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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  my first trip to the farmer's market in Boston, on a lovely Saturday ... went to go do some yoga at a great (and affordable!) place on Newbury ... from Newbury St. all the way to Haymarket. It was a lovely day--a bit

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  a year since I've graduated and I'm happy to report that real life isn ... cash, got strapped to a skydiver, and was pushed out of a plane.  It was ... accessible only by car.  My research also revealed that getting your skydiving

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  speed walking through it, by maintaining a pace that will ensure you get ... speed up a little, 1.5x speed online lectures to get through them all, go ... an effort this break to try to move a little. Since we don’t like most

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  supposed to be a priority, somewhere up there with getting good grades and ... -qualified enough to get into a top university, chances are he or she worked pretty ... your hall to get things done. Two people working on a problem set

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  . It’s a story I’ve heard from plenty of people. I needed to be careful, because I was surrounded by people who wanted to see me fail. This dynamic ... spectacular that others might want it, and isn’t that a boastful claim to make

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  . Feedback – It’s nice to get honest feedback from a peer about how ... that course 20 focuses a lot on, it’s really nice to get that ... beginning of the year, recruiting impressionable freshmen who want to get

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

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

  

  biked to D-Lab to weld. I’d started a new project two weeks before finals ... guy who I’d taught how to weld, a nice student, good at taking criticism ... artisans spoke mainly to him. Three stalls down, I remembered that this was a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Morning Person rise and shine

  

  a stressful rush to get to school on time for first period. Here, each ... naturally wake up very early. I know, it's a nice "problem" to have ... , depending on the time of my earliest class on a given day, I have three to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 14, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  this one, get back to dancing a lot, and more. I've already started on ... overwhelming than I thought it was going to be - a confusing whirlwind of psets ... . At the beginning of January, I flew back to Boston for a month

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play Labs yay an accelerator for VR startups

  

  to get follow-on investments as part of their seed round (up to an ... film producer. Jeez that's a lot of accomplishments, Riz. I can't wait to ... doing a virtual dog simulator. Excited to see how these startups do. The

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 18, 2017
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  used it mainly to get a second machine opinion on the sentiment of each ... , which is a measure of sentiment ranging from -1 to 1 calculated by taking ... of them. I ended up having to pay for a storage facility in the area

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  them to broaden their horizons, and students like me get swayed by status ... , and the realistic impulse to be a part of and be recognized by the ... 2 types of games. Finite games where the goal is to win on a

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  , GEL students are challenged to make their internships a more meaningful experience by asking for more leadership opportunities and establishing a ... . About a week later, I wrote an initial report to describe not only how my

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Attack! My war diary.

  

  whoever you see." Conner 2 is lucky to have a roof that's accessible from ... (I tried to place myself into the mindset of a war reporter, covering ... into Conner 4, which was blocked. A small packet proceeded to the 5th

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  My Favorite Spots in Cambridge/Boston well-trodden and well-hidden alike

  

  dope! Keep in mind that it tends to get a bit crowded on weekends (for ... I went to the pond, my boyfriend and I stopped by a place called Moozy ... the North Point Park, which is a nice way to see the Leonard P. Zakim

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking 3 math classes this semester as someone who isn't a fan of math

  

  amount of logic and reasoning. It's satisfying to see things line up with a ... technique to get to an answer. It's been pretty stressful, not gonna lie. Yet ... 's interesting! The process of getting to an answer is grueling, but figuring out

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  -- is there a good chance that I'll be able to get the HASS-D course I ... stuff -- there's almost always a way to get what you want. 2. Curious Freshman wrote, Are professors rated by students? Is there a way to see the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  course in probability and/or statistics, so you might as well get a head start in statistical thinking now. First, a few facts on which to chew: 1 ... 't have a citation for this, which is sketchy, so feel free not to believe

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Funny pictures of me I wear a New Year's party hat. That's funny, right?

  

  !). I ate way too much food and tried to tone down my age a bit by putting ... having something of a get-together. It was just my aunt's family, a couple of her friends, and their kids (which turned out to be a surprising

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  when familiar stories help me get through change. If I had to pick a non ... use my promo code “Hi, I’d like to get a library card!” to start ... LIBRARY! If you like audiobooks, consider getting a FREE library card at the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024