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• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  gestured at it through the window of our Uber, wondering aloud if water ... on her bed sometimes, and I spend most of my time at my desk by the ... , I lived in a house at the end of a road, and the back yard dropped off

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  tough at times, and I'm going to have to take a bunch of technicals next ... halfway point of MIT. When I look back at the path I've taken, it looks ... : nope. can someone explain to me the passage of time? how to avoid

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  *written by Grace C. '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest post series*   It’s the end of finals. I’m sitting at a plastic table amongst hundreds of other students in the Johnson Track Center

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  out of the summer all happy from working at Hasbro and building toys all ... walked out of the final at 4:30 PM on Wednesday and went straight back to ... was hard. We're talking miserable hard. It was a test of will, to be

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  that though everyone is a bit exhausted at the end of the day, they too ... I've been at MIT for just over a month now. It hasn't quite sunk in ... calling home once in a while. There are things to do at all hours

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  hall", not "the dining hall", because if you have a plan at one of these ... the way back to eat; just grab your meal at Baker! Some of the FSILGs ... Mollie's neck of the woods (Note: as I am being greedy and co-opting Mollie

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  hours later I was less optimistic. Also, I was tired of staring at the ... two of us started working very intently. At 5:47, I ran the test jig ... of IHTFP, and ILTFP (the sentiment, not the student activist group), at

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  time at the beginning of the semester is less precious than the time in ... dollars. "Yes," he said. "Because the amount of good I can do in my lifetime ... to just die and donate all of that." I then asked my brother the same

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  live some life at MIT without putting all of it online, so it all worked ... I write two letters to myself at [annotation note="the keen-eyed will ... in 2024 and wrote most of it then; but then i had to work on a bunch of

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  New Semester From caving adventures to amazing classes, MIT is awesome.

  

  during their first year at MIT. I placed out of the CI-W requirement ... here at MIT and make some of my best friends in the world, but MIT is ... one of my New Year’s Resolutions was to get back to doing one of the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 13, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Conspiracy and intrigue

  

  ?" Excellent question, Xin-Xin. I'm not much of a cyclist, but I looked at my ... was 3 missiles, and three of the five runs had no missiles launched at ... Before we get to the subject of this entry, we have a question! Xin

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  of my blankets for them to cuddle with at night, and then they suddenly ... . ‘23 was off at a very cool math REU that, sadly, did not allow cats ... quite a bit of time in Ilani’s room. For the summer, though, PUF was

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Events

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

  

  out my blogs apologizing for my lack of blogging, but I think I've said it so many times that it's just losing meaning at this point...) Last ... 's really good at helping you find out about yourself in that way. After all

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

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  midwestern genes. and it's really cool to look at a basket of fruit and be like ... -- my urop at the broad institute is also a lot of work, something my ... from my brain, minimal editing, stream of consciousness -- just my raw

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  perfect idea. None of us really cooked for ourselves at the moment ... -based classes (among others), whose projects span the course of several months ... and open-ended, which means that there’s a lot of groping walls in the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  general direction (at least for this particular phase of my life/version of ... When I think about my time at MIT, my first thought is: it still ... at are gone (RIP Shinkansen, Steam Cafe, Cafe 4…are food trucks still a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  glassblowing classes at MIT are about ten times cheaper than similar classes ... " align="alignright" width="300"] Concept art of a glassblowing gremlin ... teams of glassblowers who gather for a few hours a day to make batches of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  to August, and I’m about to start at the Zoom Institute of Technology ... having a great time exploring a new city. I felt tired at the end of it all ... last couple of years in high school, I was in a near-constant state of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  of MIT would make me enjoy writing so much, but it has. At the MIT ... This is a summer of new things for Maggie Lloyd. I rented a car for ... ’s what summer internships are for, or at least that’s what I told myself

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring! What I did (and didn't) do over IAP...and plans for my last semester!

  

  exciting, good kind of way). Here’s what I’ve got in my final (!) semester at ... I’ve never really understood the appeal of beach vacations. I spend a day relaxing and then have to recover from the effort of recuperation

  • by Alina G. '11
  • January 30, 2011