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• Blog / How to MIT

  BLARGL! Where have all the orange lockers gone?

  

  (which is in Maine). Due to a variety of reasons (none of which, I promise ... ways I am able to support my spending habit. I have a theory that ... good. I have a propensity to see something expensive, want it, and buy it

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  because i expect to be worth a billion dollars in the future. rather, what i ... . i don’t have much to show for my time in college other than a ... . in other words, i am learning to develop a more fluid model of myself

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  . Fortunately, however, snow with staying power chose a weekend to finally arrive ... : it was time to build a snowman. Now, as you probably noticed, there ... consider it my sacred duty to announce the [annotation note="i.e. the first

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  road trip here in my car I feel safest of all I can lock all my doors…

  

  I really like driving. I wanted to go to college in a city with ... because I like riding in cars. Sophomore year I got a Zipcar membership ... or so on the weekends) because I needed to drive. It's a calming

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  live in East Campus. Who knows, maybe you will even get to pet a cat :O ... will help a lot when you're deciding where to live in a few months, trust ... world gather for the first time together in one spot to go up to random

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  hobbies. I feel like I can grow more as a person." In an effort to make this ... peers. We wanted to share a snippet of our experiences and reach out to ... to have more freedom and fewer social pressures. It's a great time to

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  events led to me, a high-schooler, getting the opportunity to work in a ... work in a real Big Pharma biology lab for the summer"]9 to 5[/annotation ... this is a relief to me; I am very grateful that I did not have to find my

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  a mini mill in your dorm at MIT? And do you get time to work on your ... , Part 1 There are a lot of machine shops on campus, so in my massive ... .008 is a manufacturing class where you're required to make a large batch of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  find a few ways to pass time. I wrote. I wrote a lot. I taught ... and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is ... during Christmas. We got to stay near a beach, and watched the waves pound

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  hardcore organic synthesis to building a giant cardboard box in which to ship ... -smelling jobs we'd ever had. Have you ever been to a mushroom barn, like in ... possible to get this pipe wrench stuck in a piece of Unistrut, but somehow it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  words, a quick laugh in the hallway. Having them notice you seems to be of ... , especially in this very park. I used to find that suffocating, that there were ... graphic novels from a squat library. I gave a wide berth to a mom with her

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  So Long, So Long, Front Foot Leads the Back One Go on, and it won't be too soon...my Texas road trip (Part 1).

  

  because I'm in a spaghetti-type junction, so it starts going crazy trying to ... destination (according to my GPS), I'm basically in the middle of a field ... manage to get directions from a friendly pastor in the parking lot. I also

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  Japan, or majoring in sociology. Whatever, you NEED to have from a college ... college search process. She is the first in her family to attend college and although she has been a marvelous student in high school, she was really

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  you who get in will get to come to CPW. And some of you might have already visited overnight. You'll get to stay with a student, or a house (during CPW, if you stay in a fraternity, sorority, or independent living

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  . I don't know about you, but I think that's a lot to take in all at ... out a little bit in the application process, as well as to provide a ... , is that you'll also find a bunch of related blog entries hanging out on

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Three Weeks a short summary of this crazy place

  

  neighborhood. In regards to the latter, it is the exact opposite here at MIT ... first week of classes, I don't think I've ever taken a day off to relax ... little closer, it wasn't hard to see that East Campus had a niche for

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 12, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  living crisis to crisis." In the joke, however, was a pearl of truth; we ... truly enjoyed to stay in. As I tried to come up with a few examples for ... , so having to sing alone with a piano accompanist for the first time in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  route to transferring to MIT in September 2024, I attended a small liberal ... A thank you to all the supportive faculty & staff at the ’Tute In my first month at MIT, I: Caught COVID, then a cold, then strep

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH

  

  are a strange beast to me in E+M. 5:10am. Still thinking about SI units ... so as to illuminate the otherwise dark shadows in the figure. A ... in lecture. 6:51am. Damn. I didn't go to lecture today. I improvise a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 11, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Baseball!! a blog about baseball and internet games and embroidered hats and New Zealand Indie Rock.

  

  eventually go to a more entertaining game in the future.  The food, on the ... shops, but 15 dollars would have been a drop in the bucket compared to the ... to anyone. Go listen to Expert In A Dying Field Deluxe Edition

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 4, 2023