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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  .  Welcome to the party. I fell out of my parents' nest in New Jersey and ... winged mechanical beast that brought me to a new world, and I rode in the ... - Now I know to keep my MIT ID in my wallet at all times and I leave for

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  engaging in a behavior to get an external reward or to avoid punishment, and ... your goals. Goal Planning — consider how to intervene in the automatic ... used Coursera a lot in high school to take various Data Science

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  workin vibes[/caption] Words can't express how much I enjoy living in this ... about living in a group like this is having to be organized about meeting ... , while others are in favor of keeping contact just to people in the house

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  a tour of New Vassar also known as west garage

  

  never intended to live in a meal plan dorm. I'm kind of picky about my ... to having more freedom to cook for myself in future semesters ... me so sad, honestly, to think of how nice these spaces would be if we

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  for everyone, and we pushed through to get all our dishes in downstairs ... to get the tradition going early. For our first Floor Frosh Social ... useless in the context of Apple Bake, so I decided to try my hand at a few

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  move in. Messes are often made between the times janitors come to clean, and it's not always easy to determine who made them. And, face it - in ... didn't want to move too far away, because it would be too hard to get to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Hello, Ma Sheng Li Gong A journey of four years begins with a single blog.

  

  . We were en route to Mathcamp 2004 (which was held in Colby College, ME), and we decided to stay in Boston for a couple of nights before heading ... typical ABC. For one thing, I have never gone to school in the US, even

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves. How could it be otherwise?” -Anne Fadiman, in the preface to her essay collection Ex Libris ... bin. What if, in ten years, getting a job hinges on having my notes from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fig. 4: Study with me! A semi-productive Sunday afternoon vlog (feat. an hour trying to find a printer)

  

  get a summer break -- or have the opportunity to do internships, MISTI ... final papers -- due in mid-June -- to count for the majority of our marks ... write and 2 exams still in August, I'll have to spend my summer continuing

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Promise of Ending ...is labor and sharing and loving.

  

  Services Office working really hard to get those grades in right now! Anyway ... ." I noticed that it had to be in by February 9 or I would suffer a $40 ... MIT. How does that feel." Now, in my mind I know that it was a long time

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  . Just as surreal as it was to get my acceptance more than four years ago. And just as surreal as it was to hold my MIT ID card in hand, staring ... , please remember to eat your meals and hydrate, regardless of how crazy your

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  walls of the Infinite that I hadn't actually bothered to stop and read. In a regular semester, I was always in such a rush to get to wherever I ... 's even a Wikipedia article about it! It's how most MIT students, in a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breath what's next for all our applicants

  

  . So I'd like to begin by giving a shoutout to my grandfather, who, in ... 've discussed data and how to understand its validity. All of these posts have ... process and, to the extent possible, explain how and why we do the work we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  away in the back; he very wearily said no. Maybe he gets that question a ... conversations waft up to my room - heads up, in case you ever find yourself on a 1 ... room in half. To my right: my desk, and my rolly chair, which has MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  figure out what classes I wanted to take. I was registered in 10 different ... getting much worse to slightly better and I went to MIT Medical urgent care ... wanted to take classes in Course 4, and the two I ended up with are morning

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  school teacher who wrote asking for a poster of MIT to hang in your classroom to inspire your students, Gisel is probably the person who put it in ... give to each other as a thanks helping them out in a pinch

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 28, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I do too much stuff at MIT 1)My mom doesn't have a problem with it.

  

  two are out to get me. You'll never get my wisdom teeth! Neither of you ... to get through MIT is hard, and you'll often wonder whether or not the ... anything to blog about, just a lack of time in which I can do so. (I am

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Carnival A glorious carnival is marred by the passing of a beloved goldfish. (24 pictures)

  

  in time to try and knock down a fat cat. It's really hard to throw ... with this: Tree trunks get so postered that we resort to taping flyers ... Last night, we went to a carnival that was sponsored by the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  to trigger vomiting. but i haven't had a cold in years, let alone one ... 've gone to a medlink, if it was worse. how much worse, though? i don't know ... , i wasn't going to go to mit medical. also, despite living in east

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  Over IAP, I had the opportunity to participate in one of MIT's IAP ... plenty of time in the afternoons and on the weekends to explore as much of ... matter, I've arranged them here in chronological order to provide (the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017