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• Blog / Challenges

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  little boxes on Zoom and everyone seems so calm and ready to start back up ... , who has taken her place. Dog 2 sheds a lot, so it's best not to keep him ... , Dog 3 only wants to eat food that a human is holding even though she

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

         “Oh yes, well I managed to transmit a new entry off to the editor. He had to trim it a bit, but it's still an improvement.” “And what ... slightly embarrassed cough. —The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  'm introspective to a fault and end up writing overly pedantic spiels. On my 6-hour ... freshman-Ceri three years ago. What started as a fun thought experiment to ... 'll be happy to hear from you. 2) The first people you meet in a new place

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  the slides—throwback to 18.06. This 18-letter word—a ... ;individual responsibility"—served as a preemptive warning for us to get our sh ... ;Fill out the forms to acquire a visa and mail my passport to the Swiss

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  . But, who knows until it comes? So now, are you ready to spend a few ... sweet for a jolt of energy? To keep walking, click here. To go in and buy ... . According to MIT, about 73 percent of undergraduates live in a dorm on campus

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

   worked-- even the supposedly "simple" things. I had no clue how to even board a ... drove my friends and I to MIT were so nervous. They wanted a detailed ... arriving to MIT would look like as a first year: Go to check in, and go where

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  -campus in a new neighborhood. Moreover, it would be an opportunity to get to ... , meal times. Summer residents contributed to a rotating cook ... of the MIT community (but my fellow MIT students were also a delight to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how to survive college and maybe even leave with a degree and some shreds ... . The only class to which I dragged myself on a semi-regular basis was my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  and went to grad school I thought I had figured a lot of things out, in ... . Tackling a focused question can lead to a remarkably expansive adventure ... -Earth orbit to please swivel and collect photons from that galaxy over there; I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  again. There is a tunnel from lobby 7 to the basement of W20. Farther ... the rocks are starting to melt. A group of identical Sloan students in ... . ‘18 It is 5 am. You are startled awake by the answer to a pset problem

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  ready to be sad. It’s like, you know when you’re going up stairs, and you take a step, expecting there to be more staircase, when there’s nothing but air? And then you kinda have to wobble for a bit before you lower

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  may very well be within five years that we start looking to buy a house ... of them changed my life in a good way and I’m excited to see the ... the first time, which meant a lot of new logistics to sort out. I got to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  applied to college 2 years ago (2 years! I'm old :( ), I wrote over a dozen ... college essay. Many feel that there always needs to be a "moral to the story ... the qualities described above, I feel like I'm ready to tackle whatever

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  hear a knock at your bedroom door. You open it to find a Nobel Prize ... in a new way? Do you have no prior experience, and want to try ... recognize that everyone has to start somewhere. I had a little freak-out about

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  told me that he had a problem. On Pi Day, he had been admitted to MIT ... unexpectedly admitted to another program, which was also a dream, albeit a ... . Typically, these students ascribe this ambiguity to a set of questions they

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since ... ago, a fairly lactose-intolerant resident of Random Hall decided to make ... ’t possibly hurt, he made his way to Shaw’s, a grocery store, braving and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  ’s a weekend where high schoolers come to MIT and take classes about ... that list: Intro to Trading, a crash course about how markets work ... Andrew L. ’22, a freshman at the time, was gushing to me about how

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  to continuously register the [annotation note="Cartesian dualism is a ... love having to set my body up precisely to execute a lift safely. I love ... ; sometimes, on the road [annotation note="I keep a stack of guest passes to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  . Money can't buy a pivotal moment to crush to smithereens your bad habits ... On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn ... marketable skills you acquire from college to land a job constitutes a good

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  what you should wait to buy in Cambridge? Who comes from far away and ... sure to do that at some point. Also, an umbrella, a hat, gloves, a scarf ... 't need a laundry bag or anything to lug stuff down to the laundry room. You

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007