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• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  I spent the morning in a café, working. I planned to get things done ... can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to ... bought so he could send it to his girl back home. I agreed. We were in a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  and I wasn’t able to get any help or ask any of the questions I had. But ... ,[/annotation] I dropped the class to Listener. In the moment, it was very painful. I ... class that I somewhat have to take. It is only offered in the fall and is

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  up with somebody in order to get something or someplace you want or you ... lately about making friends. People asked me how to make friends in college ... ’t inherent, in that, it was due to things everyone else can pretty easily do

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

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  little... hypocritical, I know. But it happens. It's very easy to get sucked in. Through my experiences last semster though, I was able to understand more about myself and where I'd like to go in the coming years. MIT

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012
• Blog / CPW

  how to tackle CPW ...i totally have the authority to write this

  

  's FINALLY reopening, so come get to know us and the dorm! Rope Swing in the ... event on Sunday that people shockingly showed up to, despite me putting in ... another virtual event when they have in-person ones to look forward to this

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  potatoes. What did my mom have to endure to get to her favorite pizza in the ... in "Spider-Man" for about 3 minutes, too. Surely, you had to see ... starring in "The Man With The Screaming Brain," he also found time to write

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Feel Old Senior year? Already? #indenial.

  

  9 months to do all of the following: get through the list of 101 ... for STS (it's been sitting in my backpack for weeks now) get into ... think in new and creative ways to optimize problems that relate not only

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  manner. Furthermore, you don't have to beat down doors in order to get a ... different, and you get to choose which one you live in. I now think this is ... being in a small program is a really easy way to get to know professors

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snowed In at the Fraternity the blizzard is real.

  

  you so that you can get to know them too, not just me. I know that for ... Programming Competition, and the website that gets the most Facebook likes in ... luck trying to beating my score of 90wpm in Central America!)

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cooking in Quarantine making all the recipes

  

  pasta shape -- we just used whatever was in our pantry. And to add some ... in another way, so there are too many variables to tell what caused our ... , so we boiled them to get them to the texture from the video. But our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2020
• Blog / Events

  How to MC Hammer AKA embarrassing yourself for charity

  

  was another huge success and an easy way to get involved in charity at ... --participating in a charity event. I got to display the full range of my talents (or ... enough to participate in both in very different ways... SK Late Night

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Things to do before you graduate

  

  Every new freshman class gets, in their Orientation folders, a little ... that I've actually done, including getting published in the Tech. In ... . More Things to Do Before You Graduate: 1. Participate in Dorm Rush (or

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  Brady's house, tried to get into some tall buildings, but it was like 1 in ... you can enjoy that!). No one can move from living in a house to on their ... the middle of the day, instead of getting up at 6:45 like in high school

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.

  

  The Tech hosted its annual retreat in Maine. Maine seems to have a lot ... still Internet though. We trickled in to Peru over the course of several ... who avoided going on the hike decided to simply walk around in the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to Do While Waiting for Decisions Like elevator music, except without the awkwardness of standing next to a stranger whose priorities…

  

  . Learn to cook a new dish. (Like those spam recipes you get in the advertisements on your spam folder page in Gmail.) 5. Write thank-you letters to ... 't matter whether or not they directly helped you get in; these people helped

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat, RETREAT!! A weekend vacation.

  

  miles in the snow to get away from MIT and plan for our upcoming semester. They often say that "getting there is half the fun" and I would tend to ... to this place. 2. I'd never driven in the snow. 3. It was dark. Thank

  • by Bryan
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Goodbye, Hope to See You Again For those moving on today...

  

  st... First: thank you. It's been a real pleasure getting to know you. We've spent the last year thinking about you, getting to know you ... , it's more than a job. It's hard not to get attached. This college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  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 ... stop chasing perfection. I wanted to talk about moving in, finally

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

  Stress Management @ The MITstitvte What's a student to do when school gets rough?

  

  Facebook asking how to deal with stress, and got a massive influx of ... students do to manage stress, so enjoy the brief lapse into generalizability ... music!) The anonymous personage on the right did not wish to reveal his

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• 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 ... to keep cooking, but as entropy in the form of psets and classes would ... T to HMart with my little grocery tote in hand. Walking across the

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