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  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  6.009 – Fundamentals of Programming 8.02 – Physics II (E&M) CMS.100 – Intro to Media Studies 6.08 – Intro to EECS via Embedded Studies 6.042 – Mathematics for Computer Science…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / Events

  To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before: P.S. I Love You THANK YOU LSC

  

  A couple nights ago, Shayna messaged our very miscellaneous group chat this: HELL. FUCKING. YES. For those of you who don’t know me, this is my dream. I watched the…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  We spent our IAPs in two different states, for the second time. We both did one-month long externships through the MIT externship program that the MIT Alumni association coordinates. It…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  Everything’s going just fine! I’m registered for classes, the grad school admission process is almost done, and I’m on track to graduate and enter the adult world. And yet the…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  This post contains minor spoilers for the structure of MIT Mystery Hunt 2020, which are unmarked. This post will contain major spoilers for some puzzles, which will be marked. This…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Spring From Student to Grader: My Unified Engineering Story

  

  Classes Is this what it’s like to be an upperclassman and only take classes you enjoy?  I’m taking just four (4) classes this semester, and I’m excited for all of…

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything what i did this IAP!

  

  My freshman winter break and IAP were very nice, nothing to complain about. I got to fly home and spend two weeks with my family; I came back to campus,…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  It’s been a few weeks since many of you have submitted your applications (and a few months for many others), and I know right now you may be wondering what’s…

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  One of the strange things about being 10,000 years old is that, while I’ve been tooling away judging teens, some of my classmates/labmates from when I was in my master’s…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  We made a website this is a filler post

  

  I’m still working on my post about Mystery Hunt, and I realized it’s been quite some time since I last posted, so here’s a quick blog post. For web.lab, which…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 31, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  Ben O. ’19 and I decided to team up to talk about all the dance teams here at MIT.  We’re both active members of the dance community; we joined Mocha…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  An Origin Story Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Jinchūriki

  

  I felt the sudden urge to write something tonight. I wasn’t sure what it would be, or what exactly to say, but I guess it’s always good to start at…

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  Last week, I was lucky enough to get to see something very unique: the view from on top of Cambridge’s tallest building. The MIT Radio Society is raising awareness about…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  danceAP IAP: wonderful. sore muscles: not

  

  yeah so i guess i’m joining the “what i’m doing this IAP” bandwagon—in the month-long lull that is IAP, there isn’t much to talk about besides what you’re doing with…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  many thoughts head full

  

  I’ve been hesitant to write things since my mind has been a bit of a mess lately. Aidan described IAP as some strange purgatory, where there’s a feeling of too…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  I had a breakthrough the other day. I was sitting in my favorite Kendall Square restaurant, Clover. When I say favorite, I mean F.A.V.O.R.I.T.E. In a busy week, I’m there…

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  We didn’t blog about the cool classes we took last semester yet, so we are blogging about them now. This is the second semester when we decided to take 36…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  this is the third IAP i’ve spent on MIT. trust me, i really tried to get away, but my research called to me and i decided to forego a bunch…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  the view from my window and netflix's view of my window through another window

  

  It snowed on Saturday. Here’s what I woke up to on Sunday. needs more l o o m i n g  s h a d o w and weather-dirtied window…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 21, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  It’s been a hot second since I last blogged- about ten weeks, to be precise. There are all sorts of random reasons I could give for my disappearance, drawn from…

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020