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• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  were as a member of my living community, the Burton Third Bombers. I had ... note="we meet 3 times a week for 2 hours during the semester and like 20 ... "]REX[/annotation] events in my Google Calendar. I actually went to 4 of these; the rest were

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  a general statement that sort of goes under the idea that you are now living alone, if you are not on the meal plan you have to make your own food, you now have the decision to go to class or not go to class, you

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  was past three in the morning and I'd just returned home from Studio 7 ... (Fundamentals of Energy in Buildings) that morning. After the review I had but ... on time Tuesday morning, so I can't tell you about the tour of Boston

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  tw suicide mention and angst!! to the skeletons in my closet ... ? the you is directed at certain people in my life and instead of writing a blog that explains it step by step i figured id just cut to the part

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Who was the first woman graduate?

  In 1873, shortly after MIT’s opening in 1865, Ellen Swallow Richards became MIT’s first woman graduate (and later its first woman instructor). Richards’ work testing drinking water supplies and water contaminants…
• Blog / Blog Projects

  ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES

  

  In the spirit of [annotation note="This weekend, high schoolers who were newly admitted to MIT get to visit the campus and experience student ... person or group of people based on a specific topic. You can go down in the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 18, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora

  

  the morning so I woke up around 9:30am and then went to 14.01 recitation ... then Kelly who went to the 1pm lecture said that it was a guest lecturer ... ’s Friday. I watched The Bachelor instead. But I also cleaned the room which

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 4, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  burning out past the finish line

  

  i was finished with school work since about two weeks ago i have lots of things i could be doing and i am not doing any of them because i…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  you’re feeling like you need that, scroll below the bullet points for some essay advice from the bloggers of yore and a few words from me. But now that that’s out of the way, hi hi hi! Last week, I finished up

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The most important blog entry ever This is probably the most valuable entry ever written... not kidding. Bookmark it. Class of…

  

  So philosophical entries with advice on the right strategies for conquering MIT are really great, but in my humble opinion, the most helpful ... live the next four years, what you want to do, whether you want to care

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 6, 2007
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What are the housing/dining options?

  Housing is a huge part of undergraduate life at MIT. You choose where you live, and each living group is a community with its own distinct culture and traditions. MIT…
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  .1200[/annotation] was fun! But I digress. This is the first upcoming semester that I ... to Film Studies [21L.011] Archery, for the first quarter of the ... of the Communication Requirement in your major. Not only do you learn

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  , the computer science MEng is often seen as an extension of undergrad, but I wanted to compare the two experiences, with the caveat that I ... was a nightmare—the day the portal opened, the website crashed almost

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  Sadly, I did not come up with the title pun myself, I saw it on ... me, I won't review the past year on here, but I made a Substack post ... -deprecating way to put it, but I do think it's difficult to pare down all the ways I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  in my friend's car to head back to the West Coast. We stayed in small ... in the in-betweenness of young adulthood. As we drove away, I felt closure around what I was mentally calling "the Boston Chapter" of my life

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  we do some memeing around these parts memes i've made so far on campus

  

  I love memes. I can't help it—I'm a Gen Z'er, so I grew up on the ... campus: 1. alternate versions of our mascot, tim the beaver [carousel image ... ="aligncenter" width="279"] hey, that's not tim the beaver! that's kermit the frog

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day of April) cami edition

  

  , but also I'm using Adobe Premiere Pro after using Sony Vegas for the ... 'm trying to get used to the new interface. I am at no means super ... hopefully I'll improve with time. I'll be linking the videos to my You

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 19, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  It’s almost the end of 2020, which is terrifying. And hopeful, of course, in all the things that we’d like to be able to leave behind. But at the same time, in some ways it’s too easy to for me to feel like the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  switched majors, I'm currently taking both the course 16 sophomore core classes and the junior core classes. Pretty much [annotation note ... really need to do it, and so you just do the very hard thing without

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July illustrated

  

  you are particularly special.  Because you are the last one that ... wrong. But we learned from the mistakes and are prepared to do better when ... .  You were also not-so-kind, July. You made us move again, for the sixth

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 31, 2019