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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  a few calls, but ended up making hundreds of calls for over four hours ... 'd have losing streaks for a while, give up hope, suddenly get a real, live ... of the freshly admitted candidates for the class of 2016. We all stayed

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Events

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

  

  . A lot of color adjustment makes for crappy close-ups, and the white ... University for 7 years before going up to Boston for college but this was my ... , two people. I, too, had a roommate but she did not show up for the

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

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  brush and floss every day for the rest of your life to have good oral ... when just doing so for a single day was excruciatingly boring, so i might as well give up now, right? during the fall and winter of 2020, i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  . "you're in the water and your body tenses up. why? it's because of the fear. it's natural, it's instinctive, it's thinking that tensing up the ... viscerally remember shaking out of fear as i walked up to the doors leading to

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

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  Unified Engineering your sophomore year. Mostly, you get to wake up at ... atop my mini-fridge for a long, suspenseful day before its first chance at the launch pad. Will it live up to its name? Will it make it through

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  ; thursday I was up working until 10:30 pm, which is very late for me but very ... break you down and slowly build you back up again. MIT is not the military ... some point. For many, it comes first semester. This is why MIT provides

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  wake-up bugle call that serves as an alarm clock for campers everywhere ... glasses cleaner and wax for my braces. While other kids did their fifth ... to enter the 6th grade, my mom got a flier for something called the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  files at the moment and I'm too lazy to really search for them, so I ... Thursday for all of IAP in a classroom. As long as I pass all of the tests and everything, I'll be able to join MIT's EMS squad for the spring

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Welcome to CPW! 'twas the night before cpw...

  

  many people you meet for the first time that you end up seeing again (and ... free food—that reminded me how much I enjoyed exploring MIT for the first ... floor's events! For example, my floor is holding[annotation note

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • April 10, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  Even as a kid, school never fit right for me. I recall my third ... , “Rona, you can do that, but it might make things harder for you later ... online for several reasons: 1) I go to MIT and presumably had a good enough

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  i [don’t] have covid?? in conclusion, i am the absolute worst at managing stress

  

  't ready for it. Sure enough, I woke up on Saturday morning with awful muscle ... literally THREE weeks into the semester. Anyways... Last Friday, I woke up ... figured that I'd inevitably gotten it from him. That night, I danced for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  My Favorite Spots in Cambridge/Boston well-trodden and well-hidden alike

  

  for a while. Keep your eyes on the swings, though—they're snatched up ... that I've made up for that. Honorable mentions that don't really count ... A summer in Cambridge did wonders for my knowledge of the area. While

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Around the world in 30 days ...ok, maybe more like I'm Traveling a Lot this IAP

  

  ! Some of my friends I've skated and competed with growing up qualified for ... the year by packing up all my stuff in Boston, hauling most to storage ... Jose, California. I brought with me all that I would need for the next 9

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  For those of you who don’t keep up with the blogs, I’m Sabrina M. ‘19 ... were? I even ended up living in her suite for REX week (affectionately ... , losing sleep only to have to wake up that next morning for even more 8am

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  ago to the advisor for the writing department, and she got back to me ... declaring writing as my second major. Well, applying for the second major ... for it being late. Also, I thought it was hilarious that I had to write

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  MIT dome. I’ve been on campus for three weeks, but still every time I pass beneath it, I shudder. For years, I had admired it from a distant ... mathematician, and I look for patterns in the world, yet I want to believe that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Right back where we started from You can call me Dr. Mollie.

  

  ’s inevitable that you’ll have a lot to catch up on. I’ll start here: Hi, I ... cognitive sciences in 2006. For those of you doing the math at home, that ... wearing my brass rat flipped upside down for just over eight years now

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  the authority to open up the wall whenever he likes. It also means that ... for the locking mechanism to work, so I called instructions through the ... much faster reaction time than I do, since in the seconds it took for me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Spot the Blogger where you'll find bloggers during CPW, and some bonus tips!

  

  catch up on sleep when you get home. Don't feel guilty for wanting to stay up and try everything. :) You've earned it! 4) CPW is still school for ... a full itinerary and ended up with something like this: ... and

  • by Connie H. '15
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  gets up and talks at us for 1-1.5 hours. On the days we don't have ... huge plus. When studying for exams, it's NOT agony to flip through my old ... class and providing motivation for learning the material (Peter Fisher

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013