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

  

  bell. Announcements are made while we eat, and I think about my Google ... Hi everyone! I’m Callie T, and Ellie invited me to share what my day looks like as a junior studying physics! 11:15 — I ignore my alarm. 11

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  amazement that the images from google were true. I was here. Now, once I got ... your way to campus, I thought I’d share a few words on my experience at CPW last year in your shoes. Well, I had never been to Boston before, so

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  Dan made a wrapper that turns a web app into an iOS app, an open source ... Longtime readers may recall that I am a big fan of the His Dark ... shaped how I move through the world, as you may have seen in my blog posts

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  In high school, I neglected many of my personal interests to make time and space for schoolwork and extracurriculars. I told myself that I ... interests in college because I would have more time since I wouldn’t be in

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New ZigZag and more A new episode of MIT's video podcast, and Susan Hockfield speaks out on energy research.

  

  As you know, MIT is embarking on a mission to tackle the world's energy and environment problems. Today, I've got two pieces of media to ... and building alternative vehicles capable of 300 miles or more per

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  a modern twist. This post is a very meta post about why I haven’t been posting--or for a more dramatic flair, The 7 Capital Vices I Have Oft ... .”   2. HUBRIS (aka, Biting Off More Than You Can Chew). Sometimes I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bubbles and UROPs OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question, because I…

  

  . Some interesting theories have been tossed around, and I'd like to discuss them, because I have nothing better to do with my life. First off, super biology queen Mollie says, "I'm sure at least some of the foam is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ‘13 The second in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Heads To M.I.T By Fraendy Clervaud WJBF News Channel 6 Reporter June 4 ... Technology. Terence Dalbert, M.I.T.-bound: "Its going to be hard leaving my family. I’m going to a whole other area." Graduating with a 4.0 GPA

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  Final year at MIT is done! I don’t miss it… yet. But the realization ... adult. For now, my life hasn’t changed. I have a summer job at MIT ... and lacks the permanent feeling of a full-time job offer. Right now, I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  choice to take 75 units) rather than on MIT per se. I'm also a happy ... weekend I visited Harvard Medical School's Biological and Biomedical ... . I got to hear stories about my UROP professor as a graduate student (I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  't even feel like work. I've also been working on my other two jobs, a web ... This past week and a half I've been slowly adjusting to life at MIT again. I spent the two whole weeks of break just complaining about

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  stalker I have -- and apparently I have a few -- to effectively google me ... I've been unbelievably hosed the past few days doing a combination of the following: 1. Analyzing data and writing as much as I can on the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Central Ohio Summer Send-Off Event celebrating the Infinite Connection

  

  guests here is unsurpassed in warmth and joy. Last year, I came as a fearful though pumped pre-frosh. I could not even fantasize the reality of college life. Would my sister Skype with me often? How could I stick all my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  , I mean.']special significance[/annotation] as the day I began my life and work at MIT, ten years ago today. I've been thinking about what I ... enormous, too [annotation note='I remember, shortly after I got my job I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  -immigrant visa for a temporary stay. Per federal regulations, if I want to work off ... than 20 hours per week during the semester, but I don’t work enough hours ... office hours just a few weeks later. They were both under the guise that I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What did YOU do this weekend? Laura's jam-packed-action-filled adventurous fin de semana.

  

  I don't know about you, but I had a pretty awesome weekend. First of all, I checked my exam grade for 18.01 on-line. Then I started running ... 's that? Because I got the highest test grade I've gotten at MIT by about

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wish I Joined the MIT 100K as a Freshman four years of this would've been great

  

  I look at the clock - it's 5 am. I started working at 3 pm. What just happened? No pset, no exam, no looming deadline. I spent the past 14 hours working on stuff for the MIT 100K Competition. I started helping out with

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 8, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  6.5 Years Post-Graduation, I’m a Beading Artist a twisty path

  

  About 6.5 years ago, I graduated with a Philosophy degree and a minor ... from Northwestern University’s science and health journalism program, I returned to the blogs to let people know: “I did not graduate from MIT on

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  class. For essays, I've seen both 1/3rd of a letter grade penalty per day and 1/2 of a letter grade penalty per day for late submissions. I ... There is this class I'm taking called 18.100B (Real Analysis) which I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Update It's been an amazing year!

  

  what's been going on in my life so I thought I'd throw together a giant life update to catch you all up to speed.   Hair   If I ... year, it has to be the volume of hair on my head. Although I always

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 21, 2012