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• Blog / MIT Life

  How I Won a Costume Contest some glue but no borax

  

  . In my junior year of high school I was the best Sanrio character of all ... I love Halloween. It’s the only time of year where it’s socially acceptable to put an enormous amount of effort into your outfit. And put an

  • by Leya E. '30
  • November 1, 2026
• Blog / Classes

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  ="I took four years of Spanish but I haven't used it since high school so I ... months before the first day of classes. Pre-registration is not as ... times I have submitted my pre-reg without an ounce of doubt in my mind, I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  18th. Of course being that it was a long plane ride, I wrote some entries, read some books, watched some episodes of How I Met Your Mother (I ... long hold times on tech support, arguing, and TWO reformats of my

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  of in awe of the fact that I'd apparently survived almost a full year at MIT. I did not, shall we say, come from the most stringent of high school backgrounds, and freshman year was pretty hard for me. So the fact

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  being bad at ice skating and learning to try anyway

  

  being at the top of your class, or your school, or your country, it’s easy ... blinked, and suddenly the trees have shed their leaves, flecks of snow have ... and sororities. famlines are generally small groups of mentorship

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 15, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking this spring study abroad edition

  

  point! i had been scared at the thought of graduate school and doing ... examiners, i registered for what i hope will be the equivalent of 48 units at ... for each class in the entire term. this is because a lot of your grade

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 22, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  a couple of good friends from high school -- Ethan, Harsheta, and ... school. Later, we met up with Raymond and some of his friends from back ... I flew back home on the eighteenth with hopes of having a productive

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  , but have been left wanting for different electives among a sea of MIT biology classes on the microscopic, the thermodynamics of drug absorption, or understanding the progression of disease in humans. I also want to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  swarm of army ants. Panic - when you have set up camp outside a school in ... flurry of moths, freed from the beacon that had attracted them, flew off ... .. - - - First, an explanation of who I am and why I’m posting on Anna’s blog. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  year old - a concern for my future prospects of going to med school, and ... . Is that one of this year's end-of-the-world scenarios? Not exactly ... B+, you might feel robbed. But enough of the preemptive

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  I’ve potatoed so much over the past few weeks of break — lounging in ... -quite-potato thing that I’ve been doing is trying to learn a lot of trivia — time on ... have a lifelong goal of trying to make it onto Jeopardy, and so I view

  • by Phi A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tips from Me to You 15% is standard most places, but my tips are 100%! (awesome that is)

  

  graduating from high school, and the end of Senior Year is totally awesome ... This is more of a mini-entry, a blogget if you will. I know that for a good portion of you, the pressure is on, as there's officially

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  the first of my grad school app deadlines: an application to the NSF ... goals and your proposed areas of research in graduate school. Quoting from ... some essay advice from the bloggers of yore and a few words from me

  • by Phi A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  SUCH a fruity guy in which I prevent scurvy

  

  As of last fall, I officially moved out of Maseeh and into 3W ... of renovations, the current population is a mix of seniors who lived in ... overwrite history, though, we caught wind of an ancient Floorpi tradition

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 20, 2026
• Blog / Uncategorized

  cute date ideas or like. hang out ideas

  

  list of fun Ellie-tried-and-tested things to do with one or more people that you love, for any definition of love <3 I’ve roughly grouped ... mileage may vary. Take advantage of the craft room Ideas! Paint

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  what to expect when you’re expecting a bad grade, that is

  

  pointless, but not so hard that most of the class couldn't do it. 'Twas I who ... walked out. In light of this, some serious cheer is in order, and so I present to you a list of things to do if and/or when you find yourself in a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 29, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  from home to school, I decide to take advantage of the slowness of it all ... the glittery Boston skyline reflected off of the glossy black surface of ... romanticize rain when I'm indoors listening to the drumming of droplets on my

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  The last week and some are a blur, a long, joyous drink of EC. When I ... I know now), they glow with a sense of MIT, and particularly East ... , everyone sporting Rush T-shirts from years past; on the back of each shirt is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  last friday a lot of my friends walked at commencement after a speech from tim cook and a ceremonial turning-of-rings. this class especially -- "my" class -- carries a lot of people who taught me how to care, how to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  grand master list of links for any and all of you going to any college at ... personal tumblr blog, other universities, random google searches, and of ... ! Please be aware that some of these links are from tumblr and other such

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015