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  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  've devised (and finally, this semester, stuck with) for succeeding in this ... weekday for crew practice, and I've been getting to bed by 9:30 or 10 every ... early for most MIT students, but trust me, it's worth it. Eat 3

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  and tiring week) to watch a Bollywood film. All I was really looking for ... hiccup in English), however, has had me scrambled in thoughts for days now ... ://youtu.be/nLSaCFlXn-g (might want to turn on english subtitles for this) In short, the film

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  five classes or four classes plus a UROP is a reasonable workload for me ... everyone headed out for the break. There were a lot of preliminary project deadlines. I gave a presentation for the Multimodal User Interfaces class

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Because Racecar Guest post by Kevin C. '17 on the MIT Formula SAE team!

  

  friends and I traveled to Europe for a different sort of attraction: single ... Formula SAE – SAE stands for Society of Automotive Engineers – teams from ... wheel formula cars. MIT’s team designs and builds an electric car for the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 2, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our FAPnomenol Start of Sophomore Year! where we recount the tale of our first week back on campus

  

  present have done for us! Also *virtual hugs* for being our audience! It ... ! That’s some pretty new territory on these blogs, but for us it ... like to call it) for all of high school, and we’ve been twins, well, our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  longing for lessons past” way. I discovered 5 classes like that junior year ... seemed ideal—an elective for my Philosophy (Course 24-1) major and the final class for my Education (Course 11) concentration. Just in case, I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  four I attended last year. I’ll keep you updated for more Boston ... Eagle, Banana Republic, and Uniqlo—a gradient for different budgets. You ... England, behind Faneuil) for local seafood and international cuisine, of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Taxila despite the 10-20% acceptance rate. You have come prepared for any question. Never mind that your family cannot afford to pay for your ... scholar. For centuries, history had largely ignored the 1800-year

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

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  studying for the MCAT, the next great obstacle between me and medical school. The 6+ hour exam was scheduled for Friday, January 22nd, so I spent the ... and boundaries set for us as students. Instead, we are given autonomy to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Battle of the Boot storytime with Yuliya #1

  

  I was ecstatic. An educational video I had made for my IAP class was ... magnificent ceremony for all students (who each created a video), and there’d be ... for an escape maneuver up the toilet seat as I waited for the creature

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  outside when it's nice out. I admired the food as I waited for Katie to come ... go back to sleep. It had been a late night of work for both of us the ... Office)  where you can apply to be interviewed for a lot of different

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  coursework. The supervision work I talked about last week is only graded for ... for all of this graded coursework is that they are all based on ticks, a ... are 4 papers that are each 9-10 questions long. You have 3 hours for

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  interning for the next four weeks during Independent Activities Period (IAP ... finally figured out how to open the trunk to look for the ice scraper Zipcar ... unhealthy. We decided to get the bare necessities for lunch sandwiches

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  and cheered for their friends. My boyfriend's aunt leaned over to fill me in on who each model was: "that's the town masseuse!", for example ... vertigo returned today. I'm at the Conference of Research Experiences for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  :16 pm – A train express into Brooklyn 11:04 pm – waited for host to come ... waiting for the L train. They were great! 7:56 pm – heard ANOTHER band at ... record for a 9 day adventure of 23.7minutes. I scurried along to submit

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  For MIT students, we're most often having fun when we're way too busy ... Center and the day of Michael Jackson's death. For both of those days, I ... relative impacts and significances for those days by mentioning them together

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Parent’s Guide to CPW ...it's not just for Prefrosh!!

  

  weekend has in store for that set of guests. But before I do that here are ... encourage them “do their own thing” and know that it's good for you to do the same. It’s the best way for them to figure out if they are comfortable

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 6, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  enjoyed making things; that hasn't changed at all. This summer, for example ... I wanted to have a bike for when I came to campus in the fall. I didn ... and a metal post for a seat (ouch). I wanted something nice, something

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  Hey folks. I've been busy, which still isn't a good excuse for not ... was a fair benchmark for which course to declare, so Brain and Cog it is ... application to Cataldo EMS, a private ambulance service for which many MIT

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  power tools in their garage at home, and even for those that have worked ... introduce students to the tools they'll be using for 2.007. Today was my ... , so some of the processes have been streamlined for time efficiency

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009