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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What did YOU do this weekend? Laura's jam-packed-action-filled adventurous fin de semana.

  

  ! =P How you tackle psets is a personal preference. Some people feel the ... , Becky did find a random piece of metal in her food...yikes. But Becky's chill and didn't care anyway, plus she got a free meal out of the deal

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  's a step in a proof I have trouble motivating, and thinking about how to ... is not what you'll learn in your classes (much of which you can find on ... , fulfilling those goals is as much a matter of opportunity as of talent, so make

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tuesdays with Linda It's kind of like making smoothies but not.

  

  of the things that people are also often interested in is how they got their UROP. Basically, in a nutshell, I spent 2 hours sending emails to ... in the Griffith Lab which is part of the Biotechnology Process

  • by Bryan
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to “Teach” Leadership Please find the probability that Shakespeare diffuses into my GEL classes given that my schedule…

  

  last thing I want after a week of lectures is a lecture on “how to be a ... schedule out there. Tests introduce a whole new variable in time management ... units mean that this course is a slightly smaller time commitment than the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Transporting In & Around MIT Everything you need to know about how easy it is to get around MIT.

  

  car. Keeping a car around campus is not free of course, but there are a few parking lots around. I hear that driving in the city is no easy feat ... all of the dorms and FSILGs. Saferide is free and operates seven days a

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  pioneering the latest advances in party technology, I'm slowly becoming a ... Principle. A few blocks later, you're dodging taxis in Chinatown and on the ... you.) Last Saturday, I woke up in a not-very-exciting fashion, so I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  and other meals every day, but I didn’t know how much of what I was eating was free, how much I cooked, and how much I bought. I thought making ... Some of you may wonder: how do people eat food without a meal plan

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  much more confident in starting a project I don’t know how to do; I can ... ’t become not awkward, but I’ve learned how to use my awkwardness in a cool ... In review — it’s been a good year. In reverse-chronological order, I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  to an organized, clutter-free space is a huge boost to your mood ... shifts in perspective that make a huge difference in the way you feel: Midterms really don't equate too much in the grand scheme of things. Work

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Rain is evil There's only one kind of good snow, and rain isn't it.

  

  weather. Granted, the weather is not all that different in New Jersey ... creates perfect little dams. And then the rain is free to collect everywhere ... is what I mean: Edit: Ruth pointed this out in her comment below- it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  can sit and watch the moisture in the air fluoresce on a foggy night ... tape back from her Terrascope project. Jennifer is so bad at waking up in ... people I love very much.    There’s a reason 351 also fills my mouth

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  ; back to 2014 for my post on how I read applications; Nisha's post in 2018 about how much much she loves Spotify; and Abby's post about the blogger's collective Spotify wrapped. It's crazy to me how much Spotify has just

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  "everyone was in it." His brother was a meaty metalhead (and consequently a ... weren't on Facebook. In retrospect, it was a primitive and dim space to socialize, not unlike a hipster bar in an NYC bomb shelter, or Olympic Stadium

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CP* restored my faith in the universe i read...My Immortal...with prefrosh

  

  Campus Preview Weekend, was SO much fun. Sure, there's no free food ... !!!! I love talking to everyone and sharing in their enthusiasm so! much! These couple of days have been a testament to how amazing the MIT

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

  

  only things in my room were a bed, bookshelf, and keyboard. I kept it ... security card) into my closet, which stayed in a state of constant chaos ... 6 shirts I can rotate for a max of like 8 outfits in any season

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  surprise was that a lot of people don't realize just how long this song is ... instruments is a winner in my book. There was a short intermission as the ... campus much earlier than normal letting me have a little evening-time fun

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  So much to do, so little time There's always something exciting going on at MIT.

  

  Condry, an MIT Professor in Japanese Cultural Studies, is giving a talk ... Undergraduate Economics Association (UEA) is hosting a lecture by Frederic Mishkin ... So, my wife just popped by my office; it turns out she and a friend

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  has a lot more free time for me to do other things and really focus on doing well in school. It's a lot of free time for me to be a tryhard. For ... , which is a bummer considering how when I got into MIT, I texted my friend

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I “less than 3” the Chorallaries My relaxing and enjoyable vaction draws to a close. *sigh*

  

  Princeton, NJ. This is not the be confused with a meeting of students who have ... things about MIT is the names of our a capella groups. The Chorallaries ... actually did this week and wondering how in the world I'm going to fit all of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  field. But in a lot of cases, that sort of attitude is self-fulfilling; a ... account, typed a few lines in Python, hit F-5 to run, and...there it is ... projects too--the Design/Build/Fly team is working towards competition day in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015