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• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  7:39 PM: It's Sunday night. I have four exams in the next week. Hey, I should blog! 7:40 PM: Erons '12 walks into my room. Erons is not ... . Incidentally, the set of such people that I know contains one member: namely

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  that I took part in: web.lab! It’s a student-run course here at MIT that teaches web development! I definitely wish I spent more time on this ... first friends I made here at MIT and my favorite "homegrown

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  What is Simmons Hall Like? part of my freshman year experience

  

  that Iron Man talks to in his workshop), which I assembled (from ... friends and I during our superhero day. The other one was holding a picture ... the only dorm that guarantees no velociraptors attacks. The first time I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 2+3: Westchester County Part 2 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  to note that for some reason I only ever end up eating one meal per day ... considered "sleeping in." I got to sleep in yesterday. :-) Woke up around 8AM ... to come see me today - heh) but I did have a great conversation with

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  Friday morning, which featured a stunning international menu. I had this ... me? Well, I only found out about the dinner about two hours before it started, so I set out to make a great American delicacy: Sloppy Joes. Sam

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  , he shares a lot of wisdom about MIT. One of his posts which I read on ... Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 license, I've posted the ... first semester at MIT was pass or no record, I was in real danger of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT History Makes MIT Spotlight! Again, bringing you live reporting from the underappreciated MIT History department.

  

  . Follow the story here! http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/constitution-1203 ... Professor Maier, teaching is not a one-way street. I believe she thinks that ... undergrads, are often so swamped with work from our technical classes that - I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Application question: scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions? Answering FAQs about the awards section in the MIT application.

  

  -scholastic" has been causing some confusion, based on web comments and phone calls. In an attempt to alleviate confusion, I sat down with my colleague Mc ... belong, but don't stress out over it. McGreggor and I also brainstormed a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What I’m Up To distractions

  

  day - I've been following Chloe Ting's workout routine per Kidist ... Since everyone's doing these kinds of "what i'm doing ever since my life got turned upside down", I figured I might join in with the chaos

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I Climbed a Mountain Today there's always gonna be another mountain!

  

  this long hiatus, I've been back in Taiwan (for 3 weeks!) catching up on ... , there's no time for puzzlemaking in MIT usually). Then, I returned to the States, and I've been happily living at Berkeley, CA, for the last 2

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology (fatima's version)

  

  inspired by Alan's browser archaeology post, I started looking at the ... then, looking at the over 1500 tabs open, that I realized that I had ... pretty bad..."]any tabs[/annotation] in the last 3 years, since I got my

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  I've recently started to use Notion on a small scale after Kathleen ... ways in my life that I've used task management, especially for goal setting. During the school year, I don't actually use much task management

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  snow:no snow ratio is. I bid someone to go forth and Google! And then get ... hipster. You just don't TALK about this kind of thing) For example, I'm friends with "MIT Engineers" on facebook, from whom I get the latest Tech

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  IAP is almost over! I wasn't on campus for most of it, but I finally ... workshop, which is about to come to a close. I had a wonderful experience, and it was a lot more fun than I expected it to be! I might blog about

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

   terrible, opened my Google calendar, saw I had nothing I desperately needed to do ... I hadn't been sick in years. I mean sure, I've had the occasional headache, and yes, there have been days where I just couldn't bring myself to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  EAPS Field Trip In which I pretend to be Course 12 for a weekend

  

  September 14th, I will lead our “annual” field trip to central Massachusetts ... weekend for van rentals so sign up early and reserve a space! Sam I've always had some curiosity about geology (since I took an Earth Science

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Events

  What’s This Mystery Hunt Thing?

  

  't have right answers to those! Anyway, I'm only posting just now, because I've been Operating. Death From Above is a HUGE team (our mailing list ... operator, I take other people's answers and call them in, so I also get to

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On sleep There's nothing certain in this world but sleep and taxes.

  

  Even though I am rarely directly asked this question, I know it ... you crazy kids ever get any sleep? Of course we do. I mean, for one ... , darn it. Being a biology major and dataphile and Excel-lover, I have

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  , Megan worked at Google, where she oversaw Google[x] and Google.org, and as ... mind and hand]," Smith told graduates: "it's heart. What I mean by heart is not just love and kindness. I mean wonder and discovery, it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  . I googled "how to write an ode" but then got distracted by one of my ... (-cough- google), I have discovered that you can also go to CopyTech for ... Full disclosure: Regarding the tagline: I have no idea how to write

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015