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• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  , by default, are placed in RBA. (Ask me how I know.) And even though RBA ... seriously. I cannot stress this enough. Try to pick a place that fits you in ... didn't hear you; I have a banana in my ear. RESIDENCE-BASED ADVISING WILL

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  of this was because I grew up on Macs, and so I've always thought in Mac. I can make a Windows machine go, and I can bumble around a *nix ... products, from my Macbook to my iPhone, are omnipresent in my life - Steve

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  questions I was asked was "Can you name all of the Beatles' first and last ... '15 is in Au Bon Pain right as I'm walking outside from my interview ... the kind of person she is. We discuss how our senior years are going. I

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  ! - and psst, he's in one of the photos on that blog I linked to if you can ... time, I flirted with the idea of majoring in History at some really ... , as a complement to my life (aka. I don't have to actually "major" in it

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  of my friends died in a car accident. I remember how my class came ... this... I'd just like to remind folks that blogging is not in my job ... . That makes me sad, but I can live with it, thanks to the rest of you

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  Much of Boston and certainly the ladies in the sorority house where I ... to offer some tips about how you can get the most of your time on ... should I attend with my child?" In truth, there won't be very many of them

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  this online- I think you’re just awesome in general. To those few in the ... past 6. In the first portion, I spent some time creating my personal ... than the one near my home. In the two years I was there, I dedicated

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friends, and other things memories that come rushing back to me

  

  's no reason for me not to begin, all i can do is stare at it and want to ... 's been in years. i made so many good friends this year: from 5W, from toons ... cabin we stayed in, or the toons final concert, or that one time i aced my

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 25, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  music and anime has been constant. I was shocked at how many of my posts ... be likable in her posts. She’s not quite as funny as I am. I’ve still ... , and really opened up. I played music in front of people for the first

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Jonathan Gruber ‘87 (CPW Preview!) Our second CPW Keynote Speaker, Economics Professor Jonathan Gruber '87, answers a few questions in…

  

  on how far they live from a "high quality" hospital. And I am studying ... ! Q. Can you tell us about an undergraduate course that you teach? A. I ... come to MIT? A. I chose to come to MIT twice - in 1983 as a student, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snow On working in a winter wonderland.

  

  Though born in Massachusetts, I grew up in the wintry hinterlands of Vermont and New Hampshire. In Vermont, for instance, I lived in the ... other people are freezing I'm basking in the comparative mildness of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2009
• Blog / Events

  How to have dinner with your Professor and have it paid for by the UA!

  

  dinner with your organic chemistry professor-- which can be sponsored by ... and 2-5 friends can ask any of your professors out for a feast, to any ... isn't that bad. So therefore your outing will be inherently great. "HOW

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  realize how badly i need one, and cities like boston - where you can walk or ... i mentioned this in my previous blog post about LA, but let me ... sleep in till 7:45"]i usually leave at 7:33 to catch the 7:51 bus

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where In The World Is The Nance Effect? He returns! He returns! He returns!

  

  separate entry. Something Borrowed... All I can think of for this section ... Where in the World is The Nance Effect? That, my friends, is the million-dollar question. Suffice to say I am back and I have lots of advice

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  To the Class of 2016 General life advice

  

  . I can't stress how important this is. MIT has many activities that you ... thinking of them. In fact, I even wrote a little outline of this blog down on ... how you decide it'll be. Here's just some things to keep in mind as you

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colin Jackson is awesome So is my life, but not to such a great extent.

  

  's such a nice day. How can I look at a computer screen right now?" And I ... -grain bread? $2 for frozen mango chunks? How can I resist?!" And then you ... . I haven't written a blog entry in 6 days. God created the Earth in six

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Sneezes a deep and in-depth analysis of an everyday occurrence

  

  ’t understand how anything involving my snot can elicit positive emotions in ... how old you are, this can equate to a whole lot of sneezes you have ... . However, when I asked people about their deep and honest thoughts of how

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  out of it. I spent the summer looking at trends in how the GEOS system ... months and reflect on what it meant to me. Living in Boston I spent most ... one AC in the living room, under which I conveniently situated my desk

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  're weird. And I can scan in writing assignments from fourth grade to prove ... , course 7, but they were excited to hear that I was doubling in course 9 ... in Baker... nobody from my home, though. Today I was home and doing

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

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  whatever seemed to fit the bill for an application. I can't stress how vital ... . But I didn't want to be the guy who was estimating my position in the class, relative to how other friends were doing on exams and p-sets. I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013