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  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  My second year of college just ended. I’ve been trying to think of a ... halfway point at MIT. Usually when I sit down to write a blog post, I like ... profound or at least informative on the subject. But the truth is, as a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  Thursday a feeling: walked home in 24-degree weather after ... . a fragment: narratives as mnemonic devices a story: i spent last weekend eating photogenic desserts with a friend who thinks everything

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  Hey there!  Haven't seen you in a while.  And by "seen" I mean "you ... reading an MIT Admissions blog post by Michael C. '16." Anyway. Around a ... me to do a Reddit-style AMA (Ask Me Anything) post.  I wasn't able to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  Kesem MIT is a one-week, free summer camp that takes place towards the end ... by cancer. Each summer, a combination of kids and counselors (all of whom are MIT students) come together for a week of pure camp fun – filled

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  one cried, as we all gaped at him. "It seems that your students are a ... remember) here?" A brunette near the front of the room slowly stood up, and ... my seat – and delivered a full serenade. Some knelt down, some held

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  recommendation -- one from a math or science teacher ("Evaluation A") and one from a humanities teacher ("Evaluation B"). If you are applying this year ... ) -- I hope that you have already asked your teachers if they can write a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  Today I neglected to bring a jacket to class. As the afternoon waned ... . Nonetheless, after a quick homemade dinner of soba, ginger, almonds, and dewy ... symptoms of tuberculosis. On the flip side of the burger (to coin a stupid

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Internet is Gonna Get Me In lieu of studying, I finally get around to answering your questions.

  

  asymptomatic again and the cycle repeats). So I'm in the reading room. It's a ... .) This entry is a bit long, and without pictures because my camera is still broken (if you guys would like to remedy that, it's a Canon Powershot SD600

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  nauseous. I guess a long weekend is a somewhat good time to get hit with ... tests, right? -- but it's kind of a disappointment. I'm hoping to bounce back by tomorrow, when a bunch of my friends are going to Fire and Ice

  • 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…

  

  A few entries back, Lena asked "How did you get the job in the lab ... professors whose work looked interesting, including my resume and a short cover ... took the job. I've been in that lab for two and a half years now; I work

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  -and-outs of making a film—from the very beginning of storyboarding and ... more modern tech in the form of a Canon 70D. For our final project, we were tasked with creating a short film, about 3 minutes in length, from

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i used a selfie stick for good and other things i did in 6.811

  

  technology (PPAT)! it's a higher level interdisciplinary course 6 class that ... has grown into a gem that features the best guest speakers in the field, interactive labs (including navigating campus in a wheelchair), and lots of

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 4, 2014
• Blog / Events

  And I’m leaving, on a . . . cruise ship? Don't know when I'll be back again.

  

  Melis just blogged about Senior Ball so I figured that it'd be a good time to blog about a nice little semi-formal event that wasn't just for ... because JKim was around for this too. Burton-Conner had a dinner cruise

  • by Snively '11
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  A sample of life in the past week A summary of a million events in 7 days!

  

  I can’t imagine what it must be like to face such a tragedy, I think I ... front page has an article about Susan Athey, a 36-year old Harvard ... , MIT Professor Daron Acemoglu won the award. “Professor Athey has been a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 21, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Photos of Freshman Spring 📸 My attempt to take a photo a day for an entire semester.

  

  last year of eligibility for a ~special program~ my local library ran ... be entered in a lottery for a $1000 dollar scholarship. For kids up to ... Period, I stumbled upon an idea for a Cool Project™. Blue Period is a manga

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • October 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  meetings in the ready room, a room next to the shooting range itself. On the ... days long, and on the eighth day of the class, there'd be a short competition, when we'd have ten minutes to discharge six shots into a paper

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  socializing safely ...but also leaving my room maybe once a day

  

  Cambridge area. however, even if there wasn't a pandemic, I wouldn't be able ... , and it's been...exhausting, in a sense; I miss being able to bump into ... went to campus recently to get a [annotation note="all students were

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  because a lot of the clubs required interviews. Being a wide-eyed frosh with ... going to countless recruitment events and throwing my hat into a whole ... On August 31st, I had a call with Kellen about running the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  It's been a few weeks since many of you have submitted your applications (and a few months for many others), and I know right now you may be ... about where I'd end up in just a few months. The only way to give each and

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  d-d-d-d-drop date late is good sometimes

  

  paper and do that pset when you have a puppy to play with. Thanksgiving ... so that I could go home for less than a thousand dollars. The fried turkey was nice, though. The Wednesday that I missed was a really special

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 27, 2018