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• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  . Every day, I am grateful that I get to spend time around them and spend ... only do you move on to campus earlier and get more time to get acquainted ... day in my life before, I was really nervous to actually start. The week

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  tote bag tour i have so many things to carry

  

  hide no longer–I was in it for good, and I wasn’t going to stop. And that ... 's all of the bags I have... for now. But I'm always trying to get that bag ... of a place or event I've been to. I think it's nice how they come with

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 2, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  interminable, since in order to successfully win a game you have to get through ... , and I’ll probably try to continue playing chess once in a while, too ... temporary. I’m almost certainly not going to put in the hours required to be

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  it was hilarious. I found it a little like that "How do you get to ... South Street Diner, which, according to both Ruth and the How to GAMIT is ... in and said, in the most innocent voice, "Hi, yeah...we want to go to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  and ideas bouncing around in my mind but with no idea how to transfer ... scrambling to do well in all of your classes while not losing your sanity. It’s easy to lose track of how much time has passed when you have so many

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  and tweaking components to get everything to work like it does in the ... of the hilights reel. To start things off, I'm working in the new ... redesigning the wrist joints that allow it to turn in place, and then we'll be

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  italy research in pompeii

  

  I possibly can. It felt like a maze that was impossible to get lost in ... to Italy to do some light research and travelling, stayed in a castle, analyzed samples of roman concrete, learned how to mosaic and fresco, visited

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 18, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mikey’s Meta TV Post ...In which you find out about the good, bad, and really bad shows I love…

  

  get spoiled for me in the comments. [Important sidenote: I watch almost ... absolutely hate it when something gets spoiled for me (similar to most people ... lot of TV. So, in the spirit of Advent calendars*, I'm going to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  hard to figure out, use it in these three ways," and we didn't get a lot ... getting to know more people -- not just my podmates, who are lovely, but ... would say to one another in a different world. I'm hungry for the real

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  You should live in EAsT camPUS A few of the basic things to know.

  

  type? 1. You can learn how to cook. What better way to learn how than to live in a place where you can have a big, awesome kitchen with personal ... known to make a home out of EC as well.. 3. Residents live in doubles or

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • July 31, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT after SFFA technology and the dream, deferred

  

  attend college, and did not accompany me to campus. In fact, the first time ... number one question I get from students is some version of: “How did I get in?” Many of our students feel this impostor syndrome prospectively to

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • August 21, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  always on different dorms, live in each other's rooms for several days to ... enough to survive out in the wild. Thankfully was able to enter the ... general rituals of the clan in 5W. I am to expect four-legged beasts roaming

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  in quite soon), but I'll do what I can for now and try to cover other issues in the future. The parent wrote: Why is it so important to have gone ... . Eventually, this lead me to MIT. In all these ways, that summer program opened

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Can Save the World a post on Kanye West

  

  musical innovation, but also in his ability to continue to stay relevant and ... 'm referencing this interview with Kanye West by BigBoyTV. In response to Big Boy ... and whether that's in jest or in seriousness is really hard to tell

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  constructed card games, it's far more difficult to get the cards you want in ... are an adventurer ascending a spire in order to slay it. Your cards ... the importance of a program's logistics. Back in high school, I used to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  stayed in touch more with a friend who moved away. Get to know people ... queued for a later post (in an attempt to spread out my blogging and be ... senioritis project–something to do in the time that you procrastinate all of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  're working on. At these presentations, you get the chance to hear directly from ... to a lot of running around campus and scrambling to turn in psets on ... career fair? How on earth did I manage to find something to do last summer

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  year of undergrad, I chose to live in a double, because I really liked ... experience was defined by proving myself to nobody in particular—proving I ... ="Residential EXploration, where first-year students get to explore all the dorms with a lot

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Thoughts On The MIT Interview ...from the perspective of an MIT interviewer.

  

  decisions. We are just people who once went to MIT (maybe in a time when it was easier to get into MIT than it is now) and have insights into the Institute (or how it was thirty years ago; in our internet age you might know

  • by John DeTore '80
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  , taught me how to play Guitar Hero in Simmons, which isn’t Smash in ... :30 sharp, clad in sunglasses and head-to-toe rain gear, I yelled at my teammates to start warming up. By 6:50, I would be perched in the coxswain

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021