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  Back in MD Summary of the end of the year, and a look ahead to the summer.

  

  Where in the world is Melis? Clues: laundry is free, my room is a ... . Today was my first day of work at the National Institutes of Health (NIH ... Saturday morning before exam week, grabbing my backpack filled with textbooks

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life or something like it Apparently this blog is supposed to be about my life. So here's some stuff about…

  

  exclamation points and intruige. But alas, my life is full of the same sorts of ... my classes for the long haul. (Truth be told, I've never dropped a ... -quarters of the way through the semester.) Most of my classes are going along

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See, I Am! (CI-M) Communication-intensive economics research. (If that sentence doesn't make you want to read this entry, I…

  

  See, I am here! Sorry for the gap in my posting. My CI-M (TLA!! Sam ... journey through 14.33: Economic Research and Communication, my CI-M for the ... picked my own economic question, found all my data, designed and carried

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  the deadline, so I'm taking a break from my New Years vacation (in Virginia) to answer some questions. Props to my old buddy John (Caltech '08 ... online (Part 2), my name doesn't appear on the two signature lines which

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  sticker stories adorned on my water bottles

  

  One year ago, I lost my first stickered bottle. 😔 Pretty sure it slipped out of my backpack on the plane...silly me. I checked my location ... everything around me. My water bottles have been akin to that, but instead

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  mementos high school has been on my mind, lately. it's been almost ... where it lives in my mind and peering at what lies within. some of this unboxing was literal -- i visited my family's place in vancouver over winter

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  we made things and want to show them to you 2.009: an iconic mech-e senior capstone class!

  

  fall, I suffered a brain injury and stepped back from my role for the ... , supporting my team the way I had hoped, and taking a backseat overall. But, it was the right decision for my recovery. The good news is, I am on track

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  -fixated on things, and Marvel was an extensive enough franchise that my little gremlin brain was endlessly fascinated by it. I dragged my family to see the ... -Man Shoes, featured in my MIT college application![/caption] When I got to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  ." I've found solace in my writing classes and creative outlets: writing, drawing, playing music. It's no secret to my friends that I consider myself ... the CMS research groups and the Media Lab, my heart feels full and I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  past weekend, I rushed my mom and sister to come visit me at MIT because ... claimed my bed and my heart. I want to sit and cuddle her and she's all ... . Everything was terrible last week. My classes got to be too much, I was anxious

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

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  sample tile that my sister and I have since rediscovered. I've also rediscovered a diary that I kept in first grade. My favorite entry reads ... crucible slipped and fell down the sleeve of my lab coat. I shrieked and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year in Review blogs, bhangra, and a baby monkey

  

  my Christmas CDs for the last time. I like recycling wrapping paper ... , going through old emails and cleaning up all of my computer desktops. And I especially love all the year in review lists. Because this was my

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Ups and Downs Currently down.

  

  Not gonna lie, my happy-to-sad ratio is a little sad-heavy at the ... more upset that my experiments have not been working out. Generally ... move on with my life. My grad student's policy is "you can make every

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photo Scavenger Hunt Let's give this a shot.

  

  it was also the last day of school) My summer last year was laid-back, carefree, and a whole lot of fun. This year my summer is shaping up to be ... three entries started about my adventures so far, but really there's just

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Work, friends, sleep – pick three In which I manage time effectively.

  

  found on my Facebook wall last night from Eric, one of the students from ... about MIT. She wants to go (a lot), and I'm keeping my eyes and ears open ... to get to my UROP at 10. Eight hours of sleep. SKILLZ, I TELL YOU

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Amazin’ The Mets clinched the NL East. *happy dance*

  

  My Mets clinched the NL East, and I am crazy psyched. Whoo! So what else has been going on in my life? You know, school and stuff. While I'm slowly making my way through descriptions of classes, I might as well talk

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."

  

  . This is a dumb story, but scroll down for some more pictures. I left my ... into my small girly hands, had a comfortable strap to fit around my wrist, was compact enough to fit horizontally in my backpack when folded up

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday Roadtrip Out on the open road.

  

  So this past Saturday, I set out on the open road with some of my ... the new car smell. My first leg of the trip brought me to Lawrence, MA ... house they're rehab-ing and paint new clapboards for the house. Given my

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am dumb

  

  :30 as usual for my 9:30 Tuesday/Thursday class, 9.15 (biochemistry and ... blowing so hard that my new umbrella broke in 30 seconds, and then I was running horribly late because I decided it was too windy to ride my bike

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  my favorite things about the MIT schedule -- we have approximately one ... needed to recharge my metaphorical batteries. So far this weekend, I have ... , gone grocery shopping, allowed my boyfriend to dye my hair (scary

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005