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• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  : recycling! So, welcome to "Flashback: Part 1," where my older and wiser senior self will laugh herself silly over my less wise freshman self. So, who am I? I'm Laura, and in my first entry ever, I introduced myself to the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT CodeIt or: the best decision i've made this semester

  

  roommates or buying Hades, this was the peak of my semester. I had such a ... the program. The Application Process I had heard of the program from my ... that confident in my coding skills back then, but it was something I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Events

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  spare before midnight to eat some mooncakes with my roommate and call my ... " align="alignnone" width="1000"] A most stunning sunset of Dorm Row my ... like home. I spent the first few days moving my stuff from storage into

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how the first midterms actually were xoxo gossip girl?

  

  immediately started busting out laughing with my roommate about how awful we ... I believed in my abilities so much that I genuinely go around telling ... today to confirm that I have lost my powers. MIT is infamous for humbling

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  places unless I had a very good reason. One such place that my roommates ... , Saturday, August 30 whenever the words decide to magically appear on my Word ... . Bummer. Musical suggestions that I dug out of my old/new Spotify playlists

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  from my living community suggested that a group of us take the course ... document my thoughts from each section. Writing things down is the most ... ) to 10 (Always). The first number is my result from the beginning of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  , and hanging out with my roommates without feeling dread about psets the ... take less than 60 units? As of writing this, I’m finished with my ... . My mom once told me about an experiment where lemmings learned to swim

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  .” My roommate Olga said this to me in our room after my rendition of ... importance of taking time periodically to think about my vision of the ideal ... . My friend (and one of my favorite people) Caroline M. '18 wrote the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  text of Learning to Learn at MIT below: It was the end of my freshman ... problems on the test. I had to step it up and give it my all in order to pass ... did not really like the classes my first semester; I saw them as an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Events

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

  

  , my roommates from last year, from various blogs that I posted last year ... fraternities, I'm basing everything primarily on my fraternity. The two dozen ... how much my opinion matters or would apply to future students, but here

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

  Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this

  

  , I write about video games from a CMS-y perspective for my major, but ... rigorous for my burned out summer brain. I guess what I'm trying to say is I ... dent because I've been attempting to partition my work time and my free

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…

  

  -core temperature (you can tell I'm enjoying my biology class). If one of these ... , Will, Stephen, Lillian... (Person turns to me, tries to remember my name, can't remember. Person tries luck at guessing my name anyway...) Person

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 26, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  -edited compilation of notes from my cross-country train trip from Boston to San ... thinking about the fact that 2023 is, in fact, my graduation year. After ... collected my things and moved to the lounge car once again, where I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  school — the idea that people will judge me solely based on my research ... some point in my grad school life, I’ll have to come up with ideas and be ... use my calendar as a todolist sometimes, yes, i know it’s bad, no, i

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 18, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  for work, and made dinner with my roommates almost daily. I burnt the tips of my fingers soldering, sliced the tip of another with a box cutter ... During my hiatus, I spent a lot of time working and [annotation note

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  nutshell, my thought process could be summed up like this: This probably ... enough time. Many questions came into my head as I toiled on how to crack ... /minor/concentration-related thought that has ever so slightly come into my head? It led me to think

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  ceiling fan spinning dangerously close to my face and my roommate, Alysse ... one AC in the living room, under which I conveniently situated my desk ... , make coffee, drag myself over to my desk, code for a couple of hours

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• 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.

  

  green paper crane from Irina O. ‘15, my roommate and lifelong close friend ... My sophomore fall I took an STS (science, technology, and society ... objects attached to them. Here are the things on and around my desk and also

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  something that's been on my mind quite a bit ever since I moved back into my ... have my freshman year home back, and it's more satisfying than my ... —these are just my opinions, and even though I'm a senior, I've lived in East

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  restaurants around offer good vegetarian options. For example, on my list of ... will be very useful.My question is;in what extracurricular activities ... 'm looking forward to hear from you." I've covered some of the question in my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006