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  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  an average of 22 hours per week. Quite a variety (acording to Subject ... been known to tackle 72+ (and maintain a social existence). Additionally ... HASS. *** The week begins on a sleepy Monday with an 11 am discussion

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  programs like "The O'Reilly Factor." On the show, Colbert plays a character ... know want to know what a triffid is. If you've got all that, enjoy ... Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: You can also listen to a more serious

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  I(t)A(ly)P trippin in the off season

  

  green tram aaaaand nighttime colosseum   Glad to have a new ... wrong with a photodump. Anyway, here's what I've been up to for some of ... A friend of mine gets airline buddy passes through his dad which

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  time of day. My name is Lydia. We have a lot to catch up on. I was born in Moscow on March 12, 1992, into a demographic hole created by World ... salaries and some help from the government, was just enough to buy half a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  suite on the fourth floor of Burton Conner shedding a trail of water from ... 'm on a roll. Maybe I should call it recovery, instead. This feeling of ... other people at other times. Whether I finish every problem on a pset is

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  , working out how to compute integrals on my own or creating new methods of ... just wanted to talk to my mom about putting me in a gifted program ... actually help him figure out how long he needed to cut a certain piece of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  my research process, as opposed to being stressed on a weekly basis ... to think of how to start a conversation and keep it going. But on my ... a.m. chatting with, to go on spontaneous late-night trips to Harvard

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  to create a 3D object, and discover something new about the process ... There is a class here at MIT called How to Design (Almost) Anything ... semester to create an object and then turn the object into a vessel. For a

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  or something, because I'm going to need a lot more practice on ... Charter School, signing in to get a "VISITOR" sticker, and slipping into a ... a decade. I feel like I have been sent to Mars. For one, people at my

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  the floor, asking for people to celebrate her last night as a humanities ... become a blog-worthy experience. (Seriously, Conner 2 people are going to become so famous due to the sheer concentration of bloggers on the floor

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  , but I have to rest well on weekends. If there is a test the next day ... account. I hope to get on a path toward more self-sustainability. Here goes ... Tumblr is where I put a lot of this reflection. In particular, I seem to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  ? To make things even better, we started out with a low-key lab on the ... 's already a reading assigned for 5.13? This is nonsense. This year is going to ... sure there wasn't a single thing on Stellar* that I didn't know about. I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nuns, fret not! Like baby alligators in the sewers, you too will grow up fast.

  

  weekend, I blew off steam by going on retreat with my hall (3rd East) to New ... . What better way to get to know your hall? So a lot of you have ... that focus on science and math? Can I make a baking soda volcano and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  since Simmons opened in 2002. In addition to a slew of Simmons residents ... noon on Friday with a big "kickoff" event, which serves the dual purpose ... , or sleeping. (Oh, and I ate a bit too.) The puzzles I worked on

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day with AISES + NASA

  

  ; on the unfulfilled or shattered promises our nation has made to ... Institute community must do to forge a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive ... histories. And, we commit to using the challenge of our past to inform a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots Here's how I spent my summer.

  

  -coordinated tournament on the ISS. The goal of this UROP?  To write a game, teach it to ... It's been a while since I introduced you to MIT (my way, of course ... of a blogger's life, having so much to blog but not enough time to

  • by Piper '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  we made things and want to show them to you 2.009: an iconic mech-e senior capstone class!

  

  Final Presentation. Everything you need to know lives on this site ... !']If you weren't able to secure a ticket—worry not:[/annotation] there's a ... It feels like destiny that I ended up on Team Yellow. I was born on a

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  Wars movies they were going to watch on a given night. Which, I mean, is ... named because a railway president wanted his trains to be considered the ... going? Well, not too bad. In a way, I can't seem to ever get away from MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  much I can take on just because I reallllllly want to do a particular ... needing to move on to the next thing, and the next thing, and only in that ... to pick whatever's most urgent. [See: Appendix A.] I've been noticing

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  went on a gap year, MIT seemed like a glass castle, so very far. Now I ... classes, how to manage the ridiculously hard one so that I don’t skimp on ... them know how to cook, and day by day we’re finding a schedule. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020