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  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  and climbed out of bed at 10:18 to put together some yogurt and granola ... a lot of information at you in an hour and thirty minutes, I found ... phone. Out of bed at 10, got ready for the day, ate some breakfast. Side

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  tap dance break or something in the middle, and at the end of the song ... of a ceramic plasma coating implement that operates at 10,000 K with a ... old adage "Chemical engineering is the practice of doing for a profit

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  the basis of at least 2-5 points on a test or exam, or whoever pulled ... doubts that I was willing. That decision had stayed alive from at least sophomore year of high school. Even with me diving head-first into studying

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  II of the application. If you are admitted and you enroll at MIT, then ... currently working towards another degree in nursing at a local community ... relief dinners etc, I wish we can all unite at this time of worry, when we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t stop me now! I am a satellite, I'm out of control.

  

  of science degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT last year. ... for our first bandit running of the Boston Marathon. I've got my Super ... take a cab, and a jar of vaseline to prevent chafing. That seems like

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  at the start of my sophomore year, the door was not only blank, it was ... paint at Blick's art store, a sentence which hides a significant amount of deliberation over the like seven kinds of acrylic paint you can buy at Blick's. I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  even in covid times. Knowing that at the end of the week I'll be able to ... really don’t want to do much of anything except maybe lie in bed and stare ... people"]75 degrees,[/annotation] so I took the opportunity to spend the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  presentations at the end of the week. UPOP isn't perfect - sometimes the sheer ... point is, of course, that the longer you’re away from something the more ... degrees), after a week or so I found myself missing the little things about

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1 Recent questions, answered.

  

  undergraduate degree program at another institution. Shammi wrote, "dear matt, how ... pool. Some of my friends have been saying I got in because of my citizenship and they got rejected coz of the opposite reason, that's why I am

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  forehead and trying not to cringe from the terrible aftertaste of the iced tea we both ordered. It was 95 degrees and we were both slowly fusing ... something that resembled shade. After a breezy but sweaty 45 minutes of

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  flights of stairs from the subway, then looked at my map and declared, "I ... walked. Twenty minutes to the left of the station in the eighty-degree ... retired and stayed at home taking care of their mother-in-law, who was in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  or not-so-secretly like working right at the edge of our abilities. I ... , because I think I would have gotten bored and slacked off. (Many of us at ... A few nights ago I insinuated that there was a list of questions

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor This video does not contain an improvised song, but it does contain Peter Reddien.

  

  weird gene expression with varying degrees of histone packing and ... feet. Talking to Prof. Reddien reminded me of this a lot. At MIT and at ... -up routine at an open-mic night? Who knows. For those of you who were admitted

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2020–2021 application cycle

  

  our students, which they do. We regularly research the outcomes of MIT ... the predictive validity of our decisions with respect to subsequent student success at the Institute. As such, we had hoped that the public

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  names checked off, all of this at like 8:00 AM, so we could stand in line ... TO GO TO HERSHEYPARK! Riding in the front seat of Storm Runner at 11 AM ... both named Roger Taylor. I started writing two entries while at home

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  . To me, succeeding at MIT is just a gradual process of lowering your ... -by-term breakdown of my lowest test scores at MIT. Fall 2003 -- I was inconsolable ... and that vibrational degree of freedom, and I was not going to be told

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  . But when I look at the things I've done, it's a bit of an empty canvas ... degree but most likely can't. The past couple of days have been a series ... at the FireRoad app as I try and fit all of my interests into a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  Titans, and countless other things you haven't seen. At the risk of ... : the changed locks at my house, the remodeling of my bathroom and bedroom ... usual author is at home in H-burg, I get to tell you about my recent

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hosed life the last few weeks

  

  a firehose. Here's a quick look at my calendar and a recap of the ... the Skating Club of Boston or at the MIT rink, or the Burton Conner or Z ... exhibition at the Skating Club of Boston, yet more practice for the big event

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  my first spring break!!! 13 MIT students take San Diego

  

  group of [annotation note="all junior, sophomore, and freshmen bombers (members of burton third)"]friends:[/annotation] Miami, Puerto Rico, Spain ... flights weren't very expensive. as a plus, hundreds of other MIT students

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2022