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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  figuring your life out and your employers will never know. All of these marks

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps for EA Deferred what to do next

  

  thing, this thing that Lydia said (hint: this is good life advice

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  of life in three parts: to be with each other. To work towards a better

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  My favorite room on MIT’s campus a personal room of requirement

  

  My favorite room is a well-kept secret. I won’t reveal the location, but you can easily deduce longitude, latitude, and altitude from the view:     It’s good to be…

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 24, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  have something for the first day of learning. -- basic life supplies

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  Writing is difficult. It’s the last day in July.* I find it very easy to DO things, but writing is difficult. So, I have decided to write this all in…

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  you that life is a marathon, not a sprint, are correct.  One way to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  apart after a winter is a waste of money. You don't have to #BuyItForLife

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps For the Deferred what to do next

  

  this thing, this thing that Lydia said (hint: this is good life advice

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  consider a college, but it is also not what defines my MIT life. There’s so ... memories is likely closer to your life right now, from my senior year of high

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  So I’ve been in classes here for, as of yesterday, one whole month. Time goes by pretty fast. Really, really fast. When I came here I was super worried about…

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  students got to hear several different pespectives on life at the Institute ... that I love about MIT (which was not true of my life before MIT) is that ... stuff. We grabbed dinner at Birds and caught up on life at/after MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  and started asking about what Boston life is like.  Turns out he's going

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 4 Finishing Exams and The Future!

  

  Teleportation - A.K.A Magic In a previous life(a.k.a 4 years ago) I wanted to be a

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  a lifestyle change: *     *     * Post-MIT life involves a lot of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  your comfort zone to figure out what it takes to live a balanced life at MIT.  People say "Social Life, Classes, Sleep - pick two." But you can ... with choosing classes or doing well in classes or life or anything else

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  if we could.  However, it is not a representation of what MIT life is

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  , I hadn't expected SAT skills to come up again in my life, but studying

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Est-ce que je suis prêt? Peut-être. Je dédie ce post aux chatons, parce qu'ils sont trop mignons à se noyer :(

  

  Bonjour, blogosphère! Ça fait longtemps que j’ai écrit un post. En toute honnêteté, il y avait beaucoup de choses et des événements qui se sont passés le dernier semestre, mais…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 21, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mormons and video gamers Bonding with strangers

  

  On New Year’s Eve, my family went out to see Book of Mormon. When I wasn’t laughing, wincing, or wondering about the ceiling’s structural integrity, I was glancing over at the guy sitting next…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2014