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• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  or buy new paper sheets, to upgrade my iPad’s internet plan and most ... entrance and exit gates. Within the plaza itself, paint-peeled buildings ... with the vibe and chatter of people searching for anything from clothes

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  incident Some friends and I were sitting on the floor of MG’s room. I was browsing email in search of free food when I came across Splash, a program ... , and How to Stay Private on the Internet, the list goes on and on.  MG

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  whiplash feelings from yesterday

  

  freshman year. you feel SURPRISE upon trying the food and realizing that it no longer makes you nauseous and has actually improved significantly 3 ... and there are no other drinks, so you buy a cookie even though you

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  start five minutes past the hour."]late[/annotation]anymore, and I know it ... scream past, sometimes five in a week, and my computer, hearing the noise ... ’m in Cambridge, reeling with a move cross-country and the start of the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  were going home for the holidays, and that I only knew six people who ... from the semester. And I was alone. My roommate left the Saturday of finals week, and by Christmas Eve, most of the people living in our hall

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No one: Absolutely no one:

  

  closet at home, and found some …. Things.  The sorting process started out normally. We went through the stacks of stuff, and pulled out hidden things ... , and memories, both cringy and happy, came flooding back. This container

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  envelope, prefilled national voter registration form, and free stamped return ... Vote to help them register to vote, be reminded about local elections, and ... making something that is difficult (and shouldn't be) easier by partnering

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An OME Welcome to the Institute I took Tsegball, and I have no regrets.

  

  , memorabilia, and snacks for college away in my mom’s Kia Rio as the dynamic duo ... the picture perfect start to ease my wave of nerves and angst, for what ... part of the cohort. The next day, my roommate Uriel, and some others came

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

    Ahh summer. The fresh air. The copious amounts of free time ... years ago I received my temporary housing assignment (Simmons), and since ... (West Campus, East Campus, Off-Campus). And from those experiences I think

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  We Treat You Nicely VOTE VOTE VOTE!

  

  Don't forget to vote for me in the 2008 Blogging Scholarship! And ... you live, a visit to MIT can be expensive and a little time consuming ... new Macbook) and so I just used that. I don't know how to resize them

  • by Snively '11
  • November 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  is 3:30 am Friday night and I am moving back to EC tomorrow starting 11 ... everything you own in a few hours and still get some sleep? Laundry is tumble ... tank top and a skirt, soaked my shoes and walked home barefoot. Now it

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.

  

  wanted to go to college, and I had a few ideas of where I wanted to apply and that was it. And so, what did I do, I procrastinated. Why? Because ... teachers and started writing my application essays. One can say it wasn't the

  • by Bryan
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are we going?

  

  . Our housemasters of several years, Prof. Julian Wheatley and his wife ... housemasters, Student Life staff, two GRTs, and two residents of the dorm. We ... about us and the halls could vote (in EC, there are ten halls, and each

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  acceleration in terms of 𝛉 and r, which is a lot simpler than x and y if an ... this stuff is real: we test it, and it makes accurate predictions. But I ... real life never is, and I'm grateful to be able to focus full-time on

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  , but also how much money will such a career much, does this career ... , thought, and effort that now has to be put into thinking about what is that ... choose from to do a research project on. I scrolled up and down the list

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  A critical factor in getting outdoors is having something to do, and for most people, they go through a rotation as the year goes round and temperatures and conditions rise and fall. For me, summer and fall mean rock

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  completely new place full of strangers and challenges and legends and horror ... the MIT community. No really, why? Because of the free stuff, obviously ... gender imbalance in STEM fields, Women’s and Gender Studies offered up a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  Brownies Billed as "the only fruits and veggies you might find all CPW ... through, and it's a sunny Fahrenheit 63 as I type this on Sunday afternoon ... actually No. 6) and New House. It's the tall one that looks like a hospital

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Aftermath Literally.

  

  probably focused on getting into college, and much of your life may have been ... to get in and got in or had all the passion in the world for MIT and ... the “2nd-Semester Senior” (SSS) wave early. My friends and I started

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 17, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  to some fixed point on Earth, you're all moving - and fast. It's all ... , you learn that any reference frame, with the right calculations and ... to do is shift your point of view, and things will feel much better

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011