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  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
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Leaving home…

  

  for college. I talk to my future classmates daily, and it seems like ... has been firmly planted in the back of my mind. But sometimes, when you ... for Atlanta (where I'll connect to my Boston flight), the fact that I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  In my first month at MIT, I: Caught COVID, then a cold, then strep Had my parked car crashed into Moved from Hawaii (and had movers break half my stuff) Ran out of prescription meds (because my health

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  my luggage in the past hour was enough embarrassment for all of 2025 ... . Despite all my best efforts, I couldn’t get the lock to turn. My host family ... absolutely no way I was unjamming the door on my own, my host brother climbed

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  many pink dresses come to 2.009 :D

  

  There are four pink dresses in my room. Presentations for MIT's most ... .009. So I asked my floor, B1, if anyone had a pink dress I could borrow. I asked my teammates, too. And everyone delivered! In the last two days I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 5, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a not-so-cruel summer this one's for the girlies

  

  -thought, over-analyzed, over-felt every moment of it // dyed my hair purple // watched Qala a little too late and cried a little too much // cut my hair ... // dressed in pink to watch Barbie! with my sister // screamed to Speak Now

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Got Us iPads! [UNBOXING VIDEO] ft. my cat and my new apple pencil

  

  ="alignnone" width="828"] my podmate Aidan turned 22 this week and we had our grad ra ... who made this, but thank you, and thank you to my friend Eren for ... excited for my friends, but didn't think I would personally get one. Then, I

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  , anxious, and i could hear, audibly, my heartbeat ringing in my ears. my psychiatrist says that it could be because i'm processing my trauma. or it could ... do in the waking world, because i was overwhelmed, and because in my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  sets and early morning rowing practices. I’m excited to see my friends and my teammates who are also my friends, I’m excited for my classes, I ... first time! While most of my friends have been back in Boston for at least

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  First Midterm of The Semester Here I go...

  

  always had eggs before a big exam. It's become one of my pre-exam routines ... can't take an exam without scrambled eggs in my stomach. I've been ... point my brain doesn't want to do any more work. I've checked to make sure

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 1, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  elephants what I've been up to

  

  : elephants outside my room). In an effort to not get so over-burdened with ... 've taken to working on a little mural on my door whenever a pset makes my ... to dumb it down make it my own. Here's the week-long process, in photos

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 27, 2017