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  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  requirements for 6-3 and honestly a class I've been dreading for quite a while ... -S requirement and luckily for me 9.00 is offered in the spring time! I'm really ... Culture; I am extremely excited for this class. It's taught by Ed Schiappa

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  downright dangerous, especially for a woman travelling solo. Luckily I didn ... the name, short for 'help exchange'). If the helper is lucky, they ... was hard for me, because I like to shower after I run every day. Also

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  ™: Survive and Thrive. ...and practice what I preach of course for my two exams this semester: 6.046 and 7.012.   [STEP 1] TRAIN FOR BATTLE ... actually started studying for 6.046 the day before the last day of classes. I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how the first midterms actually were xoxo gossip girl?

  

  going to get canceled for the almost two years I had it planned, and the ... today to confirm that I have lost my powers. MIT is infamous for humbling ... .02 (Multivariable Calculus) My first midterm was for 18.02, which has been my

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 15, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  's like trying to pop a pimple, where you'd poke and prod at the pimple for ... was incredibly knowledgeable, approachable, and kind. When I asked for help, I received it. I wasn't prepared for the level of rigor that this

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  write an essay about how you dealt with a significant challenge for your application - or perhaps you're in the middle of writing yours for this season ... for Girls in various combinations, I totally bombed the last AMC I ever

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  of Absence for Academic Year 2020-2021, and afterwards it's unlikely I ... where it would be kept and for how long) or a storage facility in Boston ... ?" or "can I part with this for an indeterminate amount of time?" boxes

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  Everything's going just fine! I'm registered for classes, the grad ... vent. A while back when I was asking people for recommendation letters, my PI of three years made a suggestion. He wanted to nominate me for a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  trigger warnings for mentions of depression, EDs, and anxiety I don ... increased use of social media. For example: [caption id="attachment_47700 ... ..."]my skincare routine.[/annotation] It's been doing wonders for my mental health

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  , of course, won't make things easy for you, but I hope that some of ... , brace yourself for lift-off or landing. Get to know your professors and UROP mentors. The best way to treat the Impostor Syndrome for me was to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  Anna's asked me to write for her blog. And, since this is Anna, there ... trips were for Chinese language (funded by the always-generous Global Education Office) and the last for research on village reconstruction projects

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  best known for the transformation of the hyperbolic cosine function into ... '13ers for the ceaseless rounds of free food that will be slung at them ... association sponsored a luncheon today for the acceptees and their genetic

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  ? Jess Kim is one of those people for me. I was debating earlier on what ... . I went home a few weeks ago for a weekend, since I won't be going home ... the people waiting for me at the airport would just leave because they

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 4

  

  Sunday. Just look for the person with the "MIT" sign near the baggage claim ... ), or the subway ($1.25). The subway trip can be a little confusing for ... MIT are paying for flights for students to get to Boston (CPW). Is that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  MIT for almost four years, I had not yet explored Boston's food scene as ... only visited Boston for a few weeks, knows more places to eat out than I ... compensate for my sad brunch, some friends and I went to Punto Rojo – a small

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  for every major. Most of this was out of curiosity and [annotation note ... possible class schedules for colleges I didn't even apply to. Something about ... credits for your major, [annotation note="General Institute Requirements

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SONIC JUBILANCE A day at the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building at MIT

  

  have secured a room in the Institute for holding their rehearsals this ... architects as a studio for water-color sketching and life class, and as a ... , and for the next several decades—which marked MIT’s move from Boston to

  • by Jeremy W.
  • February 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  I originally registered for 60 units of classes this semester: 18 ... Listener. I registered full time for all four, half convinced I would drop ... for first time teaching assistants in ESG(the Experimental Study Group

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  response was No." Obviously, I don't know for sure if this is the true ... . For example, I would probably reject anyone who asked me out if they ... reason for rejecting someone. But it would just be way too awkward to date

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  semester, maybe three, which for me is probably an all-time low. Of course ... format for blogs, and that I would resort to them often.  The reason I like lists so much is that they are perfect for dumping all of your thoughts

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022