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  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  MIT 2023 Vice President! My current project has been working on the 2023-2024 pen pal program, where stuco and I are working on pairing MIT 2023s with ... bunch of lectures from experienced work people. Normally, we would get

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  my first spring break!!! 13 MIT students take San Diego

  

  Rico seemed like our best bet; it's a great location, not super far, and ... group despite not...living with everyone in it"]Burton 1/Burton 3rd ... mattresses, and many couches, we made the sleeping arrangements work. hanging

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  As of this weekend, I have watched Greta Gerwig’s 2023 blockbuster Barbie six (6) times. I have also cried to Greta Gerwig’s 2023 blockbuster ... . Still, like any piece of art, I find it impossible not to pull out my own

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  , but I was very much not built for 7-10PM classes.   8 ... worked. 4.341 - Introduction to Photography and Related Media I wrote a ... In 4.301, we worked through a series of different mediums

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  once I started working on it with other people and attending office hours ... ="Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and ... in my transcript, all the work I've put into this class has been undone

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the Scenes of MIT Gala liveblog - how a fashion show is made!

  

  Gala, our student-run fashion show! Originally conceptualized in 2023 as ... ) is hard at work setting up the runway with a border of iridescent ... , working out logistics, and setting up the AV system. An Area 4 coffee

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • April 27, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  2023 is now live. While some have jumped at the chance to scope out the ... we did not intend and in ways entirely contrary to our explicit guidance.  While the sheer number of ways that applicants find to not follow

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The seniors are tired but the frosh are fine

  

  I am a senior, I am a 2023, I am graduating in May, and though I ... 'm not even supposed to have a big role, but somehow I keep saying yes ... pretty lights, and we're building a rollercoaster for it, and I'm not a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  SnowDays while you're waiting for decisions

  

  work. Here's a link to that snowflake. If you view the snowflake on the ... ="https://mitadmissions.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/flake.webm" loop="true" autoplay="true"][/video] The animation ... work? The answer has to do with winding numbers. A cut is a closed curve

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  to 3 Class of 2023 events. One was a tunnel hunt and it was a ton of ... breakdowns at MIT Medical three times. Oh, man. Yeah, not my greatest moments

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  welcoming our new bloggers! baby bloggers? baby bloggers!!

  

  Summer has come and gone,⁠01 in academic calendar only. it is definitely still meteorological summer. it was so warm last night and MIT is coming back to life. Students are…

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  worked for big tech and finance and crypto, all of which have somewhat ... they feel the need to work on impactful research, and after a while they ... work of all the people who came before me, and how other humans were

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gala a premiere event celebrating fashion, arts, and culture

  

  chance to share their work as well. Even those not modeling or designing ... ://mitadmissions.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/348858473_6277977335600934_6467364592316268255_n.mp4"][/video ... to explore the art gallery, which featured independent works from

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  not a crypto shill account.) But now it's September 1st and I haven ... This summer, I worked for fourteen weeks as a software engineering ... 't care that much about compensation. Of course, most people are not in a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  opening plays memorized, but to be entirely clear, I’m not one of them. My ... tendency to just sort of... not follow the rules), and as a result I never ... attack at the wrong moment, and if I’m not playing Samus I’ll spend the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  anyway. It can work wonders. I think I'm angry at myself for still not ... school, where to work, and of course, where to live. Another person I spent ... most? I'm really not sure who this would be. I would think maybe Kylee

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  [annotation note="what some people might call a work ethic. but, I'm still not sure I ... : [audio mp3="https://mitadmissions.org/wp-content/uploads/2023 ... D students are settled and working, the undergrads are settled and working, and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  not sound like an ass in doing so. I've got them all written down, and ... emotionally over with, so I'm not as scared to fail again. I know it's good to ... into reality. I'm not sure if I believe in that. What I do believe in is

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  ? is it your work or personal relationships or something else? p: i ... of them: one is people and another is creative work, like art or ... connection, creative work helps me feel like i’ve expressed myself, and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  'm pretty big on trying to keep a work-life balance at places not named MIT ... to show how relationships between nations can work out and how wars ... of the track, followed curves, did not hit other robots cause that

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024