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  day in my life except it’s a live blog

  

  the last book for my reading seminar (infrastructure systems in theory ... for me. started drafting my article for transportation planning and ... ). it needs to be done by 4 pm tomorrow ;-; refactored code for my deep

  • by Victor D. '27
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  totally lost in that class for weeks. The current plan is to work on it with ... tea for lunch, and then I take a caffeine pill because a large black tea will not cut it for today. It’s a pretty quick meal, and I run into a few

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Welcome to CPW! 'twas the night before cpw...

  

  free food—that reminded me how much I enjoyed exploring MIT for the first ... floor's events! For example, my floor is holding[annotation note ... us :)"]Pottery and Paint (4/12 @ 6:30pm):[/annotation]In Burton

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • April 10, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  , but all the pieces are handmade by me, so wish us luck. That's all for ... you to parse through the poorly-developed Wikipedia pages I linked for ... of toxic relationship with linguistics. For example, I did a UROP in

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  Even as a kid, school never fit right for me. I recall my third-grade teacher told us all to “divide your page in half.” The other students made ... , “Rona, you can do that, but it might make things harder for you later

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  pathways where do i go from here?

  

  remind us of how quickly everything changed. the craziest, most tumultuous ... situation especially bittersweet. for me, it's my former dorm, Burton Conner ... to think about it, after all—but it shapes how I've been planning for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iap: this year vs. last

  

  inspirational posters one of us had gotten for Christmas. there's a very distinct ... choreographing 4-5 hours a day for the entire month in preparation for Mocha Show ... , go back to my dorm for a couple of hours, and then spend my night

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / Events

  To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before: P.S. I Love You THANK YOU LSC

  

  're here for an EXCLUSIVE EARLY SCREENING?!?!?!? She pointed us to the ... chat this: HELL. FUCKING. YES. For those of you who don't know me ... sucker for romcoms. And it's ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE that MIT Lecture Series

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  elusive skill of patience – waiting for the bus, waiting on a friend at a ... because I left them on read for too long last week, or perhaps something ... else. Variable weather calls for variable coping mechanisms (especially

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  (IOI) is the world's preeminent programming competition for high school ... all. However, they can be great experiences for the right sort of ... they so choose. While I was there independently, for Anglophonic reasons

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  So I've been in classes here for, as of yesterday, one whole month ... the pace of the content that was being fed to me. Turns out, (for me ... studying and go to sleep. Getting all your work done is for sure a priority

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  wait to discover where the conversations will take us. I intended for ... MIT dome. I’ve been on campus for three weeks, but still every time I pass beneath it, I shudder. For years, I had admired it from a distant

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Right back where we started from You can call me Dr. Mollie.

  

  cognitive sciences in 2006. For those of you doing the math at home, that ... wearing my brass rat flipped upside down for just over eight years now ... cortex of mice. (I wrote a review! And drew the pictures for it!) I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  gets up and talks at us for 1-1.5 hours. On the days we don't have ... huge plus. When studying for exams, it's NOT agony to flip through my old ... class and providing motivation for learning the material (Peter Fisher

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  Building.  That's because those nocturnal diurnal (what's the term for "does ... you may or may not have noticed, I've been absent from these blogs for ... 's in Langer Lab, of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  paired up for their room assignments within Baker. "Want to be my roommate ... ?" and "Tell us something funny, we read a lot of these!" It seemed to go pretty smoothly until she brought up that she would be waking up for crew

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recycle, Reuse, (Map) Reduce? Jackpot, baby!

  

  that grease, dust, and oil be added to that list, at least for those of us at MIT. [1] Who'd have thought MIT doesn't own the rights to Calvin ... 've asked for old computers and furniture from a number of such entities

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions….. Don't Panic!

  

  , decisions day (D-Day from here on out) is upon us and for the prospective ... Ahh Pi day. It's an important day for nerds worldwide, but it's perhaps most important for some future nerds here at MIT (not to be confused

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Where WAS I? Honestly? I still don't know.

  

  I am starting to run out of excuses for when I disappear for long ... reason for why I haven't posted in over twelve decades ("I was sick", "I ... for why in the time it has taken me to write this new blog entry I have

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 3 Connecting with your Educational Counselor

  

  reports about their meetings with you. For some of you, an interview may not be something new, but for others the meeting with your Educational ... contact information for your EC is to log in to your my.mit.edu account

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 9, 2008