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  The middle days of the week

  

  about it. I suspect it's because we mostly get new members by telling our ... by passing the information to the proper people and getting the ... just need to look like one for the night. Before the first time I went

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Am Excited a day in life of a student

  

  neglected for a minute too long. Then I’ll head to the west side of campus for ... impressed by their credentials. Most of all, I am excited, even for a brief minute, to get a glimpse of their current lives. Chances are, they will

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…

  

  will you say hi to, if a new fish is born today? 7) “Are new fishes born ... you should never get that vocal or intrusive, but you do have to learn a ... commonly referred to as “Physics for Masochists”. I had to decide if I wanted

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are we going?

  

  . Which means that we will have to find a new housemaster. The new ... ) and I were chosen for the two spots, giving me yet another hat to wear. Whoever the new housemaster is, I'm only going to have to live with him or

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  you get on campus! It's going to be EPIC. As those of you who tuned ... idea to exchange e-mails with your host before you get here, just to get ... willing to snag a cot for you to sleep on, which means you won't have to lug

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  mailing lists asking for people to join us, and by the next week we ... time-to-pee. What is time-to-pee? It's a metric I made up for gauging ... my next class?" The number of "yes" answers to that question divided by

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  , all around us. On New Year’s, another friend and I went to get lunch ... Informatics, and I started working on a new competition math handout. By all ... places that were open, before deciding to walk back and get Saloniki. As we

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  be able to get a UROP?” Thankfully, there is already an excellent guide to getting your first UROP that I unfortunately overlooked my first time around: https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/how_to_get

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  want to get a UROP for the spring? Should I take another technical class ... looking for new and exciting things to try. Instead of standard gift giving ... pencil down and saying goodbye to genetics, at least for the time being, I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair Yes, freshmen can find jobs!

  

  spring of last year, I realized I really wanted to be in California for the summer. I wanted to spend time with my family, and I needed to get off ... chances of finding a job were pretty dismal, so I tried to compensate by

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  common question I get about the class: no, you do not have to draw your ... strange and small. Comics class is taught by Marjorie Liu, a prolific (New ... class getting us comfortable with writing comic scripts, which are a new

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  ’t the best of matches; but ultimately I was able to get it to stick, and ... therefore must be done by hand, and also needs to adhere to the rope. I used ... when, for instance, the mill collet gets stuck, and you aren’t sure if

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• 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 ... learning content by myself and prefer a rigid class structure to learn things

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

  Face Book And Study I have been doing all this and more. But mostly not this.

  

  not to take company housing for some reason. When I landed last weekend ... morning to find rows and rows of laptops accompanied by nametags and setup ... and statistics for a while, we got to the part we’d been waiting for

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Travel

  [liveblog] morbing at the airport the flight is delayed for several hours because of toilet issues

  

  :35pm) i get to the airport with jebby. we're planning on rooming ... ) the flight was supposed to takeoff. we get an announcement from the ... change, a real gate change, and at least two more hours to go before i get

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 1, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  for it, so it is going to take me more time than most. Hmm. Do I have ... . Enter WashLava. WashLava is the app we use to pay for loads of laundry. I could get into the hellish world of using WashLava, but I will save it for

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2600 Years of the University college life since 600 BCE, as told by Prof. Shailendra Mehta

  

  intimidated by the great scholar. Just last week the king had stood up to honor him during the morning assembly. But you are determined to get into ... question. Never mind that your family cannot afford to pay for your

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 21, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  shock for this reason. I'm the kind of person who is used to saying yes to ... 've discovered that the best way to survive is by recognizing the small victories ... session, randomly stopping by our room to serenade my roommate and I, or

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21L.011 Are You [film] Experienced?

  

  , we get to watch great films by legendary directors like Chaplin, Keaton ... are some really exciting classes that are available for freshmen to take ... revolution. **Aside II: It was even submitted to reddit.com, and no, not by me

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  contributions to the place you are working at. (For more on getting the most out ... You might wonder what possessed me to go to Chicago for the month of ... by IDEO for the winter, with the stipulation that I would be working at

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014