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  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  celebrate being two years into their undergraduate degree. The Class of 2022 ... highlighted those changes and sent me off on another period of intense personal ... my blog where I left off — the version of me typing up this blog post

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  'd offer some hints if I got stuck. I babbled on for a couple of seconds ... (This is part 2 of my oh, the places you'll go blogpost because they ... to be in the same post since they had different tones kind of so

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  of really interesting classes that were being offered. I finally chose ... * for lack of a better title, I have taken the liberty of using the title of the word file Dora sent me. thanks for this awesome blog! :) by

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  what kind of frat culture you are looking for MIT can offer you something ... I am not sure about the rest of you guys, but when it comes to me I have a good amount of friends, but more often than not they are simply

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  friendly little ceramic spook on my desk offers a welcomed reminder of that ... Under cover of darkness It's that magical time of year: the sun sets ... alarming amount of sound, and I begin to oscillate between my desk and my

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  compliments she had to offer, despite the overall morbidity of the characters ... particularly grand style, but I do plan to give some of my friends heart-attack-worthy lies over the next couple of days. And this blogpost is all about the art

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

   hundreds of student-run events to welcome the class of 2023 and help them figure ... – like, 5AM late – talking to students on Saturday night of CPW. When I ... – to this day I don't remember who – pounding on the door of my host

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  while planning a semester, I have some general sense of what I want out of the semester or a weak ideology with which I choose classes and ... that I wanted to take because I cared a lot about all of them.  although

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  because they contribute so much to my enjoyment of MIT, so here's what I ... workings of the black-box tools we took for granted in 6.2050. For example, much of our work in 6.2050 relied on hardware simulators that magically

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  next few days I used my laptop for my morning alarm instead of my phone ... for its front desk, it was only one of the packages I had ordered, and ... friend let me borrow one of their chargers, which didn't really work

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  almost forgot that I had pictures from the last few days of the semester to ... minds, right? OK. Yesterday was the first day of IAP. What am I doing ... decision to take the EMT class offerred through MIT Medical and MIT-EMS. This

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

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  students would rather do calculus than succumb to the byproducts of rampant ... to talk about things that they write at the bottom of lists. In cardinal numerical order, I will start with #2. Around this time of year, an

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-med, Everybody’s Best Friend If you are considering a career in medicine -- and not as a pharmacist.

  

  News Office). Congrats, Farhan! I took 21A.453: Anthropology of the ... it's bad to eat within 2 hours of going to bed, so late at night when ... . Okay, now to the serious part of this entry. Potential pre-meds, read

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  beautiful, cold little hostel about 21km south of Killarney, a town in County ... with beds below $70. Tomorrow I'll hike as much of the Way as I can, then ... to Killarney. I hiked about 4 miles of the Kerry Way before it began to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  list recently offered a free trip to Mexico, in exchange for a week of ... research, I have ascertained that MIT has one of the best global programs of any college that I’ve ever heard of. Name a country, and MIT has a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  ordering of things during IAP that stuck out to me. 6.178 - Introduction to Software Engineering in Java 6.178 is a six-unit class offered only ... of the instructors. The first two lectures or so were focused on using

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  such bill working its way through both houses of the Congress right now ... Bill 968, the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) are corresponding versions of a bill ... latest battle in a war which began when the Internet began an age of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation ... to be taking over MIT's campus in five days. You may have heard of it ... but a pale imitation of the truth - valorous but vain attempts to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions; I’ve got (some) answers Answers to your questions.

  

  done this at some point, so if you know of a blogger who already has ... Brendan, MIT students go off to do a lot of different things when they graduate. A lot of students pursue 5th year masters, some go on to industry

  • by Bryan
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 12 Step Plan don't pack too much, you probably wont use half of it anyway.

  

  For a lot of you (maybe not all), interning over the summer will be ... to the "freedoms" of college life.  As exciting as these summer ... post-graduation fun. Of course you will have a supervisor to ask

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 25, 2011