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• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  so much that i will never get the chance to do, and that hurts in an ... good for me!) and feeling in my bones that this life is a good place to ... 've been struggling this semester, in a way that I hadn't realized before

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  , and I think a lot of it is from the skills that I gained in my first ... know what the Damkohler number is. Punchline: I learned a lot in my classes. While that in itself is a tremendous feat, there is much more that

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  company that my summer was totally free and I could start in the summer as a ... and what I'm doing this summer. I'm doing this because a) I need to ... that year in Next House, and in Sigma Phi Epsilon, and with Toons, and a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  get that dorm security is a thing, but I’m always afraid of forgetting ... had a room facing the Charles River and I miss that this year. In the ... , but I’ve also spent a year each in Simmons and Baker, so if you have any

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in Cambridge I less than three the holidays.

  

  Well, I'm back at MIT after a lovely Thanksgiving in the land of the ... movie) and crash into bed early (that 5/3 of a day thing I talked about ... -wavy explanation, but I suspect that it's due primarily to the sharp increase in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Thoughts from the Dungeon One night only

  

  every time I turn the game on, it’s a new enemy that sends me to my digital maker. Well, that’s not true. The most frustrating part is that I ... ’m dealing with in Metaphor. Right? No. I was wrong. This is my fourth attempt

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  to do justice to this in a few sentences, but I'll try. This is an ... above that. Summers 12: Basketball camp. Not a clue why I decided to do ... . Basically, not much has changed since then, except that I now do these things

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  BEST WEEK OF 2007 ...a self-rewarded happiness.

  

  do well in my interviews before I'm accepted, but it's nice to have ... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! So so sorry that I haven't blogged in a while. Life, we'll say has been a little exciting lately, and

  • by Bryan
  • January 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  financially comfortable in a way that I’d never even imagined. Or, I could ... these projects in the way that I know I am capable of doing. And it was ... imagined that I could do this long-term: lead a healthy, well-paced life

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i got a cat he is so small

  

  Note: i am working on a high effort long blog but this is too ... lose him in my room. He’s just a little baby When I first got the boy ... in my hood, which seemed to calm him down. The only problem is that

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • January 14, 2026
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  string is everywhere, splayed out in front of me like...like...well, I was gonna say like guts in a murder scene, but maybe that's a tad bit too ... unwound. Yet one of the downsides is that I've now gotten myself into the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I have to submit a February Updates & Notes Form (FUN)?

  The February Updates & Notes Form (FUN) is required for Early ... available in your application portal in late January and should be completed ... . Students who have already graduated select the "I'm not currently attending
• Blog / Classes

  Tier Listing My Classes i may have got this idea from tiktok

  

  classes in each major - is that I very clearly liked my CMS classes better ... 's just nice to have a visual. I do wish that I had gotten to take classes ... were just classes that I struggled a lot to grasp conceptually. C: These

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  you read the description you'll see why I called it that. The PDF is ... would have been the kind of math that causes a ringing in your ears and ... , I'm one of those people that says "epic" a lot). Trekking down

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.

  

  more interested in sophomores or juniors. I do not have a resume. The ... the point of a career fair is to collect job prospects, not swag. In the ... do I want with a fourth one? (For the curious: my first job, as I

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Winter is coming. actually, it's already here.

  

  Over half of IAP is left.  Some stuff I'm looking forward to: a La ... typeface), my blacksmithing class, and Charm School (more on that in a later ... friends back home to make them jealous.  Here's a quick recap of what I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  like MIT in the same ways that men are, and I think that is criminal. So ... . You're in spot A-12." Okay, I thought. A midsize instead of a compact? Great, whatever. Then I reached spot A-12. Sitting in said spot was a

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  . Every test I’ve taken reports that my body is normal, just in pain. There ... listening to myself. One example is that I don’t always force myself to do ... is just an animal, glorying in the fact that I’ve squatted many pounds

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  freshmen to cook with them, or to be in a food co-op with them. (yes, I ... a reflection of some common “culture”-- a culture that really is made ... taught “Don't give in to peer pressure!”--an oversimplification of a

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  a plastic folder. I mean come on. You know that paper is the worst ... everything else that's going on, we've been in touch a lot more. I guess that ... my life is set-in-stone right now. I feel like for me, life is a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021