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• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  Hard to believe July is nearly gone eh? Yup in just a few short ... fledged frosh and other alliterations! Want to eat ice cream on toast for breakfast? Go for it! Don't want to go to class? You won't get in trouble

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  offered me to write a guest blog, and I thought it was a great time to ... I wrote to a few of my friends, but I hope you find the material ... right way to go. I've been learning a great deal from my few weeks here

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  MIT, I always think back to one song. There are a lot of songs in Hamilton that I can break down and relate to my life, but this one strikes me as the most relevant to how I’m feeling.   i found myself

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  or 4W, depending on who you ask. Among many things, I am fortunate to ... fortunate to have a somewhat interesting story to tell. Read ahead ... supposed to leave Next House for Kendall Square, to ride the T to South

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  to be in the same post since they had different tones kind of so...here we are). This past January, I learned how to code (again). On a whim, I decided to take 6.145 because I started to entertain the idea of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  devoted hours and hours each day to psets as well as textbook reading ... to every class and completed all of my assignments on time. Freshman ... ever taking extra time to do the problem again on my own. I ended up no

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I have to submit a February Updates & Notes Form (FUN)?

  completion of the second quarter. Your school does not need to mail your midyear grades to us. Students simply list their grades on the FUN Form ... opportunity for you to update us on anything important that has occurred since
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  some very ambitious middle schoolers that came up to us. Three years ago, we went to this panel and met Lauren there, and asked her a question ... specify what you contributed to). We’ve chatted a couple times with Lauren

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  learned about all types of making, from woodworking to 3-D printing. I was ... process, a guest lecturer, and lab time to test out the process for ... came in to walk us through CNC machining, and another guest lecturer

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  of your life) i. people who haven’t been in relationships tend to ... i could get x to like me or life would be much better if i were dating ... which i’ve listened to a lot over the past few weeks. i’m getting into

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  to an end. It would be great if I left more than bones and a carbon ... ElAtEd To ThE cOvId-19 CrIsIs, read: there"]here[/annotation] at MIT has come to its end. And I do not want to be just an entry in the registrar

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  memories have been left to gather dust over the years. after i burned through my high-speed data for canada, there wasn't much to do on my phone so i ... eaten or lost to the tides of time. one item in particular stuck with me

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  now it’s February... But this one is pretty close to my heart, and I ... ate a breakfast of cheese & crackers. I walked to my first class of ... to my second class. I grabbed lunch with some friends, and then trekked

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  parts. I loved the camaraderie of people all grinding to finish their part ... deeply. I’ve been wanting to have this group project experience at MIT for ... least two hours."]preparation.[/annotation] I used to have a fair bit of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  has abruptly given way to winter. It’s the cold air stinging my airway ... ="course 6 (EECS) has a nice program that allows you to work towards your ... want to do. In a way, things do feel a bit lighter though. I’m only

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  rehearsal, “We’re going to Brazil!” Suddenly, samba music began blasting from ... works for several years. In fact, the trip to Brazil would likely have happened in 2020 if COVID hadn’t appeared and disrupted everything. Thanks to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  arrived at the level of hunger where your sides begin to tingle as if they ... entirely sure how to go about tackling the last one. The motivation to write, though, is a precious commodity, and I’d like not to squander it, now that

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  class. This is due to a few reasons: Firstly, I have never had a semester at MIT where I didn’t want to be taking the classes I was taking. This is a somewhat privileged position to be in (and given some of those

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  .) At CPW this April, every time I met someone new, I had to be prepared to answer and ask the same set of questions: what’s your name? where are you from? what are you thinking of majoring in? It got to the point

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  have to bike to Northeastern three times a week. so far, it's been a pretty doable bike ride, but it's about to get brutally cold... I still dance on Mocha Moves, but come to at most one practice a week. I spend

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021