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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  “so what’s your name?” interactions with other freshmen, and then ... think it’s pretty simple. You get assigned your dorm and room sometime during the summer. They might be based on your preferences, and they might

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  expensive. Lesson 2. If you’re passionate and determined about your project ... land on the bulb, on the ground, in your hair. Some are tiny, no bigger ... . Adelowalkeria moths are furry and sit on your finger like tiny teddy bears

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  unphotogenic). Blurred for your own safety. (Just kidding, my boyfriend doesn ... would've done something else with it. And at this point in your year (assuming that you're a high school senior and you never again want to figure

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  deal is, anyway. Bacon's just one of those foods that you're not allowed ... you they're going to steal your firstborn and hold him hostage until you ... and wake up in a bath tub full of ice, your kidneys removed, and a pile

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  I'm here now! ] There are some times in your MIT career when you're tired and struggling to keep your eyes open and your focus on this pset ... outside just last week!) You forget, most of the time, that you're a student

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Wiimote Fun in Spain What I'm actually doing with my time over here, when I'm not learning Spanish insults…

  

  , accomodations, visas, whatever. Sometimes you're left on your own, but you can ... placed in, but either your salary, the place you work for, or MISTI will cover your living and travel expenses to and from the country. Finally

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  you're dead set on having a desktop and wouldn't work with anything less ... Macs. Which Mac though? >Macbook Macbooks are great for your typical, everyday student. If you're going to be doing basic typing, Mathematica

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  signed by the Harvard professor, your advisor, and the director of the HASS ... the MIT HASS office and the Harvard registrar. No more than half of your ... anyway if you're taking MIT classes). So about four times a week now, I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  public service announcement on where to buy stuff for your future ... student, you're eligible to purchase a discounted monthly T pass. If you don ... the zoo. I get lost a lot.) If there's anything you need for your dorm

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  difficulty of the work, but simply jogging your brain again to compute ... you take a gap year, try to keep your mind fresh with some school ... happy endings, even if you don't end up at your first-choice college. Just

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred ... of your body love what it loves. i emailed him a few weeks ago in a ... Geese - Mary Oliver (of course) Tell me about despair, yours, and I

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  memorial for a dorm goodbye east campus (for now)

  

  small part, only trace a quarter of it i don't know your full history ... this connection i know you're not real, you're not living, you're not ... person it feels like there's this hole it feels like, when you're

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  blogger wrapped 2022 judge our music taste (the 5th installment)

  

  respective countries. here are the previous editions, if you're interested ... celebrates. In your personalized Wrapped experience, you may have noticed a new feature: Your Listening Personality. there are four categories with two

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  sharp and soft featuring: my favorite naruto moment

  

  will not last. if your blade was too dull, that is because you yourself ... me: do you think you’re a spiky person or a soft person? they clarified ... your dreams through negativity. i learned that last year and it is a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 21, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  .0001 has timed, in-class MicroQuizzes that test your competence in creating ... how you are doing. This is nice because you can keep trying until your code passes. This is scary because you automatically know when you're

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  [annotation note="You can change your major at any time after this date. It ... you want! To preface this section, I must first state that your major is not the sole determinant of your opportunities. This can be hard to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  GET A BIKE very important psa

  

  ? also, locking your bike seems time-consuming and annoying. this is just ... , and if you lock your bike correctly, you should not have any problems. i ... reasonable amount of sleep before your 10 am. also, if you're cooking for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  school teacher who wrote asking for a poster of MIT to hang in your classroom to inspire your students, Gisel is probably the person who put it in ... you forgot to pack your fact sheets, [annotation note="As you can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  would say, ‘You won’t be alone if you take care of your people’, so we ... feeling when someone is explaining something to you multiple times, but you’re ... though you can see that they’re frustrated? But despite trying your best

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  the hard way that proving you're right rarely ever proves anything to ... your core values. For example, picking a restaurant is probably not the ... friendship lives on in your memories. Walk around with a smile, and the world

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019