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• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  to get party hats, but I couldn't find any at the store, alas. Dorm ... the option to stay in your temp dorm if you want, although you shouldn't succumb to laziness and not explore just because you sorta like your temp

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  makes you a lot more attractive to graduate institutions -- and, once you're ... for what you're going to do with the grant money (a very important part ... example, you want to discuss the broader impacts of your work on society and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  planning a trip to see the physical sites I grew up visiting daily – my ... wanted to give applicants and the public an opportunity to get a view of the people who worked at MIT, to give you a chance to get to know us

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  best way to get packages. NixOS, because its declarative system ... beginning to form. I should probably get better at replacing broken things ... . Surprises in the mail. I get a bunch of things shipped to me that I don

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I Climbed a Mountain Today there's always gonna be another mountain!

  

  ) ride from Berkeley to Oakland, getting to work at 8.59. During lunch, I ... located strategically to get maximal sunshine exposure in the afternoon =p ... getting down from the mountain, I took the muni back to the center of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  've personally found myself a lot less inclined to go out and get a quick coffee ... guilty no matter how little or big the purchase. Still, if you're able to ... A couple months ago, I wrote about how to make money at MIT. Much to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback A useless guide to MIT undergraduate housing.

  

  is the most fun topic. I was so, so excited to get the i3 video. i3 ... good fun. If you're dying to see these videos, some residences will host ... here] homepage" and dig around the individual sites to find the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  admissions site. You all are trying to get a sense for what MIT is like ... glamorous, but people, if you know exactly what you want to do with your life ... Requirements, to dine on your soul for a little while.) If MIT is going to work

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  just another manic wednesday yes, i am absolutely stealing from joon

  

  have you work independently, then explain your work to a TA or LA (lab ... to skim, if you're into that). Location: East Campus Although ... .[/annotation]although i should be trying to get back to sleep, instead i start thinking

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  . Anyway, it would be cool to do a hack getting some of the faculty involved ... . =) But I'll do my best to answer all of your questions and direct curious ... get caught. I guess you'd have to actually get caugh to figure it out

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  You Make The Call So you think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to…

  

  just a few ways that diversity will affect the way you're going to shape ... reasons for your decisions. In addition to the brief directives provided in ... Back in the good ol' days (winter of 1983 to be exact) there was a

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  Diving In transforming myself into a cs bro

  

  scouring sites like Reddit to try and figure out what the CS Bros recommended ... watched a series of videos (x, x, x) to help me get more acquainted with i3 ... . Honestly, I don't know if I'll get to these goals in time, since I know that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  information out there. Narrow your field of major choices down to only subjects ... hardest major, you HAVE to have a sense of what you're capable of and what you're getting yourself into. I know quite a few people who have either

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let the good times roll here is where my summer adventures take place

  

  is to basically get more investment into locally owned businesses and ... /wrong, etc. (…once we get to this point) Help craft the key messages and ... : Andrea wants to get some video footage of stories, testimonials, and

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • June 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  you get here for your pre-orientation program, you are going to check ... you is incredible, and I am so excited to see your happy faces light up ... thing on your plate right now is figuring out when to take the Freshman

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Events

  MIT IreneCam tracking the storm - here and on the web.

  

  I've decamped from the Boston area northwards to New Hampshire for the weekend. My house in the suburbs of Cambridge, while high enough to avoid flooding in nonapocalyptic scenarios, is almost certain to lose

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 28, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  public service announcement on where to buy stuff for your future ... Transportation Authority is here and Google Maps is here. Learn to love these ... were, and how best to get there via public transportation. Public

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  constraints (needing to get all my units in so I can graduate)!! Some stats ... This semester, due to a [annotation note="decided I could finish both ... they covered material that I had little to no exposure to beforehand. 11

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  Three Months In Paris The MISTI experience of Jenny Nelson '09.

  

  in French libraries, trying to get used to the French keyboard... it ... read that right - until I could get mine fixed. It turned out to be quite ... wanted to do during the summer? Me, I wanted to go to Europe. I had never

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Cambridge-MIT Exchange

  

  abroad your junior year (and of course I would encourage any of you to ... 't go to MIT or go on the exchange program, do try to get over to England ... is MIT's flagship junior year abroad program, allowing MIT students to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2005