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• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  up with cute names for everything else I'm doing, too ... , considering i've been doing it for approximately two weeks! Parkour has been ... that they break down all the different motions we learn for us and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Expedition New England Travel That is Good for the Soul.

  

  As one of my “Treat. Yo. Self.” presents for my birthday, I got 3 ... simply enjoy life. For those who don’t l know, I come from a town in ... Amtrak Train ticket, and some extra room for a souvenir shirt for myself

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  , and the possibility of a full-time job; occasionally, it comes up for ... 's an argument for applying. What kinds of fellowships are out there ... audiences. For astronomy graduate students, this website has a pretty

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  Blogging, for me, has never been about immediacy. Life as it happens ... for dessert after you've poured it into a mold and refrigerated it for 4 ... blogging in real-time for ten minutes: 10:23 pm: I cough for approximately

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  've been helping out with research for the past two semesters, today just ... --I think they might have ended up splitting it 6 ways for lunch. Below, you ... provides suggestions for everybody's research, he has a knack for explaining

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  class period. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. Six times for six classes, for (what ... has their own subjective view of what boring is. For instance, some find ... campus boring. I find it just long enough for a good conversation with a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  consumption of AI. For example, did you know that Google's LLM-powered search ... about serious science; it's also an opportunity for the MTL community to ... for the conference. It was just that I had to wake up at 6 AM

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  prediction when I got an email. I remember sitting at my desk in the Google ... through my email when I saw the subject line “Decision made for ….’ flash in ... had been rejected for a number of opportunities earlier that week, so I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  will work for me. I'm not a big google calendar user, unlike some people ... different, and each of us has a different capacity for extracurriculars ... . for me, four classes (one of which is secretly like 1.75 classes), doing

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  . For most students, college will be their first experience largely ... B, Example C from a quick Google search). However, with enough adjusting to prices and scrounging for the best deals, I've found a way to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  . for instance, i remember when i was in elementary school, my parents ... every time an adult passed me i’d tense up and brace for the possibility ... you to great outcomes that you otherwise would never experience. for

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  outlining my goals for this quarantine. i also made a habit tracker for some ... day of the month. but my streak for filling said chart out lasted a ... , i thought i'd have much more time for personal growth. turns out

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  bouncing around my head for about a week nonetheless.   In the summer ... school anyway (scholarships, man). For some reason, I went to mitadmissions ... app was a lot friendlier than a lot of what Common App asked for. Then

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week in the Life Hello, Google Calendar.

  

    Hi. Meet my Google Calendar, the metronome to which my life ... . It was not for anything XFair-related. "reg day meeting" In the afternoon, I met with my advisor ("reg day meeting"). Typical protocol for

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  originally drawn for the awesome Aquil Fannis.  But I decided to take a break ... past semester in the Destiny Lounge of Random Hall, an abode for ... unholy amount of Netflix. But we were better off for doing it together, and

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

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  Six for those without Google Translate), an annual Family Weekend event ... to do laundry by myself or to know which medicine I should take for ... I had to wake up early enough to clean and prepare for their arrival

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  . For those too lazy to google it, LiveScribe is a pen that does something ... -up company called LiveScribe. They flew us into California for the weekend to ... , so you can check his blog out for some videos showing the pen

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  at work (written back in August, but still perhaps true?), but for now ... with the big front wheel? They provided hours of fun for us when we were ... adults. The rules were simple: Modify a Big Wheel for racing using all of

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Baseball!! a blog about baseball and internet games and embroidered hats and New Zealand Indie Rock.

  

  split the class into 10 teams of approximately 100 kids, and for every ... Red Sox, but winning is fun and I wanted to have fun. For the first time ... stadium cheered for the red sox as Enmanuel Valdez hit a single with only

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 4, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  for the past month: And, before you ask, yes, I refuse to use Google ... of a simplification for how engineering works, because much of its ... beam made of wood. And while this works often for general calculations

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020