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• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  before 11AM. Go ahead. Start throwing things at me while I rub it in. I ... the part where it’s currently 77 degrees in South Florida, while here it ... fellow frosh were in the same “MIT IS TAKING OVER MY LIFE AND I WANT TO GO

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Forget These I forgot to bring them when I first came to MIT.

  

  suit. And my toothbrush. Ugh. Well today I spend the second night in my ... sure to bring to MIT or to buy as soon as you get here. I conducted a ... You need a surge protector. In fact, you probably need two, so buy three

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 19, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  I mentioned it in a previous blog, but this semester I took a class ... something like that. I think I’m going to concentrate in Music Technology if I ... Shanties. I read all 400 pages of this book in 2 hours in the McCormick hall

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  with z e r o cooking experience and I mainly would just buy ingredients ... . In MIT speak, I'm a CMS/6-3 and this past semester I took 3.091, 21M.011, 18.01, and 8.01L. In non-MIT speak, I'm a double major in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D

  

  person would put in their mouth. The question is: are you feeling lucky ... :17-24:17 All the ponies in this town are CRAZY. Do you like ponies? I like ponies ... Random House of Pancakes: I'm a delicious warm pancake smothered in maple

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 26, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  passed and I didn’t die and I wasn’t scared anymore. Sleeping in a loft has ... an open window I get a cool breeze at night and the light of the sun in ... plushies in my sleep. By the time I scan the alleyway four stories down and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  staying in touch people are great <3

  

  with a stranger in any physical location at this point in time, i decided ... some really cool folks that i don't think i would've run into at MIT ... to back calls would be exhausting and in spite of this was pretty

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Marking time Somewhere between the end of classes and graduation...

  

  , Adam and I have been ODing on ice cream -- we went to Tosci's in Central ... the summer. This is my third summer in a row in Cambridge, and I wouldn ... : Yeah, I did that. I got my last grade in today. (MIT grades go up on the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  to go into tech - I'm interested in digital marketing and transmedia ... company at least once to see if I might be interested in them, or them in ... filled fascinating niches in the tech marketplace. I encountered some

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  everything I read in 2022. The Secret History, Donna Tartt (5/5) The Secret History is, of course, a famous book, particularly in certain circles. I ... in.   The City We Became, N. K. Jemisin (3/5) I’ll start off by

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  -spaced pages in Word later, everything made sense. Or at least I hope it did ... prior. I hear Kayla '12 get up in the room next to mine, and she soon ... 's right in front of you! (although I was semi-freezing to death when I took

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  My Summer in Japan Tokyo, Spaceships, and Lots of Ramen

  

  for two summers when I was a kid), but I would usually always stay in ... family in Nagano and Kyoto; I would go to karaoke bars and firework shows ... and internships in Japan!!"]MISTI Japan program[/annotation]. I was

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  friend, accused of raping children and in all honesty I would probably tell ... would not have the library that I study in. We would not have the new ... Two weeks ago, while visiting my family in State College, I got to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  breathe. Earlier today I got a haircut in the South End and I opted to ... , mindful, intentional. Last Monday for Veterans Day, I slept in, went to get acupuncture for sudden pain I was having in my foot, did some

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  list of things that refill my will to live things to do when i don't want to do anything

  

  probably the longest hug in my life thinking that if i buy another thing ... before we graduated. i haven't talked to any of them in forever and i ... memories of high school one night i had a breakdown at 2 in the morning in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  her?”   “Of course I’m going to miss her, but why would I be sad ... sentimental; inspired by my dad, I’ve set off to intern in Germany for the ... the bravest people I know, but even so, it’s hard not to see the fear in

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  summer 2021

  

  For the past seven weeks I've been living in Honolulu, Hawai'i with ... culturally rich places in the world. My weekdays were essentially the same. I ... with my roommates and then I'd be in bed by usually 10. And then repeat

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  teaching web.lab aka what i spent all of january on

  

  every iap at mit. i took the class in 2020 and was an instructor in 2022 ... . i thought my teaching opportunity would come from TAing for a class i ... personal site and hackmit project, that i gradually got enough reps in to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  . Yesterday I saw Monet's water lilies up close at the Museum of Fine Arts in ... wrote in a previous entry (er..I think it was October..?) about being ... in America right now but I'd love to go to MIT and it just seems like

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  ), I felt like a kid again. There was an air of childlike wonderment in ... when I joined in, but we spent the rest of the evening, part of the plane ... accepted. I finished my very first crossword puzzle with Tara in its

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016