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• Blog / Summer

  tiny living when life gives you lemons...

  

  classrooms around MIT! I think it'll be a great way to get our steps in and ... for the day, we took a quick run to Target and bought all our kitchen ... this one. Perhaps not...the best? solution? But it's a great way to stay

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 1, 2021
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  different ways to use them. You will not get the answers only by guessing ... now, and the answer-finding way is made to be fun. 😌 Also, type 2 fun ... studying-people that might be hard for you to find if I did not say them. You

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  , and it was a lot more fun than I expected it to be! I might blog about ... get into bed, to be honest. The springed bedframe has lots of possible spaces to hook hangers, so I hang a lot of clothes below my bed this way as

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018
• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  to the codebase has to be checked by at least one engineer, who has a ... , up-and-coming tech scenes like Pittsburgh are the way to go. The cost ... save fingers from being julienned too. Then, they transitioned to the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Some comments on topics of interest

  

  completely agree that it should not be a competition to see who takes the most ... kid. I had 14 (by year, this broke down to 1-3-8-2) and I had a life ... interesting way to get my county-required humanities credit than the school

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Adonde? Excuse me sir, I seem to have misplaced my pants.

  

  over final plans on the way to the subway: Improv Everywhere's No ... train, went upstairs to the main terminal, and were greeted by this ... supposed to act, and then split us into groups. We ended up being in his

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  find a few ways to pass time. I wrote. I wrote a lot. I taught ... , atmospheric gases of power I could contemplate, be overwhelmed by, but not fully ... and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  about these things is not by forcing myself to think of them — they’re just things that happen to be more on the mind lately ... , blogging, and my values.  time: This section talks about different ways to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  was hard. We're talking miserable hard. It was a test of will, to be ... you to be able to use and manipulate it. It's one of the (if not the ... * final that could be equated to being repeatedly paddled in the face

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  information common to all applicants, which can be very helpful to admissions ... applicants considered to be the best 'match' for that school. They generally ... children will be admitted to the best colleges for them, regardless of where

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  ’s like to actually be a student here, or that I've helped you in your own ... pretending to be someone I’m not on these blogs, no use in trying to write ... post, one of my goals for this year was to be authentic. To show the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  might be nice to my face, but I know they were secretly upset. They didn ... . It’s a story I’ve heard from plenty of people. I needed to be careful, because I was surrounded by people who wanted to see me fail. This dynamic

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  can’t wait to arrive! Remember to be careful around the muggles when ... , etc. I feel that it’s important to have knowledge on how to be safe in ... or two of these links will be useful. Many of them are to posts on my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  , I think, is universally agreed upon to be an age at which you ... safety, comfort, stability.  I wanted to be home. I can’t, to be honest ... gawking at the height of the buildings. It feels strange to be in the center

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  . It was as if I’d been invisible, but not enough to be pushed by a ... the word, and was thoroughly confused by whether the side to side head ... to me. However, by the end of the trip it almost became a sort of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Valentine’s Day from MIT Because theobromine is delicious.

  

  what used to be (and in some ways, still is) a very powerful word. But I ... showcasing both cards. The astute observer will be quick to notice the MIT ... proud to be an Engineer. Finally, here's a glamor shot of Andrew '12

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  here at MIT. AROTC allows you to be pretty flexible in how involved you ... , and I want to show you how awesome that can be. Once a semester we go ... be out of there. That means 10 minutes to come up with a plan. You plot

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  be away from the blogs, since I'm so accustomed to posting every week ... I have to because one of my goals for this blog in general is to be ... at being home. I knew I wasn't being fair to my family, since I was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  group of 5 Americans and our 20 Vietnamese friends quickly increased by ... of rural Vietnam, inhabited in the day by water buffalo, seemed to turn into the place to be at night. Over a hundred people gathered around a

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  . And where better to study a language and a country than by being there ... attract plenty of people out for a stroll, but they tend to be dominated by ... is some implicit obligation to be nice, or worse yet cheerful and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014