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• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  Chinese music from his phone and get our other friends to almost drag me out ... opportunities for getting to know people, which increases the likelihood of ... effort to spend time with them and help them get through whatever it is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  was! Nonetheless, it is done. Looking back to last summer, everything I ... prefrosh seem to be freaking out over imposter syndrome/is MIT too hard/am I smart enough to be here. And while I do see validity in these questions

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Events

  A Sweet Deal An offer I will not refuse.

  

  . ------------------------------------------------------- Since you are a member of the MIT Class of 2007, You get to ask a ... only do you get a chance to interact closely with amazing teachers ... we should take out to dinner or where we should go out to eat? Mitra

  • by Bryan
  • February 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  a woman gets to experience many of the other universes that might ... T being Boston’s subway system, which he used to get from MIT to ... teachers, had tried to reinforce over and over to no avail: that we only get

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Over Again Applying to college all over again.

  

  've just started to get exposed to interesting topics in bioengineering that ... 's course, and hope to get lucky in the end. Let the games begin. ... Four years ago, I started to apply to colleges. Four years later, I

  • by Bryan
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Are Beginning To Arrive Some thoughts for everyone.

  

  very, very proud of your accomplishment. To those of you who didn't get in, please continue to hold your heads up high. We didn't have room for ... A few of you are starting to receive your decisions. To those of you

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  For Those About to Dew (Also eligible for salutations: those currently rocking, those about to rock)

  

  , studying, and socializing, you're forced to choose two. Well, they're almost right... Some weeks you only get to choose one. It's a lifestyle not for ... 's complement & bitwise ops are a good way to wake up. Oh, by the way: today

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  Places to Sit at MIT and study

  

  I came to MIT with an ambitious goal: to sit everywhere on campus. Oh yeah, and to get an MIT degree. After four years, I've completed neither ... . Whenever I get stuck on my work, I like to find a new place to study. The

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy Birthday to m—-suck. I turn 20 and cry tears of blood

  

  an avocado that's getting a little ripe, it's much better to eat the ... 's generally the same day they're passed out. That means you get one week to ... . Otherwise it's like 4 or 5 AM. You get used to this and develop a routine, it

  • by Snively '11
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to MIT! blogging guilt eased...

  

  semester, MIT students tend to hide themselves in their rooms/lounges/libraries/other favorite study spot to ready themselves for the barrage of final projects and ... from Chris P.) for a few minutes to welcome all the new pre-frosh to MIT

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  beginning to get the hang of how to be at MIT, how to make the most of the ... all over again. we will continue to love and care and get our hearts ... what a strange feeling it is to be in your last semester at MIT

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  Matt does! And I'm starting to get more comments in general - I guess my ... if we are going to be initiated, do we get to know what we're going to ... apply to MIT (and get into a department) Finally, lorelai asked, "i want

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Off to Zambia

  

  Through my awesome D-Lab class, I am going to Zambia today until Jan ... the school is able to hold adult classes in the evening. Another one of ... household level that takes advantage of solar properties to treat water. We

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  things are they working on? How far have they come to get here? What do ... microphone, you don't have to answer any questions--instead, you get to witness people's confused, surprised expressions. You're the one that gets to watch

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  melting spoon. I didn’t get the opportunity to use it very much. I made one ... Sometimes, you need to let things go up in flames. . . . I have ... of things to write about—there’s always something going on in my life

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  When I'm sad, or there's some conundrum in my life that I need to ... grocery shopping. Over IAP, with mostly nothing else to do because I ended ... note="because it's like, really close to east campus. temptingly close

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  deferred, what is the deadline to send in supplemental materials? Get things ... applicants right now who will absolutely get in RA. So to answer your question ... Hi everyone. I'm so exhausted so this is going to be quick, but I

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  to end of "Definitely getting" list. The act of listing helps me ... looking forward to it too and we don't get to spend much time together." At ... by knowing what I have to look forward to and how I could get there

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Recent Questions! Fun for parents @ CPW, enrolling questions, etc...

  

  meetings. Not complaining, just want to get the facts straight so that we can ... who are brave enough to live in the dorms with your kids! You'll get a ... prior to arrival! Everyone will get a host

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To Defeat the Huns ...as Hamsika said, there's major business to get down to this semester.

  

  what I get. It’s going to be hard, but at least I know I got most of the ... graduate students or industry professionals) to defend their work and get ... .013 – Introductory Biology (a GIR class) I’m ALWAYS excited to take biology, but that

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 3, 2010