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• Blog / MIT Life

  just vibing tough times out here

  

  ) is the value of time. In high school I thought I was learning this lesson: I felt like there was never enough time to commute, do ... ="The Toast once said 'For the first time I genuinely comprehend that there is

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  in the Stud, I realized that there were a lot of cool things on the walls of the Infinite that I hadn't actually bothered to stop and read. In a regular semester, I was always in such a rush to get to wherever I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Rate My Setup a guide to my room in Simmons

  

  Since the end of August, I've been living on-campus in Simmons in a double. My room is huge, and I have two sets of furniture, which really means I have two desks. I'm taking two classes this semester with take

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 17, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  One Month of Baby Steps my feet hurt

  

  Hi, I’m Kathleen. I’m a first-year student and a new blogger here at MIT! I arrived in Cambridge one month ago, but it feels like its been ... me is saturated with newness. I’m still adjusting to making new friends

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 26, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Love Is Hard (A Sequel) wherein anon feels different from how he felt seven months ago

  

  :) _,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,_ So last time I poured out all that I had in my brain regarding my trials and tribulations with dating, which includes the many times I have felt like I was in love and similarly the many times that I was wrong

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  As an African American I have always felt left out when it comes to ... culture, a sense of history and background that I simply did not possess or understand. I felt like I was missing out on an entire world that everyone else

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  **Edit: tagline no longer accurate as of 11/16/2015. Whoops! I don’t know about you, but I like to eat. I grew up in a family where food is ... students from all corners of the MIT community. I really cherish being able

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Late last month, on July 25th, I boarded a Lufthansa flight from ... circumstance.   (Note: before I came to MIT, I did not know the ISOs existed. I had never known anyone to compete in any of them, or even

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

  IAP & Snowmageddon Infinite amounts of pancakes, international adventures and poutine, and icy apocalypse preparation

  

  MIT's temporary emergency closure means I no longer have an excuse to ... idea that IAP is 'infinite time' can be so dangerous, because I ended up ... writing and casual vlogging. But my friends and I have managed to get out

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  The other day I was watching a video about typography and the speaker ... displeasing. The whiteness screams out, “Look at me, I exist!” And we reply, “Go ... is missing, we notice. Somehow, the emptiness is jarringly loud. I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  ? Pull yourself out from under that rock. I'm not talking about that silly little shindig; I'm talking about a different 150th! That's right; this ... , parents and the I-have-to-buy-groceries?-type : there are dining dorms with

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  admission letters to your hearts in a sleepless fervor of joy, I've been ... instruments I was arranging for would sound like in real life. Twelve non ... papercuts later, I hauled my arrangement off to Kresge, where a ragtag band of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  ", otherwise known as "Physics I: Mechanics" (Masochists, Mechanics...close enough). I was a little jittery. I set three alarms that morning, and ... out. My desk remained empty. I raised my hand. A proctor yelled "BEGIN

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Making an Entrance On being helped to my feet.

  

  On my first day at MIT, I fell flat on my back in the Student Center lobby. Rewind four weeks, to a field in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I ... field. I donned my Rooney England jersey that morning, in the hope that it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  I recently bought a pair of rollerblades for $8 from the Garment ... of clothes in a pile being sold at a dollar fifty a pound - and I think I probably haven't looked this uncool since my fouth-grade days of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  I'm on a 13-hour flight from San Francisco to Tokyo, connecting through Seoul, and I'm holding it. This is not because of lack of access - I ... of the trip. What's wrong with her? I imagine they'd think, their

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Finals Week…A Different View ...Or why I got up way too early this morning...

  

  My alarm went off at 5:30 am today...I am not now, nor have I ever been, a "morning person". When I was a child my mother used to start the day by singing to me, "Good morning to you, good morning to you." I

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • May 18, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  I subscribe to the New York Times (paper edition!) and reading it on my daily commute is one of the joys of waking up each morning. So I was quite surprised when I got to page B11 (national edition) of the sports

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  beeping oh god the beeping it's driving me insane I am so tired and then it ... beeping it's driving me insane I am so tired This has been going on for ... Pass/No Record, I don't see any Cs. Well, I can't see any Cs. 9

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  arguing about peanut butter are frivolous, if funny, activities. I'd like to ... , which is totally serious, all the time. I live in Nest House, which is ... . As a Nextie, I had a choice between traditional and seminar advising

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008