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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Updates exciting, exciting!

  

  and move to the front, to make it easier for him to come to you and ... , preparing for Sunday’s competition. The pressure is on to get MIT’s car ready ... approach to the novel technologies available and seeking sponsorship from a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 17, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  . If anything, we are begged to ask for help more often. To quote one ... , too. This isn't to say that you should ask upperclassmen for help all ... advice will probably be more directly related to what you need to know for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  to South Korea for two weeks to work on a project. In the words of one ... classy!! It is company policy for most companies (I think) to provide ... family and friends. That night, we got to the beautiful guesthouse for the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  . Select up to 5 of your favorite pieces that you might want to stare at for ... Maseeh Hall has been my home here at MIT for the last four years ... lived in the same dorm for four years but I have lived on the same floor

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  predictably excruciating to prepare for. Never again. I also regret not taking ... poorly done. I wound up only going to S^3 once this semester to ask for an ... understandable to completely and utterly incomprehensible. For the entire last half

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  , in each of these topics to choose from, but that's for a later entry. I came to MIT wanting to be a mechanical engineer. I love building ... took a bunch of classes at a local college, you're going to have to get

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  . He reached for her one last time. She thought to slap him as his hands ... mass of toilet paper as people tried to hit every performer for every ... ’m probably one of the last few people awake, and will soon be crawling to my

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  really fast. Then I got the people standing in line for security to let me ... went for a bike ride and it's so beautiful outside that it inspired me to ... Cambridge for awhile to go somewhere with more trees, you will want to have a

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  nice and all, but this is an idea that is hard for me not to be doubtful ... for help or participate in groups; when i happen to be in the midst of ... will be times when i have hard problems to solve and nobody available to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  the last twenty days burning out before the semester even starts

  

  decided, would have to be easier. I had a twelve-week internship secured for ... two years, and it would be made available to both first- and second ... House. I did get some time to do things solely for myself though, which

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  , I talked for hours with Dell representatives, but to no avail. On ... ? At least for me, I would be so excited that I could barely sleep the night before. My clothes were laid out for me, my lunch would be packed

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  and artists and tons of little shops.  However, once we got to Santa ... country to visit the great state of California!  Growing up on Long Island, I didn't have much (any) exposure to the West Coast, and it was

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  for me to join the official Simmons Hall team, which has played the Hunt ... puzzle...but it was definitely worth it. For "That'll Tichu to Mess With ... 't anywhere near enough to get us close to winning, we all had a ton of fun

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  with their advisors to sign up for classes. The day before the first day ... quarter mile from French House to the heart of campus) for... Meeting #1 ... 's been devoting a ton of time to research." And ultimately, it's most

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  dating. My to-do list for today, in between my laptop and my tea, written ... to me from me for my 21st birthday. Its lid broke during the move from ... to see Broken Bells on March 5th, one for me and one for Cory, which I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  why it’s important to ask for help when you need it. Today is not the ... sick. What a joy it has been to experience illness during the first two ... for four days straight (and therefore, not in class, lab, or recitation

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  trying to get card access for the last week. Self-identified ladies, this ... incredibly nice locations for studying and sleeping. I’ve recently come to ...   (Thanks to Mingshi Y. ‘18 for the latin translation of the title

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How I Made the MIT Orientation Trading Card Game The Insatiable Urge to Collect Continues...

  

  pieces of paper for no reason.] There also has to be potential for this to ... acquire all of these cards? For each students to have a twelve-card pack, plus extras for OLs and staff, we'd need 16,200 cut cards. I wanted to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  and help to pave the way for the pro-market, small government wave of ... be sure, Nozick was not the first to advocate for such ideas, with ... “protection agencies,” which are businesses that individuals subscribe to for a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  , not three, but FOUR times since I last did, it is clearly time for me to ... about the Red Sox. Because had it not been for the MIT Blogs, I'm not ... allowed to say that on here?) I do, however, care whether YOU win or lose

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007