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  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  Hi everyone! I’m Callie T, and Ellie invited me to share what my day looks like as a junior studying physics! 11:15 — I ignore my alarm. 11 ... a full 6 hours a night but they’re still a frosh so they don’t count

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  really unsure how to deal with it. I think part of it is because I'm a ... this simplistic thing that I still couldn't get a hold on. I hated it ... I'm asking are dumb. If I'm even set to be a computer science major

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  Note: xTalks: Digital Discourses is a seminar series from the MIT ... . Last week, I attended a fascinating xTalk by Lou Guenier, Pedagogical Director at the 42 Silicon Valley engineering college. This blog post is a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  doesn't exist for a semester or seven and take it in your last term at MIT ... class, you won't pass, you won't graduate, you won't get a job, no woman ... physics is made of evil and you definitely won't pass that as a freshman

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bring Your Audience to Work Day In celebration of the annual Bring Your Audience to Work Day, the first Monday of…

  

  freight railroading. I'm not out working in a rail yard -- I've actually got ... of them attend universities within a 200-mile radius.) Good morning, I'm ... housing subdivision. I couldn't believe it, either. A tad agrarian

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 2, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Cambridge on a full academic scholarship, worth more than $52,000 a year*. M.I.T ... creations is really fun." Jeremy leaves June 28th for a summer program at M.I.T ... Mary Lou Hazal, A&M-Commerce News Jun 29, 2009 ACCEPTED TO MIT - Cory

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  a woman who cries at telephone commercials, and I'm actively trying to avoid my fate as a hopeless goop myself. I'm not being particularly ... ), and I'm heading to a PhD program in biology. And it's all super

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  packet seemed like a long time, so it couldn't be that bad? But that ... school, I wasn't exactly a note-taking person. In fact, a teacher once ... wasn't learning much and was instead just being a mindless typewriter. To

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  is a very big aspect of bioengineering programs these days, so I'm safe ... When I was in kindergarten, I wanted to be a doctor. The summer before my senior year of college, I wanted to be a doctor. Are these two

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  to write code in jeans and a T-shirt on Wall Street. I am writing ... , of Simmons): "I'm working Simmons front desk for 40 hours a week, which ... now I'm also writing a game for the Assassins' Guild. Finally, I'm

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP of Coding time to catch up

  

  college for the first time. I haven't seen my room in a while, I'm much more ... when semester classes aren't in session, and I agree. IAP is a much more ... ", a recommended prerequisite to 6.01. I wasn't able to take it last year

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being at college MIT, specifically.

  

  , acting like a responsible adult… (Technically though, I’m not actually an ... I live in Massachusetts. I am a freshman. I am in college. I go to ... head for the past 2 weeks that I have been on campus, I still can’t

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 15, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  commitment than it used to. I gained a higher tolerance for low effort, and I’m ... I’m not hosed I’m no longer neck deep in school work, and I finally have a manageable workload, but I have spent the past few hours doing

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  unanswered for long periods. maybe it's a bit of a pride thing -- i can't let ... ." (romanticize a quiet life) "And now I’m going to tell you that I love you, and ... one of my labmates has a friend from elementary school who was on the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Tier Listing My Classes i may have got this idea from tiktok

  

  looking back, I'm grateful for a lot of the classes that I took, or was ... committing a lot of time to my research. I'm sort of a boomer and this is the ... I mentioned this in my last post, but I'm graduating soon! At the end

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 23, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  This will default to miscellaneous Finishing this blog entry was my biggest accomplishment today

  

  'cause I'm a very very serious person. ... conversations about your future, life is too easy and things become a big deal ... . Then I took a nap. After my nap I fixed a rip in my pants, hooked up some

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  how to learn I'm the kind of person that can't learn things on my own. Can't might be the wrong word--maybe won't. I struggle a lot with ... pressure of having a class in order to get things done. Online classes don't

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  year. I'm not making any of this up. It probably stems from a talk I had ... Thelonious Monk song for a recent 21M.340 assignment. Hopefully, we are not ... research papers with long-winded titles and, if I'm lucky, a sad little wiki

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  others in a way that I didn't realize I could: I'm a pretty introverted ... "]window.[/annotation] I’m fine, more or less, and this isn’t complete burnout, yet, but I am definitely feeling the exhaustion creep into my bones in a way that sleep doesn’t

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  St. George’s Day England's National Day

  

  you can't tell, the flag is white with a red cross on it. Okay, I'm ... sitting on a horse, killing a dragon. Unfortunately, I don't know any more ... , Wednesday 23 April and has a picture of a knight on a horse. I was with

  • by Cambridge
  • April 26, 2008