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• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  can only say it is worth it. I didn’t like many of the people in my ... , and actually didn’t know anyone in House 4 of New House. I became ... of my lofted bed in Simmons until I agreed to go on this adventure with

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruminations and room-inations Written on the anniversary of one year ago.

  

  The past year in retrospect is a telescoping compression of proper ... and now, where I sit in my cardboard box-strewn dorm room typing in ... without legs. It has no legs because I found it one year ago in a dark alley

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 30, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Survey says… A LOT of freshmen report that they were leaders in high school!

  

  be more of a title than anything else, and I can definitely relate to this. I was a captain of my Cross Country and Track teams in high school ... arrests and brutality for the sake of his country. Thus far in GEL I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  cool. I don’t think I particularly want to work in any kind of wet lab ... intro night in Morss Hall, and I’m really excited to just drag some of my ... lots of non-standard classes. I’ve already mentioned a three

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breakfast with a Genius Okay, so I stole the genius joke from Bryan. But it's still true.

  

  are held in 10-250 - I have both my 5.112 and my 18.02 classes in there ... Guild. I was in fact planning on going to both, though, because I ... absolutely amazing. I wish I could write about it in more detail, but

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 28, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  answer myself. I sleep at five in the morning, exhausted from a day of CPW ... want to do less things? So I can do more things. Of course. Of course ... Breathe in. Keep breathing. The prefrosh I was hosting, or my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Commencement Webcast MIT gives me a diploma in T-3 hours...

  

  're interested in watching Lulu, Kim and I graduate, you can watch the webcast ... . Let that sink in for a minute.) All I know is that this morning, for the last time, I put my Brass Rat on facing up. In a couple of hours, I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Anthony Rindone A local first generation college student.

  

  as students from different parts of the world who settled in the city ... Tuesday, June 6, 2006 REVERE - Class of 2006 valedictorian Anthony Rindone ... our salvation," Rindone plans to remind his varied group of fellow

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Hacks and meta-hacks

  

  of my hall's freshmen, when one of them noticed something odd in the ... the wall. You can't really see anything in that picture. But what my ... hacks have been put in it. Most of the hacks, you'll notice, are cross

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Beauty and the Geek Some of the greatest companies in the world recruit at MIT. Apparently, so do some…

  

  this curious flyer outside of the Athena cluster in building 24 (aka "a ... deep. (Yes, I do know that Chris Vu passed the first round of auditions ... children, Matt is in Southeast Asia, and I don't think that either Spencer or

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  It Lives. can i be nostalgic yet?

  

  stumbled as I walked, tripping over my feet a couple of times. In a panic, I ... can bring. I've gone searching for this hum everywhere I go. In my ... . But in the meantime, I walk onward, keeping the pulse of the campus

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Round 2 Microsoft, brains, British accents, hiking in the Alps, weightlifting, HIMYM

  

  (majoring in Course 2: Mechanical Engineering) Geez, we have a lot of Course 2 ... Microsoft, working on Surface keyboard (that's all I can say, the rest is ... ; stuff to do with finding connections between regions of the brain...I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 30, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  memories in my head, some of which i’m not even sure happened, asking me ... talking about the vapidness of fame. i can’t help but draw a parallel. some nights, it feels like i’ve sold my soul to get to mit. not in the sense of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  front of the Senior House dormitory Now, I'm in New Jersey for the ... coming in for the festivities. Most of us know each other as we chose to ... , who wanted to bring back the grand old hacks of the past. In honor of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Valentine’s Day from MIT Because theobromine is delicious.

  

  have slipped out. I'm not that much of a cynic in real life, promise ... to a few new faces? So I asked the good folks in the MIT Class of 2012 ... In case you haven't realized it yet, I'm going to let you guys all in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wryping styles wryping = writing + typing

  

  calculated, slower, reasoning System 2. I feel when I type in this kind of ... backspace quite frequently in search of better grammatical phrasing. I do ... sentences with commas, always thinking of replacements for semicolons, etc. I

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 29, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  That’s right, you’re sick Thank you, nurse, for stating the obvious.

  

  while I ignore the box o' meds under my bed and see if you can hook me up ... 's anyone who's ever been fine, it's me. See, I have not been sick in over a ... senioritis or my loathing of AP Stats and yes, I would go see my doctor if she

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s here! The post you've all been waiting for, or at least until you saw Snively with…

  

  Some of you may remember that a few months ago, Snively and I, as ... and the i3 DVD has gone out to the class of 2014 everywhere. For those ... in this video. * I sent 107 emails having to do with the i3 over the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  at nerd camp for the rest of the week. After that, I'll be back in ... vigorous vacations. In fact, I'm nominally on vacation right this minute, but ... few days back in Boston, I flew to San Francisco to present about maker

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ye Olde Career Fair An MIT tradition...and a great opportunity for a discussion on leadership!

  

  and other elements of engineering leadership that I’m learning in GEL ... When I was first applying for the GEL program, I heard a lot of ... little more important. I’m at the phase of my life where I’m deciding

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • September 28, 2010