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• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  I’m writing this sitting at my aunt’s kitchen table, at midnight ... Moscow time, and as a result I go to bed at 4 am and wake up at noon. Except it’s not that simple. Some days, I wake up at 8 by some messed

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  twelve friends, where I’ll stay for at least for the next 2.5 months ... , Purell, and surgical gloves. My sister pick me up at the airport. It was still so normal two weeks ago, just two sisters laughing at each other

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  Since January, I've been having a sort of crisis about my place at MIT. I realized I've been learning wrong my entire life, or at least ... really stupid" or "Yeah, I don't understand anything at all" as crutches

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  -driven input than at MIT (though there has been a history of MIT students ... poetry slams. There are also free talks at the Harvard Book Store that are ... summer, there were free museum hours during the Summer Solstice Festival at

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  At the start of the semester a close friend of mine gave me her loft ... recommend you loft your bed, and loft it high. My fear of heights—at least ... at the open window to my left. I was terrified at first, but some time

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  years at MIT, (b) leave in the closet for all four years, then pull it out ... look at what he had left: Run a bridge loop Take a class at Harvard or Wellesley Go clubbing on Landsdowne Street Buy clothes at the Garment district

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  ! time really flies - i'm still getting over the fact that i'm already at ... , and the brief time they shared together. I first met Steve at FLP ... still balked at the size and the fact that I had to share the space with

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  at the forces affecting the development of cities around the world. If ... engineering programs at almost all schools have strict graduation requirements. At the beginning of my sophomore year, however, I decided I did want to

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  SOMETHING today. So I made a nice schedule: I would wake up at 9:30ish, watch ... 00t!) with my big Jessica (a girl from my sorority) at 10, get to the Terrascope room at 12 and stay there until 2 or 3 to work on our final plan for

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  humanities and science education at MIT." First off, here are a few things that ... about and look at science? 21. Even if you don't want to major in science ... enjoy the culture? Is MIT somewhere you can see yourself being at for the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  suitcase and sell it at places like Target for $49.99 or so. Three hours and ... ever find yourself at MIT with 48 hours of absolutely nothing worth doing ... -King-or-McDonald's pit stop. The driver stops at a gas station. Passengers get out and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  are lots of other jobs out there, some of which are barely technical at ... ), I've worked at the Computing Help Desk, which is part of Information ... computer related stuff at MIT...which, as you can imagine, makes it a huge

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  't remember making a --" At this point, he was abruptly interrupted by a sharp tap to the head. "No!! Dio mio, at this point, I don't know how many ... at Peace." Having thus decreed by the Professor, Oasis embarked on an

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Entry for Parents Students shouldn't have all the fun.

  

  : Thursday night at 7:30, things get kicked off. The keynote speaker is Prof ... Services Session for Parents: Friday afternoon at 1pm, Director of Student ... , whys and whens of financial aid at MIT -- how we determined your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? In Guam, Hawaii, and Saipan, you can get SPAM at Mc ... ever seen at MIT. But after that? I'm at the start of a pretty big ... to say, was a little wistful. Like how Tim Gunn cries at the end of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  down the street with the wind at their backs. (It's easier to be generous ... Francisco Bay Area. At the time, it wasn't clear if these internships would be in-person or remote. I knew that I could stay at WILG if I interned in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day with AISES + NASA

  

  Speech-Language Pathologist and Developmental Scientist at Johns Hopkins ... former research director of the climate policy and research program at the ... human rights and Tribal self-governance. Her role at AIJ involved

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  play dough

  

  at all where it usually is, but I know because I've put it there and I ... kid and some of those dislikes have stuck with me, even at 19. I dislike ... gruel and I'd look in disgust at how they had ruined the very nice thing

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  Thanksgiving at MIT has always been just a paltry two days off ... . I helped out at the tournament, and then left for my house's weekly 11 ... at 1:45, I was worn out and hungry, but looking around at all our newly

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  their ballots today. Here at MIT, employees are guaranteed time off for ... the franchise."]polling location at Kresge Auditorium ... , angry. If the issues at stake feel fairly distant to you, please know that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020