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• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  ; The other day, I wandered out of my friend Alison’s room. I was ... I encountered the Next House moving carts on my first day at MIT. I ... ="Freshman Shorna was punching the air"]obtaining my key,[/annotation] I grabbed one

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  addition to juggling all my other friend groups. given that i gained so much ... with my dorm being offline due to renovation: find another dorm on campus ... . cooking for myself, on the other hand, is easy, fun, and just better for my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  and my friends to not say anything about it if I don't get in? That ... although I would like to be comforting: 1) I worry that my words will feed ... share my personal system for dealing with nerves; I do acknowledge that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  of time with my good friend Sarah, visit cool places in NJ, and go to ... , one of my good friends from high school, is visiting this weekend. I ... . After that, I dedicated all of my time to studying for the 8.02 exam that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  my bike, recruited a friend, and returned a few hours later. The street ... ="aligncenter" width="300"] @wildrabbitmotoshow[/caption] Finally my friend and I came ... my shirt. “That album got me through a breakup,” said the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  a college campus (and at my alma mater no less) exposes me to random ... phases of my life. a while back, i was waiting in atlas to get my ID card ... ) made me relive the times i grinded through those tedious psets with my

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  friends and family, perhaps visiting your favorite childhood haunts in a ... that’s accepted by both your friends and your folks (no matter how ... , family or friends suggest that you be one thing, yet you’d really prefer to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  walk in anytime and find some friends to sit down with, and I feel like I ... 're tooling problem sets with your friend at Baker, you don't have to walk all ... 've eaten house dinners at four different FSILGs (see my entry where I ate at

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  me how I'm doing spending three months away from all my friends and ... unfortunately, at my work place, to the highest of high-end seat-warming bidets ... experience, to say the least - while my lab is an international lab run by an

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  schedules fall into utter disarray at MIT. While some of my friends never ... sustenance is not recommended. my friend's doctor told them to not eat more ... Gregor, which a great place to live! Thank you to my friends Winnie '24 and

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  of my friends (including Becky ’12, another former student of medieval ... problem. There was some quantity I wanted to maximize (say, my happiness, or ... solved for, I could plan my future by laying these decisions out in front

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  , more about the hubcaps. My freshman year, my friend from Caltech was ... art in my dorm, East Campus. According to the MIT Mind and Hand Book ... about my own dorm - and as you might have guessed from the title, I want

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / Events

  REX at Simmons Hall 2015 water balloon wars, pancakes, roofdeck parties, and a trojan duck

  

  think how I was attending these events with my friends as a freshman and ... freshmen. Here's the REX schedule for the events my friends back at Simmons ... ) and will be sharing with them the many things I've learned at my time at

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 31, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  in an effort to be whole again recovery

  

  the same, where my Friday through Sunday is filled with [annotation note ... key presses as I'm anxiously bent over my computer, staring at the ... [/caption] Then my Mondays are spent relaxing a bit or catching up with 18

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  CMS.621: Fans & Fan Culture the class that changed my career trajectory?

  

  -hating, women-hating shell of myself and I'm grateful that my friend introduced me ... I first saw the class in the course catalog during my freshman year. I ... no one other than Ed Schiappa. But then to my dismay I saw that the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  enough. Sure, it was well-received, certainly by my friends, and in general ... favorite musicals, and our conductor was one of my good friends, who lives on ... part 1: impact One of my strongest core beliefs is that the answer to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  academic routine. Each time my friends and I discuss my first true brush with ... my luggage in the past hour was enough embarrassment for all of 2025 ... . Despite all my best efforts, I couldn’t get the lock to turn. My host family

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  't sleepwalk your way to perfect grades anymore. My first semester at MIT, I realized just how meager my high school preparation had been. I had never ... upset when I got grades below 90; my first semester at MIT, I learned to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  to Jamaica for a week sophomore year with my friends Rose '05 and ... The ADD recap of my Christmas break: Ohio. California. Maine. I am ... sincerely apologize for the large size of my blog banner. Holy cow. To be

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  myself. Once, at 11 PM, I called one of my best friends at home in Ohio to ... , so I will skip to after the test, when I had my score in hand and began ... around the city for a while. Wandering around Boston is one of my favorite

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005