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• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  , East Campus is not a dorm for everyone, but neither is any dorm at MIT ... stuff all the time, for a while it feels like you are always missing out ... -yourself. This is great for eating on a budget, dealing with allergies, or learning

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  road trip here in my car I feel safest of all I can lock all my doors…

  

  (only $15 for a 1-year subscription, and cars typically hire for $12/hour ... I really like driving. I wanted to go to college in a city with ... got lazy and started using Lyft more, for the convenience and also

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  2020 Admitted Student Gatherings Get a vision of your future at MIT

  

  events scheduled this week. For a full, detailed list of events and ... With Campus Preview Weekend just a few weeks away (sign up here if you haven’t done so already), early spring is an exciting time for

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  blogger applications; this week, I'm modifying the Maker Portfolio for ... at old requirements for admission.  Last year I posted our essay ... , not only through what they literally write (i.e. "For fun I like to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, I work as a learning assistant for ... competition. I think we should be getting a good seed for NEWMACs at the end of ... season? Sydney: A Wednesday game day typically begins for me with waking up

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  qualifying for a spot for the 2019 US Championships in mid-January. That night ... toooo much. I had a stomach ache for the rest of the night). Tuesday, I ... . To pause for a hot second, and take a breath. Several deep breaths

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  stayed in office hours for 15 hours), a 6.042 pset (wouldn’t have been able ... the green building to make a test for Borderline while Danny did ... Borderline (a general one, just to refresh on how unity works, and then one for

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  this whiteboard for everything. (We're probably a little too proud of it ... erased that was too R-rated for this post!). A lot of different groups I ... space on the whiteboard is usually reserved for a rotating poll, which

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  and then sticks around forever. At least, not for me. A social circle is ... a half at MIT, that worked spectacularly. For most of freshman year I ... retrospect, probably a little depressed. For a while I felt like I didn

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  as a placemat for his jade plants. He pulled it out after finals, and ... bought a Coke, and I asked for ice. Armed with the skate, and the ice, we ... cake at Downtown Crossing, before driving back to campus in time for a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Hello! I would like to schedule a meeting with Senator Markey.” Exciting spring break plans

  

  A little over a month ago, the American Astronomical Society posted the following announcement: I originally became a AAS member in order ... . On Valentine's Day, I got a message saying that I'd been accepted, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  that we were going to visit Vancouver for a weekend. We drove up, crossed ... items of food for each of us. I ate some skewers and a piece of taiyaki ... after meeting for any one of a variety of activities. I am sleeping and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  elementary school, and for a long while I would draw things by hand on paper ... to be for school, but I was also not yet in school. I spent a few hours ... : Critical Worldbuiling with Nisha, and for my latest story, I drew up a map of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  too much work ^^;) and then like random stuff I use for being a ... drawing and measuring small stuff, the cuvet is a part for my team project ... down with a hacksaw earlier for my 2.74 final project. Front Pocket  

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  to for a couple of months. Some of my favorite organized internet ... resolve your own worries, or at the very least distract you for a little ... Vale, a podcast staged as a radio broadcast for a fictional desert town

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every Piece of Media I Consumed in My First Week of Class that was relevant to my studies, i guess

  

  that goes into such a decision, such as checks for copyright claims ... This semester, I'm taking a wide array of classes, from music to media studies to English, and as a result, I've had to consume a lot of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 13, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  life, I never really made a resolution for New Years. I always kind of ... just flew home from visiting for Christmas), I compiled a list of eight ... people learn, and I am currently on the hunt for a way that I can make

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7:15PM ET!

  

  2.009: Product Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni out there, it's sort of like FRC, but for products

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Quarrying Around Ice skating in an underground tunnel

  

  finished up with skating for a bit, a bunch of us gathered wood and started a ... all around!!) and I made a bunch of s’mores for people. Overall, the ... Skating place at a Vermont quarry, I immediately responded that I wanted to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 21, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The Great Snowball Fight of 2013 fame. glory. snow. killian court.

  

  , cold, and snotcicles.  Actually, it's been winter for a few months, but ... Did you know? "Nemo" is Latin for "no man" or "no one", and the name of the movie was a little joke by Pixar. And I refuse to bow to the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 9, 2013