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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Your Intuition It will lead you in the direction of Central Square

  

  found this bookstore before I left MIT. In addition to a large fiction ... can't believe I haven't been to before. Nicole, I owe you so much for ... in Boston, conveniently 4 stops down on the red line from MIT, that

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Memories My first two months at MIT, all wrapped up into one post.

  

  could the past eight weeks have gone by so quickly? I can still remember how I felt when my plane first landed in Boston - when I walked onto ... clarify a point or answer a question I had. I remember turning in my first

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  GET A BIKE very important psa

  

  worth it. i lived in Burton-Conner, the fourth dorm down Dorm Row, so i ... "]Lobby 7,[/annotation] so if i needed to get to a class in Building 16 by 10 ... , you can speed down Memorial Drive to Walker in maybe three minutes, and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7:15PM ET!

  

  . From the website: In 2.009, Product Engineering Processes, [150] students work in large teams of approximately 20 individuals to design and build ... 2.009: Product Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  with it, I just can't imagine a class laying such an egg in my schedule ... Loved Rhetoric with Strang. I can say that now because I got my name picked out of a hat to stay in his class. If I'd known it would come to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  the final or do the final project but you can make it up some time in ... in hopes that I would be better by Monday, but when that didn’t happen ... advised me to ask for an “OX” in the class if I wasn’t feeling better by the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  major in? How will that tie in to what I want to do in the future? And ... think about how I got these preferences in the first place, I realize that ... feeling I’m doing something meaningful? How much do I care about keeping in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  When I was in preschool, we had to make a crayon drawing of what we ... exists, in some scrapbook in the back of the kitchen closet. I don ... . Later life goals have less charm. In fifth grade I wanted to be President

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  yeeting classes bye

  

  ! fanfic. in other words, I was incredibly unpopular in middle school ... and confusing, a deadly combination. in fact, I was so stressed about ... : the two psets stashed in my purse :([/caption] the next day, I dropped

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 12, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  feel like I grew a lot in a few weeks. I came into MIT with a basic ... existing in this spot. Sometimes, I got to help others. Sometimes, I got help. Both helped me grow. I also got to hone in on some stylistic choices that

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  . . . Don't get me wrong. Quantifying can be useful. (How else would I keep ... showcases, meme tags. In the past eight months, I've learned how to manage my ... , money earned and spent (mostly spent). In fact, I often conflate progress

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  don't know how to cross streets in the city, but I do know how to get ... This is a list I made at the end of my freshman year in the reading ... comfortable enough to actually fall asleep. A fifteen-minute nap in Hayden can

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  while I’ve been in school because all three of these parts can continue to ... lead to one of two cases as far as I can tell: 1) I become just ~eh~ in ... with my posts until I deem it cringe"] Song:[/annotation] Voices in my

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Answers to waitlist FAQs.

  

  admitted, in all likelihood. I hope that you will have another great choice ... reconsider all of the waitlisted students again in May, when we know how many ... waitlist. What should I do now? If you are still interested in MIT, you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  and I am complacent. My freshman year I remember being so in awe of how ... been someone that has traveled in a pack. In high school, I had a group ... myself in having the best friends in the world. This semester, I felt a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  Food That Makes You Feel Like Home Are there foods that make you think of special places?

  . When I think back to my years in Ann Arbor, I can't help but think of ... real homecomings for me. In the few moments that I wasn't working, I was ... delicious as I remembered. In fact, I'm salivating just thinking about them

  • by mitblogs
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  training. I went to gyms sometimes in high school — and nearly every day while living in my car, to shower — but I never hit a solid routine. A guy I met while backpacking in Italy showed me how to use the kettle bell

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  , I can get caught in my head; I like the freedom to pause and breathe ... In the middle of an already-packed IAP, I received an email: I’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing!  I was in a phase of trying to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  material in their classes. Suddenly, you fall into a spiral of “how do i even ... , most recently in 11.124 Introduction to Education. I loved hearing about ... , and I’m a sophomore in EECS. I also really love teaching. Unsurprisingly

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  slow down. But, in truth, I can’t help but feel like I’d do it all again ... class starts in five minutes, that she doesn’t really care how I’m doing ... summer nights. Between the “I can’t make it through this semester” to the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024