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• Blog / Challenges

  How to (Im)properly Get an Independent Study another step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  Email a third professor because you are starting to lose hope of getting ... ’s meeting to try to get you a few minutes of his time after he finishes Wait ... , but if any of his grad students would be willing to help supervise, he

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  tired and busy and tired and busy and tired and busy and

  

  bit unsure of what to do from here. I feel really separated from my ... because of how busy I am. I am so grateful to the [annotation note ... but instead I've reverted to the kind of MIT student I hate -- one that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 15, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

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

  

  're sliders and levers. Room doors don't have hinges to open into or out of ... height is so close to mine. Everyone has a sense of collective ... natural to me than the aggressiveness and volume of the U.S. Even Starbucks

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  after running to Building 35 for a quiz. I've since spent the balance of ... microcontroller labs due over the past couple of days. One of them just stopped to ... everything else is fast asleep, out of distraction's way. I still have to do

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  happened to people at MIT. At some point during the worst of my fever, I was ... combinations of classes I could have chosen to take all at the same time, in ... instead of just an occasional thing. It got to the point that I simply could

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  Bonn, Games, Bonn Wherein we teach the world the true meaning of democracy.

  

  economics, therefore I try to take the bus home every day instead of waiting ... barbecue to celebrate the 4th of July. This is virtually unjustifiable ... . These happen to come packed in a jar of brine solution, but they are still

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part IV This should tie up the loose ends...for now.

  

  buying a ticket for the lottery. The only similarity to a game of chance is ... The deadline for Early Action has come and gone. I hope all of you who applied for EA got a chance to contact your EC and have an interview

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  parenthesis correspond to notes at the end of the post) : Saturday 10:30am – Borderline Exec meeting to plan for our first general body meeting of the ... laundry. 4:00pm – Allan went to take a picture of the statue in front of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to be Tim The Beaver anyone can wear the mask.

  

  1. Reply to random email asking for Tim volunteers. As soon as it ... wondering how you know you're meant to be Tim- the answer is, you'll feel it ... . Find a partner! Being Tim is Hard Work, and you need someone to guide you

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 4, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For great justice…

  

  you get to college, student government (sort of a misnomer in the UA ... through surveys of the freshmen and the upperclassmen. We went to different ... Orientation 2006 and the status and future of Orientation. It's finally in its

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  , lower, lower, and the tarmac rose to meet us, until WHOOSH. The nose of ... sympathetic to both. I was suddenly very conscious of the fact that I was ... to stand in two different lines, on either side of baggage collection

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  walked. Twenty minutes to the left of the station in the eighty ... to ask directions, to the first person I saw in the midst of this ... of toast and tea and ramen, and then she took me to Ikebukuro to get a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  As much as I hate Twitter, I think I'm going to follow the trend of ... (?#@^&*!!!), all kinds of awesome and interesting things are going on ... basically a Twitter feed. I hope you appreciate the enormity of this sacrifice

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  hope to eventually transform many of these into their own blog posts: 1 ... between all of that, we ate fresh pies, took a trip to Cape May, and did a ... in general. I went from barely being able to do a mile in September of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  're adults now and that means you get to make choices. Of course that also ... bad. You'd have to eat a lot of dollar menu burgers or ramen to beat ... plates instead of paper. Being able to reuse things will make them pay for

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

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  everything the tour guide says, but of course, you'd want to do that anyway ... already knew, but it certainly didn't hurt to be reminded about some of the ... I have confession to make...it's somewhat embarrassing but I think it

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Adventures in Logan Airport In which I attempt to fly back to Florida. Written during a too-long wait in…

  

  of Transportation calls a "processing error" and what I chalk up to ... to be informed of this. You do, however, need to know about my ... , piercing noise of a fire alarm is very, very present. Is this related to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Yes, I am still alive My fourth of July in America's hometown

  

  on the 4th of July. The look of horror prompted Adam's mom to ask me ... Well, I spent my 4th of July in Plymouth with Adam's family and my ... dying of hunger) feta chicken, and our friend Mark '07 manned the grill

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Nerd movie update

  

  unofficial MIT Hack Hotline spread the news to selected members of the ... Like many of you, I caught Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith this weekend. If you stayed through the credits, you saw the name of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 24, 2005
• Blog / Events

  HST Forum 2006… for real The real thing.

  

  So HST -- the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology -- held its 2006 Forum last Thursday, and my friend Veena '06 invited me to ... '76 and Martha L. Gray, Ph.D., HST'86, the directors of HST. Read their

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 28, 2006