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• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  tradition, we got the full week (to allow for on-campus students to pack and move out). In the days leading up to our unprecedentedly luxurious break ... managed to get in some fun (mostly while feeling guilty about doing so

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  complained about something or other, I began to enter the Summer Jobless stage ... . (This dorm is pretty gross, by the way. Each floor has its own unique ... students and staff to follow (the title of this post being one - those

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  you get to know the individual contexts of thousands of intl. apps? May ... can press hope to get to university in U.S.The list you have supplied ... achiever to get a full scholarship, I wonder what the competition must have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  didn’t get too much time to draw out the details, so I scribbled some of ... the course. I tend to get a bit frustrated easily with things art ... keeping me away from the blogs. The thing is, I don't know quite how to

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  apartment or go shopping by yourself or even go to the gym to clear your head ... to learn over the past two years, or as much of it as I could, not for ... you get the right people who are reliable for the job. Take into account

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  The first quarter comes to a close at MIT. I am crocheting winter ... "]released.[/annotation] The fall quarter [annotation note="The first half of MIT's Intro to ... . The Good: 6.0001 is immensely satisfying. The sheer dopamine I get

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back to School If you go to school in Missouri City (TX), I might see you this week!

  

  with a fellow MIT student, Alessondra, I get to visit some of the middle ... me to write this entry. I've spent the last 24 hours alternating ... laziness. So ~ my time in India is over :( No longer do I wake to the sound

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 23, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  likes our Facebook profile pictures were getting. At the end of it all, we ... 't regret the fretting -- but if I had the chance to take all the time I spent ... 's something you've never tried before. It’s an amazing time to get a head start

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Manage Your Future

  

  by the OWC courses, I helped to adapt graduate-level econ subjects to ... been a very good opportunity to learn how the economic theory can be ... . This experience has sparked my interest in getting a job related to International

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Stories of Senioritis How to Procrastinate

  

  my brain went to mush when I think I'd attempted my fourth read of the sections that were going to be on the test. Cue Facebook. The best and worst ... . Battle of the Walls: me: shouldn't you be studying like i am pretending to

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  get, (or if you can get the loan at all!). Well the only way to get a ... breakfast? Go for it! Don't want to go to class? You won't get in trouble ... 're adults now and that means you get to make choices. Of course that also

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  getting in,[/annotation] and when we got to the courtyard we found that the ... increasingly turning over and over the knowledge that I would have to leave. But ... was a little room for sadness to creep in around the edges: as my room

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Mustaches in the airport, Daleks in the library, and Food in many stomachs French House winter traditions

  

  goes to Xiaoyue Xie '15) Because many MIT undergrads live in the same ... like 7 or 8 alums. In the weeks leading up to Dîner de Noël, we have a ... home to London, and while I stood in line to board the plane some man

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 27, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I am a bad example but only for about twelve seconds.

  

  and was immediately confronted by a colossal display for the Twilight ... could give to a teenage girl." (I do not think the series is well ... can get." He looks at me as if he is all about the antifeminism, so

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 22, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  parkinson's law asserts that work expands to fill the time allotted to it, like a gas does. so i'm telling myself that i need to get this ... we get to critically examine programming languages from a design

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  Something called BCC It's time now, to sing out Though the spamming never ... spam (oh you got to, you got to remember the spam) Remember the spam (I ... ), I felt like I should go and partake in the festivities. So I got to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  ’t suppress the desire to go back just 48 hours, so I could’ve slept just a bit ... three a cappella groups, and was lucky to get into two, but I ended up ... .  Immediately after my botched exam, I took the red line to the Boston Common

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Halloween Tag In which I do a YouTube thing for a (bonus) Halloween vlog

  

  to don costumes and wander around to all the MacGregor GRTs to get some ... the holiday, and before this year I didn't really have enough time to ... featuring the Halloween Tag from YouTube. I didn't get around editing it until

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  by subjects like chemistry and biology, so I was pleased to see the ... women that I’ll hopefully get to meet again soon! And stepping outside the ... HUSO-India and getting to compare and contrast the inner workings of

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome MIT Class of 2009!

  

  Happy May 2nd! With the final responses in the mail by today, it will ... about the Class of 2009. I'm very excited to see who the class will be ... and also the Orientation 2005 site. Thanks to Ann's blog for drawing our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 2, 2005