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• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  lately about making friends. People asked me how to make friends in college ... ’t inherent, in that, it was due to things everyone else can pretty easily do ... making friends in general, I’d say that it does require effort. You have to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  To tell the truth

  

  announced to the crowd that the score was 2-0 in the second inning. That part ... , was not true. To make matters worse, during the reception afterwards in ... much about MIT, but my job is to, in 30 or 60 or 90 minutes, encapsulate

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  places and to travel broadly in your time away from school. Just a month ... dodge drunks in urine-filled street corners and go to sleep when the ... stopped in the middle of the street to see what's going on. I still have my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in the life

  

  committee people talking about what was going to be in their fall budgets. UA ... Sorry I haven't updated in a while. This past week has been deathly ... in the life of an MIT student" thing. Psets/Projects -7.03 (Genetics

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  taught “Don't give in to peer pressure!”--an oversimplification of a ... freshmen to cook with them, or to be in a food co-op with them. (yes, I ... 's fair to call it peer pressure. People get interested in the same things

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  in the United States are women, and that number drops to 17.9% by ... programs MIT sponsors that try to get high school students interested in ... experiences. In short, Melissa, you don't have to worry about coming to MIT and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D

  

  we join together in our collective quest to destroy the dark lord ... patience when the kid in front of you had to spell "popcorn" when you had to ... already attended this event at REX only to travel backwards in time, where

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  existed. I had never known anyone to compete in any of them, or even ... consider applying to American colleges in general and MIT specifically, if ... , who placed third in the world at IOI and will be arriving at MIT to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  my underwear, and ready to throw in the really, really wet towel I was ... Trail. Which made sense to me, because I was dead last in our group, and ... inexperienced climber, Chris '10, who's in pretty good shape, and me, who used to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  academics like I am. thus, i don't really think I will fit in to a 'nerd ... considering staying in CA and going to berkeley or something (silly, misguided ... having to do rigorous psets. yep. so i just sent in my reply form to mit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Activities Midway Each year, MIT exhibits its 300+ student activities. Friday, I checked them out for you.

  

  this over at Sam's blog). Of MIT's 300+ groups, approximately 250 of them were on hand for the event. You can click here to view the entire list ... , which was held in the Johnson Athletic Center. When I arrived, I was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Should Go To Canada In which Kayla E. '15 and I took a spontaneous adventure to the great land…

  

  adventure to Montreal in the great land of Canada. Neither of us had been to ... : So all in all, it was a successful and spontaneous adventure to the ... . She asked me if I wanted to go to Canada, and I said yes. About 24 hours

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 15, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  doors to the rooms were open, and the light was streaming in from the ... guess happens when people keep pulling in friends they want to live with ... , which amounts to sitting in the living room with my headphones on while on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  i walk through campus and say stuff i cannot vlog to save my life

  

  Behold. I attempted to vlog. https://www ... tour typically lasts around 75 to 90 minutes, and it pays pretty well. I haven’t actually given an admissions tour in a long time. I ended up

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  . On Thursday, I was about to scan and e-mail in an application form for ... . Um. AHHHH! I freaked, ran to his office, only to learn that he was in a ... find a formalized way to get undergraduates involved in outreach. I hope

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer’s End To everything there is a season.

  

  amazing summer. I haven't even had the chance to blog about all the ... maxima culpa! You might say I've been living life too thoroughly to blog it ... -checked all my saved strains of yeast, handed my notebook to my post-doc, had a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come in, we’re open

  

  living in A-Entry for my first three years at MIT. But I'm moving to D ... assigned to Adam, but it has all my clothes and books in it. We're using it as a living room and study area, meaning that we get to watch TV in it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  ="108229" /] In honor of holiday meals at home, I want to share a holiday meal away ... ’ve decided to remedy that in as overzealous a fashion as possible. I ... comes to you in 4 parts. Part 1: The menu I write from ye olden days of

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  beavers. Our Harry Potter friends are looking on in amazement as to what ... members who must apply to their departments in order to lecture, and the ... subject exceedingly well. In preparation for these supervisions, you are to

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  . Basically, it’s training to become an officer in the U.S. Military. ROTC gives students the opportunity to complete that training while they are in college ... in areas of conflict.[/caption] Are you required to join the military

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019