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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  . 3. Minh and Lizzy asked how I found my UROP position. In the middle of ... plenty of dorm rooms open, but I'm not really sure how it would work ... virtue at MIT. In fact, I don't think I'd be exaggerating if I said hard

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  qualities, which leaves me wondering how in the world it makes such a ... machine. Coffee was only a quarter in those days, and Gary would say ‘where ... that can benefit: “I would often also emphasize this with my ROTC

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  if I was in mortal peril or not. I still don't really know how to tell ... at MIT in physics and math and I was wondering how you managed to take ... I am back in Boston, sitting on my comfy couch after a lovely weekend

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

  ; DISCUSSION I would like to conclude with an insightful discourse on how MIT ... , I want to see who is interested in demo-ing a Fitbit for the remaining ... view of what I do when I'm not sleeping, or walking, or in class, or

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  quick thoughts to keep up my new years resolution

  

  In my New Year's Resolutions post, I wanted to make a promise to blog ... I've blogged twice in a week so it basically makes up for it. I ... happier! I have a lot more time in the day, now. I can use the time to go to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  ^ how not to do it.   "Help! I'm from [Los Angeles ... midlayers! (1) Baselayers When I'm in the city, I usually just wear cotton t ... ItForLife, but I think that particularly with coats and boots, buying quality items

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Collections Simple

  

  've reached this strange turning point in my life where I want to do things more than I want to talk about them, which was not how I thought about things ... the self, in an autonomic sense, and how we might begin to attempt to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  College must-haves My advice on what to get for college!

  

  Things I would highly recommend bringing, in no particular order: 1. Cell ... , thanks to free nights and weekends, I actually get to keep in close contact ... . Getting a bicycle is not absolutely necessary, but I would recommend it if

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  just on the horizon. I wanted to share what my daily life looks like, in ... much. No matter how I procrastinated or fooled around on Friday, I wake ... our weekly house clean-up from 11 to 12. After that, I settle in to work

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  fit this 2020. I learned how to properly lift things and I became pretty ... was home in October, I spedread a bunch of different books that were set in Boston/Cambridge because I was curious and I read American Panda by

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  . I like their windows, and how their tenets leave them open. I like the ... covered in chalk drawings. Then, I feel an overwhelming feeling of nausea. I ... exactly how they smelled back home. I'd never seen a woman smoke a Marlboro

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  I would have been in Random Hall, on BMF, at my desk with the door ... me an excellent view of anyone coming or going. In January 2015 I would ... your occupation or field that you work in? I am a computational

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  was 8, and drawings along the margins of all of my notes. I learned how ... elementary school, and for a long while I would draw things by hand on paper ... could color them digitally. In middle school, I’d saved up money from

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  tired and busy and tired and busy and tired and busy and

  

  how to be human again, but in the meantime, I will try my best.   ... meetings a week and DPhiE the same and I would love time to just sit and do ... schedule and I'm just feeling very disappointed in myself for not living up

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  ... In December 2020, I learned about the MakerLodge training that first-years could participate in, and I immediately did the online portion of the ... campus. I registered for one of the first in-person trainings because I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  sometimes or know how to fold their clothes in a more efficient way. I ... I've had my fair share of time with roommates and friends in the past year and I've learned a lot. I lived for the first time with friends in a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  kind of situation) is to make lots of plans, so I had ’em ready in spades: I imagined, as realistically as I could, how it would feel to be ... Shuli J. '22 (2018): I knew I would be nervous when the time came, because

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  tables and charts in excel etc. In fact, to avoid being overwhelmed I ... . Tally up how much you make in a month, subtract out anything you HAVE to ... roommates in the apartment, and I spend about $100 a week on groceries. That

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  "low warning" sign. I have $1.70 in my TechCash account, and the reason ... account (not that I'm out buying couture, just caffeine drinks and Thai food ... . But also, not in TechCash. Day 6: or why I've been banned from Anna

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  've taken. We learned how to create image-editing effects in C++ that would ... understand the documentation and how to make sense of Drake in general, but we ... to reflect an aspect of human cognition in some way. Unfortunately, I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025