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• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  is really like. You’ll get to stay in a college dorm, go to college ... confidence that you have learned “how to think.” With that in mind, enjoy CPW ... assigned to Next House (I still run into my host, and I ended up living in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  , you have no need to hump somebody on the dance floor, because [fill in ... everyone says that you can buy anything in the convenience store, but how do ... to the dining halls in other dorms, so do you cook every meal? Thanks

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  I like to break a mental sweat, too. Missed it by that much.

  

  had to comment on Schrock, even though I was already scooped in ... honest, I'm becoming quite discouraged now. First I was too late to get ... they couldn't find enough people to make quorum and the team gets find if

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  post by discussing the future I imagine for myself and how I want to get ... It seems to me that we swath an imaginary future world in pretty ... used to cling to regret—I wish I could go back in time and do MIT all

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  -enrolling in a class, I did have the chance to take a class (D-Lab: Development ... cool experience. Free transportation: MIT students get free access to ... ’s even just nice to be able to get out of the MIT STEM bubble for a bit

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  . Content caters in large part to the demands of the audience, who can email ... brainstormed on how to take that energy and translate it to the rest of MyMIT, as ... seemed to get more and more popular. And then, one day, I stumbled upon

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cancel all operations Tell your friends to cool it, my cover's blown.

  

  , awesome entry. I heard that Random is very selective (hard to get into) how ... . However, I feel like I've been so delinquent in responding to comments on ... start out in multi-variable and try to review single-variable and hope

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 16, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  work to get grants, artists get stuck in bubbles that make it hard for them to broaden their horizons, and students like me get swayed by status ... beautiful ideals in this world. To shout from the past and into the future

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Jigsaw Puzzle of Opinions Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  saying it is bad to be influenced by those around you, in fact that’s how ... this is related to MIT or college life in general, or at least I hope ... . Going to university puts you in a dorm with dozens of people with

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 25, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  have any say in how things were run. I didn’t have big plans to do ... about how to address certain longstanding dynamics in the house that ... MIT, I always think back to one song. There are a lot of songs in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have classes

  

  in it with me, which is nice since it means I'll always have someone to ... thought it would be funny to put 8.02 (E&M) and Course 9 in a blender ... to be able to keep all five, but if it is too much work then I will

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  said that she wanted to write up a little entry about how GEL prepared ... lounge, one of the upperclassmen in my dorm stopped by to comfort me. “Don ... -defined problems fed to you by a benevolent manager, then you’re in luck because the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Watch a Webcast! get ya popcorn ready

  

  during our travels, we get to meet amazing students and talk to them in ... 't figured out how to be everywhere at once. We can't visit every high school ... in MIT has the opportunity to come to campus, hang out with students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  to get a question in edgewise. TAs also look to avoid these OH and they ... The last two years at MIT has been a large exercise in learning how I ... absolutely fall in love with the class (shoutout to Tim P.(but to be fair

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  , to reflect how I see myself to those who see me.    In high school, I ... wanted nothing more than to go back in time and take those classes. I spent ... interest to reduce my workload, especially in my last semester. The next day

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  country a little more, in a similar way to how I am accustomed to the bias ... parallels to Nigeria in how colonialism has seeped into the language, beauty ... later on in life. Context matters- not to serve as an excuse for how

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  later than us get engaged already. What happened to my Facebook feed? It ... someone my age getting a new promotion, moving up in the world, and have a ... potential wedding dresses. She recently got engaged to her boyfriend on their

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  a syllabus just gets me going idk."]to itch the little part of my ... .[/annotation] So imagine me flabbergasted when I learn that in addition to all the ... . Naturally, when people starting asking me about how many classes I had to take/how

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  cool - the process that brought me from my hometown, to getting accepted ... 'm still in a state of shock (so try to forgive me if this post is all over ... . I didn't know what to expect going in to it, knowing literally not one

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  basement. I went to get water and two people were switching shirts in front ... 've been thinking about how it's okay to be in different spaces, especially ... you get to MIT. I've seen how this is true for some. But for me, the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024