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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goal setting and organization how i organize my life!

  

  can make sure you have the bandwidth for every to-do list item ... I often get asked how I organize my life, my time, and whatnot and ... 's more convenient to just stick to the norm. I've tried to get into

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  -challenged person (read: I can still get lost with Google Maps), I wouldn't trust ... off the train, I was greeted by a gulf of freezing wind. I mean literally freezing. I took the T to Kendall, and after exiting the station

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Rain is evil There's only one kind of good snow, and rain isn't it.

  

  much of this static electricity buildup nonsense that's been driving me ... of ice water (much deeper in places), just sitting there waiting for ... ! Also, it's apparently going to freeze tonight, which means we'll be

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  I still retain something from my contest math days and can totally do ... support systems, and I want to curl up in a ball and demand "why don't I get ... withdraw from MIT entirely and become a hermit in the woods -- surely I can

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  here when you get back.) i had a list of distractions on hand, so i can ... , you can hit snooze on. you can keep hitting snooze until you need to ... , when i'm on edge and i'm worrying and things are on my mind, i can keep

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  you were doing, you could in theory get observation time on the VLA. I say "in theory," because as you can probably imagine, getting time on ... can't see radio waves! Nowadays, astronomers apply for "observing time

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  has this super awesome tunnel system in which you can travel pretty much ... Wisconsin, and the other, Abby, is from San Diego. Last week I get home from ... first taste of fall. Yeah, I will admit I am freezing my butt off. But

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  only what I need to do tomorrow. I don’t have too much bandwidth to stay ... ?” “For the hell of it. Oh man, my mouth’s getting numb,” they say, reaching ... one item per day (that I can’t find until weeks later) and eat whenever

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Mid-May Update Q&A: Athena tips and hints

  

  solutions out there. You can get instructions on how to set one up at http ... a fully-licensed copy of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, you can get it ... . j) Want an email alias, or two, or ten? You can get (anything

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments, UROPs, field trips, and OMG HP7! The most awesome blog entry ever. Because...okay it's probably not. But it's all about how…

  

  , Craig, hasn't been around much at all this summer. I can't hold it against ... long cruise to the Caribbean. It doesn't get much better than that ... Libby. Ana Lucia was much more kick-butt. Oh well, I've never been

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  -Piper said of her MIT experience: "The brief thumbnail sketch of getting here ... early '80s, they were doing a big push to get a lot more girls to go into ... I can do that. So I applied to MIT and I got accepted, and then I took

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  but if you spend more time you can really get a lot more out of it ... interested in, you can find a lot of people doing things around it. For me ... and spent time in different communities, getting the feel for different

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  way. The whole experience was so incredible that I still can’t quite ... very little bandwidth to marvel at this phenomenon because I’d failed to get enough sleep (and food) on the two flights it took to get to Manaus

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  dance dance revolution lessons from ddr

  

  corresponding arrows reach the top of the screen; you get points based on how well ... two pads at once) and freezes (long arrows that require holding down a ... freeze and a jump[/caption] towards the end of my second ddr session i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  I wasn’t about to let anything get in the way of my Acadia trip ... .” For the last three years, I’d always put off getting a US license for ... excuses, and this Thanksgiving trip was the catalyst I needed to get started

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Hacks

  This was meant to be written a week and a half ago

  

  hour on this [obscenity] freezing day when I had an [obscenity] early ... sculpture that lives in the East Campus courtyard. We tried really hard to get ... labor on no sleep in freezing weather, so the burgers got cold. I ate one

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  introverted, and my social bandwidth is limited, even more so when it comes to virtual interactions. I can text one or two people regularly and be content ... so much joy to my day. Most days I ended up reaching out to people and

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  . Without getting too into detail, so you can see for yourself, it's about a ... it feels more official. 3. Draw your storyboards. Get an idea of what ... frustrating and I can't do it any more. I quit." Pause. "I'm fine, I'm fine, I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The seniors are tired but the frosh are fine

  

  , but it's only a lie in the sense that it can't be truth, because truth is a complicated thing and no one statement can ever capture ... can choose to delay this it would only delay the inevitable

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  , so as to get internships, or get in to grad school? How much will you ... choose MIT, you get to take a gap year. You’ve been selling your soul to ... would teach me more science than I’d get anywhere else.  So I went and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020