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  3 Simple Steps for Making New Friends Guide to Meeting People

  

  that was a church or a senior center. Horowitz describes Kalman’s ... think it’s also a great set of steps for how to socialize and discover new ... .[/annotation] In a space like a dormitory, wherein there’s some 6+ ways to get to my

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  ! There’s been a lot of the ways my life has changed, both expected and ... guilty of this, because even though it’s completely expected, it’s still ... part isn’t actually the lower temperatures—it’s how abruptly the weather

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  a house tour of mit sororities! meet aphi, axo, and theta

  

  junior who also happens to be my little, and she’s going to show us around ... Kitchens: 1 Alpha Chi Omega Right across the street from Aphi is AXO, so let’s ... !! Natalie is every parent’s dream: a pre-med and a computer science major and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The After

  

  . I’ve loved getting to be a part of my friend’s next steps in lives ... since graduating. Balancing everyone’s constraints while holding our own ... (for anyone planning a wedding, I promise it’s worth it). My bridesmaids

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  every day. It feels strange when it’s not on my finger. I panic when I can ... . He was an MIT graduate from the 1970s, and even decades later the ring ... walking into an axe murderer’s lair. But I felt a sense of trust when the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  Alternatively, how to build a cult! Only it’s not a cult, it’s just a ... Residence Exploration (REX!!), where they'll explore MIT’s many different ... “college experience,” whether it’s becoming best friends with your roommates

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  end so i took the chance to ask my interviewer (let’s call them p) a few ... : yeah, i think it’s common for these kinds of narratives to become very ... that’s an oversimplification. the point is that my three components all

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  best places to sleep on campus for when your bed is far far away

  

  not very legible but it’s cool that they’re there *should* earn the ire of your professor and thereafter you feel guilty whenever he’s nice ... pour in every half hour less quiet 5. hayden it’s not like those

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITWE Goes Digital We stan Fred in this household 😤

  

  website outages, it’s easy to forget nowadays that MIT is a tech school ... instruments are fragile and expensive). That’s why we had our first ... read sheet music off your tiny loaner iPad?” That’s where Fred comes in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Froshmore oh to exist in a state of ~liminality~

  

  weird.  Drawing has been a lifelong passion for me. It’s a release, my ... for breakfast. It’s not like I have my life completely together though — there’s always too much to do and not enough time. I’m trying to be

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 2, 2021
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  majors here, and it’s hard to choose. # “What course are you?” a tour guide ... student here knew the name of every course.  He said, “What’s that?” “Engineering and humanities.” It’s a sort of joint major where you can do more of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  forever. It’s as the old saying goes, you know the one about killing your ... .[/annotation] It’s helped me edit, and in turn, write better, since I can more ... them, but I almost never do.  Well, what’s a better time than now? Since

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  What’s Happening at McCormick? Guest Post by MC^2's REX Chairs

  

  seriously:  pay attention during REX.  Having fun at a dorm’s quirky event ... tell you stories of what living in McCormick is really like because it’s ... information...let’s get to the most important part of REX -- our events!!! We

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  I can’t feel my face Snowmageddon 2018

  

  ’ve heard, but it’s cold in Boston right now. Like, really cold. Arctic tundra ... was actually the warmest that it’s been outside in a week. This has ... obligations and a near-empty campus. It’s pretty cool to be able to focus

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • January 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lambda Tea Two words: BOBA MACHINE

  

  DESCENDED TO EARTH The machine is the brainchild of MIT’s very own startup ...  (pictured below from left to right). When Jingwei invited me to Lambda Tea’s ... Tea-do (one of Boston’s very few boba shops) when he realized that the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  finished. I want to hear about how the semester’s been tough. Heck yes I want ... happens in a person’s life that “good” doesn’t quite cut it. It doesn’t even ... a “how’s it going?” But more so than ever, I’m trying to make the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  One of Danny B.D’s many contributions to the MIT community, along ... -source 4-year academic planner. CoursedRoad collects all the data about MIT’s ... CourseRoad and see how it fits! Want to see what it’s like to be Course <

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  It’s that time of year again. I remember it well. I intended to ... AP Exam prep. Barron’s Test Prep is the most thorough for really any test–but if you’re in a time crunch, it’s difficult to glean out the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not About the Name First impressions

  

  deserves some credit.   Yes, this place is awesome. It’s MIT, oh my ... ’t technically acheive anyway because the first semester is pass/no record), it’s ... , and diversity breeds innovation. It’s one of the things I love most

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Love Affair: 11.027 & New Orleans [by Janet Li '12] Spring break in NOLA.

  

  . MIT’s planning department is one of the best in the nation and ... ’s what makes it such an interesting city to study. As rebuilding ... , we worked with alums from the MIT master’s program in city

  • by ARTalk
  • March 27, 2011