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• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  to spend my summer playing catchup. I asked my parents for permission ... Center and runs across Killian Court just for the heck of it. I listened to ... , and even more I couldn’t wait for them to share back. On that bridge

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  linear in any way or form and I don’t expect for it to be linear as I ... was no crash course for how to apply and make a strong application. I ... , it’s terrifying that I was able to keep myself in this bad place for so

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  since i’ve been home

  

  it gets for basslines and for joe dart. now i'm trying to learn beastly ... [/annotation] lecture for five minutes before i decided to shut my laptop, grab the car ... other. i had plans to talk with eran for life advice, but that was before

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  the list of subjects we were already supposed to know for 5.111, I ... leads me to my next point: MY BIGGEST TIP FOR SUCCESS in your freshman ... the end I think they like me more for it. It's better for them to have a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  food diaries pt. 3 amazing restaurants around MIT

  

  restaurants. When I tried to go in person last year, I gave up after waiting for ... [/caption] This place. Oh man, this place. Would it be presumptuous for me to call ... Central for two months during the pandemic than I did during my ~6 months at

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  , gesturing for me to hand the money over. Unfortunately, mom knew of the bet ... just paid my sister dwarfed in comparison to what would be my tuition for ... going anywhere at all. I wanted to go to college, but how would I possibly

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  highlights of a hellish semester it's OVER. IT'S FINALLY OVER GOSDAIUOSDSOIJD

  

  project for CMS.100 (intro to media studies) Boston adventures ... on a Wednesday for NO REASON—it was so good lol walking to 7/11 late ... was a lot of fun...I miss being able to dance with my team in person

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 28, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  nonblogging is apparently reason for you to yell at me. Please don't. Every post ... related to MIT, except for the fact that my extended visit would not have ... walked to 7-11 in the biting cold like only a crazy person should. With

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  “futility island” socially conscious hacking? in MY institution?

  

  of just a few exceptions to MIT's preference for numbers), will now be ... It's more likely than you think! To understand this hack, you need ... to the animals and parts of nature whose voices are "silenced

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 25, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  're happy to see each other, and that's all I could really ask for. Self ... gone to and helped build for every party preceding this one, so there ... . The Simmons Gov team had to deal with [annotation note='removed this for

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 15, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  student life and culture, for example, you have almost instant access to ... basic introduction to life and academics at MIT. And for the record, this ... : Mini-Guide to the GIRs An introduction to MIT's core curriculum for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  ??? Should I be posting words when I have to actually be writing words for my ... California. For the first few months, I was flying back and forth to the East ... every day for the free lunch, biked to the wholesale coop for groceries

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  to South Korea for two weeks to work on a project. In the words of one ... person let that happen!?" I am absolutely honored to have had the ... classy!! It is company policy for most companies (I think) to provide

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  me being late to cook dinner for Adam and Ben writing me an excuse note ... wanted to see V for Vendetta because I'd heard it was a gripping dystopic ... , professors, and grad students?" The easiest question there to answer is how I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  for yet another tangerine. And gradually, instead of adding purpose to ... occasional "ya dig?" and "do you guys follow me?" to check for confusion as ... personal projects also lend themselves to a lot of learning. After building a

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  hard to build the friend group that I craved. And for my first year and ... apprehensive to go back for Junior year because I felt like I'd regressed from ... Gregor-specific term for a floor) and got closer to the people I lived with. My interest

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  enough. There it was: The E-mail I'd Been Waiting For. "I am pleased to ... MUCH TO POST ABOUT. The musical came and went, I registered for The Most ... THE HECK IS THAT? The woman next to me looked concerned for my well

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  I came to college, after being a dedicated PC user for probably about ... issue for Macs. While it's true that some programs that I used to use on PC are not available for Macs, it's usually not hard to find a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Programs For MIT Students Planning early -- MIT-sponsored ways to make an impact next summer

  

  interest to the PSC and its donors, so students who apply for these ... have organized a team to apply for a Network Fellowship -- the selection ... you may be able to use your summer experience/work/research for a UROP

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  drained. For the high school seniors out there who are applying to college ... many healthy things to do while waiting for decisions like going to a ... , back to procrastination. Although I was Very On Top Of Things for MIT and

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021