Search

Search Results

• Blog / Athletics

  LET’S PLAY Dodgeball!

  

  . One of my suitemates is on the Varsity Field Hockey team and attends to ... that passionate New Zealand Rugby team, and well, we live on Burton 1 ... My high school didn’t have the broadest range of athletic options, so

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  , for the longest time, I thought the idea of "building credit" was ridiculous. The going advice is that you shouldn't go over 30% of your credit limit, and that you should pay it off when you can. This kind of all goes

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

  FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??

  

  itself), which included a night out to Bartley's. On the first day of ... of the day. One late night Colin '10 and I walked into New House and ... ? ME: What? MOM: You're not really kicked out of MIT, were you? ME: Yeah

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  end of July so I could spend the month of August working on Ben's couch ... moment, I am dedicating myself to writing entries on a couple of under ... weekly class which students attend; they're on a wide variety of topics

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  They Call Me Yankee The stars at night are big and bright - deep in the heart of Texas!

  

  , and it is a good feeling. I plan on attending the Houston MIT Class of ... here in Texas - people up north are yankees, and people who live on the ... student. Whatever that terrifying cluster of words means.  Basically, many

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  More for Admitted Students What to do now if you've been admitted to MIT.

  

  be meetings in dozens of locales, including New York City, Dallas, San ... Hello, MIT Class of 2016! Here are some things that admitted students ... MIT Portal: Over at MyMIT, you'll find a bunch of stuff only available to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week MIT: It's so dangerous, you'll have to sign a waiver.

  

  A little bit ago, a prospective student wanted some insight on what a ... filled with so many different kinds of people, with so many different ... have drastically different ways of spending their precious "spare" time

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  seattle ➞ mit an epilogue in bullet points and pictures

  

  alarms, the torrential rain on the first day of classes, and playing tetris ... feeling of transferring income to a savings account. by august i grew to love the seattle summer, with every sunset being a thousand shades of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  happened, and it was okay, and there were a lot of new players and it was ... steam, and i felt zero motivation to work on any of the puzzles. this ... can kinda see the pattern. on one hand… puzzles! this is a part of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  , blinking away the wisps of my dreams as i touch down on earth. “what did you do this summer?” i spent these three months on a languid journey of ... emphasis on self-respect, boundaries, patience, and most of all, the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  post.  On the week of Pi Day, my friend and I both wondered how a ... even with it, the end of the first semester here felt like walking on a ... . If you think of all this before you arrive on campus, hopefully the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  . I normally come here on Friday after I do some of my UROP. I will go ... the noise of the ground below. There is normally not much going on up ... Boston, I also enjoy some of the newer places that I have found. On my

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  me on matters of great importance, such as this. During one ... the scope of our confusion. While this was going on, I was applying for ... , only in Rome instead of New York...made some sort of huge difference. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  on others. I think it's important to not let the absence of others ... whimsical sense of humor. She's so willing to try new things. The lens in ... capable of doing. These solo experiences exist on a wide spectrum, from

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In which brains are awesome Neener neener neener.

  

  RETRIEVER SITTING ON THE FLOOR OF THE CLASSROOM 3) HOLY CRAP I AM TOTALLY ... and go through workshops on printing, lighting, and other aspects of ... , having never taken advantage of the "hey kids, look at my schedule!" post

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  distance? It's a hack! On March 4th, 2008, Gary Gygax (the creator of ... 's a lot of math! We continued work, coming on 1 o'clock in the morning ... prefrosh (Danny '12) is in town and I decided to go on a campus tour with him

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  hugged me on sight, and I remember the utter feeling of overwhelming joy as ... just take a ceiling tile down at Random instead of having to lie on your ... three days felt like the longest three days of my life. My total sleep

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  , chasing the aurora at Tufts on a random Thursday. Each of these memories is ... When I was younger, one of my favorite board games to play with my family was “The Game of Life.” It’s a bit like the mobile game BitLife, I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Somewhere in between Trying to find out where I belong at MIT

  

  that a lot of them are going on to bigger and better thing. So when ... This semester has been weird for me. On one side I am for all intents ... classmates are 2020. On the other hand I am a senior. My oldest friends walked

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 13, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  alas, life goes on and before you know it BAM! There's a class of 2016 ... . Essentially, once a week we work on how to convey motion through a series of ... of their first events to increase awareness about HBV and recruit new

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012