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  My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH

  

  cold today, the morning air is refreshing. Google predicts a high in the ... in a very long time. So I heave the pretty incredible stash of lined ... to sleep. For those playing along at home, here is Pset 8 in all its

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 11, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  didn't even get in on the first try. I had to wait until COVID-19 expanded the program for me in order to get in. And so that's why when I look ... pressure of having a class in order to get things done. Online classes don

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  biology is a real science (I am the only course 20 in a group of 60ish so I ... ’t like biology). Nevertheless, MIT leads the world in its biology research ... major, there is a lot of work in making things like MRI’s, CAT scans

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  , and BTS. I main Ashe in Overwatch. I love chemistry and biology. I have ... 't know if that's the truth. In a previous blog post, I listed out my ... . In 8.01 alone I spent nearly 7-9 hours each week on psets, and even

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  my house in Central, and the latte is conveniently free thanks to a ... head: "ah. i haven't blogged in a while, have i?" a gust of wind nearly ... been happening in my life that i could write about. i could maybe talk

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves. How could it be otherwise?” -Anne Fadiman, in the preface to her essay collection Ex Libris ... . What if I need those vector calculus equation sheets in six years?! Anna

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  their parent class (8.02 and 8.01 respectively) in a previous semester ... and I actually dropped it a week after being in it. Real nervous to take ... to go, since I took three years of it in high school, every year in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  covered in chalk drawings. Then, I feel an overwhelming feeling of nausea. I ... , especially in proportion to its massive concrete parking lot, and I am suddenly ... carefully curated trees. I am pragmatic in a Trader Joe's. I know exactly

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  dear kuya i promise this post is mostly in english

  

  , for older sister. kuya can also refer to any older male person. back in high school, for example, i called people in higher years "kuya", like "kuya reggie" or "kuya john dave". and people in lower years called me

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  summer, in no particular order. Enjoy. I have one foot in the door of Jaded Senior and one foot still in the hallway of Dear God What Am I Doing ... Superfreakanomics Superintelligence Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  hours browsing through job listings and googling opportunities in the ... In the past five weeks or so, the pace of my life has dramatically ... ’s this tendency at MIT to start making summer plans all the way back in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  classes, totaling 96 units. In the spirit of procrastinating finals studying ... debates, and apart from those questions being very… relevant in recent ... court cases in American history. The professor was also a great lecturer

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  or worse, it’s going to be over in three hours.  Projects, however, have no time limit.  They can quickly fling a black hole in the middle of your Google Calendar, sucking away sleep, lectures, and other assignments

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  sponsor me). I’d used the app in the past to learn Italian and to refresh my ... they announced Arabic for English speakers. In doing so I found out that ... 1st within the Diamond League, essentially being the world’s best in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / CPW

  how to tackle CPW ...i totally have the authority to write this

  

  event on Sunday that people shockingly showed up to, despite me putting in almost 0 planning, and I asked them why they would willingly indulge in another virtual event when they have in-person ones to look forward to this

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] art and things zine making + what makes us, us + thank you cambridge + yomp

  

  at this Google Drive link. If you’re interested in a physical copy ... (mechanical engineering) with a focus on learning machines. I live in Next House ... 't even a joke it's the MathCounts Plank Tournament in the Next House

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  I was browsing some of my old blog idea Google docs the other day ... , fyi"]taking 66 units[/annotation]. I had probably hoped that in a future ... 'd go over them in this blog post and see which subset of them I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  MIT students, and probably college students in general. Many do ... last undergraduate summer, we wanted to outline what we’ve done in each ... 't really on either of our minds. And we were lucky enough to be in a position

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done done done end-of-semester happiness

  

  junior year. i haven't blogged in a while, so i thought i'd write up a post ... the first time in recent memory, i don't feel burned out at the end of ... loved (not reflected by my spotty attendance). in many of my course 14

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  ’ combined. Of course, this was typical: in high school, I perpetually resolved ... materialized and my daily calendar just symbolically slouched untouched in the ... class so I could sleep in. That’s OK, Joel, you’ll survive - you can get

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014