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  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  'm low-key still busy. Next week I have two essays due, a short story to write, a pset, and a research poster to work on, and my thesis work is ... , but still managing to get through the questions with varying degrees of

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  .    Peter started by explaining how he had to postpone a number of ... meditative to get the soil in your hands and I like that a lot,” Peter said ... answered by telling us that he had first come to MIT wanting to be a film

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  was so in love with this series as a kid. we are going to pretend this ... years of my life to a novel I didn’t believe in. [annotation note="it takes up to two years for a book to actually be published after it sells

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  need to go back to get the card made in the card machine."]half a Harvard ... from MIT. I’m slowly getting ready to go back to the firehose; I’ll be on ... ’m excited to finally move in. I’m especially excited to be a blogger for the

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  they did get into MIT by some miracle-lightning-strikes-a-unicorn-and ... possibly getting into not only MIT, but to any rigorous, awesome school ... believed that getting into a dream college was a binary decision. I believed

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  tired and busy and tired and busy and tired and busy and

  

  at 9am Get ready for the day and eat a protein bar Leave the DPhi ... 10am-ish Work out from 10:30-12 Get lunch from 12-1 Go to class ... . Get ready for bed and sleep by 1am. Repeat. There are definitely

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 15, 2022
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  . Anyway, it would be cool to do a hack getting some of the faculty involved ... Admissions Ben) was awesome enough to send a link to my blog in to the ... crazy! Needless to say, this generated a lot of comments, so I decided to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  are no good analogies to real life. Sometimes you get stuck rereading a ... is “The Wrong Way to Treat Child Geniuses” by Jordan Ellenberg, a ... want to also talk a little about my experience being Course 18 and how it

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  An Olympic Hack Floating rings above Brigg's Field?

  

  Upon entering MIT, every freshman gets a list of "101 Things To Do Before You Graduate", which varies a slightly by academic year (for example ... have their own lengthy Wikipedia page, in addition to a chronology at

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  easy to measure my life at MIT by courseload units, GPA, hours slept ... was to write a letter reflecting on what we had learned, and I decided ... finish revising my novel by October, so we could send my manuscript out to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday A day in the life.

  

  note to get those wheelie shoes prepubescent boys wear. 10:00 AM: Stand ... ". 12:23 PM: Group digresses to discuss whether a third nipple is considered a disease or not. 12:24 PM: Group is laughed at by recitation TA

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  - but most of the time I still like to think of myself as a normal guy who ... 'm proud to say I was born and raised in South Bend, Indiana, a smallish city ... as my surrogate hometown, I still cling to a few Midwestern habits that

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Culture Shock

  

  Adelaide and when I told her, "Hey, I'm about to get to Mass Ave, I'm at ... time to sleep lately, let alone blog, but I just thought I'd give a quick ... athlete knows, Day 3 of getting back into shape is by far the most painful

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Yay CPW! I'm just trying to see how many blog entries we can get in the RSS…

  

  getting to meet a lot of you, but it was exhausting- I lived in the Burton ... ." [This entry was brought to you by the following quote: "I look forward to ... CPW is finally over, which basically means I'm back to sleeping again

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Since U Been Gone While I was out, the world changed. (UPDATED)

  

  that it would be best not to chance it, even with a concurrent entry by ... Chris '09 to see Alaina E'09 and Allison E'07. Despite getting lost AGAIN (Google Maps, you're on my enemies list), I had a spectacular time getting

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 1, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  A collaborative post by guest blogger Jessica Quaye '20 and Caroline ... but he spent a great deal of time talking about how important it was to prioritize togetherness (especially in a place like MIT where it is easy to

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  summer 2021

  

  just go to 7/11 and get a spam musubi. Any shrimp truck on North Shore ... 'd wake up at 5:30am to get ready for my 6am-2pm work day (Hawai'i is three ... shop at Don Quijote, and then go back. By the time I'd get home, it'd be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  FUTURE for a moment, and take time to get back your energy, hold the reset ... IAP--Independent Activities Period--is soon coming to a close! Spring ... credits to Ayesha B. ‘18 (my fantastic roommate). I do not actually own a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  at MIT Medical and may have to splint my teeth or even get a root canal ... that is going to have to take a back seat in order for me to document to ... to a bloody pulp with my awesome newfound kickboxing skills. I'd almost

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  schedule. I used to watch a lot of the Media Lab's content back in middle ... absolutely crushed during my fall semester when I have to take it as a class ... "going to a dead guy's house," I visited the house of poet Henry Wadsworth

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022