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• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  've faced since the summer ended: living off campus. I lived in the East ... apartments in Boston, the wheels starting turning in my head, and I joined the ... in on-campus dormitories, even though they can technically join MIT

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  . If I choose to stay in this dorm, can I keep the same room?" The answer ... -- Each dorm does in-house rush, where students go around and meet people ... , and who can argue with that? Also, I'd encourage you to look at what

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  20 Things I Learned In 2020 from a course 20 who is in her 20s

  

  NEVER fully understand what other people are going through, but I sure can do my part in trying. A smile can go a long way. It is not my job to ... really great hijabs. I hate running, but I can get through short interval

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 1, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  make it yet. i can ignore the deadline and process my feelings in the ... until i can listen to it. in practice, no news is urgent enough that i ... , when i'm on edge and i'm worrying and things are on my mind, i can keep

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  . You can see in the picture where I accidentally skipped over it because ... uncommon in the mind of a [annotation note="I do NOT encourage sleep ... -screen interactions between the Friends, and I'll release that sometime in the future

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I do too much stuff at MIT 1)My mom doesn't have a problem with it.

  

  anything to blog about, just a lack of time in which I can do so. (I am ... Near the end of winter break, I was sitting in an uncomfortable ... grades suck!"), but that's something I can and do accept. If you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  , helping everyone in the Cambridge area get their data where it needs to be ... community, where research of all types is done. Of course, I went on this ... other students; where you can learn skills you can't learn anywhere else

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  well as missions like CHEOPS and [annotation note="I wasn't sure where to share this so I guess I'll stick it in here—Joey Googled ARIEL because ... phone, I suffered through five minutes trying not to burst out laughing in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  there, that is. My January looked a little differently. In fact, I’d say ... year, I wanted to spend my three months back in Texas. I looked forward ... worry came in not finding anything to do back home. I didn’t exactly want

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  questions. What do you see in this sunburn pattern on my leg? Because I can ... some guests) looks on: Happy birthday, Ruth. =D So, where have I been ... pack in a few short days. Speaking of packing, April and I made a pretty

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  because I've accidentally included my foot in this photo. What you can ... minutes before lifting, I sit in a corner and nibble on a breakfast cracker ... robot as thanks" in return for 15 minutes of my day, and because I am a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  wrath of the shop guys, or a drop in their grades. I can guarantee that ... you can use your imagination, and I'll just describe some of the other ... share with a few other engineering-related student groups (I can

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! (2010 Edition!) yay pictures!

  

  Dear Internet, No, I am not dead yet. I had a lot of great food in New York. I went to Europe for a week, where I had more great food. I am now back at MIT. I took a long nap in the library today. I can feel MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 9, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  second was a multipurpose notebook that I handcrafted and bound in 8th ... each session I’ll draw a few pictures of the world we’re in, our ... landscapes and passing strangers. I’ll live sketch once in a while if I have

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• 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 ... . Aside from these, I have some general recommendations. In particular, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  prepares you for success in industry and I can’t even count the amount of ... ! Keeping the #memes channel alive in Slack. I can always count on my daily RT ... I’m still learning in college is how to spend my limited time and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  I have so much work to do tonight, but I just fell off a treadmill in ... the other night, I was about to go whitewater rafting in Maine with my ... because you can't take pictures in the dark or on a whitewater raft. You

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  means "i shouldn't be procrastinating on my work". i mean it in the literal sense, where "being productive" means "producing things". in ... like that. it's more of a, if i don't write anything in a week then that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  easiest question: Pete: Where in NJ are you from? I'm from Middletown, New ... hold off on some interesting pictures I have for you so I can follow-up to the hack entry and answer some questions about it if I can. (Plus I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  (arguably more important). Now that I'm awake I can hit snooze for an hour. 9:00am ... awake. With bagels, a tea bag and some peanut butter in hand I make the ... , I can't have that now, better get dressed and cycle down to Sainsbury

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014