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  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  a few different things in my already congested brain. One, things are ... ,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest series adieu (not going to lie, it’s a bittersweet feeling). Approximately three months ago, I stepped out of a six hour

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  because one of them is a 3 unit class, meaning it really doesn't take up ... originally took 8.02 this past spring, but got a 25% on the first midterm ... recover from that. Or there was a very slight chance of it, but I just had

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  either an acronym or a number. There's a quirky language to MIT, a handful of words we made up and toss at each other — here are a few you may hear around campus here at CPW! contents: glossary: a random

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28 by Andre H. ‘24

  

  wrote a lovely blog post to document all the behind-the-scenes work that ... invite a student leader to help set the tone for the weekend and welcome everyone to campus. Andre H. '24 gave a great speech that was equal parts fun

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 21, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  phone to look at the time, my heart skips a beat. Noon? Already?!? I ... needed to wash my hair, I decide to take a shower. Between that, getting ... hour? A friend asks me if I’m going to [annotation note="8.01 is

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  things. CMS.616 - Games and Culture; A class that talks about the impact ... just needed to take a CS class this year and I heard very good things ... a dentist appointment, and catch the 1 bus and run over to 26-100 for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  of the class further by "introducing a moral question concerning food choices or food policy through a medium such as a pamphlet, lesson plan ... some form of activism around food justice, but writing a blog post seemed

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  CollegeBoard send them to us, but for a definitive answer you should call ... file. There is no need to give us a heads ... CBSE system...also...i had a very high precentage in our class 10 public

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  ever since. the past week and a half has been truly bad. and a lot of it ... ’s probably not a lot, and i’ve had friends who’ve gone through more. but i like ... ,[/annotation] which went fine; i did a little better than i expected to do. saturday

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  , still a respectable amount of time by most peoples’ standards. Saturday ... tired. Tired. Exhausted. Bushed. Ready to curl up into a ball and sleep ... ’t start out that way. The year begins innocuously enough, wooing you into a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  marked our second year as part of the consortium, and we’ve received a lot ... short answer is: we’ve been doing a lot! So we asked Claire, one of our STARS (Small-Town and Rural Student) Ambassadors, to give you a quick

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  .” You may have even uttered a version of it yourself. For me – in high ... even more by saying that there are many ways in which I am a “typical MIT student” (if such a thing even exists!) – for starters, check out the shirt

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  :00 a.m. EST- Sabar Drumming Class Before you graduate, the Institute not ... MIT is an acronym, or as I like to say "L.E.A.M.I.T.I.A.A"(did you catch ... ethnomusicologist. It's a fascinating examination of the relationship between culture

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  email about letters of recommendation. A composite of these questions ... have known me for a few weeks]. Who should I ask to write letters on my ... sentences might be different —  "I transferred schools, and..."; "I took a mix

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  happened for sure. Yet, it was mixed with a variety of other complicated and ... . For my classes with synchronous lectures, I never missed a single one. I ... energy it took to do all these things was always quite a bit. It didn

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  The Oreo Post i tried them all* !

  

  In July 2018, in my application to be a blogger, I left a note at the ... and writing a review at the end of the process. If hired as a blogger, I ... all associated anecdotes and photos. It is now May 2023. I have been a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  this is a post by my good friend aidan chambers '23 who is a physics ... certain that someone has already given a more insightful and better written ... worst experience I’ve had so far as a Physics major here. While many

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  hit with a case of writer's block, so I went through at least five ... getting a triple would be a nightmare. But I got lucky because we all have ... the wall collect a whole box-full of water bottles so we could make a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  other way we know how to write a joint post. Alan: …ok. So, anyways, what ... knowledge of MIT’s campus and all its many quirks. Their blog also has a lot ... feels like a leading question. CJ: The correct response is “I’ll get to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  During quarantine, I enrolled in The Science of Well-Being, a free course hosted by Yale on the online learning platform Coursera. A friend from my living community suggested that a group of us take the course

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020