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• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  semester of working all day and into the night, and snatching thirty minutes of relaxation at the very end at the cost of thirty minutes of sleep; a semester of realizing that of the x things i have due tomorrow, only floor

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Waiting… and a more serious note about pre-decisions at the end

  

  about some of the things I did to avoid thinking about decisions ... some of the questions are pretty repetitive so it kinda feels like you ... The Linnaean Gardens of Uppsala, a botanical garden in Sweden. It's very

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 15, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  , particularly during first semester; part of it stemmed from trying to find the ... . MIT is a very exciting place. For most of the things you'll be ... little pockets of the MIT landscape. And I stayed in some, and realized

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  ="Burton-Conner"]BC[/annotation]this afternoon, and it truly felt like home <3 Despite the bulk of my traveling ... this somewhere near the top of my list. I am so, so, so, so excited. I ... together over the summer, and it's quickly become one of my favorite

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  travel, this might be the next best thing to help keep yourself abreast of ... , good for you. But the odds are very good that it won't work out as well ... , keep these hints in the back of your mind. If your high school / current

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins Putnam math competition

  

  undergraduate mathematics competition in North America. Of the top 5 students ... , Civil & Environmental Engineering). Twenty of the top 75 competitors ... total of 120 possible points. Nearly 4,000 students sat for the exam

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Trashion Show from rubbish to runway

  

  the other UA Sustainability committees, the audience, and a panel of ... ’t know what would. By the time I had arrived, there were already boxes of ... membership. I also enjoyed the tables full of delicious chocolate

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  the inner workings of a company I have friends working all around the ... in the Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program (UPOP). Both of ... you can spent 40 hours per week in the lab instead of the 5-12 hours

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Tracking update All EA application mail has been processed; check your MyMIT Tracking.

  

  weeks of reading to be done, so as long as you get us the copies in a ... , the teacher may fax a copy to us. If they need another copy of the ... had the testing agency send us, then you may fax us a copy of an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skies over MacGregor Views of campus, Boston, and the Charles River from ten stories up.

  

  the summer. Specifically, he lived in B entry, which consists of the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth floors of the high rise and is broken up into ... floor, with colossal windows on two of the walls, and we also had a suite

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Everything I ever wanted to know about making stuff.

  

    Many thanks to the Global Grand Challeneges Summit staff for the photos, and to Ed McCann and Mark Murcko for some of the anecdotes and quotes of the scientists featured here.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dress your wounds and stay in bed self care!

  

  of the other skills I practiced was self-care. I learned to let myself ... after I ran myself and select members of the engineering department into ... took another day off that week, too, and felt good by the weekend. This

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  the last 26 days in my hometown – Columbia, MO. Located in the heart of ... entirely out of the desire to hardcore om nom nom on these suckers to prove ... The last time I wrote a post as I was flying at some undetermined

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When Econ Comes to Life This has nothing to do with econ, but you should watch it.

  

  , there's usually a table in the back of the room that's piled full of "helpful handouts." Although I've since forgotten what most of the papers ... up in her room. At last count (beginning of the year this year), I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Brass Rat The Brass Rat is not a subtle thing.

  

  distributed at a swanky event at Top of the Hub, a very classy restaurant at the top of Boston's Prudential Tower. (In case anybody missed the implication, Top of the Hub is not somewhere students usually have the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  in the eyes of the vendors and I become invisible. They talk to the ... class at The Ohio State University and I am one of three females in a ... , only a quarter of the math department are women. … I do not get credit

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  must confess that it was a short struggle. The plethora of options was so ... years on the same floor, and in the same room for three of those four ... making housing arrangements. I have compiled a list of the pros and cons

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  me, some of the people I care about, and this past year.   Figure 1: My desk and some of the trinkets on it. When I started college most of ... Max made me when he was tiny. Most of the colors have rubbed off. A

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Theory of Actual Reality

  

  himself an actual MIT class. As usual, Prof. Sadoway (former Chair of the ... music for the five minutes before the official start of class at 11:05am ... part was Sadoway was moving fast. Not lightning fast, but the kind of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  A Preview Of My Summer Project Screenshots of the new admissions site.

  

  section of the site. IMAGE #2: Don't worry - if you happen to like ... the blogs too!). IMAGE #3: One of my favorite things about the new ... So here's a sneak peek at what I've been working on all summer... the

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 17, 2006