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  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  conference. I had neighbors on the same floor. 419 to my 421. And quickly we ... career with no family to come home to seems like a surefire way to get ... I own). Here he is getting ready for bed: Here he is in the morning

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  For those whose applications have been interrupted by disasters and disruptions providing what information and comfort we can

  

  you and figure out a way to make sure we get your application and ... allows you to get the rest of your life in order first. And, most ... not, there is no way to simply put your head down in college and learn a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 29, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  't need to pack your schedule with APs to get into a good school. You know, the reason APs help your application, as far as I can tell, is because ... applications ask for your unweighted GPA, so the fact that your GPA is 26.2 on a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  they get to the author. --- CPW has been by far one of the best ... attention to myself. By the way, those boards are amazing. The professor ... the best burgers I had during the weekend). And I also got to try those

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  like Willow by the end of the semester, but I'll definitely try to get ... want to see is something like a person falling through the floor (via ... way possible for me to take a quantum engineering class and get over my

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Results of My Summer cookies, web usability, and painting

  

  the site is translated by bilingual volunteers, but many nuances of the ... consistency of icons and the familiarity of the website to ensure that the artists make full use of the website's features. Which is awesome, because

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick hello from Albuquerque I'm in New Mexico for ISEF.

  

  Musical kids yet, either) Tomorrow, I will get to have breakfast with the ISEF finalists who are members of the MIT Class of 2011, then I'll get to ... Ghostbusters II"); even the Red Sox game was canceled (Bostonians can tell by the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Are We Waiting For answer: FPOPs to begin!

  

  way through a ropes course. Learn to paint. Roll your own sushi. Wear ... students an early introduction to in the social life of learning at MIT. As the FPOP website says: Build an underwater vehicle. Make friends. Work

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to MIT! blogging guilt eased...

  

  by incredibly quickly, and I don’t doubt that the next year will as ... /lounges/libraries/other favorite study spot to ready themselves for the barrage of final projects and ... from Chris P.) for a few minutes to welcome all the new pre-frosh to MIT

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  old times – it was mundane in the best way. I said goodbye to my parents ... entire way in which Russia is handling the pandemic (by pretending that it ... possible, and sanitized my hands at every chance I could get, which is by

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  to document on my blog, is the sheer nerdiness of most everyday ... ordinary that I often forget all about them before I get the chance to ... cars actually latch on to the cables and get pulled along for the ride

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Road I’m On Life's a lot to think about sometimes...

  

  get to glimpse my innermost(ish) thoughts. And by you, I mean the entire ... the end of the day, they aren't going to do your psets for you, or call ... . You're going to be the one who has to take charge of that. And there

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  Phone note I'm typing into, I now see that, at this point, the best option is ... attention since as a Senior Blogger I get to read your blogger applications ... Writing is difficult. It's the last day in July.* I find it very easy

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  , for example, is How to Phone Your Old Man. The other readings for the ... earlier this semester. While the card is indeed useful for getting into Harvard libraries, my primary use for it is to ride the M2 shuttle for free

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  , and make my way across campus to get free zinneken's at the stud as part ... to do is set up some positive controls and put it in the plate reader ... 't feel like walking. the problem with early sunsets is that once i do get

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

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

  

  wanted to take a language this fall and I really think Spanish is the way ... physics! It is by far the hardest subject for me to grasp conceptually. I ... to get 100s on the psets and above 80s on the remaining midterms, which

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

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  to the humanities, but I’ve quickly learned that this just isn’t true ... significant, but I quickly learned I wouldn't be able to handle the class along ... what to expect. While the information I learned was useful, it couldn

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  how to spend a summer Spending a summer in Boston a la Bryan

  

  list of things to do is by no means expansive and there are probably a ... thing I suggest is getting a T-Pass. During the semester, I don't plan on ... was able to get on the T, miss a stop, get off at the wrong stop as much

  • by Bryan
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 2) 12 hours of coastal biking and other Spanish adventures

  

  each their own. A little caffeine and treat is one of the best ways to ... food. On my way back to reconvene with Gosha, I stopped by a cafe and was ... logistically easier to spend a day going one way and the following day going back

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 11, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  this one is the most difficult answer to get. Every student on the ... the news with as much interest as your kids are. But getting the "answer ... this is the answer that all our applicants want to see when the decisions

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009