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• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  first through the tunnels under the infinite corridor (she wanted to go to ... one stop, to cross the river[/caption]   Last Friday, the first ... back home to New York. I took my last final exam, for [annotation note

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  college. Not even for a bit! (I'm starting to think I'm always more homesick ... opportunities MIT churns out every year to send my friends everywhere from DC (okay, that's not really abroad!) to London to Paris to Seoul... I just

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  more time in my life than I’m willing to devote to it. The key here is to ... video creators sharing various approaches to being more productive, having ... , and can easily spend an hour watching videos about how not to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  , as I hurried down the Infinite and out into the cold. “Junior year is ... addict myself to new sources of caffeine).  When we stress-test welds in ... . “Objectively you have a limit,” I thought to myself. "Somewhere north of four

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

  FIRST Robotics Kickoff Things go into Overdrive at a reception at Dean Kamen's house.

  

  in Bedford, New Hampshire, home to inventor and FIRST founder Dean Kamen. Today is the kickoff to the FIRST Robotics season. And, as is the ... , FIRST Overdrive (competition animation here), is sure to be quite

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  directly related to software engineering while also granting first ... sophomore without a first-year or faculty advisor to approve the registration ... computer science). So why am I taking (and planning to take) so many course

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ★★★★☆ Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023

  

  desk[/annotation] beseeching us to pick up our packages: Hi all, The ... Amazon’s six-month free Student Prime trial, I would like to offer a personal apology to the BC front desk (and also mother nature) for being

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  When I graduated in 2018, I was talking to my partner about how lost I felt. Igniting civic engagement on campus and advocating for peer to ... . I didn’t know what to do with myself or what was important to me

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  infinite expanse (and by infinite, I mean probably like 70 feet, if I had to ... for the dramatic. At first, it was so easy to fixate on everything that ... was the one pulling the launch string) so I didn’t get to see it happen

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  Although I do make active attempts to avoid goopiness and ... a woman who cries at telephone commercials, and I'm actively trying to ... my last Registration Day, when all MIT students visit their advisors to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  conformity—there are two reprieves I turn to. First is to retreat inside my ... , to me, existed as a series of songs someone had compiled in a You ... —urged to attend by other people on my hall involved in the production

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Me: A Video Tour of Campus in which you get to hang out with my friends and walk around MIT through…

  

  allergies and how to pronounce the word "Stata". If that sounds like a fun way to spend your next 21 minutes, then you're in luck. Boy, oh boy, do I have the video for you. Our goal was to make an accessible, virtual tour

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  ’s consider the proper mathematical way of solving the problem first. To do this ... infinite long-term memory. However, to store information in the long term, we ... If you've been to a high school math class recently, you probably

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  infinite MIT mailing lists to communicate quickly with certain groups of ... first years A lot of people ask me "What's dorm hall food like at MIT?" to ... 't required to have a meal plan! Also, we don't have first year dorms; instead

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  You learn how to navigate MIT. It’s inevitable. After you stay here for a couple days, the bulletin boards begin to look familiar. You ... MIT for you to explore. You’ll eventually know where each path will go

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  : we were going to start the first UK regional, and win the Chairman ... bring FIRST to Europe, and about how our team brought students together ... than "how to build a robot" by doing FIRST? Have I mentioned that my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  wanted to spend at least some part of IAP at home, I turned to Infinite ... to notice much else. Thankfully, just a few hours after putting my pencil down and saying goodbye to genetics, at least for the time being, I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  , Nikki, and I first met in January to discuss our options, and after weeks ... “Other duties as assigned” is a concept well-known to admissions officers; it’s a catch-call term used by employers to encompass all the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  Conner first, and eventually came to learn that the people I had met were ... the Infinite, wordlessly handing out fliers to confused passerby to ... Lawn again, accompanied by instruments to strum and bubble teas to sip

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  First Midterm of The Semester Here I go...

  

  I have about 30 minutes before the first midterm of the semester. I ... point my brain doesn't want to do any more work. I've checked to make sure ... that I can to prepare. I'm going to start the 15 minute trek across

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 1, 2019