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• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  part in terms of math academics, I had fallen to believe something ... science classrooms don't have to be quite as cold. There would be many ... school preview in many ways and I wanted to find out whether I would like

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  graduating this year. I can't wait to see them do amazing things out in the ... myself and my circle. Relatedly, I want to get better at talking to those I ... more about how to enact change—not in some grandiose, ego-fueled "I want

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  time to figure out their admission status. Essentially, nausea is in the ... dorms I could live in. Some people around me--my mom who went to her state ... of the most important factors in their future. It's not stupid to feel

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  gets pretty cold in here. Good thing I’ve got the Wisco blood ;). Ok ... Tried to establish a new normal in the middle of the woods I’ve been here ... us to move in right away, b) was big enough for everyone, and c) gave

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Room E51-151, Please??? By Jing, '11

  

  interesting in the schedule book, try to find it, and get distracted by ... to a building across the river in search of a Boston frat, in the dark ... in a Baker House lounge. I thought, hey, might as well get that AP Lit

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  World Suicide Prevention Day Write love on your arms to show support

  

  you need to get any medicine!! 4) Anyone at MIT In all honestly, if I ... work gets to be overwhelming at times, and it's important to know that we ... to help students in need of support, but I think it's important to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Into the Unknown with bravery

  

  , first picturing ourselves in the 10+ companies we applied to, and then in ... take a gap year, or scramble to find a job. We didn’t get to participate ... feeling in the air. Listening to the exciting vamp in the background

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  getting cold glares cast my way each time I shared my schedule, I ... also block off certain hours in your schedule during preregistration to ... good time to mention that if you get into running, it really, really

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Our students, their stories. Andy Partridge in a zamboni purple monkey dishwasher.

  

  '08 drew attention to the fact that it was, in fact, moving, smelling ... , the cultural houses at MIT used to be in Burton-Conner, and Conner 2 was ... moved in, the new residents decided to dub themselves English House and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Expedition New England Travel That is Good for the Soul.

  

  offer. Of course, with P-Sets and all, it is easy to get caught up in your dorm or libraries all weekend. In my opinion though, there’s more to life ... stopped in places to get my mom and I a shirt, and I bought the mug feautred

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  I couldn’t get myself to write.  I miss signing up for college campus ... the few that actually gets to go to school here. I remember that on one ... wished to get into an ivy league school.  I miss looking through the old

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  managed to run four miles, throw together a tofu-tomato-mushroom salad, get ... cold. I have this secret dream that I will someday be the first person to ... . Life after it happens is at least semi-solid enough to serve on a plate

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  College must-haves My advice on what to get for college!

  

  , thanks to free nights and weekends, I actually get to keep in close contact ... 't live without my fridge in Next. You might be able to get a used one, I ... you're going to be living in Burton Conner, MacGregor, or anywhere else

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House Showers Bring No Flowers They're just really, REALLY bad showers. Like really, REALLY bad.

  

  . This is a bad attitude to have in all regards, because while it's great ... with ten or so others the minute they get wet, and think it's okay to ... means fill in the blanks. Total Shutdowns (Hot, cold, or both): May 13

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 3, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  leg room; plus, I'll get to sleep in a little later than people on the ... The guy in the row next to mine just asked the lady behind him if he ... little too long waiting at the station JUST before I had to get off. (Of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  No Child Gets Ahead?

  

  There was an article in the New York Times yesterday about a topic that is very interesting to me (and you, I suspect): gifted education ... established Davidson Academy, coming to Nevada residents courtesy of the folks

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Pumpkin Drop Trick-or-treating is not enough.

  

  54, was built on stilts in 1964 to circumvent Cambridge’s height limit ... pumpkin meet the ground in McDermott Court? How much time, in seconds, does the airborne pumpkin have to come to terms with its identity* before

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Take Off Gate '21 Calling for Departure

  

  behind my home in Texas to make a new one here. In these past fourteen days ... , your portable devices should be fully charged to avoid getting lost on ... collaboration. We highly recommend that you get to know the other passengers on

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 6, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  won't like in the future. As a challenge to myself, I'm putting my ... in the winter, I didn't care about funding. I was so excited to take ... Back in September, I wrote my first blog. I called it Things I Know

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  New York Trips that we went on with Arts Scholars!

  

  the biggest perks of being an Arts Scholar is getting to go on an all ... didn't get to go on the New York trip that year, but we did every year ... for it because, when else do you get to take a day trip to see a famous

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 5, 2020