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• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  schedule. I used to watch a lot of the Media Lab's content back in middle ... this summer is living a fangirl's dream. I'm working with a TMG ... accurate to what's in the sandbox. The overarching goal of my UROP is to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT

  

  , etc. The environment is much more relaxed and gives students a chance to ... students are involved in some kind of sport). MIT is like drinking from a ... Hey everybody, I'm taking a break from working on 2.004 in order to

  • by Snively '11
  • October 12, 2009
• Blog / Events

  How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break I didn't go to Florida or Cancun, but I still had a lot of fun!

  

  weekend, but it was a much needed break from the craziness that is MIT. And ... the Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program, is a program for ... searches and in preparation for the summer and the future.  UPOP also holds a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  first-year student in college is much larger that the typical gap within ... pursuing a Ph.D. in quantum information next year! probably because I haven ... students. these days, I think that online advice is often useful as a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  else. While chatting with a MIT graduate who is now in the top rungs of ... to work in (most divisions of) a big bank is that I’m too soft and lazy ... mean, I bet you live in one of the cleaner parts.” I imagine a big label

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  yet i maintain composure manu tenere “i hold by hand”

  

  forward, is that it’s a call with four steps. waltz music is in three ... students, in a clear, kind, and professional way, that a program is canceled ... two behind; forward forward lock forward, which, in my mind, is step

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  papers with other students is fun! Figuring out how to make a proof ... and for all. For the last several summers, I’ve floundered in a soup of ... have to be that guy on LinkedIn who calls himself a “incoming summer

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UEA Internship Panel

  

  The Undergraduate Economics Association (UEA) sponsored a dinner and internship panel for anyone interested in a career or degree in economics. (I ... ?" Q: What does an economist do? A: A lot in the short run, which amounts

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  so i guess fall is happening kinda hard to believe, huh?

  

  , i knew in my heart that it had been walked a million times before. now everyone is on the precipice of something new, feeling around on a dark ... trauma and eviction, and my urop, and doing a urop i have pretty much no

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  concord market is finally here!!!!! feasting at MIT's on-campus grocery store

  

  is much pain in the world, but not in Concord Market." - Maddie L. '26 ... more quick lunches in between classes, no more much-needed energy drinks ... beautiful sight in front of me: a crowd of students coming in and out of a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week in the Life Hello, Google Calendar.

  

  week in December, and it is a lot of fun! Would highly recommend ... I, which is basically a primer in group theory and linear algebra ... -day schedules! The math department is located in Building 2. In my previous three

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  this entry: what is IAP? The one-sentence, in-a-nut-shell version that I ... Independent Activities Period, is a month-long intersession in January between ... in has something to do with it as well. But that's just a hypothesis

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  mean learn to optimize. Is it worth an all nighter to turn in a pset that ... health just for a "P" to show up? It's learning to look at how the grade is ... beautiful and so big and has so much! There is bound to be a place for you. 4

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  relationship, and right now, i'm simply just in a trough. i am still very much in ... philosophy -- it was everything i ever wanted in a university. but i kind of ... still lingered in the back of my mind. no matter how hard i tried to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday is the new black. The world moves on MIT's hips. The world moves and it swivels and bops.

  

  . Baker to establish a school for engineering in Cambridge. This college is now known as Harvard Business School. Today is a "virtual Monday" at MIT ... "Tuesday is the new black" with the generally bizarre happenings yesterday in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  around to playing Braid, which is sort of like Portal in that it involves solving puzzles using a novel game mechanic, although IMHO, Braid is way ... , still coughing up my lungs in a mucosal haze of academic slackery, and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  nothing. Okay, maybe that is a bit of an exaggeration, but not by much. I ... Chinese reading cards and there is a final video project presenting a ... . ’25: My IAP is split in half: I was at home before January 14th, and on

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  Much like my one-time alter-ego Javert, I've always seen things in a ... a special guest teacher in 21M.302 because MIT is looking to hire a ... myself, "Wow, you're so dumb. How do you even, like, get dressed in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  liquid nitrogen ice cream there! How cool is that? There was a lot of free ... later on. You could find free dinners at a lot of the frats, snack ... in the hallway: Also a complicated looking, sweet machine: And then

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!

  

  to make contact with the balls represents how much I was overwhelmed by ... snapshot (and taste! read: FREE FOOD) of the culture at MIT, in all its ... approach and know how to have a good time. It's worth it." I finally realized

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010