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• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  that mit is slower than the rest of the world, but in the sense that you can optimize walking significantly when armed with basic knowledge of ... applied to their walking. with that in mind, this post contains some

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  time travel is overrated conversing with my past self

  

  on the last day of freshman orientation, just a few days before i ... inboxes at the end of freshman year.  my letter, written while walking home from the auditorium, was a list of eleven questions. sadly, at the end of

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • November 2, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  , hopefully this format makes sense. I'm donating half of the income that I ... been recently. Also, a full text description of the images is at the end of the post for accessibility! — [visually_hidden]Querida Ana

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  Yesterday was the first day of my senior spring, which is also the last first day of my undergraduate studies at MIT. It is the kind of milestone that keeps appearing, with an increasing sense of urgency. The last

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  18th. Of course being that it was a long plane ride, I wrote some entries, read some books, watched some episodes of How I Met Your Mother (I ... long hold times on tech support, arguing, and TWO reformats of my

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  instead, let me talk about some of the things I've been doing in the past ... of eBay. I've been wanting to replace my laptop since at least the ... a new laptop around the end of July, following the advice in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  beginning of my sophomore year at MIT, I signed with my wonderful agent, Penny Moore of Aevitas Creative Entertainment. If you’re curious about how that ... first round of revisions and sent it back to Penny. When she replied with

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  I disappeared into the battlefield of the semester, not to be heard ... harder, driven by a lack of breaks and the persistence of pandemic ... than both of those already difficult semesters. It is the most difficult

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  applied[/caption] Continuing my UROP On top of my internship with NASA, I ... . So before that happens, and before the feeling of summer slips away ... of the summer living in a tiny apartment in Boston on the fourth floor

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  As the final hours of my first semester at MIT come to a close, I ... meant to me. I have truly met some of the greatest and most incredible ... the majority of my days with them. It's an incredible feeling knowing

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  opportunity for learning. This does not apply to everybody, of course, I'm just ... 've graduated!!! Holy smokes, four years of MIT and now it's over. It seems like ... moment, all of the episodes, and you realize that it didn't go fast, that

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  If you are reading this, it means I am successfully on my way out of ... would be a D or F). There are a few existing camps of advice on how to ... without the risk of failure Above all us, every upperclassman has one piece

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  italy research in pompeii

  

  , analyzed samples of roman concrete, learned how to mosaic and fresco, visited ... . It was one of the most interesting classes I’ve ever had, getting to ... the airport[/caption] The two desginated adults of the trip were Admir

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 18, 2024
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  How do you raise hundreds of thousands of dollars, design the merch that defines half of campus fashion, build software that powers ... thousand-person hackathon?  My friends have gotten sick of me yapping about

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  at all representative of everything MIT has to offer nor is it the only ... Now that the class of 2025 has arrived, they are, expectedly, chock-full of questions for all of us current MIT students and I find myself

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  classes, like 18.100B, this applies only up to a finite amount of lateness ... later into something more like a random assortment of wingdings characters ... week - the day I had planned to grind out the near-entirety of my 18.100B

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  This was one of those days on which I just did so much that I can ... for an inch of rain and a thunderstorm in the White Mountains, Joe '08 ... 's all a state of mind. Read on and find out how I spent the second day of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005
• 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)

  

  driver’s manual because none of those laws apply to me anymore so I assumed ... Last Thanksgiving break, a few of my friends and I visited Acadia ... Airbnb months in advance, creating an itinerary of trails to hike, and even

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

  day in my life except it’s a live blog

  

  crew of astronauts on the ISS). maybe i'll write a post about it in a ...  Pickpocket which i saw as part of an urban planning film series that one of my ... people ask stuff like "what kind of movies do you watch" or "what kind of

  • by Victor D. '27
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  to South Korea for two weeks to work on a project. In the words of one of the trading company folks – “They chose an intern!?!? Which crazy ... with some of the coolest people in the world. And it did happen for a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014