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• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  I grew up in Nashua, New Hampshire, an unassuming city with lovely people but not much to do.    Now that I’ve been living in Cambridge ... memory-saturated period I’ve spent on campus brings me to wonder how much I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  which you get discounted meals but in order to break even, you need to eat ... . :-) Hmm. In all this talk about dining, I didn't get to the second part of ... walk in anytime and find some friends to sit down with, and I feel like I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  ="MIT's Writing course/major"]21W[/annotation] classes are HARD to get into. In the ... even want a shot at getting into these classes”. Well, this was news to me! I was left scrambling at the last minute to try and get into a

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  of shaping new developments in the world's train networks were starting ... hours when you consider the hours in advance you have to spend at the ... that turns out. How are your applications going? The folks in admissions

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  joined clubs, went to events, partook in many things. But the activation ... quite hard and not allowing myself to rest. After our week-long break in ... school turned out to be the dagger in my side as I trudged on to the end of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  September and I’m not at MIT registering for classes and trying to squeeze in ... how excited we were to graduate despite the rain (admittedly, this was ... , I love to tell the story of how I never imagined coming to MIT

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  week and it was blissful to get away from MIT and have some fun in the ... supposed to get 15 gallons of ice cream on Thursday morning that never showed ... supposed to supplement the rest of it. We had to run out in the middle of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  (ooooooooooh) HOW TO DO PARKOUR Music History Different dog breeds in New ... velocity of an unlightened swallow? Getting attacked by a dino How to ... littered with sonic screwdrivers and Tardis t-shirts. I managed to slip in a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  a salmonella saga weekend outing tingz

  

  few weekend trips to New York. these helped me realize how feasible ... in Boston is a nightmare, so it took us over an hour to get to her ... , given how much work we have at ALL times. surprisingly, I was able to pull

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  Freshman fall I decided to join a sport. I had never played sports in ... veteran players! How to play defense by being on the open side of my player. How to cheer very loudly on the sidelines. I remember the only time I

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  definitely thinking about how to graduate on time if this was as seriously awful as I felt in the moment. But it wasn’t. And that’s a lot to be ... combinations of classes I could have chosen to take all at the same time, in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  recognize how my chronic worrying and distress were beginning to wear on me ... get in contact with alumni, among other things. You can sort through ... going to be in Southern California, I narrowed the list down to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Will the pie be bitter or sweet? Hint: it's a trick question.

  

  : encyclopedia dramatica So don't ever let anything get you down enough to stop ... cells, pushing gastronomy to new heights, designing bridges, or whatever it is you do. There's a whole new world full of opportunities about to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Odd Jobs How non-seniors can occupy their time before and during graduation

  

  science and media. But, in waiting for the summer session to start, I ... days, see how the institute has changed, and go to snazzy events together ... 25th reunion) to caps (’64, for their 50th reunion where they get the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  feelings that were washing over me in waves. Instead of getting straight to ... I had trained myself to overcome last year. Instead, I sat in the ... longer under my control. Week four was when things started to get hairy

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  to a boston day in the spring, one of those rare ones with the power to ... when you have to choose? I didn't know that I was choosing. How do you ... other college in the country, right?".   A few months ago I was

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  other to get in our petition forms, and it was exciting because it totally ... experience - you get stranded on this island in Massachusetts Bay, have these ... going to be living in the same dorm as him. I lived in a triple during my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  My new job @ admissions like nick saban, but for nerds

  

  update in five years - to reflect my new role and responsibilities in the office when I suddenly realized that I hadn't actually blogged about my new ... achievements. I'm new to the position, but the role it plays in our office is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tweaching and Stitches Two things that happened this week, one of which I liked.

  

  ; is the blogger get together known in all it's syntactically misleading ... in, and many of us are busy looking at our shoes as we walk. So to ... to talk about how to make blog posts, the few guidelines we have about

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  hang out with new people in my department. When it comes down to it, I ... enough to get some solos in Fugues songs last year, and when I did, I found ... .5 miles and 4000ft elevation change). The next weekend, I drove up to New

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022