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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Answer is Yes Tips for navigating your first month here with a Greek life emphasis

  

  of the Charles River versus a trip to New Hampshire to try indoor ... on, pass/no record grading, acclimating to city life and being in one of the neatest peer groups in the world. So many of my fondest memories

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Nance Nance Revolution! (+ My CPW Recap) New art and new memories.

  

  awesome for creating my new banner. Not to mention the fact that you are a ... left the students to their own devices. As we say in the urban vernacular, "You chilled while your peeps was handlin' they biz in the cut." For

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  assassins – a liveblog day 7: five remain

  

  , has an annual fall tradition in which we play a hall-wide game of ... partway hanging, so you need some kind of belt or pockets or belt loop in ... up an important invariant in the game, which is that there is a single

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Semester in Photos No words here!

  

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  . It helped that I got an early start, having stayed in Boston during the ... hands-on lab sections where we got to see the theory in action, and I had ... °, cold air has to be pumped in. But how much, and for how long? Too much

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  . What follows is the very long and detailed crisis I had in picking my major, organized by what I considered, in a roughly chronological order ... , but in sophomore/junior/early senior year of high school, I told

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  times, it’s an exam I’m nervous about. In past years, the class average ... pressure building in my head that goes something like this: You’ll have to ... not pay it any attention. In those ten minutes before I’m scribbling

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  Recently, my friend rejected several people who were interested in ... 've also known this friend to be pretty honest with me, and in the past, he ... self-knowledge extends to domains besides romance. In fact, it permeates

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  scheduled around psets or paid for in punted psets. One such spontaneous ... "sure, why not?" In fact, I was labouring under the very mistaken ... choice for several trips I took to Boston in high school, and we never got

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  .223 as I write this. (though I did hand in all the psets on time! go me!) I ... for like half of January after coming back from Russia in the beginning ... ’s cold. And we’re in a pandemic. As for cleaning my room… the class and

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  classes. My friends going to university closer to home had all signed up in ... Tuesday, Reg Day is the "first" day of the semester in that it's when campus ... -eye flight home, and you see people you know in the halls again. Crucially, Reg

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  Thursday a feeling: walked home in 24-degree weather after ... was playing as it occurred to me that i have no friends in this city ... fear: spending my life like i am this month, in a bubble of people who

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  new to hall, having arrived in a kennel on Delta Airlines from a place ... 's bed, Nixon sheds a lot of goldish-orange fur, Voight meows to himself in ... have some sort of internal control. People have just been getting new

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  being bad at ice skating and learning to try anyway

  

  properly engaged with something this new in a long time. When you’re used to ... 't posted her igloo post yet... sometimes procrastination works out in your ... community and hang out/support each other in a group. i'm personally not in a

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 15, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  CMS.621: Fans & Fan Culture the class that changed my career trajectory?

  

  world around me and see things in a perspective I've never really considered before. Introduction CMS.621 hasn't been taught in seven years, with ... I first saw the class in the course catalog during my freshman year. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  point where the new-semester excitement wears off. there's something about novembers that make you remember, something in the sudden, bitter cold. i ... see my breath misting in front of me. when i looked up at the sky, it

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  ? Especially since I'm still in undergrad and so much of my life is ahead of me ... 't really remember if I had any resolutions in 2022, but in retrospect, I grew a lot in the previous year, and I feel much more grounded and clear

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  it on my shiny new Spotify account and listening to Favourite Colour in ... Among my defining personality traits are playing 2048 in the year of ... , and being the number one Carly Rae Jepsen fan in most of my social

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  responded — responsibly — by changing or cancelling their activities in the ... in college, and my younger daughter is a high school senior who is ... Making Caring Common report was released in 2016, I wrote that an important

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  , in my months of deliberation, I fell in love. With my life at MIT. I ... else—with a spice of the technical in the liberal arts. I'd miss seeing ... , it feels lonely to do social science without being able to share in the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017