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• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  placed at exactly the distance it takes for your body to warm up, so that ... on mailing lists and pretending I'll have time to make the meetings ... hour every day. I take the whole hour and spend it complaining about how

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  your psets and tests and it's much easier to fail a faceless name. Office ... to get a question in edgewise. TAs also look to avoid these OH and they ... try to go every week. It's also best if the TA that is staffed is your

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• 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 ... the grid point on the map and plan the best way to attack. You brief

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A major problem is not a major problem Why the text next to my picture is lying to you.

  

  Engineering and Computer Science after getting accepted (Course 6), changed to ... years to (1) decide on a major and (2) wait for avocados to go on sale. I ... Three months ago, I informed MIT admissions of my firm intent to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  's my blog and I get to put words in your mouth if I want. That's a good ... advisor)'s office on Tuesday in search for the answers to life, the universe, and also how to navigate the Course 2 roadmap, littered with numbers

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  actually get out on the water. Over the summer, I finally managed to get on ... growth. Blogging was hard — it was challenging to figure out how to start ... murder mystery on Halloween. I will forever be grateful to have had her and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  some independent video production on the side. Then I came “back home” to ... THE PAST 15 YEARS. Honestly, what is there to catch up on? The catching ... posts on these blogs before and look how that turned out. I still live

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  group on campus called the MIT Outoors Club that caters to the ... ! Upon arrival, we threw our campsite together and got to work on our first ... some rocks to bang on the bigger logs like a chimp in a lab until I made

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  you're getting other than little sleep. However, when I was able to see ... on the weekend. With that said, I began applying to colleges where I ... there or what it took to get in. As I started to fill out applications, I

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hi, My Name Is: (insert name here) name my newest pet and win BIG! prizes and fame included!

  

  neighbor's fence, we considered her partially ours as well. They went on to ... night in November, the fish all died and my mom had to get rid of them ... , and after discovering how hard it is just to take care of goldfish, I

  • by Bryan
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  Today was going to be my sleep day. I was going to go to sleep on ... through until 9 AM Monday, when I have to get up to get ready for my first ... it snowed. So of course I had to get up and open the shade above my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  imagine on how to improve my loaf, reading articles (which all contradict ... Toronto, on a corporate laptop overnighted to my house. Because of security concerns, none of us are allowed to work on my company's actual codebase, so

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  important deadlines approach, everyone hops in to get the task done. Also ... , it’s a really good fit. I think the best way to get a sense of what ... the ongoing challenges that we are trying to tackle is how to “summarize

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Seven Early Evenings it was a good week

  

  evening, I left New York on an Amtrak to back to Boston. After getting off ... being drawn back to the ice. Isabella and I are both amazed by how our ... some things that New York just does better. I had forgotten how

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • December 3, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  to some group study spaces, and got distracted worked on psets with ... to figure out what the heck was going on because… who knows? This could ... , there’d be tougher classes and learning to live partially on my own. Most

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  effect that socioeconomic status has on...everything. How you grow up, your ... tired of getting looked down on, so they turn further north and deride the ... grade, I declared my ambition to one day run for a position on the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Tracking update All EA application mail has been processed; check your MyMIT Tracking.

  

  for EA applicants. This is a good time for you to check your application ... weeks of reading to be done, so as long as you get us the copies in a timely manner, there will be no impact. The best way to get us a missing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring! What I did (and didn't) do over IAP...and plans for my last semester!

  

  IAP-you operate at your own level. Want to go abroad or do an externship ... make their own or just come and vote on their favorites. To me it was the ... depending on the start date for my job, I might go to Germany. MISTI is very

  • by Alina G. '11
  • January 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  fact, I usually actively stop myself when I get on that train of thought ... : walking through the infinite on my way to class, studying in Hayden library, getting lunch at the cafe in Stata. I couldn't have imagined just how full

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  exactly the right outlet to contemplate on my experiences here. I sit down ... to help prevent burnout and introduces some variation in your life ... . Furthermore, I have plenty of reasons to write now. On the one hand, being a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022