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• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  among students. On average, the time spent on work per week is between 23 ... numbers are, of course, mere approximations. Depending on the professor and ... -56 hours per week on just Unified. 2.009 Product Engineering Processes, the

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

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  dew had dried on the grass and the daybreak cold was over. The twins had ... three dark brown hairs on the pillow and two on the bed; the other had dropped a pillow onto the floor and left four hairs on the bed. For the next

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  , is all around us. Its fruits are bore on every billboard, every cereal ... on an appeal to our logic (logos) by quoting statistics on shot blocks ... and recommendation on the politically tortuous issuance of the

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  I didn’t attend MIT this spring. I flew to Georgia on February 28th ... my backpack down on the Trail, extra stuff weighs us down emotionally ... Max Brenner (a must-have dessert stop on Boylston Street). But I no

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  things scary on Halloween: college applications and cats. College ... movies on a cold, dark Halloween night. Anna: Now, picture this: Cam and I ... store. The headlights fell on a cute little kitty who jumped off the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  different floors (Conner 2 through Conner 5, Burton 1 through Burton 5) on two different halves of the dorm. The numbers refer to the floor number. I live on ... forms filled out (take note, do not try to fill out all of the forms on

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  *witty title here* (Guest Entry) You want awesome? I'll show you awesome!

  

  flew in on Wednesday so that we could have a day for travel and use it to ... and retired to our room.That night I tooled away on Calculus homework ... the most) at 10:30. Thinking there is no way on Earth that I'll wake up

  • by Snively '11
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  rambling about my fixation about the East Coast culture and move on to CPW. :)So, I officially arrived at MIT on Thursday, only to be greeted by my ... registration desk. I got a booklet of the several hundred events going on during

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  for the all-you-can-eat lunch buffet. On the upside, we've been ... than you can shake a stick at (7.20, 7.23, 7.27, 7.28, 7.29). On an even ... just run-of-the-mill icky like I do right now), you can head yourself on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  . I have my name on a poster that was presented at the Society for Neuroscience meeting and on a paper that's being revised for publication in Cell ... on in the lab, the experiments were designed almost exclusively by the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  great chance to get outside and watch some fire athleticism on Roberts and ... lacrosse, I’m also a member of Greek life, a senior chair on the Chem ... Computation Structures, and I’m an active member of a fraternity on campus. Tell

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  shepherd’s pie and an apple with peanut butter for lunch. Then I work on my ... I’m anxious to finish it on time so I can get started on my work for next week. 2:45 p.m. It’s hard to tell whether I’m making progress on

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  A Week in the Life of a Student-Athlete feat. women's soccer & meche

  

  ,[/annotation] and concept generation, we gave a presentation to our class on our ... between my teammates with our huge puffer jackets on and passing around a ... hangers on it. My teammate Remi and I went together, and we were taught how

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  fall. People are good at calibrating on the physical level of risk they're in, such that whenever you feel you could slip or fall on your back ... you should subvert it to go beyond what you can do. — I'm stuck on the

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  of shit I was going to eat, sometimes served on a high-speed conveyor ... . I cried a lot, often in my room or empty classrooms on campus, with ... , the drop in motivation that followed put a crushing weight on my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  accompanied us on indigenous percussion (such as a washboard-like instrument ... teacher was actually Eliberto Barroncas – the instrument maker we met on day ... an hour. The rehearsal stretched on for so long that we didn’t get to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  a salmonella saga weekend outing tingz

  

  left my dorm. there was so much going on all the time that I didn ... -COVID (lmao), and since I had already planned on going to a festival in ... people to hop on board. as we got closer to time, I started to question

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  I've sort of been implying this on the blogs for a while now, but I ... MIT, but still go on to do an MEng, or do a multi-year grad program ... doing those things for fun on my own time. I've always felt like I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  ...nah. while on campus, i'm grinding through pset after pset and using my ... after expending most of my mental energy on attending classes that aren ... things i was planning on doing this quarantine. damn. here are my initial

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  an identity and confidence that didn’t depend on my grades. At the same ... taking it online in the middle of the woods on two hours of sleep (yes. I ... [/annotation]. On the other end of the academic spectrum, [annotation note

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020