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

  

  improved immensely. I was able to  get my checkoff, a live session where we ... to get 100s on the psets and above 80s on the remaining midterms, which ... ; Just a GIR I put off til sophomore year because I wanted to take some

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  idea of me going to MIT when he got a small, gray MIT t-shirt for me to ... something new to my list, albeit I don't get it until May: the MIT Brass Rat ... after a while, you even start to identify with it. When I told my dad how

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Introduction To MIT World ...and my blog's first feature: Akamai, Clever and Cool!

  

  My first blog entry! Let me begin by introducing you to MIT World, a ... . With a collection of almost 400 videos, it's a little daunting to pick ... it best to start with a modern day adventure story about a company that

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Two Valentine’s Day Serenades Happiness and hearts and the MIT Logarhythms and Muses in cell biology!

  

  ’ve seen him around for the past two years and now I get to see him twice a ... they belong. Suddenly we were interrupted by the all-male a capella group ... , who ran into the lecture hall like a superhero. “We’re here to deliver a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  a team who wanted to learn how to build an autonomous car by building ... to go walk there and get a sweet treat when things aren’t working as we ... , the cooling, the controls, the drivetrain, etc. I get a moment to

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  support systems, and I want to curl up in a ball and demand "why don't I get to be a perfectly average student with perfectly average problems ... insecure about herself and needs to prove her worth to everyone around her by

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  me to San Francisco, arriving at 5 PM PST on January 6th, by way of a ... meantime, I’m getting quite peckish. Perhaps a visit to the cafe car will ... experience; there’s a little more active work I have to get done in the next

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  Cinderella Story as a seven-year-old and busting it down to All Star by Smash ... exactly I wanted to get involved with. Thankfully, I had a few friends that ... manage to get a spot on an intermediate dance in Dance Troupe and thus

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??

  

  morning I'll be getting another phone call: "THAT IS A FAMILY SECRET!") But ... itself), which included a night out to Bartley's. On the first day of ... . Tuesday brought a party at the Stata center hosted by several of MIT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The One and Only Melis

  

  was a no-brainer. I couldn’t seem to get the research out of my ... thought that it'd be imposing of me to ask if I could get help from her in ... . It was a no-brainer -- I hustled to Next House as fast as possible and

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  . I wanted to impress people around me and I wanted to get a job? And even now ... a trip had to include visits to prestigious college campuses. It ... , right? It would be just as simple to tell a story about any other number

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants

  

  student, you sort of get used to being one of the youngest. Everyone else is ... a place to sleep though. The conference started at 9am each morning so I had to find somewhere close by. I ended up staying over with friends

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  ’s even just nice to be able to get out of the MIT STEM bubble for a bit ... -enrolling in a class, I did have the chance to take a class (D-Lab: Development ... awareness on campus. A lot of campus politics seem to have more student

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  powder. It felt more like getting punched in the face by a pineapple, but ... -themed menu complemented by a spasm of last-minute surprises: stir, simmer ... menu (the chef and waitstaff are all Chinese, by the way), and ordering a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  you have. If you get accepted to MIT, while it will probably give you a ... mentors, because I think I'm still a bit too young and foolish to be ... pressures to comMIT. It may not feel like it if you get deferred or rejected

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.

  

  the point of a career fair is to collect job prospects, not swag. In the ... : blogging for MIT admissions!) Even though I didn’t get, or even attempt to get, a job, I learned a lot at the career fair. Many of the companies

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  (x/2) of them are getting done; a semester of scraping by in everything ... comes up and everything somehow gets a little bit worse, and i cut out one ... so much that i will never get the chance to do, and that hurts in an

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  Hollywood actor so he could get rich enough to buy a spaceship and return to ... creating robotics simulations like these. A lot of time was spent trying to ... the assignments and felt like I improved as a storyteller by the end

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  of desperation as you get closer and closer to the end of the day; a ... piano a satisfaction in being able to play decently well, surprisingly, after years of not having practiced; a continuous panic to try and reduce

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  of around twenty questions, and, after a few months, managed to get ... ="Alan: also Cameron gets a special shoutout because she went to my high school ... from a small state mean to you? Natalie: It means you can get ahold of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021