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• Blog / MIT Life

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  This New Year, I want to try a resolution that would mandate how I ... 's (a 24-hour convenience store in the Student Center). All the apps I ... for a $10 Amazon gift card. Now, instead, I resolve to not care so much

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 2, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  dance dance revolution lessons from ddr

  

  there is a ddr (dance dance revolution) machine in the basement of ... found a level i wanted to beat in my remaining week at mit. it was grand escape, a song that features prominently in weathering with you, one of my

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  journey. It is as cold, as they say, as though we were in hell, and a sports ... How and what would I write in the utter absence of the ever ... turns out using NTFS partitions messes with file permissions in a way that

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A quick one, while he’s away I write reviews of things that I know nothing about.

  

  out sorbet (is there a lot of sorbet in Harry Potter?) Unfortunately ... know, it's a bold blog structural experiment, but just have some faith in ... Spencer '07 in a 654-seat theater. That's a lot of seats. Now, I have to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 16, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  how much you truly enjoy thinking about a subject it’s not always the ... . once in a while you encounter something which is so far out ... me now than they did while they were in school i have a bad habit

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW! The greatest shopping list ever.

  

  for details. ;-) I was really hungry. Such is a day in the life of a ... don't have a chance to read this anyway, but just in case- stop by and ... Here is what I bought at Shaw's (the local grocery store) last night

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  spend my free time in healthier ways. This sounds very dramatic, but ... crew practices. In the past, when I've had more overall free time, I ... little better. I recently got a phone with a camera that is actually pretty

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.

  

  something like a teacher when you talk to them. And this is how... I know ... experts in what being a student at MIT is really like because they ... interviewers remain helpful). A description of the current interview process is

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  great export: How accessible is campus dining? In my realm of discussion, campus dining is a porcupine in a petting zoo of tamer subjects (like the ... through a wooden door, which is why I chose to live in one of the non

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  it in the freezer, which is how my aunt eats them in the summer in ... during the school year with Spanish House, in a big cooking rotation. I ... -to-one-up-the-last-person's-dinner that occasionally happens in the house. Cooking with Spanish house is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston’s 4th of July Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has…

  

  separates Boston from Cambridge and MIT. The fireworks barge is moored in the ... : Okay, so I'm not much with Photoshop, but you can see the barge is right ... th of July celebrations is that the Boston Pops do a special, less

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  different places and experimenting with how much I opened up before I found a ... their peers, which to me is indicative of a community I have never been a ... it." At times like these, it is really helpful to have a place to go

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Final Countdown Duh nuh nuh, nuh... duh nuh nuhnuhnuh..

  

  There's one week left of my freshman year - how much can you fit in a seven days? A seven-page paper, six nights of studying, five hours to ... be finishing in 15 minutes to get to my two classes this afternoon

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 16, 2007
• 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…

  

  sink in. That is a problem I didn’t touch on enough in my original ... entirely sure.[/visually_hidden] This is how MIT feels sometimes: a week is ... shorter, while the other is much taller, so you can imagine how lopsided my

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

  C’est la Vie In which I describe my summer in words, without photos (yet).

  

  thus far. Here's a brief recap of what I did/what I have plans for in the ... short trip with family up to Nagoya, Japan in the middle of June. T'was a ... a whole summer! =D During the last week of my stay in Taiwan, I went

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Terrascope Save the world. Go. (:

  

  MIT freshmen for them to answer in a single semester: “How would you ... that there is a difference between a bad question, a difficult question ... , you could answer in a multitude of ways and I wouldn’t be able to say

  • by Ana V. '15
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  So you want to be a student-athlete? Finding the balance

  

  member of a team in college is of real importance to me. Is it to you? ... rather rigorous (understatement much?) academic workload and sprinkling in other social and extra-curricular events becomes a free time cruncher. On

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  conviction to pull it off, but maybe i’ll come back to it in a few years ... once told me that the reason some new grads party so much is because they’re trying to pretend they’re still in school. a lot of people have told me

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  much more frequently before the chaotic workload that is college, and a ... . Also, since the Hayden library is for the MIT community, there’s a much ... is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  self care define it or perish

  

  me. every day is a grind, and keeping up with academics is about the ... ...which makes me think of how much time i had this summer to do things!! i took ... for 20 minutes and sit down for six hours" kind of deal. in terms of a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 2, 2020