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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Typical Friday Night Done with 6.046 exam, time to chill

  

  fell asleep. As a rule of thumb, I'm generally always the first person to ... just kind of shut down and didn't do anything productive for the next 96 ... , post-6.046 exam. I know that before I came to MIT, my impression of the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freedom isn’t free. ...but a biology minor is, sometimes.

  

  -mail from Maxine, president of MIT's chapter of the American Institute of ... with course 10 seniors the first week until they're all like "Group ... always the best part... how about the milk vending machine in the basement

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  the world!) For my first trip, I tried to think of touristy things to ... hour of the decision release. Many of you will be glued to your computer ... loving MIT and choosing the institute as one of your college options. Thank

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Need help choosing a MISTI program? MIT-Germany alum Nina Sinatra advises incoming interns to keep an open mind

  

  consider the Spain and Mexico programs at first, I ended up choosing Germany ... students who are considering MISTI to think of the program both in terms of ... research involving polymer chemistry. I enjoyed the best of a friendly

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 1) De Madrid, ¡saludos!

  

  (we cover the equivalent of one week in normal semester schedule every day). 496. Other than the classes, there's plenty of time every day to ... sense of the daily newspaper, the subway announcements, and having 2-hour

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  weeks, which have been >> First week of November Saturday (not ... [/caption] Monday: I woke up with cramps. On top of my 3-week old ankle sprain, the ... .0002[/annotation] pset and turned it in without passing all of the tests. The thing

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  sunscreen physical health and stuff

  

  better care of my body: the first is drinking water more regularly ... at the ripe age of twenty-one i am beginning to feel my body weaken ... of my feet, i had several minor foot injuries during the past year

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 4, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  3 Simple Steps for Making New Friends Guide to Meeting People

  

  ) actually reveals more information than at first glance: 2 of the strangers we ... entered the MIT admissions office for the first time during [annotation note ... at the center of the room, and quietly slid to the edge of the room

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  couch you'll sleep in, I'm gonna head to class now. The first class I had ... the event of a crash. Most databases use a steal/no-force design, which ... step out of their slumber and into the courtyard. I put a patty on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Row, row, row your boat aka varsity sports at MIT

  

  it any other way. The home of MIT rowing is the Pierce Boathouse ... think of the boathouse as kind of a second home. It’s where half my ... of my life for as long as I can remember. My first team sport was pee

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  well, well look who's inside again

  

  through the lens of, well, a content machine. This won't be the most ... commodify it, sell it for the blogs under some guise of 'relatability'. But in reality, it's to maintain some sort of relevance, to get the comments and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 11, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  from The Other Side of college: one on where I live, one on what I do on ... Tolls, finally read Anna Karenina all the way through. I've read the first ... impatient with all of the drama. Two fellow MIT alums (Davie '12, Daniel '12

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  reviewing MIT’s Intro To Deep Learning the highs and lows of the beloved IAP class

  

  This past week was the first week of [annotation note="Independent Activities Period, aka the month of January where students can take a long ... the class started, it has kind of blown up due to all of the lectures

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 12, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  yo-yos, comics, and other adventures my junior spring schedule!

  

  the parts, and assemble -- each step of which involves a lot of ... project is done"]Illustrator![/annotation] One of the seniors took the lead ... assignment is a pre-lab, due the day of one's lab section, and another is a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Makers @ MIT how MIT supports student creativity and craft

  

  manufacturers to share their talents and hone their skills. As part of the ... and organizations have come together to support the National Day of ... with plans to support the creation of 10 new community fabrication labs

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 18, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s May 2nd. Have you replied to your colleges yet? The music has stopped -- the last dance is over.

  

  courts the first, and so on. We spend time and money trying to identify ... , and do all kinds of outreach--traveling the country, visiting high ... The college admissions process is often compared to dating. It's a

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come in, we’re open

  

  -retentiveness, c) dislike of hard labor, and d) all of the above. If I could wave my ... one of those celebrity clubs. Check out our sweet setup: The ... playing Gamecube and/or discussing the political leanings of Jesus at 4 AM

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  new york without i*stagram who are you performing for?

  

  of my system first. i’ll preface it by saying that this is my very ... ="where i spent all my time"]midtown manhattan[/annotation] is the epitome of ... it a little comical that one of the most famous attractions in the city

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UPOP Program and a look at Jay Dweck (‘77) UPOP is a one-week seminar that teaches leadership and work-place dynamics to sophomores studying engineering…

  

  Chamber Music Society, and the Symphony Orchestra. First of all, I want to ... , conversations with TAs, and guest speakers, with the intention of finding a super ... you who have never heard of Goldman Sachs, it is one of the world

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  fitting microcosm of the larger spectrum of things MIT tries to capture. I ... ’m a senior, and he’s a junior. We still live in the same floor of Random ... first name, and this was a fun fact we bonded over the first time we met

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016