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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  back to my dorm in a giant U-Haul truck I always dread having to move my ... regardless, moving is a perennial part of my back-to-school experience, so this ... renting a truck at the beginning and ends of the school year to transport

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  Haley’s experience teaching Splash, a weekend for high school students to come to campus and learn a variety of topics from MIT students. Hope you ... the morning and headed over to check-in. This is a three-hour shift of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  able to work close to home is a plus for me, but in my case, it still ... does add up to a substantial amount of time. The commute starts pretty early. For the first leg of the trip, I hitch a ride with my dad to his

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  . Wondering if you have space to squeeze in an astronomy elective? Add it to a ... ... … which, due to a bug in the system, wasn’t actually mine at all, but ... back a semester, switched math classes from Differential Equations to

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  [by Kathy '09] Hi guys! I'm here to talk about "life as a biochemist ... difference is to give you a portrayal of what a typical day is like in both ... -taught by the amazing Prof. Stubbe (who, in addition to being a brilliant

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  , he is admitted to the Class of 2011. Let's back up for a moment and ... that his actions became a self-fulfilling prophecy. Afraid to fail, therefore afraid to try. Now lets take a peek at Stephanie. Stephanie is a

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  PSA: there’s a new mit.edu!

  

  This is just a quick blog post to tell y'all that there is a new ... aesthetic: a single “Spotlight” image surrounded by links to sites ... see here is just a beginning; we will be eager over time to find new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  SIMMONS GOT A TRAMPOLINE!!! it's awesome, possum!

  

  (which was only supposed to have like 2 kids at a time but we put around 8). My dad tells all of us to take a turn doing something cool for the ... propose a way to spend Simmons funds. Sometimes it’s for things like

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Events

  A Night with Cranium Myth debunking and Cranium!

  

  MIT: Where we make "nerdy" things fun. Exhibit A: Mystery Hunt Team ... entire weekend was not enough, our recent team party included a night filled of Cranium. Some of my favorite quotes from the night: In a "Club

  • by Bryan
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  orientation, every freshman receives a list of 101 things to do before they ... when they graduate to use as a reminiscing tool, or (c) lose immediately ... easy thing to do in the two weeks between finals and graduation, take a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  to make a shortlist of the changes that I made or had to make when ... in a long time, the only person I had to be responsible for was myself ... want to do requires a delicate balance and strong time management skills

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  comfortable around my peers. I didn't really know if I was going to find a group ... realizing how much of a shitshow the movie was, we switched to Pitch Perfect ... online portion, haphazardly completing it to get a glorious score of 27

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  started “The Digging Club”: I led two friends to a patch of grass on the ... jungles to enthusiasm for a very real internship - far away from home and ... mentor’s niece's colleague offered to rent me a bedroom. Everything was set

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Events

  A Couple of Firsts With a picture game

  

  just a few.) But instead of just throwing them at you, I’m going to show ... to Kresge to get a peek inside. However, it seemed as though many other MIT kids had the same idea to “sneak” inside and take a peek. They

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you do for fun around here? What,this isn't fun to you?

  

  carrying on a conversation with my friends who are desperately trying not to ... is belongs to a class of acronymically redudant phrases (or ARP phrases ... number, and ATM machine. But if you want to be a functioning member of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  A couple months ago, I wrote about how to make money at MIT. Much to ... handling their own finances in a day-to-day sense. As someone who notably ... adjusting to prices and scrounging for the best deals, I've found a way to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  ’re notified of whether you have a spot in that class are subject to the whim of ... an email to a writing professor as to why you want to take their ... wouldn’t have known to ask.  1. Ask the prof to save you a seat ahead of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Vending Machines at MIT Because it needed to be done.

  

  of this story, however, is that it took us twenty minutes to find a ... have to struggle to find a vending machine ever again. (Special thanks to all the East Campus people who came out with me at 11 PM on a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Return of QBert Whack-a-mole, a piano player, and a whole lot of fun. All in 24 hours or…

  

  describing to you the journey would be a faux-pas on my part, so here it begins. So Saturday afternooon, I was en-route to a surprise dinner with my ... listening to The Wrens and eating a confetti cookie from Au Bon Pain. About 2

  • by Bryan
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  've been rediscovering a lot of beauty which I wanted to share a glimpse of ... dedicated to doing a bunch of random projects and learning activities. The goal is to make a community for students to get creative outside of

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024