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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  the lack of sound judgment, I urge you to see how long you can live on a ... 'm stuck on a deserted island of pre-afternoon hours with nary a soul to ... horizon. Dim Sum! If you're ever mind-numbingly bored enough to pop open a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  what your favorite study spot says about you badly stereotyping places to work on campus

  

  why it baffles everyone how you manage to get all your work done on time ... . you might procrastinate at times, but you definitely know how to get ... working on your own and getting things out of the way before you go hang out

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  demonstrated how a layman could target and optimize ad campaigns to save millions ... ’s getting close to the 9am deadline and the pset drop boxes are two buildings ... meeting your new housemates’ friends. No regrets about staying on the same

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  Google Calendar. It is slightly amusing to see fellow classmates toting ... classmate next to me opened up her Google Calendar (complete with tabbed ... this lack of organization was partly due to never getting used to having

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  Square in Cambridge on the Red Line; you can get to the airport by subway ... to your preferences. Many of the folks I met during Campus Preview ... transport a slingshot apparatus to the Kresge massacre site

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  disappointing when they don't have alternate summer plans to fall back on. Another impression I have is that not getting an internship has much more to do with the coordinator not being able to find one available in your field of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  class, it gets recorded on your transcript merely as a "P". If you get a D or an F, the class doesn't get recorded on your transcript -- it's as ... semester. Juniors and seniors also get to take two classes on pass

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  have him/her submit a letter on your behalf. It does not need to be ... 't matter to us as long as we see it somewhere on your self ... coach before I apply to MIT or just (if i get in) show up for tryouts? And

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Small Get-together Friday An informal reception for HMMT participants and others visiting Boston on Friday.

  

  provide some good restaurant recommendations ;) If you're on campus ... visiting MIT on what is a vacation week for some students across the country ... (and hence won't be able to informally meet with folks otherwise or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  how to manage your time efficiently. Beat up anyone who gets in your way ... prodding, as long as he gets to bite back. Aside from class, there's a huge ... they don't care about all the time just to put it on their college

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! (2010 Edition!) yay pictures!

  

  admission site blogs waiting for the application to be released. I saw your ... 's gaping maw ready to swallow me whole again. In other words... BRING IT ON ... assorted shrubbery. I went on this trip to Peru with the St. Marcellin

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  depends on how it fits into the overall context of your application, but you ... , but i guess i just enjoy ranting on your site. thanks for listening ... Happy Valentine's Day! Answers to questions received through 2PM on

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  clubs and classes to do, I also have to figure out how to balance that ... drink water. (Speaking of which, here’s a friendly reminder to go get ... organizing stuff. I have tried to start using a google calendar, but it’s not

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  to MIT. Not in a trapped way. I just thought I'd want to get as far ... 'm far enough from MIT to understand how its pressures affected me, the ways it forced me to grow up, and how to pick a healthier path in the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Announcements

  New bloggers? New bloggers! [cue fanfare]

  

  shared your writing with us. It was fun to read through your talented work ... ! Please give a warm welcome to: Aiden H. ‘28 from Loveland, Colorado, who grew up without internet and turned to books for entertainment like

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 7, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A World of Pure Curation an interview with holly h. 18'

  

  because it was like the day before, and so I Googled “How to Name your Exhibition”, and apparently there’s a WikiHow article called “WikiHow: How to ... this, and also analyze how it all fits together. If I knew how to do that

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 5, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  shout "On your left!" or "On your right!" and I will never be able to ... man gestures to his lane, and I oblige and set my basket on the counter ... . When I get back to my room, I realize that only an hour has passed. I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  i don’t know how to comfort people

  

  here, i already feel indebted to nearly everyone on hall. when all is said and done, i feel better. but i don’t know how to do it in ... don’t want to intrude on the space they need. so i stay silent. and

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  had to apply to them with all the terms of getting a second major. So ... , oh, you're graduating this semester. You need to write an essay." Turns ... tardiness? I honestly did not think it was possible for me to get a second

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  , applying to college - it's a lot to handle, and I remember very well how juggling act feels. I also remember wondering how on earth I was going to get ... probably isn't going to kill you. If all goes according to plan, your senior

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007