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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goal setting and organization how i organize my life!

  

  steps a day) as well as to see my active exercise minutes and resting ... 't spend too long on this section, but Google Calendar is a typical go to for ... Calendar just seems to be the typical calendar a lot of people use so it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  't involve converting to spherical coordinates and taking a triple integral ... and showed up to exactly one meeting, in which a crowd of student ... about to say that.” For starters, there's D-Lab a trilogy of courses

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  would sacrifice my time now to get into a good college and then pursue my ... the time I hit 30 and picked a few to work on during 2020. What follows ... ’t complete to the ones I did.    10% Completion Complete a sketchbook

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  It’s Nice to Meet You Finding my confidence through inline skating.

  

  until I got to MIT my freshman year. I got a pair for $25 with kneepads ... mind, hitting a sidewalk crack and falling straight to my knees. I put ... ." But when I saw those same skaters struggling to learn a new move or to

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • March 29, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  I had literally never taken a screen shot until I got to MIT ... got a hold of my laptop and started sending even more lobsters out to ... to defriend me on facebook after I posted a TextFromLastNight (about

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  As my second semester at the Institute draws to a close, I've been ... Leadership Training Institute (a semester-long weekend program aiming to teach ... with it and used it to make a lot of silly games and procedurally

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is there really a swim test?

  requirement can be met by completing a beginner swim course or electing to test ... Yup, there's a swim test! There's an awesome variety of physical education courses for undergraduate students to complete the swim requirement
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  there to be a method to the madness: maybe [annotation note ... sense, I do have a task-management strategy, but to me it feels more like ... ," and "one hell of a class to go through." Some bloggers, however, seem to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi Day = Mail Day? Too Early To Know No official mail date yet.

  

  Hi everyone, There have been a lot of comments in the blogs that we're going to mail on Pi Day this year. This was indeed the case last year, but we don't yet have a mail date set for this year. Just wanted to clarify

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  ,” she said, leading him gently to the couch facing a television that could ... her temper—but give him a good talking-to just before then. “It’s over ... had begun forming, thanks to a failed New Year resolution—and worked his

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I submit a creative/maker portfolio as a QuestBridge applicant?

  required. To learn more about the different kinds of portfolios you can submit, as well as how to submit, please visit our Creative Portfolios page ... are available for any applicant not able to cover the submission fee.
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A flash of brilliance and answers to some questions

  

  one and stuck it in the pan, then rotated the first one to a second face ... to medical school" Definitely! A lot of people at MIT (about 10%, I've heard!) consider themselves to be on a premedical track. Many of them are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  character, and a strong match with MIT’s mission to use science, technology, and the useful arts to make the world a better place. We can’t wait to ... can be a difficult decision to receive, but trust me: it works out okay

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Energized Watching the sun rise signals that it's time for bed.

  

  design project for one of my classes, 2.005, where we had to design a floating buoy-like structure to support a 700,000 kilo tower and rotor combo ... revive my 733t programming skills to minimize a cost function of five

  • by Bryan
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  , GEL students are challenged to make their internships a more meaningful ... . About a week later, I wrote an initial report to describe not only how my ... company had a project ready for me to start work on the second I stepped in

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  to a restaurant for dinner instead of eating at the dining hall, you ... around 20 minutes total a day to cook dinner and clean dishes.  That means ... 's pan (I prefer it to a regular frying pan because it's deeper and can

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a penny for your thoughts? and what it is, and could be, worth

  

  sodainly say to them ‘a penny for your thought.’" Sir More was an English ... shillings constituted a pound. In 1971 this was changed to a decimal system ... your own up to someone else, was a meaningful (if cheap) activity. This

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • February 20, 2026
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  , acknowledging that I wouldn't be able to attend that morning; Ashley has a rule ... session of a class that you have taken previously; I decided to attend yoga ... deliberated over which to select, a girl (who turned out to be a graduate

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  butter to any meal qualifies it as a meal of substance. Sure, it might not ... a lot. My truths are bound to change. But in the end, understanding ... MIT: People Are Good. To some degree, this idea has been reduced to a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Halloween Preparations First my birthday, then halloween!

  

  exposed brick walls.) Ok, now I have to have a halloween costume by ... Yes, it's been a while since my last entry...much has happened. I am now the ripe age of 20 years old, after a weekend of birthday

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 26, 2006