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• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  how to grill. I needed people to help carry all the meat in, and store ... board. The New House 3 president asked me where we were planning to get ... government) asking if we wanted to host a community barbecue in our dormitory

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  our impressions of the class and suggestions on how to make it better ... sometimes hard to learn from the smarter people in the group, who ignored TEAL ... MIT weighed in, my TA and several essay assignments encouraged me to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Live from Florida Hello from Tampa, Florida!

  

  say, but now I have to get ready for tonight's presentation in Tampa ... my years in admissions. One young woman asked a question about how our ... to change the world. (Read more about Mitra's D-Lab experience in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  to do physics. I asked dozens of people in class how they knew how to ... . I didn't know how to do any of it. The next day in class we got them ... indicators, MIT does its best to make sure you end up in a physics class that

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  I went outside! *inhales, belts 'for the first time in forever' at the top of lungs*

  

  perfect a New England winter day as you can get. Look how blue the sky ... to realize that its students need to get out more, so we actually have ... 's Camelot cabin in Rumney, New Hampshire over the weekend. The trip wasn't very

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guide to MIT: Academics requirements, resources, and miscellaneous info

  

  general tips on how to get back on track. Note that each S^3 Dean interacts ... Resources." This post expands on CLAAASS to discuss MIT Academics in general ... , Arts, and Social Sciences, and 3-4 subjects in one department to attain a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 6, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  meant to him and how much the people in there did but simultaneously ... crying and sitting in silence and really experiencing these new emotions of ... of having to explore and understand this new, complicated facet to my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Good Deed Goes Unpunished ...in which I introduce myself and set the tone for this "theater of the absurd."

  

  . Let's get down to business. Who is This Guy? Hey Skeech how did we get ... be a minority to glean wisdom from, or participate in, this blog? Au ... ... myself. (Movie trivia #2) I was born in Queens, New York and I've lived in

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  out at like 3, how do you not get enough sleep?” To little high school ... actually money. You have $24 and in one day you must decide how to spend that ... Brady's house, tried to get into some tall buildings, but it was like 1 in

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Hello! I would like to schedule a meeting with Senator Markey.” Exciting spring break plans

  

  provide valuable access to new opportunities. In this case, I realized that ... in order to get myself from Zero Knowledge to Some Knowledge. My fellow ... solar astrophysicist at Harvard. The AAS has a whole website on how to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Beat the heat in the Z Center Pictures of the MIT gym

  

  school year and you're likely to have gym classes here, so why not get ... . There's also a huge indoor track field, but I couldn't get in because I ... ! and I almost forgot to mention that the DuPont locker room has brand new

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  brutal. i was reeling from moving to a new city and living in a house with ... ’d like to get there eventually from the answer is not a hut in the woods ... corridor” has taken on new meanings for me. at mit it refers to a long

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  nights and early mornings to get everything done. In the midst of all this ... changed. CJ lives in New York, where they work for Stainless, a company that helps people who build web applications talk to each other in different

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Look Ahead The fight's begun but not yet won.

  

  knowing how to apply it to an exam question. (Prefrosh, take note of this.) We'll see how it all goes, but all in all I am very happy to be done ... summer means I get to do research! About a week ago, I officially confirmed

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  major in social science. If I had studied social science prior to college ... find support for new ventures, and where I can combine my interests in STEM and liberal arts. In another place, perhaps I wouldn’t have dared to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  side of the road for free water in paper cups then getting right back to ... 'll usually respond, in my experience, no matter how famous"]acclaimed author ... gets thrown around a lot in the context of life, MIT, what comes after

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  E-mails in French House "Seriously, people, what's going on here?"

  

  -mail, you're encouraged to write the body in both English and French. Now ... To understand most of the e-mails sent to the French House mailing list, there are three things you need to know: 1) Right outside our

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'

  

  so often don’t get the chance to experience in high school, especially ... Bringing STARS to Campus: Reflections on our first STARS@MIT Fly-In ... them envision themselves in these spaces. Instead of just telling you how

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • March 20, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  solace in the self it's me! cami!

  

  Reddit and ask how to be safer in the city, only to be met with friends and ... didn't know how to get home. warriors parade The Warriors happened to ... and live in a country that I haven't lived in before, I want to explore

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Getting Back to Normal ...with some help from Macklemore

  

  It has been a rough couple of weeks in Boston and at MIT.  Wednesday's memorial service for Officer Collier has helped us to heal.  And tonight, we'll take another step in getting back to normal. Tonight is the annual MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2013