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  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  going out to more events. First the Harvard Career Fair, then the MIT ... to San Francisco during spring break. It was my first time on the West ... person we're going to be for the next stage of our lives. I felt like I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  We Stan Matt Parker i'll try not to mention the parker square

  

  in the first place: Matt Parker's ability to explain the concept of ... -variable calculus at my local community college. I began to feel like a real college ... to multiply multiple-digit-numbers in elementary school, thinking to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  to get an internship as a first year. It's also hard to get an ... question and work my way to the first one. Learn people's names. MIT is a ... [annotation note="and if you look to your left, you will see a biochemist

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Day Cats cats cats cats cats cats cats....

  

  , where I had a line of duties waiting for me. My first duty was to take ... I'm also slightly allergic to first aid tape. Ugh. Anyway, after the ... Lydia K. '14 challenged us bloggers to write about our days, inspired

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  . My first international experience was a trip to South Africa when I was ... mentors to complete our chapter’s first assessment trip. While in Uganda, we ... The other day I dropped off my application to the International

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  lectures entertaining even when I’m pulling up to class first thing in the ... Now that I’ve survived enough midterms to know I won’t change my ... institute requirement. every MIT student has to take two semesters of calculus

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  particularly new or unexpected, and anyone who knows me will be the first to roll ... . coming to MIT, first two years iii. research while at MIT iv. why I want ... ways to feel lost:" I feel lost on a much deeper level than ever before

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  often the first to go. And, indeed, trouble has struck. According to the ... do to preserve the world as we know it. In 2002, at the first meeting ... , according to the first 2010 analysis, an average of 52 vertebrate species move

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  mission that we chose to accept is to visit the hometown of every senior brother going on the trip. This means we have two weeks to travel to Seattle ... , New Jersey, and New Hampshire. We're travelling by plane to Seattle and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  Something I learned very quickly when I first got to MIT is that our ... to attend the 9 am option for my physics lectures – which was ... wake up at 8:50 am and frantically dash from my dorm to class. Nothing

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fall Adventures a day in rhode island, maine, and boston

  

  and remember our first adult-ish trip, we went to a nice restaurant ... —I went to my[annotation note="Joji!"]first concert[/annotation] ever, found ... during late September, I made it a goal to make the most of autumn

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  WMBR: College Radio at MIT will anyone watch the entire 36 minute video? probably not

  

  One of the first things I did when I got to MIT was join the campus ... to the room (town hall style) before I went to my first all ... first slot was Thursday mornings, [annotation note="I would like to thank

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  a telling laugh my first introduction to psets, and realized that I ... Now that it's too late to turn back you've decided to matriculate to MIT, you might be left wondering just what it is you've managed to get

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  similarity is that this is the first point in the process where you talk to an ... . and at first i thought it was ridiculous to not have side effects ... on a first date. or, if you prefer, trying to get to know a college by

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  into my life. But first, I need to give you more background about how ... really need to experience it first-hand to understand how I felt at that ... want to pound my head against a wall, and it costs hundreds of dollars

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  a reward for being the first person to arrive at spring registration ... note="tech & repair shop located right next to Trader Joe's in West Cambridge"]Microcenter[/annotation] took one look at it and told me not to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  international students at MIT. The first part displays MIT’s commitment to gender ... of the first human oncogene—a gene that causes normal cells to form ... Previously on the blogs, I’ve written about MIT’s commitment to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  was explaining why, because the human eye is innately attracted to ... a second thought to the spaces between letters. We don’t think about ... pages of lecture notes to get through, the last thing we want to concern

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Story of Tim Tebow My friend Steve '11 wrote a blog for the not admitted.

  

  say. But first, listen to this important message from Dan Gilbert, a ... failed to gain crucial first down and it cost his team the game. But that ... with Steve many nights (or rather, him talking to me) about football, and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just My Luck The somewhat eventful story of my first EMT shift ever.

  

  When asked how their first shift went, most of my fellow EMT students ... that answer: Yep, it was good (despite the to-be-described misfortune, I did enjoy my first shift), and no, there were no calls. It wasn

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 12, 2010