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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  , so I don't know just how universal everything in this blogpost would be, but I hope this is helpful in some capacity. Table of Contents GIRs ... found helpful and I thought it would be even more helpful to make this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  i would just get the pizzas who are confident in their vegetarian ... note="i live in Burton-Conner and thus am free from the shackles of a ... [annotation note="in Toronto specifically… I didn’t research or travel far

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  regular basis, or that I would forget the existence of misery in the world ... imagined that in the midst of relentless intellectual challenges, I would ... I write, no matter how stupidly punctuated, is fraught with tightropes

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  I'm currently in Indianapolis, busy with the Intel International ... when I get a chance, but in the meantime, this is a good time to talk ... year. In the interests of time, I'm going to reprint an entry (edited

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (3)… [Biochemistry] Another biochemist sharing his experience as an exchange student.

  

  equiped to look pretty in the lab. For example, I can pour a gel, then set up a PCR and eat lunch before the gel sets. I understand not how or why ... remember most about Cambridge. As for Biochemistry, I hope students in either

  • by Cambridge
  • May 13, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Ode to the New, Part 3 "Your calendar looks like a clown threw up on it!" -my friend Jordan

  

  things I would have loved to take part in this semester that I was simply ... post about being busy. In essence: deciding how to spend my time here ... finding a balance between activities I did in High School, and new ones. The

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  . Sydney: I started playing lacrosse when I was in fifth grade and have been playing ever since. I didn’t always know I wanted to play in college, but when the recruiting process began, I quickly fell in love with the idea

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  keeping interest a list of things i think are cool

  

  don't think I would take anything away from it. In fact, I think my cool ... would never be a computer science major. I had taken AP Computer Science A in my junior year of high school, hated it, and swore I'd never return

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 4, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Places I Became Human Hey guys, I think I'm back :)

  

  I kept my composure until I didn’t. Nothing in particular triggered ... ’t the same person I was at the end of September. In September, I wouldn ... in the sand. I walked to the Harvard Bridge with a friend to sink the

  • by Powers '23
  • November 21, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  In which Elizabeth tries something new. (My idea of thrills is changing the location of my bookshelf.)

  

  three years, I learned that MIT has a climbing wall. Now, in any other ... !), leading to a momentary, but non-negligable, conversation on how I should try ... things. Over the summer, I climbed a tree in a banana suit (long story) and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Richard III: Behind-the-scenes [by Grace Kane '11, Guest Blogger] What does it take to put on Shakespeare at…

  

  driven in a direction much more exciting and compelling than if I would ... some very fun visual and audio effects. I worked in collaboration with ... Ensemble in general, visit our website at http://web.mit.edu/ensemble/www/.

  • by ARTalk
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas thanksgiving and warm fuzzies all around

  

  in the 3+ months I've been here. Being at MIT has really opened my eyes ... --it's just not something I considered would be a part of cold weather here ... of you in Boston, I highly recommend going. There's a student discount

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  ="ALSO can I just say how pissed I am about daylight savings time I am now 8 ... ="ugh I love Rowena sm, I even went to a meetup with her in pre-covid times ... perfectionist? I don’t know. Maybe? In some instances? I think we’re all

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  to Boston from a family vacation in Toronto, I took the T back to MIT ... from the airport so that I could show you, step by step. Keep in mind ... heading in the other direction, from MIT to South Station, it would say

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  situation: B1 feels like home in a way that I didn't really believe I would ... , which coincided with a record-breaking cold wave in Boston. As I waited ... , I found her and two more of my friends in there, hanging out, waiting

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iDoor Opening your boyfriend's dorm room door? There's an app for that.

  

  with", I would just like the say that it was, but I was more impressed by ... Almost a year ago, I met a kid who tried to convince me to come back ... completely innocent and simply limited to showing me how he could use water to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 8, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All The World’s A Stage On theatre and artsy stuff

  

  rock band CDs and video game/TV/movie soundtracks. In high school, I ... ’m not directly involved in. Yay theatre!) I won’t write a comprehensive ... manager, so I may have stepped in for an evening. Their rehearsals are

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 22, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Write an Original Song (ex?)-emo kid gone rogue

  

  ="768"] When did you get a sliver of the moon in your eyes/And how'd you ... pink/I want you to see me in a crowd[/caption] 4. And you hate it now ... ’s what your thinking. So yeah, that was how I wrote this song! It took me

  • by Powers '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  Here’s how things have been going lately: I run a lot, I eat too much ... night in Hong Kong, I leaned over the balcony in the common room and watched reflected light dance in the ocean. I was trying to catch the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  team bonding events because I would stay in my partner's room most of the ... later, in an ironic (and quite sad) twist of fate, I broke the November ... . although I had no relationship experience, or life experience in general, pea

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021