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• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  your breaking point, and learn how to make time for yourself in order to ... visualization, or to watch a significant person in the field talk about it) 5) Get ... sooner. David D. '17 You're coming to MIT, one of the best universities in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  It’s cool to care but maybe care a little less

  

  else. I rented out a small room in some building, I learned how to feed ... managed to get someone to fill in for the clinician. I was given some ... , my thoughts were, how do we get people invested in continuing these

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Super Top Secret Spy Action Real Life Experience: Building a car in 2.007

  

  So in hopes to show you more about what classes are like, over the ... scorers won a free trip to Japan to compete in an even larger design ... . The idea is to get as many of these balls into the highest scoring bins

  • by Bryan
  • February 26, 2006
• 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 ... helps people who build web applications talk to each other in different ... months ago, Brian moved out of LoTaD to start a master's in Oxford, and

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

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  how to design and program a robot. They learned that by jumping in and ... program. Teams get evaluated based on how well they live these core values. You get judged not only on how many points your robot scores during the

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  It’s Nice to Meet You Finding my confidence through inline skating.

  

  how I inline skate, or rollerblade. Even after three years of being in ... friend who also skated at MIT to teach me how to step over cracks and brake ... adrenaline rush. Being able to make meetings or classes across campus in

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • March 29, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Going Home ... but where exactly is that?

  

  ecstatic to get back to campus after a much needed break, to see my MIT ... books and get back to my on-campus family. Update: My flight did not ... luck, it was cancelled and I had to stand in a line with 300 other people

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 6, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  to get a little more bang for your MIT buck, based on things that I ... get quite a lot of things, if you know where to look. Like... Free food ... groups or one of MIT's many offices should be enough to get you started

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  great. You get to travel and experience living in another country, and it ... program, you get to spend a month in Madrid, taking a real MIT class, with ... really technical major, and it’s hard to get outside credit from a school

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  travel somewhere in the physical world to obtain information. Information!  Fortunately, you live in more civilized times. Nowadays, when you want to know ... to clarify it. If there was a nicer way to get a certain conclusion

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  close to the chapel (currently under construction). In fact, Maseeh is ... , but in a few weeks, once my schedule lightens up, I'll eventually get ... days), I'm back in my room with absolutely nothing to do. I use the term

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  the past. A bunch of people in our hall told me to get the shot. It ... in the above diagram, where you get sent to line up in front of one of ... community members could walk in and get a flu shot. I was initially a bit

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  place where it occurred; I remember the directions to my aunt’s house in ... how badly I was struggling. Not that my friends didn’t notice (I like to ... incorrect in this assertion, but I began to feel that I was good at concealing

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  water wars, lovecrafting, and 361 other REX events your annotated guide to everything currently unfolding on campus

  

  time filled with tons of events that will help you get to know the ... about the different parts of campus that you otherwise might not get to ... for you [ed: in case you want to move via FYRE]. Most of all, REX is a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  that stuff, but it means he doesn't really have to worry about getting in ... crying in front of people. On Thursday, my postdoc took me out to lunch ... picking Harvard for grad school effectively meant he'd have to get into MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  beginning of my foray into cooking. I learned how to make my mom's chili (and ... ; when I had time alone, I listened to some of my favorite chilling-in ... ). Now I can add the long-ass Porter escalator to the list of places in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn in New England The trees explode with color.

  

  I've been lucky enough to be able to enjoy autumn in New England recently. For those of you in regions that do not have four seasons: autumn ... yet reached Cambridge, the below photos come from recent trips to New

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-Campus Preview Weekend GET PUMPED.

  

  ! If you're not, well, to quote Phyo '10, "GET PUMPED!" I didn't get to ... chance. Wouldn't want them to get jealous or anything! So tomorrow, while ... get institute holidays and have to still get our problem sets done), I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CP* restored my faith in the universe i read...My Immortal...with prefrosh

  

  Lounge and talk around small tables, so prefrosh get to interact with us in ... !!!! I love talking to everyone and sharing in their enthusiasm so! much! These couple of days have been a testament to how amazing the MIT

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  church gardens some paintings!

  

  North Wales. Unfortunately getting to South Wales would be 8 hours ... lonely towards the end of the month. But I did appreciate getting to see ... killing time in London until my flight back to Boston. Text for

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 3, 2023