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  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  to feel like, or if this is far outside the scope of what I'm prepared ... on writing a way to calculate the kernel or whatever of a pixel. I show ... to watch my perspective on each of these classes shift as time

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  just take a ceiling tile down at Random instead of having to lie on your ... , oreos, various flavors of ganache, or even more chocolate? Do you want to ... hugged me on sight, and I remember the utter feeling of overwhelming joy as

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Ice cream and an onion Chun Li, pirates, magnetic poetry, and an RLC circuit.

  

  turned out even better! To make sure she wasn't confused for a gypsy or ... thing I love about MIT is that 90% of the student body has no idea how to ... DID YOU KNOW? Paula Abdul is not African-American. She is of Syrian

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  Assembly. All of which are time sinks, the first one measuring up to nearly ... drop classes or not is never a good idea, but I am happy to constantly be ... gave it my all. I used every bit of time I had left to slap together a

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  lot more time on my hands than I was used to. I went to one of those ... lot" on your resume--but nevertheless it is important to know yourself ... had to worry about a lot of things I didn't have to worry about while I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  teaches design and manufacturing, so the first month or so is dedicated to ... . Basically, this class was one of the reasons I came to MIT. Most (maybe all ... to be intimidating...grr), and because it's a combination (sort of) of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  . for me, four classes (one of which is secretly like 1.75 classes), doing ... , getting to choose which of my tasks to tackle next instead of being forced ... quality: it doesn't feel like I am "choosing" to do them or not based on how

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  to the MIT Class of 2024, which was the last class selected before we ... Regular Action, 26,914 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2027. This ... considered them all, subject to our standard of attentive, empathetic, holistic

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Delivery I think Abba said it best when they sang, "Ring, ring, why don't you give…

  

  Rat is one of MIT's most famous tradition, I figure better late than ... . From now on, I'll have to stop promising to come back regularly - you ... room). Now get off my back, Mom. Uh, I mean.. now on to our regularly

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  felt better to catch up on the content I missed with the help of friends ... impression of college was from scrolling on college websites, watching media, or asking others, all of which naturally gave me different ideas of

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Hello Summer! Finally done with finals

  

  instead of making them have to read the chicken scratch that is my ... another week of nothing to do, so I better get to it! Next weekend starts ... Finally the year is over. After a week of relaxing, I can finally

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admission Interview Tick tock!

  

  mention school and real life), I do need to mention one vital part of the application process that should be at the top of your To Do list: the interview ... MIT account. You don’t need to finish the application before setting up, or even

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Next Big Mailing is out Choosing your email address, and more.

  

  ! A couple ways to check if your username is already taken: 1) put the ... letters or fewer); your first name (if it is fairly unique and 8 letters or ... The first wave of the Next Big Mailing (NBM) has been sent out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  rarely manage to leave without machine oil or grease on my hands.  All of ... . This place is hard, in all senses of the word. It cuts you to the quick ... , scrambling to finish on time.   Parts of MIT are wonderful in this

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  know pretty much every single one of the groups on that list! I have to ... Mechanical Engineering to even programs like Freshman Leadership Program or ... ". So there is an FPOP for entrepreneurship! I looked up their website to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  , so i will try to give a concise summary based on my understanding of ... limited supply of housing it has become common to see tents on sidewalks in ... trying out is designating blocks of the city as supervised campsites. on

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  it. I guess now is as good a time as any to ponder the intricacies of ... possible, and I really took that to heart. Freshman year is kind of a bonding ... mit is as a prefrosh, to a rising sophomore whose gone through all the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  know after five years of living here is more on every level than the one ... 'm proudest of is that I'm more confident in myself and who I am. I came to MIT ... I was probably one of the youngest people ever to read the blogs. I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  and is spreading at a rate of 28 to 100 kilometers a year. Even the ... valuable to us is their skin. Amphibians depend on their skin for everything ... amphibians on the island. Another option is to fight fungus with bacteria. Some

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  I like to think my lack of formal diction is relatable and shows that ... parts. I loved the camaraderie of people all grinding to finish their part ... least two hours."]preparation.[/annotation] I used to have a fair bit of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024