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

  

  wall painting! Whenever I can, I try to visit my sister in suburban ... D. '21, our hallmates, and I all went to Tasty Burger in Harvard ... later. In January, I fulfilled my blogger-career-long dream of taking

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 3, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  six hours left and a lot can happen in six hours, but I'm in a better ... out how to create shade so that we could actually see our screens. I got ... graph of 1/x in quadrant 1. For no good reason, either--I was doing fine

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  , if I would have been better off someplace else. In classes, I ... how hard I tried. Although for many people, MIT convinces them that ... part in terms of math academics, I had fallen to believe something

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  (how the heck was I supposed to know what Ihrer meant? it's in some crazy ... sixth year of German, whereas I'm in my sixth week of German. He had a ... , and finally died at Gallipoli in World War I. Professor Sadoway

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  asks: How is food in MIT? I remember you writing about that amazing ... (Yeah, okay, that was a really bad title. I GET IT. Not everyone can ... . Yesterday I saw Monet's water lilies up close at the Museum of Fine Arts in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  simfinite hopscotch! hippity hoppity blue tape grandiosity

  

  , face possible criticism, to realize your full potential. In my case, I ... war (or worse!!). This was all in order to reach my highest goal, my ... ’s the email I pored over for so long. [caption id="attachment_107005

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  the AP and asked if I can join Intel in my junior year and he replied no ... applying to MIT in the fall and was wondering how many SAT II tests I must ... forgot to bring it in and now school's out. I can get a hold of my guidance

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  featuring me in a guest post so i can go full circle and share my own story ... concert back in august![/caption] hello blog!!! my name is sarah and i am a ... reminisce for a quick second, i remember reading the blog for the 1st time in

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  " was not a good name for a train. Yo, I'm in grad school. How's that going? Well, not too bad. In a way, I can't seem to ever get away from MIT. Half the books I use in my graduate classes were written by my MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here

  

  in the quilt. I can always buy another shirt. MIT equation shirt ... to get rid of. Besides, I can wear those to work or game conferences in ... that even in a couple of decades, I can still look at this quilt and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  sleeping from 6am to noon for the past month so I wasn't sure how my body ... money. But that day, after talking to many of them, I realized how they ... startups to make returns. As an entrepreneur, being in their good graces and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  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 / Miscellaneous

  Cool running Well, it's warm running now, but just wait about two weeks.

  

  busy... and classes haven't even started yet. In the past three days, I ... can probably use to buy a comfortable chair for my room from the online retailer of my choice. In other news, Mitra recently acquired a free i

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 5, 2005
• 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