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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  I'll save that for anyone who is interested. As a concluding thought ... [Justin '08] Hi everyone. I went on the exchange for 06-07 (so I ... Kathy's post (A Day in the Life...), but I should also point out that the

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  the loose ends from the summer that I left dangling, now woven into a ... with it, I just can't imagine a class laying such an egg in my schedule ... Loved Rhetoric with Strang. I can say that now because I got my name

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  , and one pset fewer than usual so i can pretend for an hour that i'm not ... will work for me. I'm not a big google calendar user, unlike some people ... . (It's very forest-for-the-trees: I was so busy going from thing to thing

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  chasing the aurora a celestial hunt

  

  looked forward to entering ~introvert hours~ all day... alas. A chase for the beautiful is one I can't pass on. [caption id="attachment_100807 ... solar geeks are on this list I thought I should share… it’s a [Kp9] night

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 13, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  , but I'm sure at least a few of you will have the same difficult choice ... out a large survey [annotation note="checking my emails from ian waitz ... these options palatable. I personally remember filling this out with a lot

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  -cambridge to pick up a desk that jeff bought from someone for $10. it's a nice ... notifications and i didn't know how to respond, so i didn't open the texts for a ... like a house i saw when we were wandering cambridge during camp," i say

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  ball for now. As you can see, robot A is in charge of scoring in the ... 'd been awake for almost 24 hours. What's one to do? I curled up into a ball under my workbench in lab and fell asleep for a couple of hours. When I

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  polar alignment and sun photos, Kano[, Caitlin, and I] went for a stroll ... predicted for 15:27:07 of where we were. I had my laptop open, monitoring ... had a plan: I’d wait for the totality start, fully experiencing that

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Answers to waitlist FAQs.

  

  aiming for a class of about 1,000 students this year. Based on our ... I do about the May 1 reply date for other colleges? You should accept ... first college and enroll at the second. This shifting can lead to a second

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The New MIT Viewbook! Last week, after a year of intense introspection (and a ton of work) we saw…

  

  Taking a break from reading today, I saw Matt's latest post and had to chuckle. In looking back a year, he references this post, in which I ... year - you're in for a serious treat. I honestly think this is one of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  , I went on Hydrant, which is a planning site for MIT classes so you can ... because I have fond memories and learned a lot from them. Some classes that ... and it was FUN. I went from not knowing how to properly handle a drill

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  to form a community where we can learn and have a good time together ... RoboBoat again this year! We’re also building a submarine platform for ... in recruiting? Audrey: We are looking for all majors and years! From

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opening doors How being an MIT cheerleader can help you get a job.

  

  ... apparently I'm not very good at applying for stuff, a deficiency I am trying to ... was too scared to ask any MIT profs for favors (I am a huge chicken ... postdoc who called to offer me a job, and for whom I worked for ten

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  for the Visit Team that I sit on. I organized a tour guide program at my undergrad institution, I had worked with students for two years a college ... paired up with one student in the nerd herd for a quiz, the rest of the

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  My Entirely Unexciting IAP see title

  

  low-key. ...I basically just went home for six weeks. But I had a reason for doing so, you see. In a little bit more than 48 hours, I will be ... Anywhoo, I'm writing right now from a Starbucks on O'Farrell St. in downtown

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Measurements How do you measure a year in the life?

  

          I was making the trek from East ... genre came on ("Seasons of Love" from Rent). As I belted out the ways they measure a year, I began to wonder what units I use to measure my life. The

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  comments in viewing my dorm when I was a student at MIT but for me it was the ... Much of Boston and certainly the ladies in the sorority house where I ... campus. The first question I often hear from parents is, "what events

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  up for FOUR HOURS of a thing I didn't even understand! And the ... at that list, I could see a noticeable shift from my values when I came ... going and be the best runner I can be. It took a lot of experiences to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  constructive criticism. I feel like I can learn a lot from her. CMS.335 Short ... swim team for a good chunk of my life. I am simply afraid of how dirty ... In my sophomore fall, I wrote the art of trying new things, where I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  !) so there's no way I can sneak off to the mountains for a few runs ... my disappointment when I'm eagerly waiting for a huge storm to blow in ... would be the year we had no winter. And for a long time, it looked like I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012