Things

Things Breathe in, breathe out. Wow. I’ve barely had time to breathe let alone blog. I wanted to do an end-of-the-year reflection but thought it would be better for other people to just write a blog for me (although some are also my own). I’ve collected here some of the responses from a very small sample of the MIT population, mostly just the people I interact with regularly, so this is really only a snapshot of the diverse thoughts and feelings that exist in the MIT bubble. Its a little long but I wanted to show you it all: the silly, the poignant, the ones that I really connected with, and the ones I hope you will connect with. Things that make me happy When dining has my favorite muffins for breakfast Waking up in time for breakfast Naked brunch Regular brunch Sushi in Maseeh Dining Yamatos all you can eat sushi!! Domino’s at 2AM When it rains and I get to wear my rain boots When it rains and I get to wear my waterproof flip flops Warm weather When I get to Mass Ave when the walking symbol is on Resting heart rate decreasing Puppies trying new things! From rock climbing to coding Killian court, even with the tourists The sailing pavilion got a couch Spontaneous picnics with the team That new gorillaz album Taking a 2 hour nap Going to bed after a long and completely exhausting day, knowing i can get enough sleep that night binge watching rom coms till my eyes literally cannot stay open Running the Mass Ave-Museum of Science bridge loop Junot Diaz teaching creative writing (he won a Pulitzer!) realizing that grades arent the only thing that matter eating my heart out after disastrous midterms Late nights psetting and even later nights with my favorite people Reading all day instead of doing urgent school work Getting a bad grade, but still realizing how much I’ve learned to get to this point the impending summer where i will explore more of boston and be more free Having a killer final project When my exam score is above the average Planning out classes for next semester Thoughts of going home Walking through the infinite and talking on the phone with my parents the friends ive made here the things ive learned the things in the future that are yet to come Things that depress me Psets 5.12 (Organic Chemistry) psets 5.12 exams Anything related to 5.12 talking about grades Resting heart rate increasing The show I’m binge-watching is leaving Netflix on June 1 and I have finals :( Sushi in maseeh dining Cold weather Boys Girls Losing friends :( the work that layers on back to back to back to back and my life seems to go from pset to pset to paper to exam and before i know it the semester has gone by and i question whether ive cherished it i fail a test I spent the last 30 hours studying for, what’s worse, my friend that studied a total of 2 hours gets 95%. Feeling like I understand absolutely nothing and there is no amount of time/effort that could make sense of anything in my brain Getting killed by your final projects Getting fat Getting sick and not being able to take time to deal with it bc of work Wildly depressive mood swings :( Parents/professors assuming that if I don’t do well it’s because I didn’t try Professors that are bad at teaching The MIT Administration Having weird relationships with family or parents as you change and grow in college Having weird relationships with family as they change and grow while you’re in collegeremarriages, divorces, new births. Anxiety the uncertainty of the future, growing old, and growing apart from the ones closest to you Insomnia Being a $1000+ flight away from the people you love Feeling lonely, because there aren’t the people that love you unconditionally here Feeling like there’s no way you’ll be able to work hard enough to be adequate Overwhelmed sometimes (all the time) History classes People bashing the humanities people bashing other people seeing people comparing themselves to others Things Off the bucket list Lasers/using lasers to slice through objects. Became the president of a dorm Built a CPU in 6.004 Learned how to CAD (computer aided design) declared my major Found a cool new UROP i love Learned to program started taking pictures again Montreal road trip! Skydiving White water rafting Made a bird costume out of paper Got pretty fluent in Spanish Met new awesome people and made some new friends slept with a cat Rode a bike in a suit in the rain sang in an acapella group Started feeling really sure of what I want to do after graduation Realized how much i love my friends cooked food with good friends Discovered a new academic interest Acted on a love interest Challenged myself to love more, to let go, to live, to do more of what I am passionate about Things to do for the future get over imposters syndrome Abandon STEM and become a super-hipster philosopher discover my true passion and live every day to the fullest doing so take a grad level class cross-register at Harvard :) fly somewhere exotic with friends over spring break Take the time to smell the flowers Explore more of Boston especially the food Sleep before 2am Take a nap on killian Pass 8.02 Launch a startup Go to medical school (possibly) Get my brass rat Get a boyfriend Get a girlfriend Get a friend Learn to be more social Stop being so stressed Focus on the great things about MIT not just the sucky things Get a job Paint murals Do an exercise Decide my major and not switch lol find myself a husband who can cook and jam out to music and laugh at my bad jokes More road trips the long, sleepless summer nights that are occupied by warm conversations instead of psets read the books that have been collecting dust on my shelf all year, i just want to live in a library for a few months and read finish the pirates license learn more japanese Graduate Do an internship at a large company Research in CSAIL Travel the world See and pet a sloth Go to Cape Cod and relax on the beach Mend my relationship w/ my parents Laugh a lot Make sure people know how important they are to me Make a real impact in the world Post Tagged #5.12 Organic Chemistry #6.004 #Imposter's Syndrome