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• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  and I would always be surprised at where all the money went. I may not have overdrafted many times, but I came dangerously close at least every ... started to keep track. I adapted a Google Sheets Monthly Budget template and

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [joint post] unsubscribe a post about fortune cookies

  

  , thought I might as well stop at CJ’s room while I was at it. CJ: It was a ... give me an opportunity to snap back at you, but I'm above that. I'm above ... Next House at the time—we thought: “what if we bought custom fortune

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  dinner at Pika for the first time. It was kind of cold, and I was tired ... , because to be honest, I’d been feeling weird about UROPing at all. I didn ... "]email[/annotation]about the bio UROP mixer—I looked at my schedule, saw that I was free

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  questions and identity crises… Every student at MIT is required to declare a ... , you can declare "undeclared", but most people do make at least a ... , there are no disadvantages (at least, none that I can think of) to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  Press about our Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones. According to Google News, the story has been picked up by at least 67 news organizations ... 's currently on CNN.com, with a nice picture of Marilee and her daughter (at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  September!   Writing, Journaling, & Blogging At some point last Spring, I threw all my blog drafts into a massive Google Doc that I've been ... through this right now"]pressure to talk to everyone at any chance you get

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  residential exploration, but without a residence on burton conner culture continuing to thrive

  

  people much since we were so focused on the activity at hand. we also ran ... -40 people came, and wearing masks didn't hinder the event at all. day three ... Burton Conner residents gathered at Saxon Court and talked to freshmen for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song

  

  from dining for at least the next two months. there was this book ... straight through the last three episodes. round 2 of google code jam was ... share the same title. my favorite pairs are probably always, by panic! at

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  here’s everything i thought about in 25 minutes an uncurated and somewhat meta discussion on anything and everything

  

  range for maybe a minute max. theoretically, if i were typing at full ... , at least i think, i hope i did the math right, i think the awkward thing with me and math is that it’s not necessarily as if i’m bad at math

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • July 16, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  , an umbrella, and my signed Rufus Does Judy at Capitol Studios poster ... destination address, which at the time was 229 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA ... 'd yet to navigate on my own. At the ticket counter, I said goodbye to my

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  , somehow harder than the actual task at hand! A little homebrew necromancy is ... page (and counting) Google Doc titled random blog thoughts, which is ... , with bullet points, ideas yelled back at me in ALL CAPS so I don’t forget

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / Events

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  left for campus at 8:45am for German at 9am, and often didn't return ... everything is thrown at you at once, even if you're intentionally about finding that balance, the sweet spot. I've forced my thinking caps to engage at

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guide to MIT: Academics requirements, resources, and miscellaneous info

  

  ), 8 HASS subjects (including at least one in each category of Humanities ... require a senior thesis. Note: at MIT, you can have at most two majors and ... courses are often capped at 25 people so the good ones fill up quickly and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  remember that in the few moments of time I tried my hand at creating music ... games (which I think at the time meant the 2-D Snake game on my cousin ... atrocities heavenly Mozart-like symphonies at the piano was always effortless

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  Google tabs as I looked at classes I could take, majors I could choose, and ... matching Stanford hoodies together and became annoyingly giddy at the mention ... ambiguous goal of being a college student not just anywhere, but at a very

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  class ring that MIT undergraduates receive at the end of their second year ... about shot glasses at all. why would you even think that ... committee was to get changed and get hyped.  At 6:30pm, doors opened. I was

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  of eBay. I've been wanting to replace my laptop since at least the ... everything set up at first, since this is my first Linux system and I was ... when I do. I got a new pair of shoes, since my old shoes were tearing at

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  [/annotation] (which at the time had very vague policies about what we could leave and ... everything in a box. No need to partition items into "do I need this at home ... think a big part of it is boredom. At MIT I would roam campus and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  to finish it. two years later, jessica and i are neighbors at next ... 6.033 design project preliminary report so nisha doesn't yell at me, i scrolled down and down and down in my google drive and found the incomplete

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  now at MIT - encouraged me to. From what I remember, there were about ... cause, whether it's building a robot or performing science research at a ... drive team during my junior year, heartbroken and at a complete loss for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012