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• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  present a rough guide to study breaking at MIT: 1.Come up with a theme ... My mother called me this weekend to ask if I was washing my sheets ... have remained stupendously unlaundered. A few minutes ago, I began to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  particularly friendly, or, to be completely honest, even as[annotation note ... my acapella group to serving as the president of a dorm, or the vice ... positions. I've always put my election to these roles up to a couple of very

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  day was important. I had goals to accomplish because so far I hadn ... 4 hours from the time when we went to sleep at Tep (A coed living ... : Picture this headline: Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor This video does not contain an improvised song, but it does contain Peter Reddien.

  

  with your life, a parent – remember to let everything you do be guided by ... (I know you’re tempted to stop reading after the video, but keep ... the lecture did happen to be a good time. We learned about how you get

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  famous blues club in Austin. Ry is scheduled to play the first one-hour set ... easier to find than my room keys, or the chunk of free time missing from my daily agenda, or even sources of Vitamin C. To start with a simple example

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Trip to Princeton U Taking advantage of the three-day weekend by taking a trip to Princeton!

  

  Three-day weekends seem like the perfect opportunity to catch-up on ... works out that way. Instead, you have one more day to procrastinate and have fun! With this reality in mind, I went to Princeton University with

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  to finish all three tasks. alyssa says it'll take them 4 hours. alyssa ... were gently reminded that we were expected to work eight hours a day, and ... one. it's nice to have slack in your schedule. and by slack, i don

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art in burton conner making do in a non-mural building

  

  if you've seen any [annotation note = "Interactive Introduction to ... murals. of the existing dorms, there used to be four buildings where murals ... the walls"]permanent murals.[/annotation] this isn't to say MIT no

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

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

  

  College students have to be productive. In trying to manage all my ... can attest to how well they work.     Note Taking: Evernote ... magazine I've read that mentions them. I use Evernote to organize my academic

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

  My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.

  

  'm going to spend the next 4-5 hours trying to finish all of my fellowship ... This is Anna Ho, reporting live from her transition to being 21 years ... that whenever you go to the doctor's office and state your birth date

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Work, friends, sleep – pick three In which I manage time effectively.

  

  hours on a MONDAY. And I got to sleep by 1AM, and then I woke up in time to get to my UROP at 10. Eight hours of sleep. SKILLZ, I TELL YOU ... sometimes I get on my computer to check my mail and somehow spend five hours

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  silent on the blogs for about three weeks, far longer than I ever want to be away from the blogs, since I'm so accustomed to posting every week. I wasn't sure if I wanted to talk about this on a blogpost, but I know

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  After receiving decisions from the colleges I applied to, the choice was easy to pick MIT. I knew I wanted to attend a school that would not ... Research Opportunities. You think to yourself: okay, I want to do research

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  's important to note that basically in terms of applying to grad school ... 21 = Vegas + MIT kids. Me = born in Vegas (seriously) + going to MIT ... . Synopsis: (some spoilers for the first hour of the movie) Ben Campbell (Jim

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  AIDS Walk San Francisco Shameless solicitation -- join the fun

  

  fundraising: This is a very important issue to me so I have set an ambitious ... supporting this important cause and for showing that you join me in wanting to ... . My friend Tiffany '06 invited me to join her company's team, and Laura

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In a 15-author guest blog, featuring the small town/rural students that visited us this october!

  

  with an environment that fits me is something really important to me ... asked students to share their reflections on their background, their weekend on campus, and where they hope to go next. Hear straight from them

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Cross student going to M.I.T. in the Fall By Jarett Henshaw Published ... accepted into all nine schools he applied to including Stanford, Harvard, Cornell, and Berkeley. He decided to go to college at M.I.T. in Boston. "The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  : the students (black and white) who allowed Martin Luther King, Jr., to ... Friedan to put feminism on the map, and so forth. They were real activists ... in response to this degradation – degradation of a noble activity

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  ‘Til the Net Breaks Championship Szn

  

  Hi, everyone! The soccer season has just wrapped up, and I wanted to give y’all a little recap.  For starters, it's important to know that ... hours from MIT to Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, where we are playing John

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  important thing you'll learn is how to ask for help. And that's still true ... people seem to think that the most important thing they'll learn in college ... I have to admit that I don't have fifty pieces of advice for anybody

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006