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

  

  .  Instead, I attended a three-day program during Spring Break where I worked ... announcements, where the coordinators, Bethany and Sharon, would yell "HEY UPOP ... appreciate? ____" where ____ was either UPOP or the name of our mentor. I think

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots Here's how I spent my summer.

  

  to join the team of 10 UROPs that made this happen. Our first order of ... Maine to get to know each other, where I also first learned to use a ... floor, where we demo'd some code on some robots we had on the ground

  • by Piper '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch the Tea with Teachers Video Series! and learn about the wonderful students behind it

  

  have some pretty good stories! And they've all made mistakes and are like ... Group], where classes are small and you know your instructors on a first ... professors’ interactions with students in an informal setting. TwT videos are

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  feeling where a person loses the ability to even understand what happiness ... happiness; they are in acute anguish in all the small tasks of daily life ... most recent trip to Ethiopia. She once had some issue where she couldn

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  this post submitted their early application yesterday, and are already ... -upperclassman relationships are strictly forbidden until November 1st. While this mostly applies ... are suddenly very difficult and nothing at all like that easy shit in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  I am, nor who I want to be I've made decisions and said things that ... always be a part of who you are it just takes on different forms some ... barely keeping it together   I'm proud I made it through relatively

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  .  We shared with each other how he made an impact on our lives and also ... Professor Winston. There are many geniuses at MIT, but not all of them ... prioritize togetherness (especially in a place like MIT where it is easy to

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let the good times roll here is where my summer adventures take place

  

  thus stimulate the economy on the island. So my tasks now are to ... Andrea have asked my assistance on other projects they are working on ... geography lesson... The state of Hawaii is made up of four major Islands: Oahu

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • June 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Toy Design Update How couldn't you enjoy building toys?

  

  . Luckily all of the time commitments are fun so I'm enjoying it. Toy design ... , and we tell them what we made and get advice from them. This last play ... we had consultations at the Boston Museum of Science where we presented

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  made the 12-hour round trip from Boston to Ithaca, NY. When I departed Cornell 10 months ago I made a promise to return in each of the next three ... One: Never assume that students are just going to take you at your word

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Since U Been Gone While I was out, the world changed. (UPDATED)

  

  Saturday, when I was leaving on the T at 5:30 AM, I made sure to buy two $1 ... , where it sat in solitude for three weeks. I then, right before departing ... bunching for the stairs, and made a mad dash for the gates, only to find

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application Now Available here we go!

  

  admission to MIT. MIT has its own application – we are not on the Common App – and our application is only available at MyMIT. Here are a ... : Start by contacting your EC as soon as you are ready to schedule your

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 20, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  statements was "I feel (y) because of (x)", where 'x' was an event or an aspect ... point where I almost saw myself as having a “cannon”. Like I was a comic ... , to my two parents, who are both entrepreneurs. I’ve wanted to be both

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  Composites (how rockets are designed and built) Splash (Fall 2011): Senses ... , Clark University, Princeton, U. Chicago, all have Splashes (and those are ... that weekend and are still interested in traveling" - and on Friday April

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  would say there are three main components. you actually just mentioned two ... ask you is: do you think these people are thriving? me: i don’t know. i ... at hacklodge, a one-week program where ~20 college students live in a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what a sunrise sounds like another one for your ears

  

  runners along the esplanade (there are always runners along the esplanade) out by the sailing pavilion, there are some benches where you can sit

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 11, 2017
• Blog / Events

  A Typical Friday Afternoon on a Thursday Honoring the decades old (?) tradition of the East Campus Friday Afternoon Club (FAC)

  

  Much FAC," where we made personalized cakes for each of the ten halls of ... gathered from near and far in the courtyard of East Campus, where Tetazoans ... residents asked the strange Tetazoans - where is the food? The Tetazoans

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  the MIT buildings are truly random, and that this place is special and ... Boston at sunset, when no one looks at others, but feels them, and where ... students, on a bike. Earlier I witnessed upperclassmen resting on a dorm-made

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  rollerbladed to the train station. (Incidentally, rollerblades and trains are not ... brother in Philly, from where we drove another hour to French Creek state ... ). Then we went to a man-made dam and rented a self-propelled boat for the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

  the things that are built, but more the ambition behind it, more the ... are scary, that drills and saws are grown-up tools, a thought drilled ... ’s meditative, even. The actions are repetitive, but fun. I came back the next day

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019