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• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary an image a day keeps the psets away

  

  first midterm week hit. 10/12/21 One day for lunch, I went to Stata to ... first listened to Stromae in my high school French class, and I really ... watched people survive the first day of finals, but ceased to have any

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 3, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  to complete on transportation in Boston. Here are two methods that I ... . Hopefully the final edition will be something useful that anyone can refer to ... – – “Most likely to cause you to stub your toe on an unevenly paved sidewalk

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• 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
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  answer the question within the first few seconds, and to gauge whether the ... what do I want to do, really? On the Friday of the first week of class, I went to one of the faculty lunches that the First-Year Office

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  to hear again. So in honor of my last first day at MIT, here are some ... the key to succeeding is "reminding yourself that you know yourself best ... feeling to see someone cry for the very first time. You can quite literally

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  back of the truck was locked, and my key was returned to the front desk ... entertainment. We actually played seven games; the first one we played just to ... higher first play. I wanted to see if there were any trends in when I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  . During my first-year fall semester, some friends and I walked to Salem ... a paper copy of the route, which I print out to the first ... Trail has given way to the Methuen Rail Trail, where Methuen is the first

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  homecoming to a new school year and adventure

  

  've then made my way to main campus for my first class of the day. But of ... bridge and I have a single for the first time, so I'll be getting used to ... When I was younger and went to Disneyland [annotation note

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 16, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  phases: after the first, I get to give students feedback that they then use ... (totally intentional) distance, I want to tell you about four days this past ... am working on my novel, or making a sad attempt to work on my novel

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  . Every minute that passes by feels crucial, like not a second is even to be wasted. I feel this immense pressure to do it right, even though I don't even quite understand what right means in this case. I spent the first

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  I was going to name this post "Things I enjoyed reading this year ... Things I enjoyed reading this year, but I edited the title to make it more sensible."]a callback to last year's post.[/annotation] But then I decided

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  , I had infinite questions, most of them personal; I like to know how ... the great fortune to be an MIT Arts Scholar I attended four EXCELLENT ... I cry. When my kids perform in the 2030s/40s they're going to hear

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Finality Just one more week.

  

  I'm the kind of person that likes to make lists - partially because I ... the classes I want to take at MIT, all the people I want to meet some day, all the things I want to do next summer, and of course, all that I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  -discuss and meeting various key clan members of 5W. I decided to begin upon ... always on different dorms, live in each other's rooms for several days to ... would to a joint blog post and write about our experiences, but never got

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  I’d been getting, I got a cold from the first to third week of October ... when we first explored something we had always wanted to do during ... For this blog, we are going to try something new with format. Instead

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017