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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  they keep the licences. Installing MATLAB on your personal computer ... what's next? Well, I'm back to where I started the day, sitting on my bed next to the window with the sun coming in, idolizing my new computer. I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  , often compared to a baby duck. Here I am on my first day of school some ... the back. I didn’t notice until I went to Puerto Rico to surf on spring ... professionally, so I decided to do what I could on both health and hair. On the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?

  

  -day extension on a paper for 21A.100 that was supposed to be due yesterday, so I ... of the day is that I got to eat lunch with MIT President Hockfield today. Apparently she asks five or six students to eat lunch with her

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choose my Halloween Costume!

  

  Okay guys, here's the deal...Halloween is quickly approaching, and I have no idea what to dress up as. In fact, I haven't actually dressed up ... waiting for Prince Charming's white horse to get in gear) - a witch (even

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  Francisco. On the day before my flight back to Asia, I thought to look for my ... in my desk in New York. Frantically, we started to see if there was any ... valid excuse). We posted on FB (sadly, no one was traveling from NYC to SF

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  . Most dorms allow you to paint your walls. Simmons allows it as long as it ... if you aren’t artistically inclined, you can get your hands on ... weight of any furniture you’d like to stack on top of it. These

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Places to Sit at MIT and study

  

  . Whenever I get stuck on my work, I like to find a new place to study. The ... I came to MIT with an ambitious goal: to sit everywhere on campus. Oh ... learn nor explored all the places on campus I've wanted to explore

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  anything, and as a result, the burden rests completely on your shoulders to ... your hall to get things done. Two people working on a problem set ... and an A on the assignment -- heck, I could. But if you try to do that

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  In which I show no restraint whatsoever But don't worry, you'll all probably benefit from it (unless, you know, you don't).

  

  temped in New House, and after REX I moved to Senior Haus, which I love so ... decided to take it, as I got a 5 on the AP Bio exam and got credit for the ... each other's advice in the Facebook group. Moving on to more important

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  new half means a feeling of freshness added to old experiences. I ... hall, before class. “Who wants to be able to tell your future employers ... me proud to be at MIT. Being back on campus means being back in the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  proof that a post could be hazardous to your mental health. If you walk ... presentations, President Svsan brought out the new charter for MIT, to be signed ... ensure that the replacement occurred without a hitch, I guess it's on to

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  long gone. I was reflecting on this the other day as I happened to be ... definitely aren't as varied. I like to play the same songs on repeat. Like, a ... this song until I was on a weekend groceries run to Porter Square (always

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  these next four to five years and I will continue to quest on with my ... describe how much happier I've been since I've come to college. I learned so ... so much...only to return to a house that does not feel like a home

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Burn Out or Fade Away Suggestions for second semester seniors: don't take either for an answer.

  

  putting on too much makeup to joining a club to enhance your applications ... 've already compressed your life into four lines on a piece of paper and sent it out with your heart to a bunch of strangers. A little scary, isn't it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  screenshot of my spreadsheet. I went to 18/33 of the events I put on my ... actual event, we also had to go on a few shopping trips, including one to a ... cake on fire" event. Apparently to set a cake on fire, you need a LOT of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  proof of life hmm :thinking-face:

  

  , very loosely stitched together because I gave up on trying to have a ... timer on a carton of milk and a slab of chicken waiting to be thawed. An ... event, and I don’t need notifications to remember what’s going on in my

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  year. Maybe your friends have promised to take the bus out to Wellesley to cheer you on. Maybe your parents promised to come up and watch you ... --there's a nice one in Cape Cod. Take the Bolt Bus down to New York (not the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  i saw you four ways to follow MIT students

  

  company) based on humans of new york. it's lucky to share uniquely intimate ... to vicariously ride the ups and downs of MIT. they can't tell you if ... lot to glean from the comments. of course, the platforms all have some

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 16, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT has a radio station!? [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Yes, it's true!

  

  air and sometimes I invite friends to chat on air or just to hang out in ... to listen to WMBR streaming live on www.wmbr.org. The shows are also ... for the rest of Cambridge/Boston to enjoy!). It's located in the cozy

  • by ARTalk
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Parting Remarks Part II: The Blogger Bio That Was I just graduated!

  

  "]virtue-signalling-white-girl think pieces[/annotation] on this topic; there are plenty of those to go ... of hours this evening searching "Birmingham" on Twitter to see if there ... would reply to the prompt "Tell me about yourself." The title and subtitle

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 30, 2020