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• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  gets what, who ends up on top at the end of the day. I've been listening ... would smile and laugh a bit. I'd stare at the corner of the screen where I ... succeed, at the expense of never being able to fail. So this break, my goal

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  day and get some extra food. At this point I kind of fell into a funk of ... getting out of bed to rush to my 8.01L quiz at 9. I opened up the quiz. Our ... I hadn't really touched any of my jobs at all, hence this post. I know

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee

  

  end of classes! Time to have some fun. Fun? How do you have fun at MIT ... rejoicing. We eat lunch at a fairly new ramen place outside of Central Square ... like trains? (reprise) Back Bay Station is located at the start of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 11, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  mention that now? You may be surprised by how many first year students at ... surprisingly is the number of students applying to MIT that cling to that Hollywood fantasy. NEWSFLASH... NO ONE MAKES IT AT MIT/COLLEGE (OR IN LIFE

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  puzzling at the end of eighth grade, but as high school dug its claws into me ... at our lunch table. Within a few days of returning home, I fell in love ... I know a lot of you are stressed. You have busy brains with rodent

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  , where I met new people who were at most one connection away, a friend of a ... circles. I was thinking of all the communities at MIT: how I’ve grown close ... My friends and I met at noon on the Harvard Bridge, shoulders hunched

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  felt like this was sort of my last real semester at MIT. this is ... always be someone there at all hours of the night and that when i was in my ... thinking about how a lot of people at MIT do so many different things and how

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day of April) cami edition

  

  vlogging every day of April and trying to release videos somewhat on time ... 'm trying to get used to the new interface. I am at no means super ... they are mundane to show you what life is on a day-to-day basis at MIT

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  used to be really good at taking tests. I never had any kind of test anxiety or anything like that. But tests at MIT...well, they're hard. So ... .01 exam. So on the back of my index card, after writing in all the last

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Newest Member of Our Family What could possibly be more exciting than prefrosh?

  

  (they called her Brittany at the shelter), but I really like Arya, like in Game of Thrones. The little kitten is so cute! She jumps all around and ... 'm back at MIT, and there is a new little kitten hopping about. Everything

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels A tour of the past 8 MIT class rings.

  

  Brass Rat Each class year at MIT officially gathers three times -- once, at the beginning, for the freshman picture; once, at the end, for graduation; and once, halfway through, for the unveiling of the class ring. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Taste of the Real World an adventure in life

  

  . It looks at all forms of transport: cars, transit, bikes and ... When you are at school, the whole world seems to exist in its own ... on in the world, only able to scan the New York Times every couple of

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007 Competition Tomorrow Better than Battlebots! 2.007 competition tomorrow!

  

  Alright everyone, tomorrow and Wednesday are the days I am SURE you have been waiting for. In the Johnson Athletic Center at 6:30 pm, we will be having the first round of the 2.007 competition. Wednesday at 7

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  remember that in the few moments of time I tried my hand at creating music ... -I-will-this-is-what-I-came-here-for spirit that overtook me at the start of the semester. For me, this isn’t a ... and at the frat. There’s been the prospect of my first technical job

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Lobby 7 Gotta love it

  

  sessions of more than one student dance troupe late at night.  I’ve heard the ... Here’s a little tribute to lobby 7. Since my start at MIT in January ... coffee cup in hand, along with a horde of students and tourists, and I

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  ’m kind of painfully bad at chess right now. I’m also incredibly sucky at ... recognizing and accepting that I can be really bad at things was one of the most ... requires a lot of concentration (at least on my part). Everyone knows the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you do for fun around here? What,this isn't fun to you?

  

  A friend of mine ended up studying lit at a nearby college here in ... . As I walked her around the myriad of different labs that serve host to mechanical wonders in various states of disarray, blabbing incessantly about

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  naturally at 8 a.m. on a daily basis and I've found a semblance of work ethic ... immediate peers at home had gone on to university, and a spread of gap years ... cleaning, but at least the laundry's done. I had a good experience with

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The kindest cut Blog and night and red all over.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? One of the top 20 Scrabble players in the country, and the #1 ranked scrabble player in all of Massachusetts, is a sophomore at ... the dishes, I cut the dickens out of my finger. Mad props to Mitra for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  to try to figure out what's at the edge of the universe. Is there a ... The next few months of my life are pretty well planned out. I'm going ... there. But mostly I'll be taking classes. Thesis Do a lot of work and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009