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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  What's that? You're dying to find out how we managed to ice skate on Frog ... Bloggers of old have written about the "101 Things To Do Before You Graduate" list. See here, here, and here, for example. To summarize: during

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  one too. If you're a student with too much food, you get to give it away ... you hundreds, perhaps thousands, on labor) to get checked out. The ... of the blogs know, I prefer to bike to work anyway, and the MBTA gets

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  action or get involved and have an impact on what you want to change. I ... about often in order to function and go about your daily life, the way ... have to deal with in your whole life. Imagine that it is summer and you’re

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  . I was getting a tuberculosis skin test, which I needed in order to ... rocket ships. They're sick and exhausted but they still want to get up and ... ) and it was close to Halloween: my birthday. My little sister poked her

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CP* restored my faith in the universe i read...My Immortal...with prefrosh

  

  involved when you're clicking between Zoom meetings, but students are able to ... Lounge and talk around small tables, so prefrosh get to interact with us in ... better way to validate your acceptance to tech school than to read and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  the middle of their second term (although you're free to switch later if ... I'm going to have to make this quick today, since I have to study for ... 'm having to study quite a bit because I haven't learned anything about plants

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  getting my work done despite drooping eyelids and an intense desire to ... , to be comparing your school to a home. Cue eye-roll. I have been ... , in addition to getting really hungry, I also get really sappy and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  burn and itch in my mind, the things that I can't seem to get enough of ... teachers I've ever had the privilege of taking classes with - from time to time. Two of her kids are old enough to be in school now, but she

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  three weeks later. No, he meant get to know them - where they lived, what ... met lots of people during Orientation, but I didn't really get to know ... get out of your room. Close those books, stop checking Facebook, take a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  , since I seem to always be falling behind in my classes and getting royally ... crazy dance icebreaker. I had the time of my life getting to know other ... One of the things that I try to do here is to write a little bit

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  well those plans were working for me.) Of course, you're welcome to drop in on your advisor at any time to discuss classes, grad school ... exactly with it on the classes needed to get there. Students who are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Face Book And Study I have been doing all this and more. But mostly not this.

  

  their laptops on a couch after a hackathon. Again, we don't get paid to ... ’ve sent 150+ emails and made 20+ calls related to housing, because I decided not to take company housing for some reason. When I landed last weekend

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  meant to get along very well was a very valuable life lesson. When I came ... enlightenment from the generations gone by, ready to fill eager young minds with ... away. I write to you now from Frankfurt, Germany, with the title of “MIT

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mind Dump (Episode 4) What's going on RIGHT NOW!?

  

  The ironic part about MIT and wanting to share everything that happens here is that oftentimes there isn't enough time to get it all down ... year it gets to just be too much. MIT is much better summarized in little

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 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 / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  not after I made sure we had a map, because it's really easy to get lost ... didn't get to go to any when I was in high school, this was actually my first. You'll get plenty of chances to do all sorts of neat things once

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  modeled after commentators like Bill O'Reilly. And, to help with context in ... commentator famous for his opposition to illegal immigration, and you may also know want to know what a triffid is. If you've got all that, enjoy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  game, to someone to open your heart to despite whatever anxiety you feel ... your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than ... your mouth you’re able to tap into a beautiful, fulfilling connection, to

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  months after graduating, to keep getting it wrong when I went to put my ... 'd always said I wanted to paint a mural on Tetazoo, and I'd had my eye on ... the badly-peeling varnish layer, but somehow I never got around to

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  there's no need to fight your way in line and be worried at 60 that your ... weeks pass I'll get a better feel for this place. Maybe even start to fit ... Stepping between closing elevator doors, it doesn't even occur to you

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018