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

  

  prepsets for this week in class, skimmed over pset1 (which I don't know how ... !!!!!!!!!!!! I PASSED. I can sit in 8.02 without any qualms. 8.02 Woke up cozy and ... 't have that safety net of PNR and I actually, well, have to do decently in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  After 8 months, I was finally in. In the Edgerton Center Student Shop ... means I'll have to swing by the shop to make something awesome so I can ... light! I didn't take picture of the whole process, but I can walk you

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT CodeIt or: the best decision i've made this semester

  

  and composure and I was so, so impressed by how she handled CodeIt in ... , programming, and video games. I can't wait to see what they do in the future ... that confident in my coding skills back then, but it was something I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  -ultraboost collab shoes and fell in love. Like any sane person, I knew not to buy them ... in this screenshot. I like to keep count of how many steps I take a day ... to this one, in which I recounted the days of the semester through

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  how to grill. I needed people to help carry all the meat in, and store ... happy that I live in a dorm that can mobilize within 24 hours, to go from ... admit that I was despairing a little. There are almost 300 people in New

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  though I definitely didn’t need to invest so much time and energy in it, I ... attended orientation/put my luggage in Burton-Conner, the dorm at which I was ... food itself (I admit to eating chocolate-dipped Oreos alone in a corner

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  by one. I don’t buy from those stores, even in Boston.  I run by the ... gets in Arizona in summer. I expected the wet towel in my room to dry ... windows to keep out the heat. I mean — obviously. In Arizona it’s hostile

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  .” I was surprised how naturally I transitioned into MIT life, in my head ... . That’s why CPW (and the Admissions blogs, if you can’t visit in person ... major. In 2015, as a crimson- and short-haired freshman with glasses, I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  , 6, or 18. This is how I imagine the career fair going for my friends ... to go into tech - I'm interested in digital marketing and transmedia ... company at least once to see if I might be interested in them, or them in

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  It's so nice to be graduated -- I can make lists of things that I ... that I did. In an obvious sense, money is good, and I've always felt that ... having a job impaired my ability to do my homework -- in fact, I've found

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  —similar to how I marked my height in pencil on my doorframe each year as a kid ... I glide out on the ice in the 10-degree Vermont winter morning. I can ... -Mobile, I knew this as the best place to buy jewelry. In front of T-Mobile was

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  somewhere in the sky, and when I got home I invested in a big, dark green ... buy a year later as post-exam consolation presents. I got a campus tour ... climbed things. I participated in a protest. I met amazing people. I rocked

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  classes number-wise to double major if I had taken them in the same area ... I’ve taken a 9-unit Drawing class and been in a 6-unit music ensemble ... Multi-Varible Calculus in ESG (my first-year learning community) and I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  Introduction Before coming to college, I often wondered how hard MIT ... measurements backing up these results, how could I trust their accuracy, let ... ] (which makes sense if you think about it). In my excitement, I gripped

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  are you going to get the legislators in Washington DC to care? How are ... within my lifetime (in 2050), this is something that I need to care about ... taxa currently fished by the mid-21st century (in the year 2048

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat! Retreat! 24 wonderful hours of sister-time in the MIT mansion!

  

  I just returned from a retreat for my sorority, Alpha Chi Omega. We spent the past 24 hours at the Endicott House , an MIT owned mansion in a ... sisters in such a beautiful setting, surrounded by antiques and eating meals

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In the Music Cubes, no one can hear you scream…

  

  “art is created inside this space,” but after three long years, I can ... the one I know the least about. As far as I can tell, it’s just one ... already has a concert scheduled there). Though I'm not entirely sure how

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 25, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Saturday

  

  (!) stretching between the two parallel buildings. In this photo, you can see the ... Spring has sprung at MIT, with flowers in bloom across campus... The ... getting ready to play (and sweep) the Coast Guard Academy in an afternoon

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  distinction is used for wordplay, though. In Tagalog, I can think of at least ... , I mean the pattern of how consonants and vowels can come together to ... parts of my identity, like Tagalog. In the post, I also mention OPM, an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D

  

  YOUR HAIR HAS ROOM FOR! Need more color in your hair? We can fix that ... :17-24:17 All the ponies in this town are CRAZY. Do you like ponies? I like ponies ... Random House of Pancakes: I'm a delicious warm pancake smothered in maple

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 26, 2012