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• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2021 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  first years typically consult MIT guide to residences while choosing where to live. This guide includes the Interactive Introduction to the Institute (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 30, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  navigate my to-do lists ever since middle school. My first means of task ... (rip), I'm just going to skip over them... Next, we have bullet ... going through a "jesus I do NOT have my life together and really need to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest post] Eating Your Way Through MIT The story behind Chop Stir Hack, an MIT student food magazine

  

  of MindHandHeart-funded initiative to make an MIT student cookbook to ... project because the How To Food admissions blogs functioned as prior art and ... residents to be on a meal plan. Every dining hall serves breakfast and dinner

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  Final Project Demo Roll if only they were more helpful to the world at large

  

  , you might remember that this was supposed to be the semester where I ... constraints of the class that would have been helpful to the world in times like ... 'm still proud of the projects, so I wanted to share them. Read to the end

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CP* restored my faith in the universe i read...My Immortal...with prefrosh

  

  involved when you're clicking between Zoom meetings, but students are able to bring the same energy to virtual events as they are to live ones! I ... these chances to meet the Class of '24—they're wonderful and hilarious and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  a most beautiful camping trip it's always good to get back to nature <3

  

  It's pretty common at MIT for living groups to take advantage of the ... luxury!!) to go on fun trips and retreats. On Friday, my floor, Putz ... us more than half an hour to get to Porter Square!!!) to Franconia

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  reluctant to get the flu shot, because needles and injections terrify me, you know? I hated going to the doctor to get vaccines. I know they’re good for me, sure. I know how necessary they are. But I was really scared to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  to decide whether to stay in our current major, 21E Humanities and Engineering which allows us to combine CMS with Course 6, or to switch into ... math, we’d most likely spend close to 40 hours on 031. And spend close

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  crumble in laughter if they could read this), I have tried to condense ... never left Kenya before coming to the States. I went to both primary ... a half hour’s reach of my parents at any given time. Now I had to fly

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  and relative warmth is here to stay. In this final quarter of my time at MIT, I am taking not one, but two PE classes, back-to-back: Fitness & Meditation first, Yoga right after. Although having to take half of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... , I thought I knew how to handle life. In fact, I had a clear vision in mind of what I wanted to do. I expected to learn more about the field I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  an email sent out to Course 6 Class of 2019. My friend had also sent it out to a group chat, and we all drooled at the thought of spending ... . I had been on the lookout for other options, and ETH seemed to be the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2017 FAQ You've got questions, I've got answers

  

  are a finalist – congratulations! We’re excited to have you applying to ... often have at this stage; please read through the FAQ to check if your ... applying Early Action. You do not need to complete the Part 2 (essays

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  data justice for senior house

  

  surrounding the conversion of senior house to graduate housing. joon included full transcripts of emails sent from the chancellor's office to ... resummarizing those. i encourage you to read their posts if you haven't already

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  college admissions essay was supposed to present all the best sides of me ... whole and misrepresentative of what I really wanted to write about.   Fast forward to today, and I can point to every misconception in the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Iron Man is a 15-year-old MIT Student and lives in my freshman year dorm

  

  rendition of Simmons Hall is to the real one. ArchNewsNow   But do ... something to personalize their room, and they're all very creative in different ways. I asked my friends to show me what real Simmons dorm rooms

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  When it comes to Boston’s music scene, it certainly isn’t lacking ... that whatever they are, I love listening to them. I admire music and ... ’re strumming a guitar wistfully pretending to be in a 90s kids coming-of-age film

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  character Gogol and also, to some extent (and not without shame), the character Moushumi. If you've read this book, please feel free to send me an ... evaluating myself lately. Feel free to just skim the bullet points because the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  weird to be a senior. It feels weird to be a senior while excited ... " but manage to smile and say "um, maybe taking a gap year before applying to grad school or possibly working if I find a cool company who wants

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  deadlines that I never had time to appreciate and absorb the material. Some of ... hit me at Chipotle because I was too focused on the due date to pay attention to the ideas, or A* search algorithms from 6.01 that I was too busy

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015