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• Blog / MISTI

  DOMR My first crazy picture entry from Germany.

  

  laptops it are me and three other Americans I know. Does that say something ... and maps that we sketched out in Mr. Chicken. On Saturday, we went to ... took the train to Koblenz and took a four-hour trip down the Mosel River

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  've been having a crisis over whether to go to grad school or not. And as ... I am very tired. And I don't think that I'm ready to go quite yet ... learned enough to create a cool final project, but it's hard to actually

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  energy and trying to stay critical of my expectations and conscious that ... , and can easily spend an hour watching videos about how not to ... hours ahead and it is not fun, ESPECIALLY since I’ve been trying to sleep

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Endless rain into a paper cup ...also, restless wind inside a letterbox.

  

  like a little wind and rain is going to stop them from running it ... love the MIT energy initiative or whatever just as much as President ... 've been much more of lame-o about running outside since I got a MacBook and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  system, you should future proof it and buy as much RAM as you can ... bootloader. After three days at the mercy of How-To Geek and Super User, I ... computer, I enjoyed fixing it and continued to mess around with it. I went

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  current social structure places so much emphasis on adhering to norms and ... , and passions of the student body. I once heard someone refer to MIT as a ... listen to an admissions presentation, take a campus tour, visit a lab, and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Of Orange Juice and Animal Hats. How the Flintstones failed me.

  

  , and once caught a cold in 90 degree weather. I’m still not sure how that ... ’s Theo doing? Does he need more orange juice or soup or anything?) To put ... A week and a day ago, roughly 7:30 pm: Me: Hi Mom! Sorry I haven

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  cook myself and I’ve survived this much, but props to the people who can ... a book (Step 1a would be to buy a book if you do not own one). These ... ).) Laundry As much as I know you want to live your whole life never having to

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / Announcements

  welcoming our new bloggers! baby bloggers? baby bloggers!!

  

  gone,[/annotation] and MIT is coming back to life. Students are back on ... starting, with so many cool things to be learned; and as of today, the world ... bloggers to share anything and everything about their MIT experience: what it

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  See me, feel me, milq me, heal me Picture entry! Don't read if you're on dialup! DON'T DO IT! Sorry, but it's for…

  

  was able to get a lovely chicken and egg dish, much like the one that ... walk across the floor to ask her to borrow it. Pretty much, the majority ... '07 and I went out to dinner at the Porter Exchange in Cambridge with a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  this piece I want to address specifics - in particular, down and dirty ... saying less. You must make your words count and you must help to keep your ... 've had a conversation with you child about just how much you can afford to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  proof of life hmm :thinking-face:

  

  time and energy. The weeks, minus minor differences, seem to blur ... timer on a carton of milk and a slab of chicken waiting to be thawed. An ... has eyes bigger than her stomach and wants to have it all, no matter the

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  which the hero goes it alone to kill the bad guys, and avenge those who ... cautious about the learning process and tends to be obsessed with issues such ... , despite his reservations, Mills applies to MIT anyway. Much to his surprise

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  cooking for myself, and learning to be a somewhat functional adult who does ... months of SAT subject tests and trying to figure out how to apply for ... them in even if I wanted to. [annotation note="arguably much shorter

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is ... prodding my siblings ever-so-often to end their summer vacation and return to ... alone. It’s hard to value companionship until you’re starved of it, and

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

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  home and no energy left at the end of the day to do anything but make the ... Los Angeles, and I can’t wait to spend Thanksgiving with my family. At ... before I adjusted to a new environment and began to enjoy everything that

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  is the runway, and you start to think to yourself, "In the event of a ... -looking fiance. And at least I have learned how to cross busy streets: if the light ... green for the line of cars perpendicular to you, don't! MIT does have an

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  semester—I didn't have too much late work to make up for and I finished ... —shoutout to Selena and Sarah—mostly so I can spend some time away from my parents and get to know other people within a pandemic pod. It’s really

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  from Spain and one from France. This arrangement dates back to the 13th ... .[/caption] France and Spain have a lot of influence on Andorra, as is to be expected ... . Catalan, Spanish, French, English, and Russian are all spoken to some extent

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  as good as it gets. I get to oversee all aspects of student life and ... Tube, Facebook, and smart phones and other mobile devices? How does MIT balance ... and how MIT helped (or didn’t) get them to their current level of

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011