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• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  breakfast? Go for it! Don't want to go to class? You won't get in trouble ... . Tally up how much you make in a month, subtract out anything you HAVE to ... kitchen that you can use to cook food in, and if you get a few friends

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-year Grade Reports And Other Common Questions Quick answers to a few of the common questions in my blog over the last…

  

  Quick answers to a few of the common questions in my blog over the ... worry about this. In a case where we need to see a mid-year report and it has not been received, we will personally contact your school to get it

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  bottom. Here at MIT, it's rapidly coming down to the end. In a week and a ... . Aside from the few that choose to enroll in 8.012 [Physics for the Truly ... . I guess you'll have to come and see for yourself! (or get 5's on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  watching out for me here in getting me this job. Although I really wanted to ... teaches you how to be a good leader as well as a good team player. I don ... MIT. I'm super excited to see how our project develops! 6.S898

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  was to get deferred. i was expecting to get deferred, really. i knew, in ... put all my eggs into one basket, and i truly was expecting to get ... heal, not again. as much as i want to laugh at how emotional this writing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  bike and having time to bake tons of delcious things. I do like how I ... 've adjusted to learning in the MIT system, but I do feel like there are more ways at MIT where you can get help if you want to. Office hours (an hour

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  sure how yet. I guess I should probably get to a point where I feel ... ’ll sometimes just get random flashbacks to absolutely random things that have ... , they seem to appear in flashes way more frequent than I was used to. And

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questionable Views Questions and views, and questions about views. The views are not necessarily questionable, although you…

  

  allowed to live in a single room?" There are actually two people in the ... the room with and how well everyone gets along, because the rooms are pretty darn big. Keep in mind that in Baker, the rooms are designed to hold

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Soup Dumplings, Fever Pitch Yesterday after work I headed downtown for the evening. First stop was one of my…

  

  was one of my favorite restuarants in Chinatown: Taiwan Cafe. Taiwan Cafe is the best place in town for soup dumplings (very, very yummy). Taiwan cafe in Boston's Chinatown. Soup dumplings are delicious and fun

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  . My advice to you is to get involved in the UROP program here. I forget ... before dead week is pretty stressful, as every class tries to cram in that ... opportunity to put some of your thoughts in a textbook. I've had the distinct

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  7 Rings actually just one but ya know

  

  lonely are two different things. It's ok to spend all Saturday in your room ... 's ok to get a table for one. Make time for self-care. It goes a long way ... rat, the ring design and what happens at ring delivery, I'm going to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 23, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  When I was in preschool, we had to make a crayon drawing of what we ... teach a bunch of aliens how to play baseball. It's like 50 pages long and ... . Later life goals have less charm. In fifth grade I wanted to be President

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  , "Wow, I've been in America for three months." To be honest, these three months seemed to pass by in no time at all. Between studying, traveling ... quickly here at MIT is no matter what you think, you still get 24 hours in a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  that moment, but in two hours I was able to finish up my research and ... specializes in cannoli, which they'll supposedly ship fresh to anywhere in the ... that they weren't actually in Boston to see me; they actually came up to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  to get into the only theater in Boston showing Brokeback Mountain on ... Yo, I've been getting a lot of questions lately in the comments and I ... how some people might find it to be a little slow, but I personally didn

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  generally did an okay job representing my feelings, and i'd like to keep it in ... ://conniewenchang.bol.ucla.edu/menus/index.html"]deep history to Americanized Chinese food,[/annotation]but in short, it’s a ... twinge with heat. A bubbling pit of frustration in my chest began to build

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  Boston. It was a miracle that I ever made it to the airport in time. Then ... brewing and we had a week to get off campus. It took a late night packing party, fueled with fruit roll ups and Costco brownies, to get through that

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  figuring out how exactly to word the spec I’m writing. It’s easy to get in ... major upsides No Rent - I get to live at my parents’ house for exactly ... company email. Pull up the spec that I need to work on. 8:40 AM- I get lost

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  SEPTEMBERRR Don't read this entry. Read the one under this one.

  

  about how this week was "hell week." (these things happen to everyone at ... how old do you think I am?" "I don't know, 16?" Coworker in my lab: So you know the freshman UROP who works in the room next to you? She

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  , In Time ), and I have to decide how to spend it. MIT is a culture ... floundering in the amount of work you have to do The word itself comes from the ... go to. It's now evident how much MIT throws at its students. I'd be

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011