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• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  bought a ticket doesn't show up, but there was no way for me to reserve a ... came, where I had time to crawl up into a ball on my bed and sleep. For ... ever taking extra time to do the problem again on my own. I ended up no

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  freshmen sign up for?" You'll register for your classes with your academic ... talked for a bit about some canoli's he picked up in a boston italian place ... It's time for more questions and answers! sailmaker asked, "How many

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  Remember two weeks ago when I blogged about how excited I was for ... super sick and ended up having to undergo surgery a week after that blog ... – I’m back on my feet now! (Hooray for modern medicine!) Now allow me to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  food consumed this week, mostly free or: how to get away with rarely cooking

  

  up late and snagged a bagel at the cafe in Lobby 7. lunch/dinner: for ... events put on by cultural clubs.  plan ahead for free food events I ... early to volunteer. I froze a handful of meals to save for later. Rating

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  that and putting it together into what works for me. I hate those cliche ... . Summer is a good time for planning and reflection. My nerdy corner of ... have an obsession with productivity for the pure sake of productivity

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Please Vote for My Idea for the Obama Administration! Change.org is sponsoring a competition whereby anyone can post an idea for making America better.…

  

  anyone can post an idea for making America better. The ten ideas that ... deadline for voting in the first round is December 31st. I'd greatly

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  blogging momentum is really hard to start up again after a certain point. I ... attended my recitation for 8.012 (freshman physics), and my recitation leader—Professor Eddie Farhi, Director of the Center for Theoretical Physics—found himself

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  .[/annotation] All and all, the fall semester had its ups and downs. I wanted to write ... aspects of the fall semester for the most part.  Going into the fall ... were some milestones I was pretty proud of myself for. I didn't have high

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  it up!": It was made by a senior my freshman year, so it's special for ... college dorm room can be summed up by this picture. This might be because my ... college dorms didn’t fully hit me until I walked in for the first time. For

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  - it was kind of a gut thing. I showed up for CPW, loved it. I also had ... 're setting yourself up for a lot of unhappiness down the line if you close ... , for most people, is made up of getting through those introductory

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  dress rehearsals and setting up decorations. All that was left for the ... /or the general [annotation note="we ended up going for a more playful ... ) Ring Premiere happened! For almost a year now, I’ve had the privilege of

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  exhaustion calls for photoblogodocumentationism. On Sunday morning, I was up ... [EDIT: It has been noted that the photos in this entry don't show up ... endorsement of Firefox still holds, though.] For the first time since August

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  questions: What is up with the whole abstract course nomenclature? Im sure this is great for MITers, but it seems rather arcane to the outside world ... numbering system because Campus Preview Weekend is coming up soon. I love CPW

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  sophomore year I missed the opportunity to sign up for Intel. Later, I went to ... usually stay with their hometown area code, or sign up for a new plan with ... only problem I've come up with for Random so far is the distance from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  place for that. I took a lot of language classes in high school, but it ... . After coming to MIT I stopped studying languages for three semesters ... and enriching; it opens you up to experiences and relationships and

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  proved how poorly I play Call of Duty) and then went up to Cambridge for ... computer for the entire month of January. Thus, when Chris made a call for ... . This trip to India, which had no connection to Hamsika's, was a follow-up

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  signed up for – this was going to be strictly for myself. And in that sense ... differently and this was just what I found to be the best for me. I spent my last IAP not doing much and ended up feeling pretty sluggish going into

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  year and I've learned a lot. I lived for the first time with friends in a ... to learn over the past two years, or as much of it as I could, not for ... small reminders for myself for the future. finding a place Clearly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  love for reading and keep up with it, even if I have to wait for less ... ended up re-reading the whole Harry Potter series (fan for life) and the ... home, and have swallowed up Purple Hibiscus, White is For Witching, The

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  experience I’m still stacking up on, which is a chance for me to babble about ... ridiculous the whole thing was. Then we ended up talking for the better part of ... usually announcing an available UROP or a company seeking applicants for

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014