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• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  the people I’ve met on hall, learning how to skate down in the tunnels ... Sometimes, you need to let things go up in flames. . . . I have ... of things to write about—there’s always something going on in my life

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  because I relish the time I get to spend spacing out and basking in the ... to complete on transportation in Boston. Here are two methods that I ... walk back across the Harvard Bridge to get to my apartment. According to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A love letter to psets Masochists In Training

  

  them in so many different ways - to actually think about problems - you ... starting to get a little idea of what being a scientist feels like.  You can ... . p.s. I think even my iPhone is getting used to our new relationship

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to my home Feel free to chill in here

  

  have 4 large windows that I normally open to let the breeze in. I like to turn on my music and just nap in my bed, forgetting about how difficult ... dorms at MIT, you get to pref who you want to live with, what floor you

  • by Celena C. '12
  • October 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  from four to six to a zillion years, depending on how fast you get your ... lecturing for 9.12 that he needed to tell us "what you're getting into by ... undergraduate degree in the subject of your choice. You don't have to be a biology

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Profiles in Courage My neighbor could kill you or save your life with her bare hands.

  

  chance to meet over the weekend when I wasn't slaving in lab, passed out on ... how to totally rock at life. Also, she goes to MIT. Correlation implies ... DID YOU KNOW? There are at least two KISS cover bands in the world

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Work in Progress So. I decided that I needed a new banner.

  

  gorgeous I really am in real life. As you probably know, it's kind of hard to ... it. Any images we bloggers post here need to be hosted in our Athena lockers. All MIT students get Athena accounts, which allow you to have your

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  times in different lightings, trying to perfect how light works on the ... writing this blog post is a daunting exercise in how to talk about and ... list than other cities I've been to and have been eager to get off campus

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  class. If you take the ASE, the grade you get on the test stands in for a ... willy-nilly, because it is important to have a firm background in the core subjects to succeed in later classes. That’s true, but I wanted to give the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Driving On The Infinite One of my biggest pet peeves is people who do not understand how to drive…

  

  biggest is people who do not understand how to drive on the Infinite ... still manage to get into accidents pretty much every day because of the ... to pass someone who is driving in your own passing lane (which is

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  has been trying to get back up on my feet. i like to think i’ve been ... alone. i couldn’t find the motivation to get out of bed that morning ... , which i planned to go to, because i was too tired. i spent the time in bed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Lazy Day Today is one of them

  

  managed to get lost in the dark.   Credit your innate sense ... consciousness to turn it off, knowing that I won't need it after getting up so early. I turn a little bit in my bed before...contemplating going back to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  parents face. For me to weigh in on the merits of an individual applicant ... figure out how to organize all that information, or even determine the ... I need to know typically comes together in a nice, tidy package. For

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  in a classroom with 4 other guys learning the finer points of how to ... while. Fast forward to, oh, about 2 months ago.  As I sat in my apartment ... redundancy built in to the skydiving gear you wear.  Not only is there a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  track from 1st to 6th grade. I tried to get back into it last summer in LA ... exhausting place to live in at the moment, and the stress of even just looking ... of the stupid memes we like to yell in lounges. The best feature is

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  walk, how I am or am not in the flow, to how it takes me time to relearn ... unspoken rules in a way that gets buy in from everyone?  How can any of this ... ice cream, like how I've seen others stand in front of food stalls

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  five cookies in one sitting will most likely lead to a tummy ache ... starting spring of my first year. What’s the point? 1) I get to declare a ... ’s not you, it’s me. I’ve moved on. Don’t get me wrong though. We had our

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Why I haven’t posted in forever In picture form, no less.

  

  that, I might as well add "GET OFF CAMPUS" to it, to keep myself from ... "Let someone else do it." No joke. Anyway, I'm going to get back to my ... I am taking 5 minutes out of my life just to let you all know why I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Things to do before you graduate

  

  on top of the Great Dome 13. Contribute to How to Get Around MIT 14 ... Every new freshman class gets, in their Orientation folders, a little ... that I've actually done, including getting published in the Tech. In

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How MIT students are trying to change education by biking across America.

  

  failed to come together in the summer of 2012, and I headed out to San ... their products to determine if they were successful. It struck me that, in order to truly improve the education of the millions of students in the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 10, 2013