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  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  moment I finally decide to roll out of bed? As a college student with a ... regimented to be useful when attempting to frame my life in increments of “days ... middle of May. As an aside, it may or may not be of interest to note that

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  to become the model student I felt pressure to be, but my plans never ... bottom of my locker. But this year was going to be different. This was MIT ... enjoyed. I would have to be rigorous, I told myself, and I would be forced

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  parents try to feed me coconuts, but this is of questionable veracity. My family then relocated to Carmel, Indiana, a city just north of Indianapolis ... house. Is it important to this story that I tell you my neighbor Ed used

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  10:25pm, Friday. I was sprinting down dorm row from French House to ... ) and together we ran across the street, to pick up another junior named ... Harvard, we scurried out the sliding doors in a frenzy. We made it to the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! (2010 Edition!) yay pictures!

  

  New York. I went to Europe for a week, where I had more great food. I am ... 's gaping maw ready to swallow me whole again. In other words... BRING IT ON ... tsk to the person who sent me pictures that were 20 MB EACH. dang son

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  perfect time to catch up on schoolwork and then get ahead in classes, if you ... . However, our awesome Next House wing reps Gabe '11 and Sam '09 forced me to ... with each other. The dorm gives them an annual budget to spend at their

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  IAP, as you might have heard, is a fun and exciting time to be at MIT ... work hours. But today I was finally able to attend one of the seminars I ... , but I'm really glad I went. The topic, you might be surprised, to know

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maybe I’m Amazed ...but not until Season 13, at least.

  

  reason that they keep changing to Power Rangers: Zeo or Power Rangers ... season of the Japanese show and have to switch to a new season of the show ... and get right down to business. What's happened since you last heard

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  figure that can wait a few days. Because I got to thinking this afternoon ... 'T KNOW! I NEED SOME TIME TO THINK! So here are a few of my thoughts on the ... engineering curriculum at MIT, which is structured to hit you with most of your

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  . After that, I dedicated all of my time to studying for the 8.02 exam that was held 7:30 that night. I finished around 9:15, got back to my room ... somehow managed to forget that my Gaussian surface was a cylinder and not a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  the blogs and imagining a future in Cambridge—having the opportunity to ... note="independent activities period! four weeks in January to do whatever ... differently and this was just what I found to be the best for me. I spent my

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  Launch – the biggest party of the year. Equipped with enough fanfare to ... 12 weeks to create a prototype and present it to a live audience of ... lucky with how it worked out for me. We had just 12 weeks to go from

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown, Friendsgiving, and the Erosion of Deep Literacy

  

  is like 10 pages of blog, and I still have more to say!"]There's a lot ... Mrs. Patterson had alluded to all week while we sat on the floor of her kindergarten classroom (the class next door even came over to join us, it was

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 20, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  regarding the plot. I highly encourage you to play the game if you haven’t, it ... My Head [annotation note="Right now I plan to keep finding music to go ... comes to math. To some extent, I’ve learned how to quiet this voice: I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  at 4 PM, my apartment’s heaters start to kick in and create a truly alarming amount of sound, and I begin to oscillate between my desk and my ... ’re wondering about the process we follow to evaluate applications here at MIT

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  decided to take 36 units, because we knew that senior fall would be busy ... of the big reasons we decided to take course 6 classes in the first place was just to work our way up to this class. And after taking it, we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  Before coming to MIT, I consumed a lot of Content™ about college ... via the endless stream of short-form videos spoonfed to me by various ... all added up to a lot of expectations—both conscious and subconscious

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  .02 (Electricity and Magnetism) subjects that most all MIT students take to giving up hours of their time to making sure students feel comfortable with the course material, both professors have contributed so much to the physics

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  the 17th to saturday the 29th i went into lab every single day. i justified it with the fact that i didn't have any classes to take my time away ... them look all shy, and i had to learn how to perform transplant surgeries

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  funk. A deep funk. It took me awhile to notice. A few long months ... I am, nor who I want to be I've made decisions and said things that don't feel true to my values everything feels off   trauma has

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2025