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• 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 / 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 / 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
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  be friends with Fatima, one of the bloggers of all time, and I am also ... have been told that a good amount of sleep is critical for such ... admire the many wonderful sights outside of Boston. And best of all, the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  be overcome if you’d “give me a month.” We’d offer consolations of “you ... ="Undergraduate Research Opportunity."]"UROP[/annotation]-ing” instead of “studying,” and going to my [annotation note="it was a bit of a shock going home for

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  a certain buoyancy into my steps which match my momentary lightness of ... expect them, but when they do occur, they do feel motivated. Of course I ... feel so good in the midst of finals, in the midst of a pandemic, in the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  uninformed, this means that I 1) live on the third floor of the Burton side of the dorm Burton-Conner, and 2), am lowkey part of a cult—a rowdy ... ="aligncenter" width="535"] bombers class of '20 yearbook photo[/caption] When I tell

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  61 Photos from my Time at MIT from freshman to senior year

  

  wonderful way to say goodbye for the summer. Speaking of friends, my best ... friend. Is it emo enough? Spotted at the Boston Museum of Science: one of the sample songs to learn about sound was performed by the MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 3, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  Honestly, I think if you ask anyone at MIT, there is something of a ... me long time to learn all of these new subjects at MIT." It is more of a general statement that sort of goes under the idea that you are now

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I My Spanish adventures!

  

  sister of my friend Martín. (Their family used to live in Madrid when they were kids. Their parents moved with them to the US, but 3 of the 4 ... was in most of my classes in high school (Spanish included), and even

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  - on both sides of the equation. I apologize to those of you who think ... " will get something out of it. Others won't, no matter what I say here. That makes me sad, but I can live with it, thanks to the rest of you

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  dishes, I’d be head chef of a Michelin-starred restaurant (or at least I’d like to think so). Unfortunately, at MIT, most of my computational power ... and take their minds off the constant demands of an MIT education. Bad

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025