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  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  microdosing sleep by taking 1 to 2 hours naps several times a day. On the other ... :15 — my alarm that tells me to get a snack from Red Door goes off. I decide to get a green tea this time, as well as an avocado toast. 1:42 — no

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New York City in which i go to work on some days and eat lots of cheap food…

  

  . I take every chance I get to try new places for dinner. Otafuku has a ... interview with the Graphics Editor, I knew I had a new goal to join the Times ... this past spring when the Times came to campus to recruit. With a stroke

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  About the Midyear Report We've been getting many questions about the Midyear Report. Here are some answers.

  

  your first trimester grades. Please be sure to get your official midyear ... ). The Midyear Report is to be completed by you, the applicant. The MIT ... Common App MYR which is filled out by your counselor and sent to Common

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  -Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, wanted me to get a bunch of stuff done over the next term, but I didn ... another lab to get ice, rotovapped it, added aryl grignard, and began a ... 's a salute to my top five favorite MIT all-nighters over the past two

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Summary of CPW 2006 CPW 2006

  

  lab of a Nobel Laureate, get a paper published, and go to professional ... follow Nance's "Beaver" act, but managed to draw a few laughs. I was disappointed to find out that people still didn't know what a UROP was! I have

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A suite surprise My suitemates find out I'm a blogger

  

  , “Wait, it gets even better!” and pointed to my bed. So I walked over and saw my blogger photo taped to my pillow.   IT'S A FULL 8.5”x11 ... walked back to my suite lounge after another round of classes and a meal at

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 19, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  Wow, lots of questions to address today! I guess I'll start by ... the cell gets both a red (your gene) plasmid and a blue (unknown gene ... since the beginning of the summer. I've done a lot of assays to explore

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Christmas: The Playlist and much music was had.

  

  like crazy to put together a kick-ass performance. There's a song by ... ). A Family Christmas by The Piano Guys: This album is here because it ... But first I'm going to talk about the Toons. Some of you might

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  that my days are a constant stream of checkboxes on my To-Do list; i ... swept away by my next assignment before i even have the chance to reflect ... —partly because i thought i was too late to the game to get good at it, and partly

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Experience with Real Analysis epsilons, delta, and the technique

  

  than going into the midterm, and I managed to get an A in the class not ... low on a homework before, and I honestly was so confused as to how I ... problem set and all the rest by myself, and I found myself going to my first

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 10, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  It happens to Helen Life is just a series of awkward moments sometimes.

  

  until midnight running experiments. Maybe it's just a testament to campus ... equipment." adjective -- pertaining to one's UROP "My UROP professor gave me a ... wage. Nice!" verb -- to work in a UROP "I'm UROPping until 5 today, but I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  what i ate in a week* living the influencer life (clickbait included)

  

  probably will never get around to using  three days ago i had a dinner with ... just tried to write a blog as fast as possible. this is not very high quality as a result and thus i would like to say that this is not

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  notes you take get sent (anonymously) to a student with a DAS (Disability ... stopped by a week of Cascade (ESP’s Spring Program) and came to meetings ... get to know people I really resonated with. -Going on a duck tour with

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Overture to the Commencement of a Very Rigid Journey Sam's Mom dubs me Sami-stop-spleening-me!, because I am always spleening her.

  

  Very shortly, Sam's Mom and I will be on the road to Cambridge. So, I ... . I think the trailer's actually a little encouraging... it ... , otherwise it'd be pretty much impossible to adapt to film. Stylistically, it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  I’ve decided I talk too much. I need to give some other people a ... me they’d like to help with an entry, I decided to go all-out and get ... the labs creating craziness in general, there really seemed to be a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  any true ownership over a project. My dream job is one where I get to do ... position where they can't care about compensation. And to be honest, a large ... mean is, if I weigh compensation as a heavy factor in choosing what to do

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  . Surprises in the mail. I get a bunch of things shipped to me that I don ... rewarding to get a problem after thinking about it for so long. [caption id ... month, and maybe this'll inspire me to write more. A new laptop. I got a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  the IAP acronym, and then spending a quarter of an hour trying to come ... 's honestly a bonus (living in EC means I really don't get much unintentional ... more ways to jump over, onto, and off various objects! I'm taking 18.02A

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Dora the Explorer My long-lost twin has suspiciously wrinkly forearms.

  

  to give her addiction to "papas adobadas," a kind of mexican hot Lays ... ! Another factor I'll have to consider when selecting a class is whether they ... by about +/- 10 years. If you were to graph the BBQ's population by age

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The ratio of people to cake is too big.

  

  . It goes out to Meder! Solve it to understand why...) Today was a ... also very hard). A few questions to be answered... From NY asks, "As ... send anything else in its place or a form waiver etc." Nope, no need to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2005