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  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  at the very least you can’t tell that thousands of ~20 year olds have ... It’s my 3rd year at MIT. I’ve lived in 3 different dorms. My current ... questions about them feel free to ask in the comments! 3 Best Parts of living

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  explore EC. at the end of it, four new Bombers were placed on my floor, and ... paying attention to dozens of things at once, often unsuccessfully. or ... wanted to meet new people; i was deprived of doing so in a pandemic and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  Boston"] IAP [/annotation] shivering and staring at the frozen surface of ... much money. At the end of IAP, I took the exam, and blissfully ... sinks when I see I have 4 psets due at the end of this week, and almost

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  experts in the field, and often the world at large. And all of the HASS ... at MGH with a chance of appendicitis! Oh dear! Let me know if I can ... This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  grader, but not because of the grade they gave me at all. See, I have this ... to make sense of the math as I worked through it. At the end of the ... worthless. =( at the end of question 2. (To be fair, I wrote this at like 3 AM

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  . Remember, at the end of the day, you're still the one actually writing the ... committee wants you to be. Admittedly, students at MIT share a lot of common ... the whole history of each school you apply to, I think it helps to at

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  -exhaustive list of things you should remember to do this summer. Hopefully, this will make your time easier as you arrive at MIT. 1. Documents I ... signed copies of your I-20, your letter of admission and proof of funding

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

   linguistics UROP, which I think is super hecking cool. Right at the end of last ... ... and money is nice... but I felt like I had a lot of time left at MIT to ... bonuses ((I want to say boni)): one of my friends (who I first met at CPW

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / Events

  21: The Movie Night From the Bay Area to Boston, Seattle to the Florida Keys, Houston to Chicago, the…

  

  -floor rooms of Building 4 here at MIT. Although the movie producers got the ... Before we get to scenes from the MIT Class of 2012 Movie Night, I'll share a few of my thoughts and observations after having seen 21 this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…

  

  they'd want to meet. (And they do, actually.) At the end of it all ... Once, when I was younger, I poured the entire contents of a carton of ... side. My dad, being the upstanding keeper of never throwing anything out

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  You can now read this blog on the Morningside Academy of Design (MAD) website here: Designing a First Year at MIT First year MIT students are given the choice of several types of faculty advising. There’s traditional

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  spend a lot of time studying or in lecture or in lab or at the boathouse ... horrible, awful, no-good, wonderful, amazing place: Sleep at least 8 hours every night. 1 extra hour of sleep >>>>> 1 extra hour of

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  requisite spoons at the end of the day to force myself to go to sleep. If I ... the river On its bridge with wooden piers, Like the odor of brine from the ocean Comes the thought of other years. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  Of all the things to happen in college, I never expected baseball to become the antidote to my homesickness. I’ve always been a fan of the St ... being away from home and my family at that point, since I’d gone to

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  i’m catching up a blog about all the things i wanted to blog about but couldn't find the…

  

  And just like that my junior year at MIT comes to an end. Not with ... with a silent click of a submit button on my 20.330 (Fields, Forces and ... been so exhausted from staring at screens all day that when I did have

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Exploring Boston Frozen yogurt quests into Boston

  

  really like frozen yogurt, and at home the first nearby frozen yogurt place ... going to get Red Mango.  Sadly, the closest Red Mango to MIT is kind of ... really bad sense of what is near and far from us).  But today is a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Satisfaction New year= New opportunities/classes = Happy Kirsten

  

  final project at the end of the semester online to show everyone what I ... of time in my room working on psets and studying for all my classes :P But I figured that all of you would still enjoy reading about my classes

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 13, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  sense of community that they found at mit, the exhilaration of solving ... . at the end of high school — and honestly, for the majority of my life ... this). This is another one of those. It was written by Janelle Salanga

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  in an effort to be whole again recovery

  

  mistake of taking two classes that occur at the same time, 8.021 and 18 ... two weeks, but at least I know I'm not broken anymore! Among all of ... This past semester, I haven't been taking much care of myself. Lately

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  A New Year, A New President Introducing Dr. Sally Kornbluth, the 18th President of MIT

  

  support of education and residential life at Duke, and how her conversations ... , now you know why."]in the auditorium of the new Welcome Center ... . Kornbluth, the current provost of Duke University, as MIT's 18th President

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2022