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

  

  …" Those percents add up - not just in the homework component of your grade ... on exams simply by studying and putting in the minimum amount of work ... decided mechanical engineering was more my thing. Work out! You're already

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

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  that will differentiate you is how hard you work." I left feeling ... bed at the same time and sing lullabies in harmony. Not nearly as many ... (once a week, not for credit) called Ceramica Botanica, and here's what I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  saturate myself with sodium and MSG. It was not one of my better days ... induced coma, I spent the last few days working on those things I put off ... 've managed to put this aside with a million reasons. I should be working. I

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  once in a while. OK I may be an Internet addict, but I am not alone ... jimjilbangs can work into American culture. It's also interesting that while ... get. And it's not like the American economy is performing extra stellar

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A new semester but if I give you my daily schedule here, what will I fill my Facebook…

  

  ) 8.02-Physics II-Electricity and Magnetism I'm not actually taking this ... class at MIT on my resume. Not bad. Plus it's my favorite professor's last semester at MIT, so I'm happy to get to work with him teaching his class. 6

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Writing Science Fiction [by Susan Shepherd '11] Writing takes time, but fortunately MIT gives you good excuses to…

  

  and intricacies of a satisfying plot. Unfortunately, not all of these ... work of writing their ideas down will eventually turn into writers. But ... order to graduate, why not make sure that some of those are writing

  • by ARTalk
  • March 24, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m still here (and MIT’s still hard) The little comment that wasn't. (This isn't edited. It sounds awkward at times. Deal.)

  

  . Many, if not most, of us here put a lot of effort into our work in high ... thereof are not my friend right now.) And at the start of the first class ... up and do it. Challenge yourself. You'll decide what works for you soon

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  named after Nike, the god of victory. So, according to the German work ... nobody came into work on Friday, because there's WORLD CUP SOCCER to be ... , small or large, but maybe I just don't possess the infamous German work

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  's probably not all that terribly different from the SAT II in biology, but I ... whose lab I work in, who is also my biology academic advisor, and he just ... , complete with arm-waving and chanting. It may or may not have looked

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To a mouse (or nineteen) A eulogy for my UROP mice... in the form of me explaining my UROP.

  

  euthanized sometime in the next few days. (Insert me pretending that I'm not ... projects I've been working on at my UROP for the past two years. So first ... discovered and characterized by Morgan, the professor whose lab I work in. Lots

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint liveblog] finding the BALANCE with 2.009 watching the 2.009 annual showcase (with Kayode D. '27)

  

  .] (janet would like to clarify that she did NOT say that and kayode is the ... "engineering and design is not just about making cool things..." - kayode ... not born in a circus so i had to learn" "... my illegal walk" THIS GUY

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  campus. I am not an international student who the Trump administration is ... , sophomores, and freshmen will be invited back to campus. This might not happen ... May. Spoiler alert, we were not back by May. At some point in April, it

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

  Some comments on topics of interest

  

  below is a different quote - they're not all part of the same statement ... present an average of 5 AP, why not go a step farther. TELL students that ... they put limitations on letters of recommendations, so why not limit AP

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 7, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  highlight the essence of a scene or interaction. I work with the actors to ... building trust with your actors so they are not afraid to share their ideas ... works for eight MIT students is harder than a gradient descent

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  C’est la Vie In which I describe my summer in words, without photos (yet).

  

  Aborigines. I really realized that on a very basic level, it's not so much that ... to in previous blog entries, I've been working on genetic manipulation ... genotyping PCRs (a lot of ATCG work) -Interpreting DNA sequence results after

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I do what I do A few reasons I'm still on this planet.

  

  working this term about 15 hours in the lab each week. I work on the ... 't take a federal holiday off work until July 4 -- I worked MLK Day ... me to work overtime and on holidays. The project on which I work long

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  energy would go Black Friday shopping afterwards, and those who did not ... sister and I would provide very little help—we’d work on our schoolwork ... values were taught to me, not by [annotation note="okay, there were some

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  like not wanting to work or procrastinating too much, but if there is ... can't tell if I love or hate. I’ll be working on the problem sets and ... whining at me like "what the heck are you doing, you’ve been working on this

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  liquid nitrogen and everything else 🐸

  

  catfishing (it’s not that catfishing). It was a daily Wikipedia game that would ... started playing for about an hour a night, working through the archives at ... , the JC I worked on LN2 with, and I would take inventories of plastic

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 9, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  classes I’ve ever taken. He did not have to put so much work into making the ... after work, the traffic lights looking faintly like glowing eyes, tired but relenting to let me pass. I miss working at Hometown Pizza. I miss

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023