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  Cells, Cells, and more Cells you've met me at a very course 20 time in my life

  

  that felt has difficult for me at MIT before is that I'm not very ... -req for[annotation note="Immunology"]7.23/20.230[/annotation], [annotation ... metal ions for quantum dot formation. Working in wet-lab again through

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 3, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  ’s okay, too. For now, remember that you're in the middle of the ride, and

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  rage, as explained by thermodynamics I had a bad day and soon a thermo exam

  

  not the original 11.041 I signed up for."]11.001[/annotation] project ... /Thursday and then study Friday/Saturday/Sunday for my Monday exams. But then I ... coming days, I feel behind if I'm not ahead for what's ahead, y'know? In

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  minutes, or so I've been told, the early action decisions for MIT are going ... 't come out for another 9 minutes-- no 8 minutes now. But, out of morbid ... crazy? You got more than you paid for. So give me just one more chance

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  October, and kept working on it for the next few weeks. And then months. And ... . I did some actual psetting for a while, then checked the time. 7:30 pm ... entrance to Baker. I couldn’t stop smiling as I waited in line for food. I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  probably will be for a while. It’s easy to interpret that as lazy. And maybe ... ’t have the patience for you. You’re petrified of slipping up, perpetually defending yourself from mild jeering after every mistake, and for some reason

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  more about doing specific kinds of good for the world than doing the most ... are many other ambitions - for instance, to be the best possible ... be god, formless light fed through wire? All I pray for in the next

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  for high school students i'm teaching for, a party i'm attending. there ... for, i feel like there's no speed limit. i always have a feature to work ... when i was waiting for pull reviews, i had a limitless list of tickets to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  desperate for sun. there was nothing to eat that wasn’t smothered in grease ... did a sub-par essay. I sat here for two hours, thinking of characters ... was just after 1 am. We’d gone to all-you-can-eat sushi for three hours

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  i'll omit for now."]trusty Spotify playlist.[/annotation] The walks ... ="61573" image4="61574" /] I always have a destination or objective in mind for my ... windy, and I had brought the wrong jacket for the circumstances. The first

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  out of here. Shit, where did she go? I frantically look around for my ... conversation. "Hey! Sorry, lost you for a bit." "That's good, have you met ... myself to do it, thinking naively that I could be her for a night, but all

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  to exercise. Hooray! Hooray for bicycles! I'm also very risk averse ... stay almost entirely off the main road for safety, and I get to bike to ... good crosswalks, the safest way for me to do this is by going into the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  that’s been on everyone’s mind for the past week. The pre-wedding dinner ... in my head. I saw snow for the first time earlier this month. I woke ... astutely. It was...SNOW. My jaw dropped. For perhaps a full minute, I stood

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  just one more gnome game it will fix me

  

  ). She's been playing for about a month, while the rest of my roommates ... . Google Gnome Game and its consequences have been a disaster for my ... smaller to advance into the log. There are a few notable logs. For the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  . For example, the stir-fry station at Simmons only has a selection of 8 ... custom-made and toasted sandwiches for lunch there. Although none of the ... most of the ingredients you'd need for a sandwich scattered around the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  the external examiner (“extern”) for a PhD Viva, and now I’m trying to ... undergraduate and graduate classes, fundraise and manage a budget for a research ... before my move, I was told that “nobody [is ever ready for a faculty

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  been here for only 38 days, I can confidently rank Boston higher on my ... has bikes all around Boston for about $3/ride."]blue bike ... into the Monet room for too long and just stared. My favorite part is

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  doing so ensure that we don’t make progress on said problems). or, for a ... curriculums need to be restructured to give students better avenues for ... stand by today. or, for another example, i spent the first twenty years of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  do things. take this post, for example. i’ve been sitting on this post for nearly two months (?!) - i told myself it was writer’s block, but ... you think you’re on the right path for you at the moment, you might wake

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 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 ... off for years, sometimes better, sometimes worse. I think it was worse ... myself, why are you stressed? For the first month or so, it just hurt. But

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021