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  Celena in CPW-Land (Guest Entry) Skipping school to have fun, duh!

  

  array of people (By the way, did everyone start their conversations with ... By Celena Chan '12 So here I am, writing this, and it just hits me ... the sucky-ness of being home, but rather, I'll reminisce on the good

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The most beautiful class schedule yes. good

  

  result of me procrastinating by better defining my *actual* interests ... approach these questions by studying three opposing theories of justice ... likely demoralize you until your stash of motivation is entirely depleted

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • February 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  , the conference’s content focused on the untold truths of Social ... make a difference." One of the great things about being at one of the top universities in the world is being right next to another one of the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams an MIT event

  

  -campus premiere of the documentary Underwater Dreams. The film follows the journey of four high school students from the Arizona desert, who in 2004 won ... of the winning team’s members were legally documented in the United

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 7, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A Typical Friday Afternoon on a Thursday Honoring the decades old (?) tradition of the East Campus Friday Afternoon Club (FAC)

  

  East Campus is unique for a wide variety of reasons. We build roller ... bajillion cats (SO MANY KITTENS RIGHT NOW). But a time-honored tradition of East Campus is our Friday Afternoon Club, or FAC. Every Friday of the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  The Last Day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach as part of the MIT-Germany Global Teaching Labs Program

  

  since my first day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach. Surrounded by excellent ... information from my colleagues, teaching my last lesson with a group of ... of Passau. But now I find myself alone with my thoughts, reminiscing

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  , having four tests in the space of about a week was pretty common, and pretty manageable. I studied as much as I needed to and went to bed by11 or ... bombing one of them could bring my score down almost irreparably. So while

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  Here at MIT, and - let's be honest, since this is more of a lifetime advice blog (written by someone who went to all her Tuesday classes with ... weeks I will have spent a few trillion hours taking three midterms (two of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  pairs, and three, they have this look of excitement that is shared only by ... everybody likes happy, right? This weekend is parents weekend, so instead of just seeing the faces of young students and old professors, you start to

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  if we were lured by the idea of talking to prospective students or the ... 've called more pre-frosh than I can count, though sadly about half of you were out of your houses (MIT pre-frosh are busy people, apparently). So if I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  finals week, and by Christmas Eve, most of the people living in our hall ... some of my friends who were international students wouldn’t go home because it’s too far, or because there’s only a break of two weeks before

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  months immersing myself in as many books as I can cram in the windows of free time that I have. Here’s a picture of my bookshelf that has grown ... semester was kind of in a lull period in terms of work, I vowed to finish a

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  By Pamela Ban ('12?) I had eagerly awaited CPW, and it was heaven ... activities that spanned the course of the four days. Have nothing to do? Look ... MIT campus sits on the side of the Charles River, and the sororities and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate: Latke vs. Hamentashen The post-coverage.

  

  - Professor of Political Science (middle right) The debate was moderated by ... , Jewish food is not. However, tonight, one of the largest lecture halls at ... unique is that the professors use their own field of expertise to support

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  together by an indiscernible combination of tape, glue, and more glue, it sat ... be stiff. We were intimidated by the other teams' looks of ruthless ... obscene hours of the morning to attend a 2 hour long double lecture. And you

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Testing the Waters There comes a time in every man's life when he has to make a choice.…

  

  by three hours of MedLinks training, but I got pushed off the front of ... 24 hours I finished two problem sets, read four articles (one of which was written by my professor), wrote a short paper on emerging diseases

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Seen and Not Seen I wonder, twice, if I might have made a similar mistake.

  

  diminished somewhat by the inevitable social awkwardness of meeting him--I mean ... DID YOU KNOW? The melody of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's "I Don't Know How To Love Him" is remarkably similar to that of the second movement of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  Wow, lots of questions to address today! I guess I'll start by ... few months ago, I wrote a summary of my last project; a paper describing the results of that project is currently being reviewed for publication

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  , though, by the end of the winter, Boston had received 90+ inches of snow. To be honest, I was completely and totally sick of snow by the end of ... Well, I've reached my first "last" of the year... I just put the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  tired and busy and tired and busy and tired and busy and

  

  A couple updates: I quit two of my jobs I'm taking 4 classes and two of them are technicals and two of them are not, but one of the not-technical classes are still a lot of work I am good, I am okay But I am very tired

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 15, 2022