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• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  to work up to 45 hours per week: 20 for room and board, 25 paid. This ... future. I wouldn't give that up for anything. However, coming back home, I ... downright dangerous, especially for a woman travelling solo. Luckily I didn

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  for these great relationships between chef and student to spring up. And ... postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time ... requesting an extension for May 1? I have not received my financial aid

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  residential exploration, but without a residence on burton conner culture continuing to thrive

  

  up joining the floor, sticking with my class of Bombers through ... just gotten to campus and was enjoying getting swept up in the excitement ... little clue how things were run, but was now responsible for making REX

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  ended up double the length of my current longest post. so from the ... 's bad, if i don't program something for a while then that's bad. five ... nothing. i'm going to avoid taking any hard classes, for real. i won't take

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  a couple of years ago for those of you who are just now wrapping up ... programs, I ended up going to faculty members' actual homes for dinner. At ... , everyone on the bus stood up and clapped for me, including Obama, who was

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  have strong memories of 7th-grade-Cami curling up on the couch, watching "what." for the fifth time in a row. By that point, I had already ... to go up after the talk to say hi, and I'm sure a small part of myself

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  with their advisors to sign up for classes. The day before the first day ... Meeting Of The Year. I woke up at 8:30 to my alarm, turned it off, and *actually* woke up at 9:30, this time to the aroma of cinnamon rolls. One of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  even leaving for FLP (haha) but not actually staying there until right up ... to the class of 2012, and best wishes for your Commencement coming up ... to that crazy Institvte up north. (I still remember writing this blog

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  cool enough to make me continue in the physics track, so I showed up for ... disappointed. Our professor explained as he fired up the demo how electromagnetic ... he upped the intensity-- and in true traditional style, we started out

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  ended up going across the river for terrible greasy pizza at 1 AM. I saw ... Donald's. This week sucks. Well, for everybody else it sucks, because they had ... tolerable for our floor by preparing one of Conner 2's patented senior finals

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  if you never took the class. This is a really good system, for several ... for an 8.01x (physics) test which was to occur the next morning. My ... campus. I said yes. I ended up pulling an all-nighter the night before a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  -righteous preachyness and am up for fighting the Man just like any other self ... -that-other-actress-whose-name-I-don’t-remember”). And what you’re reading is an assignment for 21L.004 (Reading Poetry ... stoked). Our class of 17 students has been studying Shakespeare for the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  remember, in my last post I asked for people to provide me with MIT ... because we knew a lot of the same alums and kept turning up and the same ... forget what) that got us both called to the front for "punishment" at the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  Meh. My last, like, three or four ideas for entries have not quite ... : Last weekend I walked out to an apartment in Cambridgeport for the party ... he showed up on campus as a freshman, he was very different. Clean

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  , I saw people open up more to each other and really talk. Like petals ... sorry not sorry']they didn’t ask for help nor prompt the discussion at all ... program, made specifically for first year students. By completing it, you

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  student community made up of some of the world’s most intelligent and ... significant enough to merit a platform of its own. For those students, our ... link them up on our end so that we can see your portfolio within the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  take up.  It’s not hard for me to see why staying up late is such an ... post for a month now, so I didn't want to rewrite, but it felt weird to ... end of the post for accessibility! — [visually_hidden]Querida Ana

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  write bad fanfiction" comm.prod I LOVE that 50+ people signed up for the ... --it's over multiple weekends"]CP*,[/annotation] the virtual replacement for ... organized and hosted events, coded things for the massive Discord server

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

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  what actually is ROTC? ROTC stands for Reserve Officers' Training Corps ... .   Here at MIT we host ROTC programs for three branches of the military ... a four-year active duty commitment (for most careers - some careers

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  but her emails how to assert?

  

  some reflection, I've come up with three reasons why it is hard for me to ... for the first time ever in my 3+ years here. The early ... , waiting for me to unpack it again in August. One of the many things Stress

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 5, 2019