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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  to complete on transportation in Boston. Here are two methods that I ... . Hopefully the final edition will be something useful that anyone can refer to ... – – “Most likely to cause you to stub your toe on an unevenly paved sidewalk

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  Transportation Authority is here and Google Maps is here. Learn to love these ... downloaded from iTunes and buying furniture for the new apartment to do a public service announcement on where to buy stuff for your future

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  whirlwind of finishing finals, flying to DC, driving home to Pennsylvania, visiting family in Delaware and New York, and traveling to Cape Cod with some MIT friends before officially arriving back to my very-not-unpacked dorm

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  group together! We quickly made a Google Doc to brainstorm a list of food ... , though, so when prompted with the option to buy a meal plan for ... : 1.) we still had to feed ourselves and 2.) we had an abnormal amount

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  organizing stuff. I have tried to start using a google calendar, but it’s not ... college? what?? Like many I’ve talked to, I’m still stuck a couple ... that I graduated from grade school. Ironically, it’s really starting to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  checking Google Maps. After nearly a year here, I’m starting to know ... writing, and working, and meeting many people. I want to preserve it, like a ... to wake up at 7:30, hit snooze a lot, and stumble into a cafe around 9

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song

  

  house team sent care packages to the residents housed in baker. there was chocolate, and granola bars, and a note. “we look forward to gathering with ... was supposed to be may 31, but because of the situation, we could (again

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  now. And while it still feels insanely weird to be moving so slowly, I’ve found myself with a lot of time to “stop and smell the roses.” There’s this tendency at MIT to start making summer plans all the way back in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  Netflix to brush up on my Spanish, googled instructions for how to make a 3 ... I really ought to be well-rested if I want to be up and ready to stuff my brain full of knowledge by 10:05am. Unfortunately, what I ought to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  science majors to left-handed people. Try Googling for "scholarships", and ... dedicating an entry to answering them. Please, if you have questions, feel free to ask! If I can't answer them, I'll tell you so! Drew asked: "Could

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  or 4W, depending on who you ask. Among many things, I am fortunate to ... fortunate to have a somewhat interesting story to tell. Read ahead ... supposed to leave Next House for Kendall Square, to ride the T to South

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  . I have one book to my left—Stephen King’s Four Past Midnight—which I was finally able to read over the past week, and propped on my legs is ... resolution to start reading a novel, a resolution that lasted just about until

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  . But in the last month, since coming back to MIT from Thanksgiving break ... all you want is a few more precious minutes to figure out that damn ... was kind of a bath of crap (my roommate, Sneha ’13, can attest to this

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  . Life after it happens is at least semi-solid enough to serve on a plate ... about recycling, etc. I consider reading it and decide to keep blogging ... :33 pm: I really, really need to cough again. Anyway, because it's summer

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  friends and remember to message them back and Google Calendar a time to meet ... has abruptly given way to winter. It’s the cold air stinging my airway ... ="course 6 (EECS) has a nice program that allows you to work towards your

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  played games, watched virtual reality horror films, and listened to my 12 ... graduate MIT. People were going to start asking me what I was doing after graduation, and I had to pen some sort of answer, even though honestly I still

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  of you who haven’t – well, I’m about to tell you about it :) Camp ... a number of events and fundraisers on campus to raise the $65,000 we need to make Camp Kesem happen each summer. One such event took place

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Hello, Ma Sheng Li Gong A journey of four years begins with a single blog.

  

  . We were en route to Mathcamp 2004 (which was held in Colby College, ME), and we decided to stay in Boston for a couple of nights before heading ... with knew a grad student from MIT and asked us whether we would like to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  scurvy. I walk to Trader Joe's and buy a 5 lb bag of oranges. I google ... avoid thinking about the other things I need to do but have not done and do not want to do; working is how I run from my fear that nobody will

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  The idea of taking a gap year, like to most, initially terrified me. Instead of spending time in school, I’d have to find other things to do. There were no class schedules or club meetings to provide some substance

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023