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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 ... two UROPs and so on, so forth. I've decided on a schedule now that would ... 't have that safety net of PNR and I actually, well, have to do decently in

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

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  friends would be in Paris for a semester-long exchange program, and I wanted ... my own leisure. I love public transport and seeing how its designed in ... through buying coffee and learned how to say basic things in Italian, like

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / CPW

  how to tackle CPW ...i totally have the authority to write this

  

  almost 0 planning, and I asked them why they would willingly indulge in ... to meet you!!! I know how excited I was for my CPW, so I can only ... . valid! I'm a member of one of the two classes that experienced an in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  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, glowing from my time spent out in the sun, and then all of a sudden I was

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 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 ... . I spent most of my CPW at East Campus, because I was convinced I would live there (I don’t). I gawked at nerdy shirts at the COOP, which I would

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  IAP and Igloos This is an entry about IAP. IAP is the month of January. It's...February. I know.

  

  people who may also like to point out that I haven't blogged in like two ... 'RE IN A RECESSION, PEOPLE.)(Actually, I really didn't post this for a ... , Dordy '12, Cathy '10, and I embarked on an adventure that would change the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  less willing to wake up than I was in high school. Seriously, how did I ... unread in a tiny corner of the internet, so I can dust off the MIT ... what was to come. Like in this post -- I was both excited and terrified

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• 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 / How to Human

  Don’t Forget These I forgot to bring them when I first came to MIT.

  

  suit. And my toothbrush. Ugh. Well today I spend the second night in my ... sure to bring to MIT or to buy as soon as you get here. I conducted a ... You need a surge protector. In fact, you probably need two, so buy three

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  I know, I know, I haven't written in forever and a week. Um, yeah ... a novel and I decided a list would be the best way. I keep lists of ... air travel, you'd think I I would never step foot on a plane again. When

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  applying to MIT in the fall and was wondering how many SAT II tests I must ... grade. 1) I've taken the Korean SAT II and did well. How would it seem if ... would happen if I didn't get McCormick in the housing lottery. I liked the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  . In doing so, I'm often surprised by how much the salad bar has to offer ... stopping you from getting food from several of them at once. When I'm not in ... Yields: One sandwich that I have been told resembles something you can buy

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  likely to stay in place, with major policy changes. When I ask how my ... ...” or “but their real motivation was...” I realize that the attitude, in ... capital ‘F’, is very different in places like Ethiopia. Instead, I am seeing

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / IAP

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

  

  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 ... featuring me in a guest post so i can go full circle and share my own story

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  thought it would be interesting to look back at how many of these items I ... dislike bowling unless I get a strike/a spare, not sure how much I would ... This blog has been in the works for a… long time. I first started

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

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  [/annotation] taking uni finals, and I thought this would be my last round, but alas, I ... , I thought it'd be fun to share my study tips on How to Finals ... . This means that I've been studying in smaller, but more frequent and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In many ways on average-posting

  

  In many ways, the work of a critic is easy.  In the summer of 2022, I was living in Chicago. I didn’t know anyone I was living with. Over the ... so I would often talk to her about her blogs, and see her post them. It

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 7, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Imagination Box [by Danbee Kim '09] We can draw on the walls again!

  

  together in a context different from the usual frantic "I must get work ... [by Danbee Kim '09] I'm a big fan of allowing your environment to enhance your mental facilities. As such, I love that there are

  • by ARTalk
  • October 19, 2008
• 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 ... -Mobile, I knew this as the best place to buy jewelry. In front of T-Mobile was ... that still hangs in my grandparent’s house. I taught myself how to draw

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

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  of my luggage down. Amina lived in a very spacious triple. I wish I had ... , so I took a picture of him as to not repeat pictures in these blogs ... other in years. I'm sure there were other people I knew previously at MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008