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• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  year and I've learned a lot. I lived for the first time with friends in a ... to learn over the past two years, or as much of it as I could, not for ... small reminders for myself for the future. finding a place Clearly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  I was taking a look at my calendar for next week, and I thought that ... seeing shooting stars for the first time because we’d gone hundreds of ... data for my thesis right now. It’s involved multiple reinstalls of Python

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  have in store for me. And yet, here I am, in my third year, still ... -time. Exams and psets I don't have enough time to study for or complete. Classes ... , training. The skating season is year-round, no breaks, hardly any room for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  . And yet I’ve been happy on the East Side for three years. That said, East Campus is not a dorm for everyone, but neither is any dorm at MIT ... community that fits you. For this post on East Campus pros and cons, I asked

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  find summertime a particularly good season for the things I used to do ... those kids that would hide somewhere for six hours with a thick book (usually fantasy) until one of my parents found me and, for the millionth

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  went a little differently for me as an upperclassman than it did for me ... seeing and doing on campus. They didn’t even register for the weekend ... together—or as back together as we can be until she comes home for Christmas

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  usually announcing an available UROP or a company seeking applicants for ... . Literally dozens of opportunities for you to explore new research or get a job ... experience I’m still stacking up on, which is a chance for me to babble about

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  for a tubular products company, TMK IPSCO. What I did not mention is ... to South Korea for two weeks to work on a project. In the words of one ... with some of the coolest people in the world. And it did happen for a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  , and it’s especially prevalent over IAP. I teach Hebrew for fun and as a ... especially useful for anyone planning on doing MISTI Israel. In one of the ... Engineering and Computer Science I'm doing two activities for this IAP. The

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  major who has been a campus leader at MIT for the past 4 years. In ... . Check it out! So Andrea thanks for sitting down with me to do this ... for what I wanted to study. In my junior year I applied to the MITES

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  Well, for one thing, they are all whole numbers. For another, they ... you that =p SOOO it's T -2.5 days for all you Early Applicants! If you ... day, I'll be hopping on a jet plane, bound for the tropical island of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  . This ended well for both parties - with a PARTY! Pun totally intended ... . Here goes: Zaira ponders: What type of laptop should I get for college ... , Marilee was def using a Macbook for her info session so I know that Macs

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  partner Cory and I have been together for almost nine years now. We met in ... High? Teaching was weird. One of my first times reserving a room for ... that room at all, and finally said I could have the room just for this

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  about this — call [annotation note="a service repair hotline for on ... else to do it right that second. It took about a month for it to be fixed. For three straight weekends in June, I went on hikes. My road

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] This is Junior Lab, not Junior Theory By Jorian B. '25

  

  is a test-run for the workflow of a “full” experiment. For the intro ... 4-page paper. These are graded for completion! The format is hard the ... for 5 lab sessions and write an associated paper + presentation (I did

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  calorimeter was actually a pretty good analogy for my life, and then I decided I ... Experiences to enjoy outside of this box. I also have some options for the way I ... for the undergrad. ii. I started writing this blog in the fall, when

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

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  computer screen in the coming weeks. For the record, it's virtually unheard of for MIT prefrosh to write guest blogs before CPW. Cam's situation is ... intersection of my life and MIT – which is surprisingly large for a high school

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  bags for a bustling East Coast adventure. This year, we went on a ... requested for sensitive information like my social security number. I even ... suspicious. The email was an invitation to the White House for celebrating the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  Experimentation I also shopped 21M.601 - Drawing for Designers for a couple weeks, but I was very much not built for 7-10PM classes.   8 ... , centers instead on dynamics. This was my favorite class this semester, for a

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  blog post of that nature. Frankly, I've been overdue for such a post, both in the sense that I haven't appeared on the admissions blogs for a ... sparing a thought for all the woes which continue to sit in the back of my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022