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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  'll be well on your way to staying warm on a budget. Maybe you'll even ... let you adjust to different temperatures (by putting on/off layers), but ... 've worn my Speedmaster to formal events with CEOs, up high on mountain

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  LET’S PLAY Dodgeball!

  

  I've always been excited about finding new rec’ stuff to try out in ... meet and get to know people by playing games. It’s no secret that MIT is ... . One of my suitemates is on the Varsity Field Hockey team and attends to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  . Literally dozens of opportunities for you to explore new research or get a job, delivered right to your e-mail! A lot of the jobs do happen to require ... , so I have to grope at people for help (get your mind out of the gutter

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  you have to tell your whole life story just to get any help from support ... activity I’ve done in the past day. This unshakable exhaustion is not new to ... get out of my classes immensely, on both the technical and artistic

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  , Anastassia, Natasha, and I met and we picked five of them to be new bloggers. Here they are - we're super excited to have them on the team! Say ... sharing with you what it means to be a student here at MIT. It was here on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  is to know when to fold, when to cut your losses, and when to get out ... . This is probably due to the fact that I'm not on campus and, while I ... to help you learn about MIT. Since getting home from MIT I've had the

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Big MIT Career Fair Lots of companies are on campus today recruiting MIT students.

  

  , are making their way to the largest of MIT's annual career fairs. Today, 300 companies are on campus trying to recruit MIT students to come work for them, or to do a summer internship. The companies span the spectrum

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to ... , so you should be sure you are prepared to receive your decision before

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  /Build/Fly team, training all our delightful new members and gearing up to fly (and ... . I got to meet astronauts, hear Elon Musk speak live, and get expert ... fortunately well-positioned to get a picture. That's Michael Collins

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Beat the heat in the Z Center Pictures of the MIT gym

  

  school year and you're likely to have gym classes here, so why not get ... enter the first of two exercise floors. There are cubbies on the right to ... ! and I almost forgot to mention that the DuPont locker room has brand new

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  't have to work too hard on this project; i just had to get a decent score ... , from 11 am to noon. the other class i usually went to on thursdays, 6 ... . i checked the 6.UAT website for course policy on missing class, then i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Political Process For the civic-minded

  

  though I realized there were other ways to get involved without actually ... like everyone under 40 is crazy about it. I'm not going to get into my ... ?" etc etc) I've gotten more exposure to politics than I ever had in my

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.

  

  four years. Talk to as many people as you can. Get lost on the campus and ... college applications and thought to myself that I wasn't going to get in ... school) trying to get me to go there. I didn't get into MIT." (Phone is no

  • by Bryan
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why Apply? Putting your hat in the ring if you're not so sure

  

  to colleges. Obviously, if you're reading this blog, MIT is on your ... your questions for the last 9 months as MITAdmin, but I am grateful to ... Hi blogosphere! I've wracked my brain wondering how to introduce

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 9, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  trash is overflowing and you can't get a good grasp on it and all your ... . Eventually it stopped working entirely. We did get a new toaster, though, and ... delicious thing on the planet. 4. Unplugging pressure cookers can lead to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  just to take care of myself. even on the days when it's simply tough to ... I'm excited to see who I'll be on the other side. ... content warning: mental health, trauma 1   I've been in a

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  , which means excited little prefrosh like yours truly got to find out ... students in a kind of mini-class on some random, fun topic. (You get a few ... , MAS.A17 (Designing Technologies for Kids). Basically I get to play with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  depth of my identity. And somehow, I seemed to reach a new level of ... --I worked really hard to get into a place where I would have to work even ... to at least get a decent grade. But now that’s mostly over--my classes

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2009 Oh hey, I'm an alum.

  

  , back in the day, we used to get our decision letters in the mail. I'm a ... forward to, almost from the moment they first slip the ring on their finger ... call you.) so after getting my diploma I got to spend a lot of time

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  any time just as long as you put in the effort to physically get out of ... . However, when you work, you work from 9 to 5 (depending on where) and when ... like go to New York, or go to the beach, things like that. However, for

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017