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• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  to get homework extensions or makeup exams (especially in big classes ... tell you all about the experience. (Now would also be a great time to ... severe enough that I decided to get it checked out at MIT Urgent Care. I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Making house calls "Uhh, someone from MIT wants to talk to you."

  

  ’s awkward to get a call during dinner from someone you don’t know. But, we ... because I was lazy, but because I wasn’t interested enough in the subject to want to dive into the deep end…I was fine with wadding in the shallow

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Guest Entry: Leadership @ MIT You can become a leader on the MIT campus. Here's how...

  

  students can learn about the various organizations on campus, how to plan large events, get funding, and how to get involved in student activities ... -identity in leadership roles. It’s a great way to mentor and impact students in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  seemed like a great opportunity to get a different perspective on the ... , business), get a “real” job, take a year off to figure things out, work for a ... thanks to the Rhodes Scholarship, followed by 7-8 years in an MD

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  ’t like big class sizes and I did not have a great experience in [annotation ... and I wasn’t able to get any help or ask any of the questions I had. But ... ,[/annotation] I dropped the class to Listener. In the moment, it was very painful. I

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  motivation to get out of bed in the morning. Maybe then I'll make it to the dining hall in time for breakfast. 2. I love to eat. Because I live in ... 'll slip in a shout-out to good old Mac High--but here, things move fast. Too

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  yourself to new ideas. For me, personally, in the summer leading up to the ... in a long time, the only person I had to be responsible for was myself ... out how to manage myself. Managing myself included making sure I wasn

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  to how UROP works at MIT, and how I found mine. In about two weeks I ... in has something to do with it as well. But that's just a hypothesis ... country during IAP can be a great way to expand your global horizons without

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gala a premiere event celebrating fashion, arts, and culture

  

  out here, range from explorations of South Asian identity to studies in ... looks come to life in the runway show, and additional designers had the ... a lot. That's why I'm impressed how the MIT Gala board was able to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Transporting In & Around MIT Everything you need to know about how easy it is to get around MIT.

  

  summer to get to and from his job in Providence. I've used it to go to ... . Getting to that fraternity or sorority party. Visiting your friends in ... for getting to classes quickly when you live in the farthest dorm and it

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  ’m ready to head back to the ‘tvte. Though I have some great ... ). In any case, for a trip to my new favorite place, the beginning was ... here are some pictures/videos I have to add (in roughly chronological

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  doing well in school. It's a lot of free time for me to be a tryhard. For ... tune in to lectures and access course materials and stuff. I thought this ... I used to be really passionate about in high school -- which mostly

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Pimp my sukkah. I really can't think of a better blog entry title than that.

  

  bore the slogan "It's getting hot in herre, so emigrate to Israel with ... got to campus and everything was great. I made new friends, freaked out ... getting e-mails from Hilleevery two days inviting me to all of their events

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  . You get to try a career for a few months to test the waters. If you don ... enjoyed the experiences I’ve had in labs, but I started to realize that it ... . Turns out, they were the next day. I usually like to prepare a few days in

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  comes as some sort of great disillusionment to you, but you don't always ... of commercial failures of the 20th century which, in addition to ... there once, crouching in the Devil's Den and pretending to be a famous

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Buying books You shouldn't have to spend all your money on textbooks!

  

  ...whatever) just wait until you get to campus. There are always upperclassmen trying ... bookstores in Kendall Square. The Coop is guaranteed to have your textbook and ... . So don't run out and buy textbooks yet! Wait until you get to school

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  completely until you’re here in a dorm, in a town you’ve only been to during ... , we headed to Quincy Market in the heart of Boston, where I had been ... literally in the perfect place to have too many things to do around off

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  don't have time to care this much, and I forget how good it feels. In ... in the 1800s."]Mycenae[/annotation] as the original colonizer, how both ... start writing, though it took a minute to get to. I spent Thanksgiving

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  as it is now. Getting adjusted to fully in-person life on campus ... . That's what really gets to me. Clearly, there's half the class out there ... remember how insane MIT actually is. In a lot of ways, though, it

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  New York Trips that we went on with Arts Scholars!

  

  events and is a great way to join an artistic community at MIT!  One of the biggest perks of being an Arts Scholar is getting to go on an all ... didn't get to go on the New York trip that year, but we did every year

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 5, 2020