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• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  you back up again and take care of you. TLDR: Find a good community to ... this a lot, but I'd rather go to a hard school with a collaborative and ... just to make sure you get through that class a little easier or get to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  to do: catch up. I needed to bridge the gap that was created by a ... achieve that or how to get to a point where I know how to approach problems and gain intuition for finding the solutions. Sometimes, I have a vague

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

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

  

  work even a part-time summer job and then find a way to work a couple ... 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

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

  Punting

  

  Punting is a really relaxing and nice way to spend the afternoon if ... trying to stay on the boat, trying to find the bottom with my stick, and ... amazing to see him in person. He is a fellow at Gonville and Caius College

  • by Cambridge
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Some thoughts and advice in advance of Campus Preview Weekend.

  

  students spent much of thos week trying our best to find every one of you a ... Preview Weekend (CPW), I figured it would be worthwhile to spend a little time helping to set expectations for the weekend. Because CPW is such a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  ; *         *        *   I used to think of decision-making as a complicated optimization ... they had time to talk. That person became a mentor to him, encouraged him ... down to a reasonable set, then pick one and run with it. I picked grad

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  trouble finding it. This morning, I woke up really early to a bright New ... to stare out at a skyline that looks back at me. 84 hours left of what ... Boston. It was a miracle that I ever made it to the airport in time. Then

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  promised to be or maybe you didn’t but i stand by the tree with no rope but a ... ="113884" /] oh, to be a mere celebration of oneself. [carousel image1 ... something silly, something weightless, i want my laugh to echo and

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  I walked into 21M.302: Harmony and Counterpoint II today to find this ... my activity coefficient away. He explained to us that this was a ... the classical style, you have to prepare the 7th degree of a chord in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Love Is Hard (A Sequel) wherein anon feels different from how he felt seven months ago

  

  many things. It's when seeing each other on campus brings a smile to ... certain smell suddenly starts to warm your heart in a way it never used to ... used to have. Or when a picture makes you want to climb into that moment

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 3, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Obama’s Visiting MIT! Does that mean he gets an advantage in the admissions process?

  

  as best as we can to find a venue that's the appropriate size. Also, by ... a visit to campus from the President is pretty darn special. Of course ... , so they're going to ticket the event by invitation only with a

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 20, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What MIT Grads Do With Their Free Time Want to see the fireworks up close? Simply turn an old car into a boat…

  

  , ever try to launch a very sketchy-looking homebuilt watercraft on a ... My friend Amrys (MIT '02) and a bunch of her fellow MIT-grad friends spent the last month converting a 1967 Chevy Bel Air into a boat - the

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  [/annotation] and I'm just so happy to find genuinely such good guys." There's a ... sexualisation I tend to talk about friend groups a lot on the blogs. I've always ... together. I was so surprised I was so easily able to form a friend group

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I saw a turkey the other day… hello, world!

  

  ...which may not be a big deal to most of you, but since I was on a ... we run to Jamaica Pond, which, as the route is also a team favorite, is ... and I had just woken up to go for a run, so at the time I pegged it as a

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 14, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory

  

  Find a Set: Set is a visual card game. "Sets" in Set consist of 3 ... trying to find one. This is incredibly unlikely; boards of 12 rarely don ... last week finding it, in a coding competition at 3am. It all started

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2014
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  about Greek life, to Rush a particular fraternity that you find valuable ... fair to compare one or the other on par. Joining a fraternity doesn ... something that you get just because you show up to all the Rush events for a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a penny for your thoughts? and what it is, and could be, worth

  

  .  And, honestly, nobody really cares. How long would it take you to find a ... to find an object of which there has not been a new one in half a ... sodainly say to them ‘a penny for your thought.’" Sir More was an English

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • February 20, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  in remembrance of the body affirming the mind–body connection

  

  downstairs and took a walk, and the sun was setting. so i tried to find as high a point i could stand on to watch the sunset. i ended up walking to, i ... my hunger. stand up every once in a while. remember to blink, because

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  blast, though. (I'll put a picture of me and my bro on later to embarrass ... (who is also coming to Maine) lives in Orange County, so he a) drove us ... from a plane to bring supplies to people, ie soldiers in the field), but

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  years of MIT? It is strange to walk into a building and find out that it ... experience will make available to you. Maybe you'll find a professor to do some ... innovation and the future. Certainly it isn't a bad thing to have respect for

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011