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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  . (Nerd status, I know, but confession: I was much more motivated by the socialization aspect of Science League than the exams.) September of senior year ... confession would confirm - escaping math and science was one of the things I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Total immersion An MIT-Italy student finds her way around Rome

  

  ’ve come into a fuller realization of how interconnected Rome is. The first ... ago, I discovered that all five of the other buses that stop at my bus ... of this: I’ve stepped out of my box. I tend to create patterns

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Science, Technology, and Elephants. In which I take the best field trip ever.

  

  to town and parks their train right behind Simmons. This is one of ... ’s the elephants. Specifically, the walking of the elephants from the train tracks behind Simmons down Massachusetts Avenue, straight in front of MIT

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What it’s like being back

  

  back of everyone's mind is "Chris, WHAT have you been doing?" (or ... 's just akward). Despite what exploring the akward intricacies of inflection ... deluge of school came. (I was mildly successful). It was surreal coming

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Story Oh goody!

  

  good fun of course), but Sara stands by her soup and cereal. One day, the ... cook almost all of their meals there. I'm not very cooking-inclined, nor ... across the hall. Sara '12 is also a resident of Conner 2. You may remember

  • by Snively '11
  • July 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Scientist Questions of science, science and progress.

  

  Professor Angelika Amon of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research ... compared to my usual wake up time of 9:00 last semester, in order to make it ... proud of myself for making it on time - only to find that I wasn't even

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 2, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MOUT Training Exercise With UNH ROTC [by CDT Vikram Mittal] When UNH asked our battalion to supply people to act as…

  

  [by CDT Vikram Mittal, MIT '09 Mechanical Engineering PhD Candidate] The University of New Hampshire ROTC program recently organized a MOUT ... rescue them. Of course, they were not going to use live ammo - simply

  • by ROTC
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a freshman Getting a P+ isn't just for frosh anymore.

  

  term, my GPA would increase by one tenth of one point (MIT only rounds to ... eventually turned out to need about two and a half hours of touching) when I ... contemplating the prospect of having a class on Junior/Senior P/D/F. You get to do

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer restaurant recommendations Some of my favorite restaurants.

  

  Boston and try yummy restaurants. Inspired by my conversation with Andre, here is a good summer list of restaurants for students (and campus visitors!) to try. They're many of my favorite places! Cafe Baraka: A

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 15, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Marking time Somewhere between the end of classes and graduation...

  

  by Saturday night, but we really didn't clean out all of the boxes ... into the apartment, and have all kinds of grownup things like furniture ... 's worth of clothes so you don't have to unpack and then repack your temp

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 30, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Engagement Party Salsa dancing with Benjamin Franklin and Optimus Prime

  

  front of our shirts displayed our real names, but the nametags Shannon '05 stuck onto our backs displayed the name of someone else's historical ... had submitted the name. Add to that the fact that some of the people who

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Get The Scoop The dish on ice cream around MIT.

  

  Without fail, if I could only eat one food for the rest of my life ... went at the end of last semester before it was time for us to take our finals. One of the nice thing about Tosci's is that they have some pretty

  • by Bryan
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let the Rush Begin On Greek Life at MIT.

  

  outside of what I'd watched in movies, and I didn't really plan on joining ... cool events, and I must admit the allure of steak and lobster dinners did ... the course of the year was that at MIT, they're not like what the movies

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  off every day, leaving you with 1) an invariable daily sense of ... , to which I retaliated by going out and getting Daily Paperfolding or ... . 1. Control your thoughts. Do not think of anything violent or

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  started changing colors. I stop by the display of pumpkins, gourds, and ... frat parties, many of which are long past by now. [carousel image1 ... As a resident of Simmons, one of the farthest dorms from [annotation

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  the idea of a conversation with a stranger or a big party event doesn ... common theme I've noticed is that a lot of this is self-imposed, that I ... I don't quite fit in. But it's become so much of a habit that I truly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  newness wore off faster and faster, until by the end of the first week of ... July and were comparing schedules; we, even with the combined power of ... . But now -- now I am an MIT student, and so I can enlighten any of you

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  what I could possibly need any luck with, and hit by a wave of nausea, I ... Bruce. The three of us speedwalked down the Infinite Corridor, and a sophomore named Kirstyn joined us. The four of us booked it across campus

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  I’ve kept an extensive weekly journal since early February as part of ... spring, I went through my journal and picked out some of the memories and experiences that stand out to me. I present to you a brief highlight of the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  starter our “yeast baby” and took care of it by feeding it twice a day with ... cloud of the 7.03 final was fraying my nerves. I’m sure the actual weather ... settled into the comfort of a familiar bed (cuddling cat named Stoopy

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015