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  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  how my grades said I did in the class, I was just happy that I learned ... classes. My aim is not graduating either since I can do that with fewer ... do. And often, I have to remind myself that things like this are easier

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am Treasured :) Graduate school visit #1 (Updated)

  

  the day. Subway or Taxi? Realizing I'd filled out a survey online that ... departures, I realize that I can make an earlier flight, so I do the "My plane ... Downtown Berkeley, and here I am. I call Mitra who is also in the Berkeley

  • by Bryan
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  And now, for a brief interlude from our regularly scheduled finals whining. I should be studying E&M right now, but this is much more fun.

  

  with this is that I am literally in a pair of free Crocs I got at Notre ... Sometimes, I forget how much I love MIT, and then I realize that the ... with my usual black North Face. (No, I do not usually go out in public

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  stayed in Arkansas. It’s strange how little I feel that they’ve changed ... I thought about this post while laying in a fetal position under an ... of land a shade darker. Arkansas is gorgeous, but two years ago, I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  , and is probably the only one that I will ever take. It's a [annotation ... is something that I've always enjoyed, and I'm excited to do it under ... "]almost[/annotation] every semester till now, I figured that I'd do it for old times sake

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Colors! Burton-Conner:12523 kbps1649 kbps140 ms

  

  worked on. If you'll look at how I'm doing the castle, you can get a ... ." Yay, I'm officially kind of in a national publication! That's all for ... surprise when I saw this in the hallway. As exciting as it is to have an

  • by Snively '11
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  student in a month, give or take? what do you mean I have to say goodbye to ... to New York City with me. there's also the fact that I'll be in Africa this summer; I'm interning in Cape Town through MISTI, which is both

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  College students do eat real food! ...sometimes. I now present: the culinary adventures of Laura and April.

  

  putting some Chef Boyardee in a pot for lunch. That's not to say that I ... reads this. Hi Mom! *grin*) It turns out that April is a really good cook ... I may not have alluded to this before, but my roommate, April, is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  MIT website: I'm an AFFILIATE now. No longer a student! Maybe that ... folder called "Old." Eek. In "Old," I found a folder named after my high ... apartment complex. With that in mind: To schedule my interview, I got in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  I am lethally bored in the airport boooooo

  

  possible (boo) For the first time, get excited that security is taking a ... , though, I realized I had a very unfortunate amount of time between move ... actively raining Boston streets acting like I'm gonna do something all day

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  years. I joined GEL for the opportunity to develop leadership skills in a ... non-technical fields, too. I know how to write a specification for a project. I know how to follow one.  I know what to do if I have an idea for

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  in college. I mean, this is a normal experience, right? People building ... afternoon spent in lab. Lab 1 is to build a fluorescent microscope. Our team ... OF MY LIFE. 1c) A quick dinner is followed by MITSO rehearsal. I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Wow KABOOM!

  

  !!!!!!!!!!!!) This is just a quick update on how life is for me right now (that's what ... in that class, this pset will take ~forever. I need to finish it before ... , I will be done with all psets (this is just a theory). I'll spend the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  excerpts

  

  reflecting as I usually do), and so many things have happened in life that I ... : One thing this trip made me realize is how much I like doing outdoors-y things, and how little I actually do them during the course of a normal

  • by Phi A. '21
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  I like to do the jumble sometimes

  

  one of my new top choices (that, combined with a major in geography ... his school. That was certainly a turn-off, though really the school is a ... . I hope that you'll also use your EC as a resource during the process

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 9, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  ’s “bad” in a vague or general sense but I guess I trust whomever is ... actually 9:47, but I stayed in bed for a bit longer so that it was about ten ... to music for a bit, think about how much work I had to do, think about

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  More than anything, I'd say that MIT offers a merciless crash course ... to do a UROP involving research that's tangential to my major... ...and one month later, I learned that a man named Guido van Rossum

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  , please! How do I life? Hope your road is a long one. ... posts when I was an actual undergrad blogger. That is probably a sub ... do. It is a little weird sometimes… I distinctly remember walking

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  the things that I most enjoy about my work in the admissions office is ... that the most important thing for a fourth grader to do, is to be a ... direction.  Frequently, the hardest thing for me to do is nothing, because I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  regarding my essay to MIT. Basically I want to tell you how being in a small city (that too in India) I missed out on lots of competitions and science activities that never came to our school and I want to tell how I still managed

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005