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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

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

  

  wonderfully convenient, allowing me to cook often enough to enjoy it and not so ... further down. Which led me to want to write this post, giving people some

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Best Free Software for College Students must haves for productivity, security, and more

  

  than twice as much time as my other classes. This helped me strategize ... Text, which syncs my messages and lets me text from my Windows computer and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  spaces--the Course 8 lounge, which a friend recently showed me, is full of ... or The Tech or taken by me)

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  attending. That escalated quickly, so let me restate it: I stopped going to ... , allowed me to cruise through 24 lectures in just 13 short hours, spread

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  first semester of college is done. Its climax reminds me of a promise from ... other items from 50 Things resonated with me strongly, but not all can be

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  you happiest :D Okay. For me, a double major is how I've decided to ... pursue the field explicitly stated on their degree. Thankfully, for me

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  they would probably attack me and “make the bed with [me] inside it.” I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  my friend Amy ’13 showed me Write or Die. It's helpful for writing fast ... . She can be horribly depressing but she can keep me in the zone for hours

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  , who viewed me as a potentially embarrassing statistic on their otherwise ... - they were being paid $8/hour just like me, even with their degrees. I

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  think. Me: I will. And I had my job for the day. My first order of ... me, Trang wriggled halfway through the opening and was just able to

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  cool enough to make me continue in the physics track, so I showed up for ... . That got me thinking. MIT students are in general used to a history of

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  other physics classes?” you ask. Well, let me prelude my good ... ten years. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go chug a bottle of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  , but trust me, a lot of work went into that doorframe. Caitrin is ... made me HTFP, but in the end, I absolutely loved it. I built this crazy

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  restaurant recommended to me by Winnie '02. Lo and behold, stepping through ... , waking up again, Ben's mom compelling me to swallow another slice of toast

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Yet Another Blog Entry My expenses for the semester in pie form, topped with a scoop of IAP.

  

  $600 on me this semester, which means that they love me more than most of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  I took four HASS classes this semester. What, stop looking at me like that. .______. I realized that I'm very capable of taking four HASS ... are awesome. This brings me to another point. Foreign Language classes

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  + piccolo) below the seat in front of me just the way I was taught by ... , photosynthesizing peach trees still fills me with bubbles of frucose-anticipating joy

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  Last week, I dropped 9.15 from my preregistration schedule for the upcoming term. It hurt me to do it; 9.15, only offered in alternate fall ... with them. I took 48 units in the spring, and I'm glad I did - it gave me

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  October, and my SAT IIs in November, which would qualify me for early ... it recognized my year abroad and gave me credits accordingly? We

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  .) This leads me into my next point. I ended my last application advice ... “hook.” If anyone asks me what they mean by “Tell us about something you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006