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  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  since the second term of freshman year. Of course, I have by now missed my ... while watching the turtles at the pond where I’m working. I am jealous of ... focus on physics tonight. 6:15 — Dinner begins with the ringing of the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  ’re notified of whether you have a spot in that class are subject to the whim of ... to take their class through an [annotation note="the anxiety of writing ... wouldn’t have known to ask.  1. Ask the prof to save you a seat ahead of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  problems at the end of this post, and if you enjoy Mike’s writing you should ... type of math. Maybe it’s the physicist in me. So when I heard that MIT ... of the people there. Mostly my fellow physics majors. Because math

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  War II and deepened by the collapse of the Soviet Union. Russia ... to Chicago in 1996, when I was almost four. Most of the stories from ... she wasn’t invited to my house, but the jumble of Russian-English that

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update v. 2008

  

  (to you, dear reader), because Sam was basically the coolest blogger of ... Awkward" has been murdered, and we've been charged with the task of figuring ... "little black book" with lots of contacts in it. We've got to solve the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek

  

  'll focus super-hard on all the other pieces of your application. No worries ... a bit of all three. But the numbers all point in one direction: you ... I almost forgot: for you regular action folks, the deadline to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2004
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for November Reflect, rewrite, repeat

  

  A lot of the people reading this have probably spent the past two ... [/annotation]. A lot of the people reading this are probably starting on their Common ... you successfully do what the subtitle of this post says, we have curated

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Themed Online Distractors (for EA Decision Day) to the 2020 MIT Protofrosh

  

  've been following the MIT blogs, recall the number of times we wrote that ... to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day and many many more here ... Enlightening: History through the Eyes of the Potato from TED-Ed Einstein

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choose my Halloween Costume!

  

  though I dressed as a witch like 5 times between the ages of 3 and 8 ... other ideas, or how on Earth I can pull any of these off within the next ... Okay guys, here's the deal...Halloween is quickly approaching, and I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House Showers Bring No Flowers They're just really, REALLY bad showers. Like really, REALLY bad.

  

  leave the entire contents of their shower onto the part of the floor ... the drain to make you think they'd shaved a small cow. Perhaps worst of ... . The morning finals began, specifically on the morning of my 8.01 final

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 3, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Getting MISTI-fied There's a loud boom coming from Lobby 10.

  

  the beauty of free food and bhangra. Word. ... So on my way back from my BE.370 recitation, walking down the ... discovered that not only was there the booming, there was FREE FOOD. Cue the

  • by Bryan
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m in Round 2! Can You Help Me Make the Top 10? Change.org is running a competition that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next…

  

  that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next administration's agenda ... , and, worst of all, undermining each other in the quest to gain ... right-hand corner of the page. – Find the "Social Entrepreneurship

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And term starts again…

  

  couple of weeks. In the meantime, I'll entertain you with a list of my ... /statistics class. 9.71 (Functional MRI of High-Level Vision) Basics of fMRI, the strengths and limitations of fMRI compared to other techniques, and the design

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Manage Your Future

  

  the curriculum of the university: worked on syllabus design, reading ... , and sea freight. The city: Berlin is a huge city full of culture ... Xerox (India).  Sara Hernandez Class of 2015 MIT-India Program

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Grocery Store Run Run, Geza, run!

  

  obtained to relieve me of the MIT firehose-induced famine. In truth, I've been eating well, and the schoolwork hasn't affected any of my habits ... hours straight, and there were no signs of the downpour letting up. I put

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  of dirty laundry. I print out my p-sets for the week. While I’m at it I ... ’m running out of socks. I spend an hour picking out socks on the Internet. I ... something often academic in nature. (2) v.i. To be in the process of not doing

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  ). You can review the list of meetings at http ... enter MIT "undeclared," and, at the conclusion of the freshman year ... Choice of Major website. Sara wrote, "For the next Omnibus: - Is it ok to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  I Can Talk to Anyone perseverating with caution

  

  time of the semester when [insert vague statement about being hosed].” I ... , and the conversation carries on. If the rules of the game aren’t being ... sentiment by saying something along the lines of “Honestly, it makes a lot of

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  IAP stands for Independent Activities Period. For the month of ... styles and also learn about the history of Chinese calligraphy. you make ... didn't want to miss too much of the class and ended up dropping 2

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  they reveal their own endings early on and yet somehow the act of ... of what they did, and then they were placed in the same environment as ... , in the context of friendships (we often assume we are powerless to help

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023