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  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  [esidence] EX[ploration Period] again (including the herculean task of scheduling ... hang out with me sometime today, here are some of the places you might ... where I plan to be (and I really hope I don’t have any of the times drawn

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  .021, Physics E&M. I failed the regular version of 8.02 in the spring, so I ... people who failed and really struggled with the normal version of E ... .021 because the class is rather small (only really consisting of 11? people if I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  As Winter Melts things are gonna change so fast

  

  think many of the attitudes of the computing culture has spilled over into the culture and attitudes of MIT in general (which probably explains why ... hour, on average). Or perhaps you could argue that it was the culture of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  You might wonder what possessed me to go to Chicago for the month of January. The weather forecast for my first day of work. Granted, this factors in the mysterious element of wind chill.  I was graciously accepted

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-India student interns at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

  

  , mainly in Kathmandu, e.g., the head of the Rotary Club of Kathmandu, a ... looking into the possibility of working at an institute for blind students ... to sharing with others some of the experiences I have had in India and

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  friend. :-D] I know it must be kind of confusing to reconcile the fact that we're all apparently busy out of our heads with schoolwork and the fact ... I'm home for the evening. Cheerleading is a time commitment of about

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  All the Feels introduction to me and my thoughts

  

  share with you a sliver of some of the amazing people I’ve met and the ... honor of listening to a professor who was involved in the discovery of ... and the bloggers of this site. It gives me chills just to be there in

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Spot the Blogger where you'll find bloggers during CPW, and some bonus tips!

  

  best to get to know them! Remember that your host is fully aware of the ... enjoying some of the best (and most elaborate?) dinner on campus at my ... you meet the infamous cats of Tetazoo!   Erick P. '17 will be

  • by Connie H. '15
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  from the conventional path of telling you what options are available to ... interpretation of the GIRs, so please ignore them if you think I'm just being woozy ... overflow room) so a lot of people didn't have to go to class (humph*) - the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The HackMIT 2016 Puzzle Just Launched and it'll (probably) take you all across the Internet

  

  It's that time of summer again. HackMIT, one of the largest ... , and realize the projects of your dreams!" Head on over to hackmit ... clear, this post is not part of the puzzle nor does it contain any hints

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  gets thrown around a lot in the context of life, MIT, what comes after ... your legs and the feeling of your throat getting dryer. In that moment ... ’s no winning or losing, or cheering from the sidelines every step of the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  experience," so i was willing to sacrifice some personal agency for the sake of ... the reputation of being quiet, and since i wanted something more social ... is the fourth floor of the east building (or parallel). three other

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  Applicants, if you're reading this, I hope that MIT is one of the ... , however, you have some serious decisions ahead of you in the coming weeks ... + years and he's one of the sharpest people that I know. Finally, it dawned

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  sure. For example, on my first test of the year I got two standard ... until late November, my very last test of the semester. It's one thing to ... out of the summer all happy from working at Hasbro and building toys all

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  struggling under the sudden influx of CPW-related e-mails, and my willpower to ... already knew, but for many of you, that won't be the case. It's not a bad ... list of things to pack. Notice that one of the items listed is a camera

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  ’ll delight in for the rest of my life, probably in part because many of my ... , frequent walks around the neighborhood, and yes, a lot of time to ask, what ... do the same.  The specifics of what I do or the path from here on out

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Accountability Some thoughts on decisions and school

  

  decision you’ve made/ You’ve put a stamp of approval on every part of the ... came out, some of you were happy and would have found the above message ... the day of the final review. I left several hours in the morning to draw

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Rush and Hall Rush

  

  the chapel and it lasted five minutes instead of 25), East Campus built a wooden Godzilla monster that carried jugs of water. By the time the ... nitrogen. There was a bungee-type swing between the two parallels of EC

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  the end of summer; one day, I was sitting in the office casually ... gradient across the parsec scales of our globular cluster, then it was one ... after cup of tea, then suddenly it was the day of my presentation and I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  mess in the beginning of the school year and, in hindsight, I should have gone to CAPD in the beginning of the year. At this point in time, I wasn ... students are even given the day off of classes to go. I had prepared the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020