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• Blog / MIT Life

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  goals to go along with it. I'll also start small, with three goals for ... about squeezing out every single penny I can. I'd rather use the time for ... I'm gaining money rather than losing it. Lastly, I also wanted to get

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 2, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  cement below. I scrambled down to salvage it, only to find the screen ... walking directions, but I was so used to being able to double-check that I ... , especially since it came back sluggish, but I was still committed to resisting

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  , it’s hard to estimate how long you can bike for when you’ve never quite ... [Gosha] Every time I go to Europe it feels like a revelation. I can ... thought about it before, but it seemed like a perfect way to really see a

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Conditioner For My Face "The dot product is the solution to all the problems of the universe. Even the…

  

  gems as, "Can I use your conditioner for my face?", "I cook with MY ... when he said "I've never been to Iceland, but I do believe it would be ... concentration cell. It sounds like a good place to study for an exam. That's not

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 18, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  was scared to do it right. but, i think it's important to share with the ... eventually dusted off my blog draft document and got to it. i hope you enjoy ... Elsewhere than here but equally full of adventures. You won't want to miss it

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 12, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  Andorra in a few days, so you'll be able to see it in on TV! [caption id ... country? Yes! Well technically it's a principality, or according to ... those to its French counterpart, so there is a lot of cultural overlap

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  without planning it in advance"]happened to be on the same flight as a ... wondered how it would feel to be back. The cliché goes that "home is where ... to make and new stories to tell. It’s not the same, but it’s still home.

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  All these days I spend away What does "home" mean to you?

  

  home, as strange as it sounds, is MIT. I didn't expect that to happen ... sentence. But it's actually true. And in the long run...I wouldn't want it to ... enjoyable and awesome an experience as it possibly can be. Sure, maybe we

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Life On Mars and by "Mars" I actually mean "3AB, Simmons Hall."

  

  When it comes to housing at MIT, you've got quite the array of options. You want to explode things and paint crazy murals on the wall ... as close to "apartment-style" living as you can get in the dorms. This

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  your CPW host. Please respond to them as quickly as you can--school doesn ... CALLED 'KAPOW'!!! IT IS STANDARD ETIQUETTE THAT ANYTHING RELATED TO CPW ... people, so it won’t be awkward. Pinky promise. Be open to the weird and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  like me right now. I've found that it's useful to identify your power ... 't bring my Source of Truth to the exam, I like to use the quiz-recall method ... I covered. I also use it to jot down random thoughts that come up and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  method is mental health it’s got some preconditions. You can’t expect that method to run properly when you’re not satisfying its preconditions. If ... ’ll just go on a walk. I think it’s important to use something other than

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stories from Uganda [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Installing an exhibit in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery.

  

  , medium format workhorse weighing in at about 8 pounds with its 180mm lens—to ... melt and stick to surfaces after heated. Using a tacking iron, I melt ... press. I then trim the image to my liking using a heavy duty art knife

  • by ARTalk
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Quidditch: The Best Thing EVER? Yes.

  

  about getting used to moving on the broom and handling the ball with just one hand (since the other holds on to the broom). We used a volleyball ... Living Groups. It was great to meet people from all over campus with a

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Venturing to far living groups

  

  , with airholes poked in the end to keep it soft. These guys were moving ... deliberately circled around here to make it easier for Yoyo to get a pic. "Grrr ... first time I heard of it). pika is an Independent Living Group, or ILG. An

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  relevant to the course and uses topics you have touched on, it'll take an ... have time to grade it and provide feedback. What actually happens in the ... 'll make more sense when they teach it to you. You'll run into these

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Open Sesame…Ring. RFID magic + a ring = wearable CharlieCards

  

  're RFID-enabled rings that you can use to pretty much punch your way into a ... evidence, witness the burritob0t, one man's attempt to use technology and ... Facebook feed to find a ring that can replace my CharlieCard, an RFID

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental Materials Answering questions about extras beyond the formal application.

  

  activities/accomplishments can be useful, particularly if it is an usual pursuit or it requires further explanation than what you can fit in the ... research paper that we will be able to have it properly evaluated during our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Class Projects

  I DON’T NEED YOU ANYMORE. the making of my final video project

  

  place and walk through some issue related to it. I decided to do my third ... , not only from where I was to where I am, but also make use of all the ... structure that the audience can follow to understand where the documentary has

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  actually going to get them to go near the speed of light? We can use a ... detector connected to a multi-channel analyzer, where we can use a ... to Physics majors, it's not a strict major requirement unless you’re an

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022