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• Blog / Athletics

  The Craziest 3 Days of Soccer Ever broken records, halloween practice, and senior day!

  

  up to and having to think for the first time about what the team would ... win against Emerson, we are the first team to ever go 11-0 in our ... season!! We just wrapped up our regular season, and I wanted to share the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  funny... During lecture for MAS.863 How To Make (Almost) Anything at the ... , backpack to the side, and laptop on the ground. I didn't expect anyone to sit there. When I returned, I was surprised to see someone in my seat. I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  My first impression of MIT was through Math Prize for Girls, and it ... sticky buns are really good, and all I want in life is to sit here and ... with Janet Qian ‘24 as we joked that this was probably our first and last

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  highlights of a hellish semester it's OVER. IT'S FINALLY OVER GOSDAIUOSDSOIJD

  

  okay, so, sophomore fall was brutal. it went from manageable to tedious to outright AWFUL and i'm still recovering from struggling through a class I initially thought was easy. it took me literally ten minutes to do

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 28, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  On IAP A time for P E R S O N A L P R O J…

  

  update you on my life since October! First, I've passed every class that I ... . "A novel way to write songs", I described it as! Then I started writing ... not finishing it. I had nothing. When I went to give my presentation in

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • December 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  three things i made recently lasers, radio, and a chocolate chip cookie loaf

  

  in session yet. the snow's only just turned to rain and we've had two ... package of semisweet chocolate chips INSTRUCTIONS: Preheat oven to 375 ... dish. Use a knife to draw a pattern on top if you're feeling fancy. Bake

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 15, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  trudging over to my first class:  <-- Or maybe I've been accustomed to ... amazing as the icon makes it out to be. Last Tuesday the high was 84 ... bought my first umbrella and poncho, in the event that rain, sleet, snow

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Candies and Costumes and Pumpkins and CATS Princess Leia and Orphan Annie ran around with laser guns and threw candy at people.…

  

  a little abnormal. It was Halloween. I was surprised to see the lack ... . Regardless, I covered my costume, went to a really cool meeting in the morning, went to my class, handed in my problem set, and went home and crashed

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  means by "magnitude." In astronomy, we use the word "magnitude" to ... and somewhere near the bigness of a star. There's no golden chain to be ... astronomy. Here's another one (context: Satan is traveling to Heaven) "Down

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  as the first 2017s step on campus. (Thankfully, I'm still an Oxford comma advocate.  Gotta stick to some principles in life.) And so I decided it was time to write another blog post. What would present-day-56

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  misery for a few minutes. I can't help but think back to the first and only other real conversation we had- our first day on campus, trying to figure ... As much as I hate Twitter, I think I'm going to follow the trend of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  And so it is… Just like the blogosphere said it would be.

  

  I am born! (Or rather, my blog is born.) This is (virtually) my first ... . To kick off my new blog, I thought I'd do some blogging from the road, with some "day in the life"s, similar to others that have been done in

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Hanhan Wang: EECS, robots, and more! What it’s like to study electrical engineering and computer science at MIT

  

  to as Course 6 or EECS) is the most popular major at MIT with 700 ... electrical engineering. Course 6 alums and professors have developed the first ... , a senior majoring in Course 6 to learn about her experiences with the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  This was the title of an email I sent to Neha '10 a couple of weeks ... moved and where I spent the first week of the new year. As we drove over a set of railroad tracks on the way to his house, he said, "And this on

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  to help "chronically messy" individuals around the work survive their squalor. So, for your edification... First degree squalor: You are getting ... . You are not the tidy person you once were. Little piles are starting to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in the life

  

  inconvenient with everything else that I had to do. -9.29 (Intro to ... writing Matlab code. I was sitting next to my friend Dennis '08, who was ... lot more other stuff that I had to do this time. -6.004 (Computation

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  's definitely not hard to get an internship for the summer. First, there are ... beautiful polka-dotted sundress which keeps me cool walking to work on hot ... of things to try this summer -- so Adam rigged up a foam ducting system

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  There are two books in my backpack right now. The first is a little ... Spanish IV, my HASS class for this semester. I’ve been attempting to learn ... extremely difficult for me. Last spring I took 21F.703, my first language

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2014…The Parent Edition Suggestions for getting the most out of CPW when you are a parent

  

  all this time, I never cease to be thrilled to get to finally meet all ... . The first question I often hear from parents is, "what events should I ... over the next few days, there are lots of things to choose from and

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  four semesters left. 2) I have to declare my concentration (every MIT undergraduate has to have a "concentration" in one of the Humanities, Arts, or ... classes within that department. The idea is to get some depth in a HASS

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012