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  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  heat it for longer but it was basically like oatmeal soup. Or cereal. Or ... prepsets for this week in class, skimmed over pset1 (which I don't know how ... I don't eat or when I get really stressed or wound up, my hands start

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  will reach the sun and back 67 to 333 times, or the moon and back 25 ... will overpower the color of the fruit or vegetable. About half a cup of ... , feel free to skip to the video and the extraction protocol, or just the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  reader it snaps everything into focus. No hidden message or commentary ... /time point, a moment/thing, some original particulate event or quantum ... a great expansive flowering, a silent flash into being in a second or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  similarities or differences with English, like in Dissecting emotion, on body image or It's cool to care. Despite this, I think I still haven't done ... language. An excellent resource called WALS has data points for many

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  down and this obstacle will become a bridge” (Song Sam Dong). Sometimes ... that obstacle down brick by brick, go the extra mile to get around it, or climb to great scary heights to get over it, it will be worth it because

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Public MIT panel on the science behind vaccines, and ending the evolving pandemic

  

  a webinar on the science of vaccines, and the role they will play in fighting the pandemic. The webinar is open to the public, and will be hosted here on Thursday, April 8th, at 4PM; a recording will be made available

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 4, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  pset with friends in your dorm lounge or at Stud 5, but this week you ... ever.  [carousel image1="68797" image2="68798" image3="68799" /] “FAST ... earn an A, B, or C or don't have the class show up on their records

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  they center around “fitness testing”, like running the mile or doing pushups. Or they resemble my PE class from last year. We usually started out class by “stretching”—aka sitting on the floor pointing at your feet, or

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2013! this is how i do this

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) I ... will primarily be looking for incoming freshman; however, we have a few ... 's the job. Send us something which will make us think you can do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  they’re not close friends anymore or worked to directly address the ... i could get x to like me or life would be much better if i were dating y or any of the numerous other sentiments that focus on the status of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  or bodies of the emails with my essays attached, which were mostly sent ... ish” or, “Thingumagig” or, “It was proofread and everything!” or simply ... .) Ceri and Joel wrote great posts recently about feeling unprepared, or

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  . On bad days, I have to go out to buy a salad (or eat human food that ... to fun locations, like Chinatown or the North End (“Boston’s Little ... wonderful). I will soon make time to cook collaboratively with friends. Even

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  ,” “not lactation or iocane powder,” “or Europeans who think you can buy ... is often, I can escape into my room or a quiet place and when I don ... , which either didn’t want to be photographed or I was too socially awkward

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  : ~1,000! That means about 1 in 4 (or 5?) students wanted to host at ... found paradise” or “I hate this fucking place,” and, honestly, for most ... no right or wrong way to do CPW, I’ve compiled two posts with advice

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  eventually you will end up with the sentences you want to write anyway. i got ... engineering instead of math. i think i would've enjoyed it, but i will never know. maybe one day i will talk about my organizational systems. spoiler

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bridge Building: In Progress The culmination of what I've learned in civil engineering

  

  In order to graduate from Course 1, you have to take a class called 1 ... climates have streams that are dry or have low flow most of the year and can ... that can be quickly assembled from easily available materials will be

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 4, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  An Enigma Wrapped In A Riddle A prize will go to the first person to unwrap this mystery.

  

  applications and I promise you that no one will be harmed! Take a moment to ... he's building. Hint # 1: Put on your math-based thinking cap. Hint # 2: Since I have not seen any wildebeasts, sloths or rhinos walking 2x2

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 27, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Enrolled 09’s: Watch Your Mailbox I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM®). Here's the…

  

  tell you... 1) They're going to start mailing them in the next few days and will continue to do so over the next week or two. By the middle of ... 's visa-related stuff with this mailing, so some international students will

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  looking for. I was hoping someone would have an MIT shirt on or something ... fun looking event like Scootah Hockey or Toilet Paper Dodgeball, so even ... classes or read about on the internet. It was a ton of fun. The second day

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  BLARGL! Where have all the orange lockers gone?

  

  good. I have a propensity to see something expensive, want it, and buy it. Now, if I worked for Amazon or Google or something, this would not be a ... thing before I go. This will sound creepy, but I don't want it to. Two

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2010