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• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  one of the best decisions I've made in a while. Before I dive into what ... -by-play of my year so far. After I graduated from high school in June '07, I ... out in Alameda, CA, I worked for and with some of the smartest people I

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  An MIT Adventure Life at the 'Tute

  

  working with MIT students in the admissions office. Now here’s where I ... about them, so I would like to point you to their Tumblr page about their ... I have been at MIT for the past year, and it has been nothing short

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston

  

  .  As you can see from my bio, I am not from Massachusetts. In fact, this ... . Traffic is 24/7. I thought that there would be traffic downtime. Nope, there ... in April in recent years). Boston runs on Dunkin.  I feel like

  • by Julia Potts
  • April 11, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  ="aligncenter" width="300"] jan Sije, which is how i'd write my name in toki pona, in ... see this, in contrast to the above, I think about how the use of type ... brief stint, some time in my life, when I really tried to learn how to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  to college. I kind of went about it in a semi-orderly fashion, but I ... : Please keep in mind that these were the things that I found that were ... important. 1. Scholastic This was the most important option in my case. I

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  math major at a tech school in the ‘80’s. When was the hardest that I worked? I told myself, in freshman spring, that I would never take 4 ... telling myself, ‘no way in hell this will work.’  I know all my little

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  good morning, MIT Guest post by Piper L. '17

  

  is Piper. i live in East Campus, on second east. i’m a sophomore. i ... searched for the Boston Globe article that i knew would have been written. i ... that i knew would have been written. i didn’t find it. so now i’m writing

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  . Doable in a week, even. Little did I know that it would take over a month ... community. I went home until the end of the semester and moved in mid-May, so I wasn't involved in the process of finding an apartment. I'm told

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Time Management Reading this article adds +15 to Time Skills

  

  't! (That's usually how I made notecards in high school). Notecards are meant ... see how that applies. But it IS possible to balance it all, and in fact that can be part of the challenge that's so exciting. I mean, would you

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  to invest time in making the trek over there, I want it to be worth it ... lectures. I am unsure of whether videotaping is common, but my classes in ... ;               Every week, my friends would get snaps marveling at how yet another

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2025 i3 videos megapost

  

  traditions of their residence halls. In the '90s and early '00s, these I3 ... (alongside tours!) I’ve embedded all the 2025 i3 videos below in case you would like a glimpse into how MIT students describe their own communities

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 2, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2024 i3 videos megapost

  

   (alongside tours!). I’ve embedded all the 2024 i3 videos below in case you would ... Institute (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life and culture of their residence halls. In the ’90s and early ’00s, these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 12, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2020 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  all the 2020 i3 videos below in case you would like a glimpse into how ... Institute (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life and culture of their residence halls.In the ’90s and early ’00s, these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  My Summer in Japan Tokyo, Spaceships, and Lots of Ramen

  

  for two summers when I was a kid), but I would usually always stay in ... family in Nagano and Kyoto; I would go to karaoke bars and firework shows ... and internships in Japan!!"]MISTI Japan program[/annotation]. I was

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  .) I spent the summer doing a software internship in New York. I lived ... , in classic MIT student tradition, I crammed a year’s worth of self ... complain enough about how much[annotation note="The short version is, I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  made me wonder how i could've gotten tested for covid if i felt too sick ... to trigger vomiting. but i haven't had a cold in years, let alone one that felt this bad. here's what i knew other people did: spend time in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2021 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  (alongside tours!). I've embedded all the 2021 i3 videos below in case you would like a glimpse into how MIT students describe their own communities ... Institute (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 30, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2022 i3 videos megapost

  

   (alongside tours!). I’ve embedded all the 2022 i3 videos below in case you would ... Institute (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life and culture of their residence halls. In the ’90s and early ’00s, these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  plans for how she'd apply her programming skills to her physics studies. I ... (in my case, neuroscience). I clearly remember [annotation note ... . I somehow found myself somehow talking to her in Lobby 7 for nearly an

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  making things a blog about being a meche major

  

  part, but I love how people in this major help each other out, lift each ... sleep than we will get that night. On Fridays I have lab in 2.678, an ... lab is not my favorite part, I think. But I like coming in, walking

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 20, 2021