was 18 hour phone calls and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  When MIT Gets Tough, CAAAATTTT Everything was terrible, and then I cat

  

  about a test that I ended up not being in the right state of mind (let ... I can call her mine and she can call me hers. Call me the crazy cat ... more regularly, and I can immediately reward myself with kitten cuddles

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 7, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  ’m pretty sure I can breeze through this one” *Frantically googles ‘What is an ... in line. I honestly didn’t think I would get through those two days. I sell myself short in interviews- I freak out over things that I’ve seen

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  MIT, that I can wander to the Charles river at the three in the morning ... ; I blame it on being an only child and growing up in NYC. This is all to say that at some point in last night's studying, around 3 AM, I went

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Uh-oh Spaghetti-O

  

  feminist you are, I'm sure that you can see that it can seem a little ... directly corresponds to a nearly 1:1 ratio in the admitted pool. I'll admit that I've even been slightly skeptical of that in the past. Anyway, the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  i’m gonna keep this short so i can get to posting real content again ... in writing Last semester I tried to get all my writing requirements out ... resulted in way too many essays for my liking. On the bright side, I didn

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Love MIT And why you should

  

  enjoy playing Ultimate Frisbee, there's a team for that! I can pretty much ... excites me! I can't believe some of the opportunities MIT students have to ... performing or playing in a game, we gather people to watch and cheer them on. I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 14, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT or Bust Our story begins here...

  

  . I'm a member of the Class of 2007. I was born here in Massachusetts, but most recently I'm from Houston, Texas. I'm *definitely* majoring in ... Biomedical Engineering. (My mom hates it when I revert to MIT-speak; I can

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  Song: Ramblings of a Lunatic by Bears In Trees Two months ago, I ... were (i.e. yourself any time in the past), but you aren’t yet who you ... for nothing because it didn't pay off in the way I had wanted it to. And

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  ear. I want to bask in this feeling, write it down so that I can read ... of my eyelids, as if I can puzzle out reactions in my [annotation note="I ... hands can go only so many hours in a given week -- but also I wanted

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  otherworldly...I can't imagine reading at this point in time; I managed to get ... 's a weird experience. I can compartmentalize the last 14-ish months of ... , in retrospect, and I hope that I'm able to participate in at least one

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020