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• Blog / Residential Life

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

  

  , some kitchen equipment, and a new pack of paper towel rolls from Costco ... think a big part of it is boredom. At MIT I would roam campus and ... . At home things just sort of blend into each other as time inches past

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  spending much later at an ungodly hour of the night. To me, this also ... I'm not new to the blogs (though we do have some wicked bloggers up ... 'd like you to meet someone new, though -- This is my gigantic freshman

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins Putnam math competition

  

  , and the opportunity to study math for a year at the University of ... undergraduate mathematics competition in North America. Of the top 5 students ... , Civil & Environmental Engineering). Twenty of the top 75 competitors

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  's currently on CNN.com, with a nice picture of Marilee and her daughter (at ... boss. (Plus, what other admissions dean would rock out at Battle of the ... surprising pulpit of a university famous for its overachievers, she has become

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  've got for you. Good luck, and enjoy the purchase of your new computer ... I've had dial-up internet for as long as I can remember. One of the ... campus-wide WI-FI. I always had this sparkling image of me, sitting in

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What type of first-year learning communities are available?

  't offer something to meet every students' unique individual learning styles, we have a variety of programs to choose from. MIT’s first-year learning communities offer a distinct kind of learning environment that
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…

  

  classes at Northwestern University. Sweet! ...Have been saying "sweet" far ... An hour-to-hour (kinda sorta somewhat close to one) description of ... at 5th East the night before. It's right across the street, and walking

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  , filling every square inch of this (albeit slightly smaller than the previous ... bookshelf more filled than before, a new coffee cart with 16 mugs, and me ... impossible. So now, I get to start of my days writing in bed as opposed to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  back from MIT is the music. Classical guitar has been a part of my life ... MIT or your other choice university -- or you need to appeal your award, you may request an extension of the May 1 deadline until your financial

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  researchers at the Technical University of Denmark, both having to do with the ... peacefully oblivious to at least half of the problems with it. Groups of people are pretty good at this. The authors graphed the number of problems

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT Goes To Senegal Like Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, except with fewer filibusters and more dancing.

  

  to still take advantage of the incredible opportunities MIT has to offer, although it does mean that people sometimes look at me funny as I ... version of Nutella: In sum: there are a lot of things you can do at MIT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2012
• Blog / Residential Life

  water wars, lovecrafting, and 361 other REX events your annotated guide to everything currently unfolding on campus

  

  different residential communities at MIT. For those of you who have already ... ) are a great way to get a preview of what campus life is like at MIT ... The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the Class of 2023 is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  not know me at all because I wrote blogs back in the dark ages of 2008 ... scheduled for August 2023 and began training! I was at a marathon-level of ... "Body Battery" - it's basically a measure of how much energy you have at

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  question below: The vast majority of crime at MIT is committed by non ... the other.) Finally, it is safe to roam campus at all hours of the ... the ring (RingComm) is selected at the end of freshman year, they design

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer, East Campus rush, and the new term East Campus orientation activities, the summer, and the upcoming term.

  

  should report on some of the festivities here at East Campus. The dorm put ... The month of August was pretty busy for me - a combination of work and preparation for the new term. Last week, for example, I day

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  that's true. Lillian: Well, I think a lot of people, at your age, don ... this much bigger company, I had the time of my life. I was in a new city ... : That's good. CJ: But I've also been thinking about a lot of questions

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  lot of concepts that I had at least looked at before, but almost none of ... feel left out. The class has a nice balance of new information combined ... was a terrible idea. At the end of the first semester I had to scramble

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  nothing at all.  During my senior year of high school, my dad told me this ... praise you and give you an inflated impression of who you actually are. At ... too well. If you get in, here's a virtual mug of my favorite [annotation

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  full weeks of class at MIT (rather than three weeks earlier before we ... happened to people at MIT. At some point during the worst of my fever, I was ... .086 which (though I didn’t know it at the time) is possibly one of the WORST

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Residential Life

  whimsically signed, yfnhmc (your friendly neighborhood house meeting chair)

  

  artwork, a tight-knit community with traditions, and a meal plan full of new ... : attaching a fun, new piece of media in every email sign-off. It was a joy ... , I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 19, 2026