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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  tube in December, a huge envelope in March, and a bigger envelope in May ... of paper and important looking stuff on it. I gave the guy staffing the table my name and he produced . . . a folder. Yay. Here’s what I learned

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  characters in Star Wars, so I'm assuming that they're genuine. And since, hey ... during finals week and we did get into a heated debate about the and the ... , suggesting that Episodes I, II, and III just could have benefitted from a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  to yap has taken hold, and I shall oblige it, because orientation is ... residential communities and make their final choices about where to live. REX is fun, and REX is exciting, but REX can also be a bit of a stressful

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  ="attachment_56332" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] yes, it's super low effort, and I ... concrete goals for things I want to do, both for my job and for other things ... -study, reading, school work, exercise, and personal projects. There are some random

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  may go] Harvard and MIT hold a math competition for high schoolers ... , which in practice, is an excuse for Harvard and MIT students to hang out ... it became more like seven. I had prepared for this and brought some

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Aiden Wrapped a year in review

  

  , and everything in my mind exists in a battle-to-the-death style list of ... opinions and create my own war in the comments. My biggest issue with "end ... important that happens in December. But, I refuse to break a trend and

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 3, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  Andi and Aiden this year, I was also fortunate to have two Next Haunt ... . If you haven't read Part 1, I encourage going back and reading it for ... arranging the build and actually running the thing. Because of that, I wanted

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  friends from the philippines died from suicide, and it’s been troubling me ever since. the past week and a half has been truly bad. and a lot of it ... ’s probably not a lot, and i’ve had friends who’ve gone through more. but i like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  So I suck at life and haven't blogged in FOREVER. =( But! I'm making ... the dorm before sorting, editing, and writing captions for them. So if ... with some dorm-wide facilties and common areas... The first thing you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  the children yearn for the snow quarry 120 bricks, 80 man hours, 3 tons of snow, 2 forts, and a partridge in…

  

  almost four hours, and there’s almost three inches on the ground. This can ... Midnight Castle Step 1: Where and when? Ideally, somewhere with snow on the ... recreational field just outside most of our dorms, and a premier location for any

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  ’s important dates and logistics. It was all the typical stuff – CPW concert in ... Collier (!) and Yo-Yo Ma (!!) were coming to MIT (!!!) to tape the pilot episode of some video-podcast-like series, and as an MTA student, I was

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  There is a bench it’s a nice bench

  

  buy lunch, and work on my problem set in the lounge at our floor. Head ... information session; then later, another student group hosts an event; and later ... and set aside for a specific purpose, a specific event. Filling my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 19, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...

  

  those of you who have procrastinated and have not yet submitted your application, here are a few tips, notes, and words of wisdom: Submit ... , transcripts, and test scores if they are not yet showing up in MyMIT tracking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  decided to read it and see if my personal predictions and goals for my ... failed test. However, with extra time over the summer and this semester to ... about, and if I could go back and do it all over again, I'm not sure that

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  Earlier this summer, sitting at a bar in Berlin, a friend and I made a bet. I had been telling him about my research interests and my ... want to live a calm life and do a little science while I'm at it. We had

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  an “uncommon piece of advice that I had heard or given”. And in that ... have no idea.” And I told her I’d think on it for a little bit before ... advice, I just linked to a lot of previous bloggers’ advice and recommended

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  's what I'm copying and pasting below rah rah rah enjoy From: Kano ... brilliant jazz standard. i like the Lana Del Rey and Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald versions a lot.']Summertime and the livin’s easy

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 15, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine

  

  great vibes, such great food, and such a great friend! Immaculate Vibes We ... white powder. It was both my and Paige’s first time visiting Dear Annie ... Paige and I, it just has “immaculate vibes.” On their website, the Dear

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Last Times waving goodbye to my MIT experience

  

  that I would enter some MIT buildings. And it was probably the last time ... passed away suddenly, and it shook me to my core that the last time I would ... times and be cognizant of them. I don't even remember what the last East

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 22, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  to find who had killed this man, and how they were going to be punished ... peacefully arrested in their homes for murder and aggravated assault of Amaud Arbery. My mind was overcome by the brutal and “rightfully deserved

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020