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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  introduced me to MIT, Cambridge, Boston, and a new group of awesome friends ... , and social sciences - classes during your time here at MIT.  Of those ... right at the bat of the semester.  At any other time, the grade you get on

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible

  

  of the post offers ways to feed yourself in a non-dining community for ... and cook at least 7 meals outside of that. If your parents are worried ... variety of diets. They all offer cheaper options and discounts for first

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  means not a lot of people stare at me, but then, I also look more like my ... , people always stare at you if you look a little out of place. My mom said ... frontier of this new generation of people, who consider themselves global

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Science is Delicious! Zen and the art of hot chocolate

  

  't know that I'm at the "embrace" stage of my MIT evolution (I think I ... heartbreaking, than I imagined back in July when it was spoken of in distant ... admissions veterans were probably speaking in the IHTFP tone: that mix of dread

  • by Dave McOwen
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In which brains are awesome Neener neener neener.

  

  , having never taken advantage of the "hey kids, look at my schedule!" post ... so much) So, let's take a look at the schedule of a first ... of the instructor. I worked with Beth Coleman at WMBR for over a year

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…

  

  you to everyone! I got this!” Person looks around at all of us, and ... minutes of poking my pencil at a paper, I hurried out of the exam hall and ... -MIT life, and something about the newness of everything, from American

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 26, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  then what to feel  with every shard of grief,  and every speck of ... right now    a lot of the times, i am my first invalidator. it is ... that it is not a big deal. but to pull out of the details of the context

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.

  

  handful of colleges worth going to.   At the aforementioned ... to one of these "top" schools. Don't get me confused, I do work at MIT ... you'll thrive at "Big State University," and be sad here. I hope not

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • June 26, 2013
• Blog / Events

  REX at Simmons Hall 2015 water balloon wars, pancakes, roofdeck parties, and a trojan duck

  

  Board Games and Ice Cream Meet some of your new classmates through ... / the roof of Simmons Hall! Party it up as you break it down with new ... As Vincent mentioned, the MIT Class of 2019 freshmen are currently

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 31, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  part of elsewhere." There are many people who are welcoming at MIT, but ... 's Rainbow Lounge is great for that. There are a lot of events at the Rainbow ... (Danny here—a friend of mine reached out yesterday and asked if I

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  New stuff on MyMIT, and more

  

  at MIT, including the Latke versus Hamentashen Debate [editorial ... your MyMIT portal, where you'll find the Class of 2009 guestbook directory (post your picture!), a list of local admitted student meetings

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  to show you why MIT is not the goal. From The New York Times, &ldquo ... posts are kind of tear-jerkers (they were for me at least), but they will ... you to the committee; if your dream of being at MIT didn't become my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  , witnessed a giant CRT TV implode, gone to Six Flags of New England, won a ... been a streaking blur of energy and spontaneity: starting classes at the ... the crazy shenanigans I listed at the beginning of this post - from

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  weekend, MIT's Cross Country Team raced at the New England Division III ... line of the guys' race, which at that moment has to be the most ... our last race of the season" or "first time at Regionals" to "this is my

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I My Spanish adventures!

  

  coworkers are even cooler. I've made a bunch of new friends here, who are all ... for a two whole weeks. I have a room in Puerta del Sol, a new cell phone (whose number I still can't remember), a monthly metro pass, my own desk at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 9, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  when I do. I got a new pair of shoes, since my old shoes were tearing at ... of eBay. I've been wanting to replace my laptop since at least the ... a new laptop around the end of July, following the advice in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life But make it four

  

  our best to snap a picture every hour of what we were doing at the ... consider this an editorialized or ideal "day in the life at MIT." Of course ... laptop] S: A gift from my sister, who's a freshman at Harvard. [Picture of

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  wikipedia-rabbit-hole-inducing one being offered, so of course I took it. It ... the crew calling out a phrase or 2 at the end of each section, to ... at a graph of people looking up “sea shanty” on google, the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  after a few years at MIT! I've become one of two co-leads on Contour, and ... ="aligncenter" width="300"] look at him. he's so beautiful[/caption] The day of the last ... communities at MIT, during the covid year, and they were one of my strongest

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Ode to the New, Part 3 "Your calendar looks like a clown threw up on it!" -my friend Jordan

  

  doing any of those things once I got here. At the same time, it seemed like a shame to not try anything new. So, I had to adopt some kind of ... Here is what Google Calendar has to say about my first two months at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2010